The Kids

Day 3

Mental note - When Raya looks like she wants to get out of the shower/tub minutes after getting in it's a good idea to listen to her.

This morning was a long one - 1st, Mom left early to open a store and I think it was one of the first mornings that Raya has ever had when Mom wasn't there when she woke up. She was not happy about that when she woke up at 7:00, but she managed to calm down with some soft music and a lot of head-rubbing. She didn't fall back asleep like I hoped, though.

So we got up and got in the shower, which turned into a bath with Maelin when she came in. I was cleaning the bathroom when Malin says, "It smells like poop in here. Oh, Raya pooped in the tub!". Yuck!

"Doodie!"

An hour worth of draining, scrubbing, rinsing, and re-bathing later and we were finally ready to start the day. We're finishing up a late breakfast now (the girls are actually coloring together) and we'll head to the library in a bit.

In other news, Raya is getting really good with her signs. She's still mixing some up, but in general she signs for food, water, help, please and more.

Day 2

We spent the majority of the morning at the doctors office. They were running an entire hour behind schedule due to a new computer program that they were trying to get used to using. So I didn't actually see the doctor for my 10:30 appointment until nearly 11:30. The girls were great though - they are really good at entertaining themselves. We spent the time playing with lego and people watching. However, poor Raya was exhausted by the time the doctor came in and promptly fell asleep in my arms, and stayed that way back to the car and all the way home. We had to go back tot he clinic though because as soon as we pulled in the driveway I realized we left Raya's new doll there. So, back and forth we went, Raya sleeping the whole time.

You might be wondering where the whole "Sleepless" bit in the title comes from then? Well, Raya really could have slept more but woke up when we finally got in the house and I spent the rest of the afternoon and wel into the evening trying to get her to go back to sleep but had no luck until nearly 8:30 that night. Wow, was she cranky...

Other than that we had a pretty laid-back afternoon. Maelin has started asking me to tell her about "that man with the boat," a.k.a. Charles Darwin. I'm reading his first four books and I've been telling her about his voyagearound the world to observe all the different animals. She's really curious about that. Chalk that up with "the thing with a lot of words," a.k.a. gravity, all her questions about the moon, the fact that she knew how to say "echolocation" and what animals used it when she was 2, and that she asks about Sir Isaac Newton regularly, and I'm pretty sure we have a scientist on our hands. (Woot!!!)

It's 10:39 in the evening and Mama and Papa's bed is piled high with wide-awake children, the oldest of whom is crawling over everyone else and kissing them ever so gently. This same child just told her parents that not watching TV makes her sad, "because I'm dying."

(Note to strangers: She's not really dying.)

Ok, said child just brought her potty into the bedroom, and was asked to return it to the bathroom where it belonged. There was quite a clatter from the hallway as she walked her potty back. She then informed us that, "The fairy bonked her head! The fairy is starting to cry!"

We just posted a handful of pictures from this past week on Flickr. Enjoy!

Maelin and Raya playing

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Yesterday Maelin and Mama were driving to the shops to spend some time together walking around. On our way there we were talking and Maelin started to get frustrated. Out blurted, “I want baby XXXX to come right now!” (of course in the whiniest toddler voice you could imagine. So I asked her if she was ready to meet the baby, to which she replied so matter of factly, “I’ll catch her when she comes out of your privates so she doesn’t fall.” I then asked what else she would do with the new bab, I asked if she would like to help baby nurse and she said, “Yeah, on my boobies, because they have milky in them.” Could you get any cuter than that?!