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Seriously, Kid, I’m Not ALL that Great!

Somebody pass the Hershey bars, for I am in need of some medicinal chocolate for my NERVES. Sophia Diane has decided that this month should mark the beginning of her “separation anxiety” phase. Now she’s always been a “Mommy’s girl” and freaked out on different babysitters a couple of times when she was really little (like when she was 4 months old and Bobby and I tried to go to the symphony for our 7th anniversay and made it through a whole 20 minutes!), but she’s been over that for awhile now.

Until a couple of weeks ago. Now she’s back in full-on “I-must-have-Mommy” mode. She’s flipped out in the church nursery the past two times and they’ve flashed her identification number up on the screen before even the second worship song was complete. Saturday night we went out with some friends (we do this every three weeks) and she cried the WHOLE two-and-a-half hours we were gone. Lucy, one of our trusted babysitters, even gave her a bath (Sophie LOVES the bath) to try and cheer her up and it only worked for about two minutes before she was back to crying. When we got home I nursed her and she sat up after she was finished and chattered and chirped like she was hot stuff. She was happy as a clam, as if the previous hours of wailing and gnashing of gums had never happened.

Friday she fussed at my mom – her beloved Grandma – the whole time when I went shopping for a couple of hours.

Today she wailed like the chief mourner when I put my coat on to go to Bible Study.

Ugh. She cannot do this to me! I have to be able to go out sometimes without torturing babysitters or grandparents!

Seriously, Soph, I am not all that and a bag of chips Gerber puffs. Please crazy girl, give some other folks a chance!

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Yes, this IS My Life.

Yesterday at 10 a.m. the city water meter-reader knocked on my door. “Kee-rap.” I thought to myself. Why? Well, for one, a huge bill always shows up about a week after he’s been here, but the REAL reason is that I was still rockin’ my pajamas and bathrobe, unwashed face, and crazy bed-hair ponytail. It’s not that I want to impress the meter-reader, but I’d rather NOT be the funny story he tells at dinnertime. So, I cheerfully showed him the meter, thanked him, and wished him a nice day as if it were the most normal thing in the world for me to be dressed that way (which it is, unfortunately). Then I closed the door behind him and had a good laugh at myself!!

A few minutes later, Joshua, who was still rockin’ his Spiderman sleeper, wandered up to me. He was fingering the bottom of his sleeper leg just below his calf. What he said baffled me. Are you ready? Here goes:

Joshua: Mommy, I have a little piece of poop in my pants. Would you like to see it?
Me: What??? Did you poop your pants?
Joshua: (very indignant!) No, I said I have a little piece of POOP IN MY PANTS!

I hustled him to the bathroom, peeled off his sleeper, and discovered he did indeed have a very small, hard turd in the leg of his pants. How it got out of his underwear, I do not want to know. After giving him the “tell-mommy-when-you-need-to-poop” lecture and stripping him and washing his hands veeeery thoroughly, I got him dressed and quizzed him on what exactly had transpired. He seemed as confused about the event as I was.

Ah, well. Scaring the meter-reader and solving poop mysteries. It’s all in a day’s work around here! Can’t wait to see what today holds!

(P.S. Emily text messaged me last night that she is safely in Florida!)

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The Adventures of Kate and Joshua

Friday Joshua, Sophie, and I had the privilege of having Emily’s daughter Kate with us all day. All three kids really enjoyed each other, and I spent the day cracking up at the interactions between Kate and Joshua. Here are some of the highlights!

Joshua: Kate, the letter P makes the sound “puh, puh”!
Kate: I know that already, I have a GAME that TELLS me that. (Em, I am guessing she is referring to Leapster?)

I took the kids to see Emily’s and my Grandma, who adores them. They love her right back. When I told them we were going, I said, “We’re going to see Great-Grandma, cause she loves to see you guys.” Kate said, “I love to see her too! She makes all the food I like!” My sentiments exactly Kate!! My Grandma is an awesome cook, and she always makes something special for the kids, and I always leave her house feelng very fat & happy as well.

The best part of the whole day occurred when we were on our way to my Grandma’s. I switched cars with my hubby, he has a sweet station wagon that enabled me to get all the kids and carseats in the car. Joshua and Kate got to ride in the “very back” of the station wagon and were facing backwards, which they thought was a riot! Their dialogue of what things they were seeing was hilarious. (“Whoa look at that truck! It’s getting closer! It’s gonna get us!) Once we got on the highway, Kate decided to give us a concert. First it was a raucous rendition of the Hannah Montana theme song, sung with MUCH fervor. Joshua really enjoyed that and asked for an encore, WHICH Kate happily obliged him with. Then he asked for “another silly song” so she burst into a silly version of “Old McDonald” which was very imaginiative. My favorite verse was “Old McDonald had a taco”. After that, they sang a duet of the ABC song a few times, which was really sweet, and then we arrived at Grandma’s where they enjoyed a rousing game of “hide & seek”. My favorite part of that was when Kate told Joshua where to hide, then went and counted, then came and looked for him….but didn’t look in the place where she’d told him to hide!

After we got back, the kids were playing and I heard Sophie start to cry, so I walked into the room to see what was the matter. “Joshua,” I said suspiciously, “Why is Sophie crying?” Joshua didn’t have an answer so Kate piped up and said, “Um, because somebody did something.” (Turns out Joshua had take a toy from Sophie that he didn’t want her to have. I swear it was the FIRST TIME that has ever happened. I was SO SURPRISED that he would do that! Are you picking up my sarcasm?” Anyways, Kate’s ability to absolve herself of wrongdoing without naming names and ratting out her homeboy really cracked me up!

All in all it was a very fun day. I am so glad to see the cousinly friendship continuing to the next generation!

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