The Curse of the Glasses
"I'd like to make a toast to all the glasses in our apartment. May you stand tall and never fall!"
I've stopped counting the glasses that have broken since we have lived in this apartment (approx. 10 weeks). You might suspect that is just something to expect when you have two little eaters or drinkers in this case...and a baby, but she doesn't count yet. No, I am sorry to say that this tally doesn't include even ONE broken by our children. It's become a joke between Jon and I now and they KEEP BREAKING. I am not sure what to blame it on, or why if we are really so clumsy, it's only happening in THIS apartment.
Perhaps it is our unfamiliarity with the goblets that came with the house. Or the platform bed that we aren't used to - I can count THREE that I've nocked of my nightstand with my pillow! I have started using dixie cups just so we can keep our deposit. My favorite to date is the glass that broke because when getting loaded into the dishwasher, "it wouldn't fit where I wanted it." I could only laugh at that. It was probably the seventh or eighth to break and how can you scold your husband for doing the dishes
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Ironically enough, my little Rissie broke the arm off my eyeglasses last week. Ha ha, I am writing this post with them dangling on the right side. (Don't panic for me, I wear contacts everyday. I just haven't put them in yet :)
Where does it hurt?
3/14/05 Lauren's cough continues, and after her heartbreaking cries of, "I don't like my cough." I asked her where it hurt, thinking it could be either her throat or her chest. She said, "Right here." Then mouth wide open she pointed to her throat with her entire hand in her mouth and her finger at the back until she gagged.
2/19/08 This morning, we are eating breakfast when J interrupts the brief silence with a small basement burp. Without missing a beat, Lauren says, "What do you say, Daddy?" He excuses himself, then still in her motherly tone adds, "We don't fart at the table do we?"
Junk Food
9/16/08 Yesterday Lauren learned the difference between junk food and healthy food. So this morning, when she saw Rissie with a piece of candy, she said, "Mom, can I please have some junk food?"
2/9/08 Today Lauren asked me to redo her hair because it was "falling off!"
Cookie Dough
L: (in her sweetest voice) "Mom, can I have some cookie dough please?"
M: "Sure."
L: "Well," pause, "do you think you can get it from the fridge so I can like it?"
4/20/2008 So Lauren got some gum (not a fan) for being a good girl. Later, Jon asked her if she had swallowed it. She said, "No." Then he asked if she threw it away. She said, "No." So he asked her where it was, she told him it was in her throat.
L. and R. have been singing and dancing to their new piano that plays fun tunes. L. has been learning them and singing them around the house. A few days ago I overheard her sining, "Mary had a little sheep, little sheep, little sheep,...
Finding the Moon
Lauren shouts, "Grandma, there is the moon!" She started singing Twinkle Little Star, but in the mean time we had turned the corner and she soon discovered it was gone. So she tells Grandma, "We need to find another moon." 01/13/08
Kids are the best source of laughter
- I was getting dressed and L happened to be there and as I reached for my br_ she asked, "Mom, you put your b__bs on?"12/07
- R had gotten in trouble for something, then after some reflection L said matter of factly, "Well, she's learning."12/07
- L just told Jon to look at her stomach then lifted her arm, pulled down her sleeve, and showed him her armpit.12/07
3 comments:
Hmmm...that's funny I have lost me pro favorite mugs in the last month. I know what is causing our dish shortage, the girls are learning to wash dishes until we get a real dishwasher. Not that they aren't great little dishwashers themselves but, you know.
Long stem? Who uses those everyday?? Rich people with no kids?
Ha, ha! I guess I shouldv'e picked up plastic ware at the grocery store for you two as well. That post made me laugh and laugh because when I first saw your apartment, I was sure you'd lose a few glasses on that tile floor. I just didn't expect you and Jon to be the culprits! Too funny!
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