I don't have any photos with my blog post today. As you read, you will find out we are not very photo interested today! So, we are going with the funnies, followed by the basics...
The Good--
We have two hilarious children! I don't know if everyone thinks that of their kids, but I have been around LOTS of kids in my life as a babysitter and teacher and I find ours to be some of the funniest around!
Ever since Alexander finally decided to talk around age 2, people have said, "Are you writing all of this down?". And honestly, I haven't and if I had, we would be renting a storage building for the books of funnies to his credit. But here are two from the last little while...
Recently, when I took the kids to the park, I let Alex sit in the front passenger seat (buckled in, of course) when we were leaving and I took him on a tour of the perimeter of the large park to see where the RVs hook up and to look for boats on the water. At one dead end, as I turned around, he asked what all the stuff hanging from the trees was called. I said, "Spanish Moss". Without thinking for even a second, he said, "Cool! If you put some on your head, can you speak Spanish?" Now, I don't know about you but I have quite a bit of spanish moss in my life and I have never stopped to wonder that! HA!
Reagan was playing with her friend Jon Daniel one day last week. When he tried to take the doll stroller from her, she pushed him down (not hard enough to hurt, but we are teaching her to say she is sorry when she is the instigator). I said, "Reagan, you pushed your friend. What do you tell him?" She looked him square in the eye (still laying on the floor) and said, "NO! STOP!" HA! Not what I meant and we fixed it, but it is hard to keep a straight face sometimes!
**No babies were injured in the making of this story**
Last Friday night, we put blankets and large pillows on the den floor and had our first "movie night" with Alex after Reagan went to bed. We chose Snow White because it is a wholesome classic that he had not seen. Near the beginning, the evil queen is leaving her palace and she passes a skeleton reaching through some bars. He asked why she had a skeleton down there and I said (thinking I was offering a super explanation), "Just so you will know that Snow White isn't the first person she has been mean to" and under his breath he said, "Oh, she's the second!" Oh, to be so creative by day and yet still such a concrete thinker! HA!
The Bad--
All that humor has been put on hold the last few days as Alex has battled fevers and really bad headaches that have made him nauseous. Today, I took him to the doctor and he had a positive strep test! Poor guy! He had not complained once of his throat hurting, but when she asked him if he was having any trouble with his throat he said, "Hurts like crazy!" I asked him why he hadn't told me and he said, "The medicine you were giving me for my head was helping it (Motrin) and I needed it for my head more!" Isn't he sweet? Anyway, the headaches had me worried since he is so young, so we were glad to get an answer that had a quick remedy!
The Ugly--
Tonight when I went to put away clean clothes in Alex's room, I began to hear laughter from the kids in the living room (not unusual with our two and I was glad Alex felt good enough to laugh again). Reagan kept saying, Boing, Boing, Boing and I thought he was entertaining her on the Hippity Hop ball. All of a sudden, the laughter stopped and she began screaming! I ran to the rescue and Alex began crying harder than her. She had blood dripping from her mouth and it really frightened me! Turned out, Boing Boing was her copying her big brother and jumping on the couch and she fell off and bit all the way through her bottom lip. She let me hold a towel and ice on it for about a half hour and it stopped bleeding, but it is UGLY and fat now! When I settled her down, he kept crying and I asked if he got hurt too (although I knew he didn't). He said, "I didn't mean to teach her something dangerous! I want her to be big like me so we can play. No, I want to be a BAAAAAAA-BYYYYYYYYYY!" I told him I was glad he realized it was dangerous for her and hoped that her injury would teach him not to show her new tricks without asking us if it was a good idea, in the future. He is very cautious and was still asking how long it would take her lip to heal, after she had already gone to bed. What a great, caring big bro! I pray he always will be! And never fear, fat lip and all, she has already tried to Boing Boing again! I guess I will only be alone when she is sleeping for a while!
Goodnight! ENJOY! I love my babies!
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