“I Missed Your Call!”

I’m forever missing calls and explaining to people why I missed them.

On Saturday night, Mara and I were picking up toys before bedtime. After putting most of the Legos back in their basket, Mara picked up a toy phone and said, “Hi! I missed your call because Mommy and I were picking up Legos! I didn’t mean to, Daddy.”

The “Electric Babbler”

Elderly man in the grocery store, upon hearing Mara’s life story in the first few minutes after they ‘met’:

“Boy, she sure is a chatterbox! . . . Does her Mom like to gab a lot?!”

Grandma, does this remind you of any two-year-olds you might have raised??? I seem to recall someone in the church nursery in New Jersey, expressing relief as they returned your 2-year-old, saying, “Boy, she sure is a chatterbox!”

On a related note, my sister-in-law called me the “electric babbler”?!?!?! . . .  (Should I be offended?)  . . . She said she “couldn’t remember” what my blog was called . . .  I love you, Darla!!!!

I suppose Mara could be the “electric babbler” . . .

Music Mix-up

Mara loves music–classical music, hymns, worship music, kids’ sing-a-long . . . but all that music can get mixed up in her little head.

This morning, she was singing on the potty, “Holy, holy, holyyyyyyyy . . . That’s what it’s all about!”

Somehow, we have this odd mix of “Holy, Holy, Holy” and Elmo doing the “Hokey-Pokey.” Wow.

“Write It Down!”

For some encouragement to those of you who, like me, blog so we can share and remember the simple treasured moments of our family life . . . here’s Shannon, one of my top favorite bloggers (Rocks in My Dryer), blogging today at Parenting.com.

You have to go to the Parenting site and read her post!!  What a great encouragement, not to focus on the format or get discouraged by inconsistency! But just to jot down something! It is so true that this is not “one more thing to do” but it’s something relaxing to record the memories, and know they will be preserved as part of our family story!

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So! Now that I’m all inspired (and while I can still remember), here are a few little memories from this week . . .

  • We are practicing charts. Mara is supposed to say, “‘T’ says ‘t’ turkey.” But instead she said, “‘T’ says ‘ch – chicken’.” 🙂 Well, I guess it would be hard for a two-year-old to distinguish a turkey from a chicken!
  • Ironically, she never enunciates the “c” correctly. It always sounds like a “t.” So as we are looking at the A-Z book on the “C” page, she points to all the pictures: corn, cookies, cake, and says: “Torn. Tookies. And take!”
  • On Saturday, Mara mentioned a friend from church. “Remember Mo, Mommy?”she asked. It always cracks me up when she says, ‘Remember  – – – -, Mommy?”

“Yes,” I said. “We haven’t had her over for awhile.”

“Can Mo come to our house and eat lunch?” she asked.

“I think that’s a good idea!”

So on Sunday at church, Mara saw her and said, “Hi, Mo! Can you come to our house for lunch?” I think that was the first time she asked anyone over. 🙂

Then today, I said, “I need to figure out what we’re having for lunch tomorrow when Mo comes over.”

Mara said, “Tortilla soup.” [That’s what we had the last time she came over–I was surprised Mara remembered because that was about 6 weeks ago!]

  • We’ve had a lot of rain this week, and we found an earthworm on the sidewalk out back. I told Daniel to show it to Mara. If I’m raising my girl in the innercity, I want her to at least know what a worm looks like!  Not to stereotype . . . But Mara was majorly creeped out by the wriggly earthworm. Micah, on the other hand, was completely intrigued. And after holding it for a few seconds, he tried to put it in his mouth. We had to take it away.
  • Micah continues to eat his weight in food daily. That’s probably an overstatement, but not a huge overstatement! Today, for instance, breakfast: bowl of oatmeal & 1/3 cup applesauce. Lunch 3 – 3.5 oz containers of baby food (squash, green beans, banana berry). Dinner 3 – 3.5 oz containers (green beans, sweet potatoes, and banana plum grape). That’s down from the other morning, when breakfast alone was: a bowl of oatmeal, 1/2 cup of applesauce, a handful of fresh blueberries, and an entire can (14.5 oz) of pears!! Is that not insane?!?! Mara never ate that much!! Is my child normal? or am I allowing him to over-eat?!

Well, those are tonight’s random memories, without regard to format, as Shannon recommended. 🙂

The Amazing Internet

Today I was scanning dealnews.com, one of Daniel and my favorite sites, and I came across the Samsung Omnia Screen Protector for $3.49. I knew Daniel was looking for something like this for his new phone, but I never buy anything electronics-related without checking with him first.

I clicked on the link, intending to copy the url and e-mail it to him. That is, until I saw the note, right under the price, which said: “Last purchased by Daniel in Our City, Our State.”

I started laughing out loud! Though there are probably many Daniels in Our City, I knew it was my Daniel.

I called him at work: “Soooo I see you got the Samsung Omnia Screen Protector for $3.49 this morning.”

Sure enough, he had.When I told him how I found out, we were both laughing. . . I wondered if anyone else would be amused, or just us. . .  Maybe that’s why we got married.

But–wow! It’s just amazing that I can go online to buy something, and the website will tell me that my husband just bought it this morning! I’m still laughing out loud.

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On a somewhat related note, Jos. A Banks is having a great sale on some dress pants (buy one, get two free). Perfect timing! Because Daniel needs new khakis. 🙂