Quotable Torii

I look at Cordelia as she looks around this new world she has entered and I think "I would love to know what she is thinking". Then I look at Torii and think, "Can you be quiet for just five minutes? Pleeeeease." Actually Torii has been making us laugh a lot lately. He does a lot more listening than I give him credit for.

After we got home with Cordelia, I think it was GG that asked him if she could take Cordelia home with her. Torii said yes, but she had to be gentle with baby. A couple days later Pawpaw Hank asked the same thing. This time he said no, she was our baby.

After being at home for a few days with Cordelia, Torii was no longer thrilled about having a baby at home. When she started crying after a nap Torii begged me not to go get her. "Don't get baby, don't get baby," he pleaded with me.

Torii has been really interested in the baby and since he is in the "why?" phase I have fielded a lot of questions from him. He was really interested in how I fed baby. Later he told Auntie Vicki that he didn't have milk in his breasts.

Babies

I do love babies, but before Cordelia arrived I wasn't that excited about all the extra work I was going to have with a baby in the house. I knew it would be some time before all of us could go out and do whatever we felt like doing. Now we are back to quick runs to the grocery store before we have to be back home so the baby can eat. While I was looking at all the negatives, I forgot how great babies are. Last night I had the World Series on and was feeding Cordelia before laying her down for the night. I have found that she burps easiest if I lay down and put her on my chest and pat her back. So that's what we did. Some time later I woke up, it was the bottom of the 8th, and she was sleeping soundly on my chest. She felt so good. I could feel her little breaths on my neck. Cordelia is also spoiling me in that she is a much better baby than I had expected. She sleeps a lot and I often have to wake her up to eat. She is really laid back so she hasn't been as much trouble as I thought. Which is nice so I can still have time to do things around the house and more importantly have some time with the boys too. Fred went back to work last night so it probably won't be as easy as it has been. We'll see. I haven't been out in public with all three kids yet so we'll see how all that goes too. Really, everything has been going great.

Goodbye maternity clothes

Towards the end of my pregnancy I was getting really tired of my maternity wardrobe and couldn't wait to wear normal clothes again. So yesterday I went through my closet. It was kind of like Christmas. I love clearance shopping and had picked up a few things last spring as the seasons were changing. I forgot I had bought those things. I tried on pair of pants I bought and they fit perfectly! Then I tried on a shirt I had gotten at Target the other day to go with those pants and I actually thought I looked good. It's nice to have somewhat of a figure again. Now once I get the courage to actually go out in public with the kids, I can actually wear nice clothes. And I can shop for clothes again! I can't wait.

What's so funny?

Tonight we went out for supper and on the way home the boys starting making goofy sounds and giggling. "I farted," they would say after making these noises. They thought it was so funny. I kind of groaned and Fred said, "Not even any training." It's true. They just naturally think this is funny. No one taught them to laugh at bodily noises or even to imitate them for a laugh. They just do it. I thought I was doing a good job by teaching them to say excuse me anytime they burped or passed gas, and a lot of the time they do say that. Other times they laugh uncontrollably.

Rion also likes to play on the computer and he was on one of his preschool websites he likes playing a game. In this game there was a picture of a house with different rooms and at the bottom were different objects that he could place in the house. So he put the vase of flowers on a table, books on a shelf and so on. After awhile, Torii came over to look at what he was doing and they started laughing real hard. After listening in on their conversation I found out that they were still placing objects in the house, but now they were having fun putting the kitty in the toilet. Why are boys' brains wired like this?

Not so scary

As a mother of toddlers I am seeing Halloween in a new way this year. When I first saw some of the decorations I thought I would be spending the next month protecting them from what some of those scenes are portraying. There are some really awful and scary stuff for sell for Halloween. My boys, however, love it all. The uglier, scarier, more gruesome, the more my boys like it. Actually the only thing that Torii has been scared of is a big furry spider that is about as big as he is. Yesterday we were at Target and of course they had to look at the Halloween section. They love to try on the masks and the scarier they are the better. Then they push all the buttons on the motion decorations. I cringe at some because I think I will be up late with boys having nightmares, but they laugh and repeatedly push the buttons. Rion loves anything with blood on it and is really into tombstones. He bought one that we put in the front yard and he wants a motion one at the party store, but I think it's awful. It's a tombstone and at the bottom is a man's arms. When you push the button he starts clawing at the tombstone and there are bloody marks on the tombstone. Weeks later Rion is still talking about it and repeats what the man says, "let me out, it's dark in here." And he thinks it's hilarious. I love Halloween and I'm glad my boys seem to love as well. As long as they don't start having nightmares, they can have as much fun with Halloween as they want.

Haiku for parents

Earlier this year, must have been in the spring, I was stuck at work and doing a task that involves a lot of downtime. For some reason I started thinking about haiku and wrote a few about kids. Here are the best ones.

My new game is this
Throw toy on floor, mommy get
I throw toy again

In the tub tonight
Like to hear the sound I make
Hands hitting water

Mom wasn't looking
I took a bunch of cookies
Now my tummy hurts

I think I will write some more and I'll post any good ones I come up with.

Technology 1, Husband 0

Last night after the kids finally settled down, I turned on the TV to relax a little. I was bummed out to find there was only 10 minutes left of a brand new The Office. I then realized I had also missed the new My Name is Earl. Then the tides turned and I discovered that my wonderful DVR was still set to record all new episodes of both shows and they were just sitting there waiting for me to watch them. Oh, DVR, you know exactly what I want. I love you.

My husband on the other hand, has no idea what I want. Last weekend was my 30th birthday and I didn't get a gift. Apparently when I asked him to take me out to dinner for my birthday, he translated this as being released from any obligation to buy me a gift. When he told me he thought dinner was what I wanted as a gift I was furious. I only asked him this two days before my birthday, a point at which he should have already purchased my gift. Did I mention this was my 30th birthday? That automatically means great gift plus dinner. How I wish I could program my husband like the DVR.