Monday, February 4, 2013

What do you think? Blue or Pink?


Winter 2013

We’ve had a busy winter! We drove to Ohio for Christmas and stayed with Grandma and Grandpa for a couple days. We came back and celebrated Bailey’s 3rd birthday! Have had a number of illnesses; colds, stomach flu, ear infections – all fun things to have. Rob and Brett still do wrestling a night a week and Bailey is continuing her dance class. The kids are constantly challenging us and entertaining us with the funny things they say. Brett and Bailey really love each other and are creating games to play all the time. They currently are into either Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Power Rangers. Mommy and daddy are typically the teacher/sansei or the bad, evil guy. I’m guessing depending on how they are feeling about us at the time.

Funny things kids say

‘Daddy your muscles are getting bigger, it looks like they are going to break your shirt.’ (This was actually said right after the last blog entry; Rob lobbied for me to add to blog and resend to everyone, but I thought it could wait)

We were eating somewhere and Brett asked to have some calamari. He’s had it before but this time he said, ‘Oh it tastes like fish AND chicken’. I thought that was a perfect description.

One Saturday Bailey suggested we should go to Dunkin Doughnuts (one of her favorites). Brett said, ‘We just went, we can’t go all the time because it’s not good for us!’ Brett has become our voice of reason.

Bailey was playing legos with Brett and she dropped a little piece down her onesie pajamas. She looked upset and said ‘Oh no, there’s a Lego IN me!’

‘I’m done eating; I just want to show off my moves’

We finally got some snow in Chicago! Brett and Bailey were SO excited to put on their snow pants and gloves and go outside. They did snow angels and shoveled, tried to make snow balls. Bailey was making snow angel, Brett walked over to her with a shovel in his hand.
Bailey said in all seriousness, ‘Are you coming over to hit me?’. I could not stop laughing. Who are we? The Sopranos?

Brett had some fish crackers left from his post wrestling snack. He asked if he could have them but in a very whiney voice. I said simply, ‘Not the way that you are asking, you are whining’. He went to the bathroom like I asked him to and I overheard him rehearsing in the mirror how he was going to apologize for whining and if he could PLEASE have his crackers. He came out from the bathroom and repeated almost verbatim how he practiced. I smiled and said, yes thank you for asking nicely. I feel he will do well when he has to practice public speaking for school.

The kids say prayers together before going to bed. Almost every night, Brett asked God to be with Uncle Brett so he’s not lonely.

Brett was running late for school, I gave him a list of things to do before he had to leave. He jumped up from the table, saluted me and ran off. Not sure if that’s a good thing or bad thing?

I saw a great deal online for girls’ dresses (Rob you may stop reading and skip to next story). I let Bailey tell me which ones she liked, I put them in the cart so we could decide. We were comparing the few that she liked and literally as I say ‘Ok Bailey which ONE do you like best?’ She hit something and the page changed. I asked Bailey what she touched…and then I saw ‘Do your happy dance your order is on the way!’ She hit submit and ordered all of them! Thankfully I was able to contact the company and they could cancel the order. My darling 3 year old has already learned the ease and danger of online shopping!

Brett is obsessed with numbers these days. He is frequently telling us what numbers are on the clock. I can’t remember if I shared, one evening going to wrestling practice Brett read the clock to Rob every minute it changed. ‘Dad! It’s 1 minute after 6!’….’Dad! It’s 2 minutes after 6!’ All the way to Maine South. Now he is constantly asking addition questions. ‘Mom what’s 4 and 4? What’s 5 and 5? What’s 15 and 20?’ I found Rob’s old flash cards from teaching and gave them to Brett. He calls them his numbers game and literally reads each one, guessing the answer and goes through the entire box. This is not a trait from me. I remember flash cards, and I disliked them.

We took Bailey to American Girl for her birthday. She picked out a doll and named her Bella (it HAD to be a B name). She takes her upstairs every night and tucks her in the doll bed in her room. Bella has really helped with the whole little brother disappointment.

Bailey is our little comedian. Rob and I are nightly laughing at her antics. She is doing a great job finally with potty training and is thrilled to be wearing her Merida and Princess underwear. If she goes #2, she asks for privacy, a lesson learned from her brother I’m sure. Then instead of saying that she’s done, she’ll ask me to come in because she has a surprise! Every time she says, ‘I have a surprise...wait for it, wait for it…LOOK! Are you SO surprised?!’

After accidentally coming home with twice the candy we meant to from a candy store, Brett told me during breakfast ‘Mom, you shouldn’t go to a candy store when you’re pregnant!’ Apparently he was talking to his father about my inability to estimate weight of said candy. I said ‘Maybe the baby wanted candy?’
Brett was not humored. ‘Maybe he didn’t.’ Touché.

Brett wanted to play tic tac toe when I was trying to get dinner ready. I told him to practice and play himself. He continued to play then yelled, ‘MOM, I won!’. What a great self-esteem builder

Kids ask to do a ‘sleepover’ every weekend. They break out their sleeping bags for nap and bedtime and get to stay together on the floor. This typically leads to late talking and laughing but it’s so worth it.

Uncle Brett’s birthday would have been last week. I told the kids we were going to meet Daddy for dinner and asked where they thought Daddy would have gone with Uncle Brett for his birthday. Brett said immediately ‘The Owl Restaurant, that’s where he goes with his friends’. Bailey adds, ‘Let’s go and if we see a guy with no hair, than that’s daddy!’.

Winter 2013

Wow, has it really been almost 2 years since I’ve updated the Harman blog?! Rob has been not so subtly dropping hints that I have neglected ...