Thursday, April 18, 2013

Wrestling Part 1

Wrestling Part 2

Is it Spring yet!?

I can’t not believe Baby #3 will be here in a few shorts weeks! Apparently this kid is on track to be significantly larger than the previous two, so the doctor has encouraged me to induce a week early if I have not gone into labor yet. Due to this, we have nicknamed little brother as ‘big baby bruiser’.

In Brett’s school they were reading a book about polar bears. Mrs. Bolger commented that polar bears can grow to 7 feet tall. Brett told me this during lunch and then said ‘that’s almost as big as your dad!’

After a hectic start to the day, Brett tells me ‘Mom it looks like there’s yogurt in your hair.’ I figured the light from the window was reflecting funny…until I reached up. ‘Oh, that’s because there’s yogurt in my hair’.

Bailey - ‘Hide, my daddy’s going to come and say boo! Hes a french model.’

We were at Bailey’s dance class and there is a fish tank by the lobby. Brett says ‘I wanna get the fish out.’ I explained, ‘We can’t. Fish need to be in the water. If they are out, they will die.’ He said, ‘No, I want to take it out and eat it.’

I was driving downtown with the kids in February. They saw some Valentine’s Day decorations and asked what it was. I said ‘that’s called a cupid, it’s like a baby with a bow and arrow and it’s pretending to shoot you with love or nice, warm feelings for someone’. Brett says, ‘I have that.’ I asked, ‘What do you have?’ He said, ‘I have what you were talking about, for you…and Bailey’.

Bailey saw me packing their lunch; we were going to the museum for the day. She yells, ‘BRETT, we have humus!!’ He responds, ‘YES, I love it!’

All the kids have been interested in letters and the sounds of letters. At breakfast I asked them if they could figure out what was cool about the word ‘Blueberries, buh-buh blue buh-buh berries, it has 2 b’s.’ Brett’s reaction – ‘just like Justin Bie-ber!’ Bailey says ‘I’m going to be your girlfriend!’ and shoots her fist in the air. Letter lesson fail?

They also have been very big into rhyming words. This has gotten us into trouble when we explore word families such as truck, kitchen, and lick...Next topic: words we can not say.

Kids were asking what ‘exaggerate’ means. Rob said ‘like if I said my muscles were as big as a house, that would be an exaggeration’. Without missing a beat, Brett says ‘Dad, your muscles are a small as a mouse!’ This has been repeated often. Kids think it’s hilarious.

Bailey was sitting by me and saw a video for a ‘flying squirrel’ wrestling move. She asked to see it. And then asked to see it 4 more times. She said ‘that is soooo tough and awesome.’ Daddy was proud to hear that one.

Someone during lunch said that wrestling was fun. In complete seriousness, Brett said, ‘No wrestling is not fun; it’s tough and hard work. You have to practice a lot.’

Brett and Bailey being sweet one morning
Brett – ‘Bailey where did you get that dress? It’s beautiful!’
Bailey – ‘Oh THANK YOU!’
Brett – ‘Bailey, I don’t have to go to school today!’
Bailey – ‘Oh yay! I love today!’

We took an unexpected trip to Ohio to check on Grandma (from Ohio) after some surgery complications. I was trying to pack quickly so I could drive with the kids the next morning. Brett saw the pile of his clothes, ran to his drawer and pulled out 2 pairs of dress socks and threw them in the pile. ‘I’m going to bring these incase there’s any parties going on!’

When we were dressing the next morning, Bailey said she was going to wear her ‘I Love Papa’ shirt, because she thought grandpa needed some extra snuggles.

On the way to Ohio, I may or may not have gotten pulled over by the highway patrol for slightly going over the speeding limit. As we are waiting for the officer to come up to the window, Brett is shaking his head in disbelief…’this isn’t happening…this has NEVER happened before’. The officer assures me if my information checks out, he will just give me a warning. While we are waiting, Bailey asks why we were pulled over. I said ‘Mommy was going a little too fast…not SUPER fast…but faster than they want me to go’. Bailey says ‘OK drive slower. Mom, ok? You promise? Drive slower.’

Uncle Phil was talking with the kids about what we were going to name the new baby. They decided ‘Bear Urlacher Harman’. That was before Brett’s favorite player left the team When I told him the news, he actually started crying.

Bailey named our car Angus (after the horse in the Brave movie). We were going over a bridge and she yells ‘Gallop Angus! You’re galloping!’

Bailey was running around and I literally just said Bailey be careful. She falls right on her face. I paused and waited for the crying/screaming to ensue. Then she yells ‘DOWN goes BAILEY!’ and jumps up. Well done little lady.

Bailey ‘Brett, don’t give me a frown…’

At lunch Bailey says ‘I suddenly don’t like lettuce’.

We were eating at a Red Lobster. Bailey asked for the ‘Crabsters’ and Brett said ‘I don’t want shrimp, I want the fish like out of the water!’

I put Bailey’s hair into pigtails. Brett says ‘Oh you don’t look like Bailey; you look like the new girl in town!’

Brett asked to have dinosaur chicken for his snack after nap because it would be a healthy choice.

Brett knocked over Rob’s glass of water on the floor, so he grabbed some towels to clean up. He then looked with complete excitement and said 'Mom you are going to be so happy to see this, it’s going to look all nice and shiny!' And with delight, he scrubbed the floor. That excitement for cleaning can only be attributed to Grandpa from Ohio.

Brett farted, gestured for me to light a candle and said 'the boys are stinky, the girls are not'

Bailey was sleeping in Brett’s room and was being quite difficult and dramatic about getting up…Bailey says ‘I’m not ready to get up, I'm going to lay down some more.’
I said, ‘Bailey grandma’s coming, we need to get dressed and have breakfast.’
‘I'll come down when my plate is on the table! And on my plate will be a pancake, banana and strawberries!’
Humored I said, ‘I don't think we'll have pancakes, what if its cereal?’
She says ‘Then I will have lucky charms!’ Throwing herself back on the pillow.
I guess I appreciate that she knows what she wants…

Focusing on eating has become a chore and I find myself giving multiple prompts to eat. Frustrated one evening when they were talking and playing, I said, ‘Come on guys, I’m tired of waiting for you to finish eating’. Bailey says, ‘Well then you can just go in there and relax’

Bailey comes down wearing her Buckeye’s cheerleading outfit laughing ‘Grandma Nancy’s going to be FURIOUS!’

We were relaxing one evening watching the Voice. Brett says ‘I don’t want you to go on that and no one turn around!’ Apparently Brett agrees with his father about my singing ability!

Both Brett and Bailey have new rooms preparing for the new arrival. As I was working on switching the closets, Brett is running back and forth. He moved 6 or so Ohio State wall stickers to the front of his new door stating he wanted everyone to know before coming into his room that he likes OSU!

One Saturday am, we were watching Kung Fu Panda. Rob asks if he looks like the panda with ‘no hair’. Brett says, ‘No I think mommy looks more like him with her big belly’. You can always count on the honesty of a child!

Brett - ‘It’s not about muscles, it’s about believing in yourself’

Bailey’s traumatic naptime –
It was naptime for the 5 kids…I was putting the boys in Brett’s room. I hear a huge crash and Bailey screaming. I run in her room to find she just jumped off her bed and knocked stuff off her desk but it scared her. I finally get her to calm down and I walk out of the room. I get 2 feet out, ‘MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY, there’s a spider on me!!!’ I go in expecting to tell her it’s nothing and sure enough there was a HUGE centipede crawling on her blanket. I flip it back trying to knock him on the floor and off of her. The sucker was quick and went back behind her bed. We looked and looked and couldn’t find it. So I tried to calm her down again and said he probably crawled back into the wall and was scared of her yelling. She seemed fine and I walk to the bathroom. It’s not even 30 sec ‘MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY it’s BACK!’. I run back in, the creepy hairy looking thing was on her pillow right by her head and she was paralyzed screaming. I throw the pillow off, getting him to the floor and stepped on him FINALLY. She is still screaming and tells me to make sure I flush him down the toilet. I have her come with me and we do it together. Bailey is terrified of her new room at this point and refused to sleep in her room by herself. I frankly didn’t blame her, I hate those crawly things. So she settled taking a nap in our room but requested me 4x to ‘shut the door so the buggies couldn’t come in’. I didn’t think I should tell her that they could crawl right under it…

Bailey was ‘writing on her paper’ I asked her what she was writing. She told me it said ‘you complicate my heart…’ Her poor first boyfriend, I can’t imagine what she’s going to put on her love notes if this is what she says at 3 years old!

From Rob: Last night I was watching a few minutes of the Illinois/Iowa dual from a few weeks ago and paused it as we were going out and shovel. Brett said something to the effect of “no score.”
I said, “no Brett, it’s 2 to 2, see here” and pointed to the score at the top corner of the tv.
He responded, “no dad, they are ear to ear so no one is going to score.” Dallago & Lofthouse were paused on tv tied up ear to ear.
A few tears slipped out.

Bailey told me she wanted a Lion King book. I told her she has one. She said ‘No, I want one with the CD to listen to’. I said, ‘Maybe we’ll have to look for that’. She says ‘you Better!’ I looked at her and said ‘what?’ She apparently assumed I just couldn’t hear and repeated, ‘you Better!’. I said, ‘Try again’. Almost getting it, she says ‘May you please Better?!’

Getting ready for Spring

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 ...