Jonny & Amanda: January 2008

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Emma

It is difficult for me to describe the many and varied ways that my little Emma delights me...day after day. And maybe Jonny and I are the only ones that find her overwhelmingly and consumingly adorable and if I try to describe it all you'd be bored. That being said, let me share a few choice moments with my sweet little bug (her nickname, derived from bug-a-boo).

The other day she came out and announced that she was going to play baseball, and then changed into this outfit. How she knows what baseball players wear is beyond me, since we don't watch much of that around here...which is maybe how the diaper came into play as part of the "uniform."

What is there really to say about this one? A princess skirt and an empty wipe box=hours of entertainment for a two year old on a rainy day.

She has finally overcome her apathy/irritation with Matthew for coming along and stealing some of the glory around here. Now she is crazy about him! And the feeling is mutual. He is grins and giggles every time she walks in the room. She has become an invaluable asset when I am trying to get something done around the house and he is fussing. I just tell her to go talk to Matthew and make him happy and she is on it! She sings, dances, spits (my personal favorite - yuck) anything to make him happy.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Happy birthday last week to my sweet sister-in-law Sachele and to Jonny's niece, Katie. Sorry I'm a bit late...crazy times!

Friday, January 18, 2008

The Dark Side of Addiction

You never think that your Diet Coke addiction will harm your children, until one day you are squeezing the lemon to go in your delicious iced beverage and the juice from the lemon goes shooting out and lands right on the eyeballs of your little seven month old baby...

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Fun Firsts in our Fam...

Matthew learned how to play peek-a-boo. He ducks his little sweet head down under the edge of his carseat and pops it back up with a huge grin. Melts my heart every time.

Matthew sat up by himself for the first time on Christmas Day.

Emma unrolled the entire roll of toilet paper. The first time she did it, I was almost glad. It's kind of a childhood rite of passage, you know? The second time she did it I was more irritated than amused.

Emma went to her first Chuck E. Cheese birthday party. It was during her nap time and she ended up being all shy and tired and sitting on her daddy's lap the whole time, but she still talks with great enthusiasm about "Kuck E. Teese."

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Happy New Year!

Jonny and I are pretty much Dullsville, USA - on New Year's Eve we partied down by watching a movie after the kids went to bed! Yahoo! But that wasn't all, Jonny got me a container of Ben & Jerry's too. I know, I know, we're livin' large.

Anyhoosers, the next day we had the best time! We went to San Jose and went to this great little park/zoo. It was so perfect for Miss Emma - all the toys were made for little people and they had some fun animals at the zoo (including the world's largest rodent).

For me, the real fun started after that. We went to The Cheesecake Factory for lunch. I soooo love that restaurant! It has been about 5 years since I have eaten there, and I was worried that I was remembering it better than it actually was. Not to worry. The first bite put all my fears to rest and, perhaps more importantly, now Jonny has a testimony of the The Cheesecake Factory as well. Emma wanted to eat butter the whole time, yes butter, so I let her. I wanted to relax and soak up the moment rather than fighting with the two year old who needed a nap, so I just let her sit there and eat butter. She could use some fattening up anyway...

The Magic of Motherhood

5/22 I found Matthew in his closet looking for some shoes today. I said, "Which ones are you looking for?" thinking I could help him look. He replied, "Ummmm, the ones I'm looking for." He wasn't being snotty or anything. Just a perfectly logical answer in his little boy mind.
Emma loves to decorate the house and make it all fancy. In the midst of one such decorating frenzy she told me, "If you want, you can call me designer girl!"
Emma asked me the other day, "Why do the policemans have these, like, wand things that they can conk the bad men on the heads with? Maybe it is so they can under arrest them."
I heard Emma say to the little kids, "You guys! Get out of here! I am making a bra for my boobies!" I looked in their room and sure enough, she was fashioning a bra out of tissue paper.
Matthew gave me a big kiss good night and then announced, "That makes us happy. It makes me happy and it makes you happy. Yep, it makes us happy."
5/11 Matthew fell and had a big red rug burn on his forehead. Emma told him, "Well, at least it is red and matches your hair, perhaps."
5/11 Matthew was telling me a big story about how "I got this on twos-day and this on threes-day..."
4/23 I put Sophie in a time out this morning for hitting Emma. I could tell I really got through to her because when I went to let her out she was hopping all around. She beamed at me and said, "I dancing!"
3/20 Matthew told me today that he wanted to wear some of my jewelry and I told him that boys don't wear jewelry. I know they do, I just didn't want him to wear mine. Emma was listening and replied "Boys can wear earrings if they're in a band and they're rockin' out."
After a game of hide and seek I told the kids they were good hiders. Matthew smiled a self satisfied little smile and said, "Yep! We sure are hidey!"
Emma was eating breakfast and naming all the fingers on her hand, "This is the pointer finger, and this is the ring finger, and this is the pinky..." and Matthew stuck his thumb up and said, "Yeah! And this is the good job finger!"
Matthew and Sophie were in one of their frequent squabbles the other day and Emma informed me that Matthew had hit Sophie and then Matthew informed me that Sophie hit him first. Does your head start to hurt when you read that? Because mine does when I hear it...So I started lecturing Matthew,"Just because she hits you it doesn't mean you hit her back..." and he interrupted me to say, "I didn't hit her back! I hit her tummy!!"
Emma was trying on a bunch of clothes that her cousin had grown out of (thanks Jenny!) and there were three swimming suits in the box. She loved trying them all on but one was a little loose in the bosom area. Emma announced, "This one doesn't fit me. It's a booby poker outer."
I am always reminding Matty "make sure your hoo hoo is down" when he is going potty so we don't have a big mess (and then he doesn't slip and fall in it - true story). So one day at a restaurant I had Matthew and Sophie with me in the stall and as I sat down Matthew reminded me, "Mommy, make sure your hoo hoo is down."
Matthew was in the bathroom going potty and I heard him tooting up a storm. Then I heard him say to no one in particular, "Maybe the toots are talking. And they are saying 'Po-op! Poopy!'"
Dec 21 When I woke up this morning I found Matthew rubbing his hands all over a bra that I had left out by my bed. He told me, "I just love this. It is so beautiful." Do they just come hardwired with a boob attratction?!
Dec 15 Emma picked up a piece of ribbon today and said, "This looks like Santa's wacker for his reindeer." It took me a minute to figure out she meant a whip.
Dec 9 Emma came out of the bathroom this morning just as Matthew was heading in. He told her, "Emma you are stinky!" She was all offended and yelled back at him, "Matthew! It's not my body! It's my POOP!"
Dec 5 Today Emma was eating her lunch and she knocked her napkin on the ground. She announced to me, "Mom. My napkin falled on the ground." I asked her if that was my cue to jump up and get it. She told me, "Welllll, I wouldn't want you to get bored."
Dec 1 Emma had a friend over to play the other day and they were talking about watching the movie "The Princess Diaries." Matthew heard them and complained loudly, "NO! I don't want diarrhea!"