So Molly and I were walking through the yard last night. She sees a tiny twig and picks it up, and walks back to the front porch. She's up and down the step with the twig in her hand, switching hands with it, examining it. Then she breaks it in two. She looks a the two pieces and hands me the smaller one. After a while she comes back and asks for the smaller piece, then starts to try and put them back together. Puzzled, she taps them together then signs "please". It's obvious to me she wants dad to fix her stick. I explain to her that the stick broke in two and now it's two pieces (using this opportunity to start introducing the concept of two). She keeps signing "please" and I keep explaining it, then I say "Sweetie, I know you think daddy is great and all, but if I could put the pieces back together with my fingers I'd be Alvin Maker". Then I smiled at myself

Eventually, she gave me the smaller piece, content to have the large one. Then she wanted inside, and I told her the sticks stay outside and to hand me the stick. She didn't, and kept playing. A few minutes later she signed "in" again and I explained the sticks stay outside. She squawked, looked at the stick, look into the house through the screen door, thrust the stick at me and walked in.

I would love to hear a Molly-squawk.

Oh, she was genuinely torn between wanting to keep the stick and wanting inside. And she knew exactly what I was saying that the stick had to stay outside when she went in. It was a royal "garumping" of a sound. Like "fine, daaaad, here's your stoopid stick, I don't want it anyway"

*wants to meet JP and Molly and Rae*

Graeme has come to the stage where he wants to be a part of every conversation. It's partly the innate selfishness of childhood, partly just being a social butterfly.

Meadra and I were driving, talking about an upcoming crappy SciFi movie, Alien Express, which had received 2 out of 10 stars in the TV Guide. A rough version of the dialogue follows:

Meadra: So, 2 out of 10 stars? Ouch.

Dweller: Yeah, the reviewer said that from the moment you hear Lou Diamond Phillips talking about his Gulf War past, you know it's going to be bad. But he sounded like he was saying, "Look, this is going to be really, really bad. Horrible. Awful. I'll bring the popcorn."

Graeme: And I'll bring the bagels!

i was chatting with my best friend in Germany on AIM. she says to tell the family hi.

me: veronika says HI!
husband: cool, what's she wearin'?!
simon: a pull-up!

Lemme guess, Simon's potty-training?

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Originally posted by Dweller in Darkness:
Lemme guess, Simon's potty-training?

no, his sister is.

Ah. I thought he was a little old for it, but that's definitely something you say when you're witness to potty-training.

Abbie's started doing sign language to 'twinkle twinkle little star'.

It's so ceeeeeeeeuuuuuute to behold.

Awwww!

Why is it always Twinklw Twinkle Little Star that they learn first?

In other random small child stuff, Thomas has finally deigned to start talking without prompting (although he still won't speak to the speech therapist, or even look at her) and his new favourite word is 'sock'. All the time. Whether there are socks in the vicinity ir not.

hehe sock. Suck a nice effective abundant word.

simon: are cats humans?
daecon: no
simon: are cats demons
daecon: no simon, cats are cats because they are cats. that's why they are called cats.
simon: then how can they lose their mittens?

LOL

ohh so cute!

So, it's official: Graeme is addicted to Katamari Damacy. Almost every night for the past two weeks, he has insisted that I play the game. His favourite levels are the ones where I have to go in the water.

heee!

The best part is when i start rolling up cows and sheep and chickens and he starts laughing about it. He gets hysterical at times.

so funny and cute. i want children of my own.

Maybe you can Netflix them. I hear that's all the rage.

You'd be a great mum.

i hope so. it's the only thing i've wanted to do ALL my life. everything else has either just come and gone, or only been a recent addition to the list. motherhood is a permanent list-resident