It is Sunday and I am sitting around my house instead of at church because I have three sick children and a cold all to myself as well. So I thought a good Sunday thing to do would be to think of fun things from the kids recently!
M is a unicorn these days. I get an attitude from her if I have the nerve to call her by her name without "unicorn" attached to it somehow (M Unicorn, Unicorn M, or just Unicorn). She goes around on her hands and knees and talks in a very high voice that is only for unicorn time, but she talks less. I joked with D some time ago that I loved Unicorn time because things got much quieter around the house. When I cook meals, they have to be Unicorn food and when I give her a bath, I have to convince her that unicorns love soap and clean hair to get her hair cleaned. It is really special when she is in unicorn mode and wants to show affection. I will suddenly have her at my knees rubbing her head on me like a cat or something. I just say, "I love you too Unicorn" and that usually get a happy Unicorn response and she goes off to do more unicorn things. She has even taken to saying "I wish, I wish, I wish I was a unicorn in a rainbow castle." when she is feeling very sad. It is cute but I feel kind of helpless because that is not something I can do for her at all and nothing I say helps. Not even telling her I love her just as she is as my M, she just gets frustrated that I don't have her vision.
G has outsmarted me once again. Not that it is shocking by any measure, but all the same, this one is pretty smart. In order to get the child in bed for a nap anymore, I have to find ways to keep her in her room. She has mastered opening doors and so I put a door knob cover on the inside to prevent her escapes, even though I hated it. Well, she is not easily stopped and the other night after being put down, she walked into my room and handed me the door knob cover in it's two pieces! So, I put it back on and her back in bed and here she came not very long afterward into my room again. When taking her back to her room yet again, the cover was again in it's two pieces on the floor next to the door. Crap. That was my last idea on keeping her in her room to eventually pass out from boredom! Gates are a fun obstacle course to her and she knows how to use the locks on the doors better than her four year old sister! So, here I am in a state of "oh crap-ness" on nap times. sigh...
E is enjoying sounds more and more as we get more and more wax pulled out. As a result, she has really taken to her own version of dancing to music she likes. E does what we have termed "knee walking" because she has skillfully figured out how to walk along on her knees in order to hold things when she gets around. We are working on walking, but she sees knee walking as just fine for her. Well, when she hears music now, she will get on her knees, close her eyes, pat her chest, and throw her head from side to side with a giant smile on her face. It is absolutely hilarious and sweet at the same time. We love it when she starts going off on her dancing kicks and it gives us a hearty laugh.
Lastly, M has become obsessed with trying to go to work with her daddy. Her dad's job is high security and dangerous and it will NEVER happen. So, when she started up one day with her antics on going with him, a light came on for me. I told her that if she went to work with her daddy, she would have to take naps while she was there because that is what they did at daddy's work. She was horrified and decided that naps were not going to work for her and so Daddy's work did not appeal anymore. I think I know why she had this obsession with going to work with him too. A few weeks ago M came up to me and told me that Daddy was an airplane doctor and that when the airplanes were all fixed, he gives them lollipops for being good. I totally went with it because it was hilarious and I immediately called D to tell him about his job. He thought it was just as funny as I did and he goes along with it too. So, according to M, D goes to work were there are sick airplanes. He makes them feel better and gives them a lollipop and then has everyone lay down for naps. Pretty sweet job! Too bad unicorns don't like naps so they can't go LOL. Good stuff...
