Tuesday, April 29, 2008

A lover, a fighter, and a drama queen

Ahhh two year olds, they wear soo many hats. This morning at 7:30am Althea, whose been sleeping next to me since 5:30 am, rolls over barely awake and kisses me three times. She whispers "I love you mommy". Then she turns to lay about 4,000 kisses on her brother. She's so sweet. She gives nothing but love to her brother and will regularly come over and kiss me a hundred times and tell me how much she loves me, just for the hell of it.

About 5 minutes later she yells at me: Get me a cup!!!

I read somewhere that when toddlers demand stuff that it sounds like they should be saying Woman! at the end of their sentences. Get me a cup, Woman!!! I forgot where I read that....but it's dead on. At this point I'm barely awake so I ask "the queen" to give me a minute. Instead she just repeats: Cup, cup, cup, cup, cup, cup, cup, cup, cup, cup...etc.

Normally I would go through the "Allie? Is that how your supposed to ask?" and she would roll her eyes at me and condescendingly say: "Mommy? Can I have a cup please?" and then when I'm on my way to get it she would throw in a "Go get it!!". But it's too early for that. So after 100 "cup"s I finally say "OK! Enough!!" and go and get it, along with a bottle for the little guy.

I get back with the goods and the sweet Allie smiles and says: "Thank you Mommy." She takes a sip and puts in on the end table. I start feeding the baby the bottle and a couple of minutes later she starts again: Cup, cup, cup, cup, cup, cup, cup, cup, cup...
I'm awake enough this time to give her the speech: "Althea, the cup is right there. If you want some, get it."

She then puts her saddest face on (which btw, she sits and practices in the mirror every day. I kid you not.) and says to me: "I'm sick, mommy. I can't. See..." and gives me the fakest cough you have ever heard. "Can you please get it for me mommy?" And then adds the sad lip for good measure. I can't help but to laugh on the inside. Where does she get this stuff from? On the outside, I look her straight in the face and tell her, no.

When it's time to get out of bed and start our day, I ask her what she wants for breakfast. She doesn't know and is going back and forth. I say to her: "How about cereal?". She lets out the loudest GASP you ever heard, like it's her birthday and her face lights up with a huge smile. "CEREAL?? OHHHH NANK YOU MOMMY. NANK YOU NANK YOU NANK YOU!!!!" (That's "Thank You" for those of you who don't speak Allie) And then she give me a big hug.

It's not even 8am, and the award goes too.....

Labels: A Day in the Life, Althea Raye

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Blog Worthy

I've had soo many blog worthy things happen recently, and somehow they don't end up on the blog. For example:

Luke turned 6 months...oh yea, and then 7 months. *cringe*

He still doesn't want to roll over. He still hates tummy time with a passion. He is however sitting up, mostly anyway. And he's starting to hold his bottle, which is nice. He is constantly babbling and mostly just says Da da. Ahhh da da! Damn kids always say da da first! At his 6 month appointment he was 22 pounds. I'm in a ridiculous amount of pain, by the way. My arm is killing me, my sciatic nerve going down my leg is throbbing, my back hurts, and it's sorry to say it's all about carrying this kid around all day. He's killing me!!! Like seriously, I think I need to go to the doctor for my arm it hurts so bad. lol But he's a great baby and still very good. He's consistently sleeping through the night and now has two 2 hour naps a day and starting to have a schedule. But he's still pretty ok about keeping his schedule on the fly which is nice!

Coming up in the next week (I promise!!)

• How I'm now the Avon Lady! Ding Dong! Avon Calling!!
• How I got yelled at by a Mattress Marshal for taking the tag off my mattress.
• Why I'm eating every word I ever said about people who's children weren't potty trained by 3 years old. And how those words taste like shit. haha
• My life as a SAHM.

Labels: Luke the Linebacker, you wanted to be a mom

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