thought this wasn’t supposed to happen until the teenage years. Everyday (sometimes more that once) Zoey’s best friend, Courtney, will call her after school. Here is a typical conversation.
“What channel/show are you watching?”
“Scary Godmother on Nick, what are you watching?”
Then it will break down into 1 of 2 ways:
1-
“Oohhh that sounds good. Let me change the channel”
“Did you see what they just did? That was so funny”
“Oh It’s the ugly guy!”, followed by giggles and more of them talking about the show to eachother.
or 2-
“What?” “What did you say?” “What happened?” “Whaaatttt?”
Allison’s vocabulary is growing by leaps and bounds. She speaks incredibly well for someone her age. Lately, she likes to repeat the consonants at the end of words. Book-k-k, Light-t-t, bug-g-g. Only with hard consonants, since they stop so abruptly. It’s almost like a stutter, but you can tell she is just playing with the sounds.
We decided to get crazy with the cheez-whiz.
Funny Faces #1, #2 and #3. All three kiddos were feeling picturesque so here you go.
#1 – Ah, don’t they love eachother.
#2 – Zoey has 2 missing teeth. One on top and one on bottom. They are just a little crazy
#3 – What? This is how they look all of the time.
Horseface 1 and Horseface 2. There is a huge pasture behind my dad’s back yard. The horses were feeling friendly (and we had veggie snacks). The horse in the picture with Allison and me is a humongous Belgian. It is still a baby and is supposed to grow even bigger.
Hurricane #1, #2 and #3. Random after the storm pictures
#1 – the sardine can roof of one of our storage buildings (and the only thing that happened at our house).
#2 - the gas line at Walmart last Wednesday. Yes, we still had a gas shortage until 3 days ago and some of the stations still don’t have fuel.
#3 – just a few of the electric trucks around town.
Oh, and last but not least, snake, kind of self explanatory. Greg killed it with a garden tool outside of Nathan’s window. Does it look poisonous to you? If you answered yes, you are correct. It’s a Copperhead.
Oh yeah. 2 nights in a row. Last night she fell asleep in 40 minutes instead of an hour. By the end of the week Allison should be alseep before we even put her in bed. It would have been 20, except that someone decided to come into the room to check on us. This caused a chorus of “I want my daaaaaa-dy”.
She still woke up quite a few times through out the night, but mostly went right back to sleep.
Remember way back at the end of May when I was so excited about moving Allison into her own bed? We were a little late getting started because, well, 1) I’m just lazy and 2)Allison would go to bed later than Zoey, who we didn’t want to wake up when putting Allison to bed. Last night may be the start of something new. She slept in her bed the whole night. From start to finish. Sure, she woke up a few times, but instead of bringing her into our bed, I just laid down with her. I’m pretty sure Zoey just slept through it all.
Greg and I have a plan and maybe, just maybe, it will work. Usually, Nathan and Zoey brush their teeth and are in their rooms at 8:30 to read until 9:00. We are going to start putting Allison to bed at 8:30. Until Allison gets used to falling asleep in her own bed, Zoey is going to read in our room. If Allison still isn’t asleep by 9:00 then Zoey gets to fall asleep in our bed. It took about an hour of “I want go night-night Mom’s bed” and “I won’t go night-night my bed, I don’t like my bed” last night. Once Allie is asleep, we’ll move Zoey over. With any luck, Allison will be used to sleeping in her own bed in a week or two.
Even with all of the extra space last night, Greg still slept in his little sliver of bed he is usually allocated when Allison is sprawling out with us.
Nathan has unintentionally renamed a few places we visit. A few years ago, on a trip to Stonebriar Mall, the kids asked where we were going. Greg told them New Jersey. They believed him. After we moved to our little town, they both wanted to visit a Build-a-Bear and remembered that Stonebriar has one. “Hey Mom, Can we go to New Jersey?”. Sure, as long as you talk through your nose and pronounce your A’s like “er” instead of “ah”.
Today Nathan had a football game in the town of Joaquin (pronounced Wa-Keen). Except for instead of going to Joaquin, we go to Milwaukee. He really wants to be close to Green Bay.
