Stories

I found it! And it didn't have as much as I thought written down. Ah, well. A few little tidbits about our babies ...

Julia loves to sing. She especially loves to sing the "Bug Buddies" song from Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends. Her second favorite song is probably her "BCD's" (Dave and I think this is brilliant since "A" is so overrated as a letter and "D" never gets the respect he deserves.) Her alphabet song usually contains references to B, C, D, X, Y, and Z with an occasional V and W thrown in. Much simpler that way. Her other frequently heard snippet is a result of many hard minutes of repetition by her daddy during bathtime ... "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen" except Julia sings "Nobuggy knows the trouble I've seen." This makes its appearance when she's been told she's in Time Out because she is in trouble for (you fill in the blank). We'll hear this come floating mournfully out of her room.

We have a history with Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin here in this house. And Dave's continued it on with Dax. Dax still isn't saying much other than grunts, but we still keep trying. Dave asked him to say "Click! Clack! Moooooooooooooooooo" the other day and Dax responded with "Gunh! Gunh! Goooooooooooooooooo" :) It was really funny, but in his usual spirit of cooperation, once Dax figured out we wanted him to say it, he just grinned and walked away.

We had to bribe Julia to take off her hospital bracelet. She loved it so much and refused to let us cut it off. Anytime we mentioned it, she covered the bracelet with her hand and emphatically stated, "NO, Mommy!" (or Daddy!) And so we just left it because, though embarrassing to have to repeat the story to random strangers, it wasn't a big deal to us that she take it off and it was obviously a big deal to her to get to leave it on. But during our family reunion, my mom had a great idea: Let Julia trade out her hospital bracelet for a different bracelet! When we visited World of Coca-Cola, Mom grabbed a silver bracelet with a small round charm that said "Coca-Cola" on it for Julia. (She also picked up a Coca-Cola lip smacker in Fanta orange flavor which Julia ate on her way to the car.) When we got back to the cabin that night, we offered Julia her new bracelet as bait. Which she totally fell for. THEN we told her she had to let Daddy cut off her hospital bracelet to get her new one. Worked like a charm. She put on her new bracelet and showed it off to everyone the next day. We told her it said "Coca-Cola" on it and at first, when asked what her bracelet said, she would answer, "Coca-Loca!"

As we drove home from the reunion last Sunday, we told Julia that we would pick up Echo from the doctor on Monday. Julia and Dax were in the car when I took Echo to the vet for boarding and Julia talked about Echo being at the "doctor" all weekend. She kept reminding us that Echo was at the doctor. Over and over and over. So when we got home and hadn't picked up Echo, she was a little concerned. (We're working on days of the week and time concepts like yesterday, today, and tomorrow, but that stuff's hard for a gal to remember when she's worried about her puppy dog!) So, we told her that she had to take a bath, read her Jesus book, go to bed, go to sleep and then when she woke up we would go get Echo from the doctor! We had her repeat it back to make sure she understood. So she told us "I wake up go get Echo doctor!" which seemed good enough to us. And things would have been perfect except that Dax got scared that night and started crying around 10pm. He woke up Julia before we got in there to calm him down. As her Daddy tucked her back in she said, "DADDY! I wake up! Go get Echo doctor!"



And I'm adding this story on me because it doesn't seem fair to only tell tales about my children ... on Tuesday, I unloaded half the dishwasher (and used some of the dishes) before I realized that it hadn't been run and the dishes were dirty. I'm not sure if this is a statement on how unobservant I am or an indication that I need to slow down a bit ... probably a little of both!