*The following is a true story*

About the time my son was 18 months old and I was pretty far along with my daughter, I get a message on my phone at work that has a very perturbed husband saying "Hi Sweetheart, give me a call at home ASAP" I will point out here my husbend NEVER soundsperturbed or angry, so I called him immediately.

Me: What's wrong?
Hubby: Oh, nothing, just looking for adoption agencies.
Me: what happened!?

It turns out that Simon had apparently figured out that he could reach the counters if he stood on top of one of his riding toys and had gotten a hold of a pint container of honey (i buy honey in bulk at the health food store) and a fork. He then proceeded in a five minute span while hubby was in the bathroom to leave spidery tendrils of honey all over the apartment. then managed to dump it on his head and coat the cats. My mother in law came to get Simon so my hubby could clean up most of the mess before i got there (and save Simon from being strangled). We moved into our house a couple weeks later, and well... never got our deposit back.

Watching the cats trying to clean themselves was highly entertaining. They were grooming for days.

Demon child...
*note to self: never ever have pint jars of honey in vicinity of children*

In the past week Kasper has noticed atleast three new interesting things: Lights (the more the better and if it moves he can stare it for ages), a colourful toy hanging on the baby carriage (it moves every time he does) and mommy's and daddy's hair. The hair seems to be his favourite of these. You can not only watch it but also hold it. Very firmly. Even if you are asleep and your mommy is trying to put you in bed without waking you up.

babies will do that. I watched my cousin's baby crawl for the very first time on sunday. backwards to begin with, but she's getting the hang of it.

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Originally posted by ladykatza:
Watching the cats trying to clean themselves was highly entertaining. They were grooming for days.

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Bwahahaha!

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Me: So, have you thought of what you'll be when you're big?
Daniel: Yes.
And what is it?
Everything.
How everything ?
Yeah, so I can help everybody.

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Oh, my. I love him so much.

Kasper had a bath again today. This time he actually seemed to like it. He didn't even mind the soap.

yay!

My mother cut her very long hair short because as a baby i had a tendancy to pull chucks or her hair out.

Oh, I also managed to finally cut his nails. He tends to wave his hands around even in his sleep, so it's been hard to find a situation when he keeps them still enough for me to cut the nails without cutting his skin. But today I did!

Halucinagenia - Lots of women also loose hair because of some hormonal stuff when they're breast feeding. Lucky for me I don't, not with Kasper anyway (might happen if I get pregnant again - my mom didn't loose hair with me but she did with my little brother) and he's not pulling it that hard.

Thats interesting about the hair loss, all the scary things that women have to go through for their kids.

I think my mum was fine that way but apparently i was a grab and hold on sort of a devil.

A very quick post them I'm off to bed. Rae and I decorated our Christmas tree this evening while Molly was taking a nap. These are two pics of her looking at the tree, the first as she just sees it and the second as her and Rae were sitting close to it. She loved the lights, but othewise has had little interest in it so far ... yes yes, it's only the first night

An old prude at church was picking up her kid from toddlers when she noticed that Graeme was dancing to the music they were playing. She told Graeme that he shouldn't dance because it "wasn't gentlemanly." He look shame-faced and stopped. Until she turned around, at which point he started dancing like crazy.

Your son rocks.

So much.

Hardcore. My wife listens to a rather crappy pop music station, but occasionally that Bowling for Soup song comes on. You probably know the one, it's punk-lite.

Graeme headbangs to it. I mean, full on grits-his-teeth, closes his eyes and bomps his head to it. So funny.

Yay! Dancing kiddies are great.

Someone taught our Fiona to dance to that 'Shakin' that ass' song - the one from the Renault ad. She taught it to Mairead.
So we had the pair of them standing on the back step shaking the respcetive nappies to the radio last weekend. Unbelievably cute.

Graeme's favourite songs to dance to are definitely from The Wiggles, though. The curious thing is that all the parents I know HATE the songs, but I think they're all right. I mean, simple, and repetitive and all that, but they're children's songs, you have to expect that.

Please say that you've bought him the They Might Be Giants "No!" CD.

It's on my Christmas list. He does love Mink Car, particular Wikid Little Crittah.

fascinating... when Z was little, that was one of Zoe's first favorites off of Mink Car as well. (These days it'd be Cyclops Rock and Another First Kiss because they're also my faves and I sing them in the car a lot)