Thank goodness February is over! The Harmans were sick for almost the whole month: Bailey had 2 rounds of antibiotics for ear infections, high fevers for a week at a time, Brett had strep and acute bronchitis, Rob and I were both sick at one point…and oh yeah, I fell down the stairs carrying Brett, ‘busting up his face’ (as he says) and sending me to the immediate care for xrays. Thankfully just a cut on the lip for him and only bruising/sore back for me…But PHEW, now onto March!
We are finishing up this session for classes. In April, Bailey will be starting a dance class (she is SO excited!), they will continue their music class, Brett will be starting T-Ball AND pre-school. Mommy is not quite ready for all these changes. Brett’s actually been asking to go to school so apparently he is more ready than I.
Quotes/Stories
Bailey says ‘Thee End!...of my yogurt, By ME!’
Brett was taking a little time out for being rambunctious…I see him throw his arm (anger punch?! Mad gesture?!) ‘What was that?’ I asked. He said, ‘I took off my helmet’. He got in trouble for jumping off of furniture pretending to play football. So I guess I appreciate him metaphorically taking off his equipment to fully prepare for his consequences.
During another ‘football practice’, I told Brett to stop throwing in the house. He said, ‘I’m not Mom, I’m TOSSING!’
The evening news was on while we were getting ready for dinner. They were covering the latest Blackhawks game and what players got into a fight. Bailey says, ‘They have to be nice! Kids! Be Nice!!’
Once Brett finished his medicine for strep, he was SO hyperactive. I sent him to wrestling practice with Rob. Brett ran the entire practice and even had a little wrestling partner. Daddy beamed with pride for hours after.
The next day, Brett said the boys had the same wrestling bag as he did. “I was so, so impressed!’
Bailey told me, ‘Mom, I’m a RockStar!’.
Bailey said ‘Mommy?’ I responded ‘Yes, dear?’ She looked at me and said, ‘you can’t call me dear, you must call me Bailey!’
‘Oh you Stinker Binker!’
Bailey had a high fever, coughing and tears rolling down her face…she still insisted she needed to wear her pink tutu to the doctor.
Brett was feeling better and his cough was subsiding…but when he was getting into trouble and I knelt down to talk to him, his cough suddenly reappeared, making it impossible to have a conversation.
Shortly after this, I said ‘Brett you are making yourself cough’.
‘Ummmm, I’m not really sure what you are talking about?’
Bailey and I were at the mall, in Victoria’s Secret. Bailey, in her pink skirt and purse on her arm, was walking around the store yelling that she needed a pink bra! She also kept grabbing a hand full of ‘colorful’ thongs saying ‘OHHH these look nice!’
Bailey adores her Colin...she called herself Bailey Lynn Rubel (I don't even know how she figured out that's what you do), she also sings 'I love you Colin Rubel!'
After nap one day, Brett says ‘L-U-V Madonna!’ I asked him where he heard that before…he said, ‘you know, when the Patriots were taking a break’ (i.e. Madonna’s Superbowl Halftime show).
Both kids, when they think they are getting in trouble, say 'but Mommy you're SO BEAUTIFUL!'
Brett and Daddy have been wrestling quite a bit…one time Rob yelled out ‘Help me Mama!’ Brett looks at him and said, ‘You don’t need help, fight out of it!’
Bailey so causally walked by me and said ‘everyday I’m shuffling’
3 phrases are used quite frequently by the kids right now…’That’s a good idea’, ‘I’ve never seen that before’ and ‘(enter whatever they are doing or looking at) is the best in the whole wide world!’.
When I was putting Brett to bed after his wrestling practice, he said ‘Mom I was AMAZING at wrestling’
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
"Playing nicely!
I needed 2 minutes to get ready and asked Brett and Bailey to play nicely in their rooms...this is what they came up with!
Jan 2012
Just realized that I haven’t updated since before Thanksgiving…I have a bit to cover!
Thanksgiving weekend took us to Michigan with the whole Wood crew and we celebrated our niece’s 3rd birthday (Princesses and Pirates!). Christmas: we drove to Ohio, the kids and I stayed for a couple more days. We got back just in time to celebrate Bailey’s 2nd Birthday! We are all getting back into routine and are quite busy! This winter I’m taking Brett and Bailey to gymnastics on Monday nights, Tuesday mornings: we have music class for Bailey, Grace and Colin, Wednesdays: Brett goes to story-time and Art & ABC class, Thursdays: Brett goes to music class and Bailey goes to story-time with grandma Nancy…Friday: we do nothing! (although, we usually end up listening to music and dancing)
Quotes/Funny stories
Bailey has started this twirling and singing bit…la la la la! She is adamant as soon as she wakes up that she NEEDS to put a pretty dress on because she can NOT dance in her jammies!
‘This is really really good!’ Bailey said in regards to a peppermint oreo. I agree!!
Rob likes to use Brett as a guinea pig to work out wrestling moves before he goes to practice. The next morning, Brett was trying to teach Bailey.
B&B all of the sudden seem to know every word to any song they have ever heard. We’ll be in the car and both will be singing along to the radio. Their favorites are Moves like Jagger and Party Rock Anthem by the Chipmunks. And of course since their mother is a little bit country, they constantly ask for Sugarland songs (All I want to do AND Stuck like Glue!).
Kids have loved the Llama Llama books by Anna Dewdney. Bailey just told me that ‘to fret’ (which is in one of the books) means to cry a little. You know, just in case mommy didn’t know.
Brett asked me ‘How do the police catch cars?’. Before I could answer, he asked ‘do they have a net?’
Rob took Brett to a wrestling tournament and Brett tells him right before getting in the car that he HAD to go. So…daddy showed him that sometimes boys can pee outside.
We started Elf on the Shelf with the kids this year. They were REALLY into it! We named our friend Macaroni Toni. I heard Bailey say ‘Macaroni Toni, I want a Cinderella….are you making a list?’ She said daily ‘Macaroni Toni is watching me…’ which actually sounded creepy, but somehow worked!
Brett got a little aggressive going up for naptime and I caught him pushing Bailey out of the way to beat her up the stairs. I tried to express how it could hurt her if she fell down. I asked him to say sorry. He did. I asked him to give Bailey a hug. He did. I asked him to say ‘I don’t always have to be first’. His response: ‘I don’t want to say that!’
Brett was starting to be a little lippy. I told him that Macaroni Toni will tell Santa that he was talking back to mommy. He said ‘Then Santa will say BRETT, I’m going to eat you up!...and then I will fight Santa like a bad guy’ WHAT?! We are missing the point somewhere.
For a couple weeks, Brett was coming into our room literally 10 min before my alarm was to go off. So I would let him lay with me until I had to get up. This sparked the funniest conversations. One day he asked if when he was older if he could marry Bailey. I told him that was nice but we can’t marry our sisters. He said, ‘I know, I’ll marry Asha’. I said, ‘well it’s actually frowned upon to marry cousins as well’. Brett said, ‘well that means I can’t marry Aubrey either’. ‘OH how about Auntie Kylie?!’ I said, ‘well Auntie Kylie is married to Uncle Phil and he might be sad if you take her away’. I tried to explain that he should look to marry someone that was his friend, someone who makes him laugh, who’s a good person…he says ‘OH I know I can marry YOU Mommy!’
Bailey wasn’t feeling well but told me that Colin makes her feel better.
Brett yelled, ‘Yay Christmastime! My Santa’s coming!’ I said, ‘yes but who’s birthday is it?’ He said, ‘Bailey’s!’ I said, ‘yes her birthday is soon. But Jesus’s too. Remember, that’s why we celebrate Christmas’. He said, ‘oh yeah, him too’
I was changing a poignant diaper…I said ‘oh that was stinky’. Grace walking by, says ‘Sure is Kelli, sure is’
Kids were a little hyper one morning and I let out a pretty big sigh when I finally got them all down for naps. I stopped outside of Bailey’s door to hear her belting out “Happy Birthday Jesus!’ I thanked God for letting her remind me to just relax and enjoy the little things.
Bailey has a way with saying things…she has turned many single syllable words to multi-syllables! DA-ANCE! MO-ORE! PUH-LEASE! What’s even more humorous…ask Rob what a syllable is:)
When Bailey still had her pacifier, I told her to put her binky up on the counter since naptime was over. She said, ‘be patient Mommy’. I asked ‘Be patient for what?’. She said, ‘Be patient for Wes Welker’. The girl loves the Patriots. To expand, she just fought her nap because she didn’t want to miss Tom Brady playing.
While in Ohio, Grandpa was trying to race Brett down the school hallway. Papa was running backwards ahead of Brett…which prevented Papa from seeing the floor waxing machine which then propelled Papa flying feet over head and crashing him down to the floor. Brett picked up the bottle he dropped and kept running. After we made sure everyone was ok…they raced down the next hallway. Which led to Brett asking ‘Papa, are you going to fall again?!’
Brett and Bailey were tag-teaming in making it IMPOSSIBLE to get out the door last weekend on the way to a birthday party. I found myself a little frazzled. I finally got them in the car after (I’m not exaggerating) a million “MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY!”. Brett said ‘Mommy!’ I just about had it. ‘What Brett?’. ‘I just wanted to say I love you and you’re pretty all day’. I mean really…he’s such the little charmer.
Bailey was playing, I heard her say ‘I had a good day at work. I had toys, and tools, and pink pants and my daddy and my Brett Brett and my mommy. I love today’. I love today too honey.
Thanksgiving weekend took us to Michigan with the whole Wood crew and we celebrated our niece’s 3rd birthday (Princesses and Pirates!). Christmas: we drove to Ohio, the kids and I stayed for a couple more days. We got back just in time to celebrate Bailey’s 2nd Birthday! We are all getting back into routine and are quite busy! This winter I’m taking Brett and Bailey to gymnastics on Monday nights, Tuesday mornings: we have music class for Bailey, Grace and Colin, Wednesdays: Brett goes to story-time and Art & ABC class, Thursdays: Brett goes to music class and Bailey goes to story-time with grandma Nancy…Friday: we do nothing! (although, we usually end up listening to music and dancing)
Quotes/Funny stories
Bailey has started this twirling and singing bit…la la la la! She is adamant as soon as she wakes up that she NEEDS to put a pretty dress on because she can NOT dance in her jammies!
‘This is really really good!’ Bailey said in regards to a peppermint oreo. I agree!!
Rob likes to use Brett as a guinea pig to work out wrestling moves before he goes to practice. The next morning, Brett was trying to teach Bailey.
B&B all of the sudden seem to know every word to any song they have ever heard. We’ll be in the car and both will be singing along to the radio. Their favorites are Moves like Jagger and Party Rock Anthem by the Chipmunks. And of course since their mother is a little bit country, they constantly ask for Sugarland songs (All I want to do AND Stuck like Glue!).
Kids have loved the Llama Llama books by Anna Dewdney. Bailey just told me that ‘to fret’ (which is in one of the books) means to cry a little. You know, just in case mommy didn’t know.
Brett asked me ‘How do the police catch cars?’. Before I could answer, he asked ‘do they have a net?’
Rob took Brett to a wrestling tournament and Brett tells him right before getting in the car that he HAD to go. So…daddy showed him that sometimes boys can pee outside.
We started Elf on the Shelf with the kids this year. They were REALLY into it! We named our friend Macaroni Toni. I heard Bailey say ‘Macaroni Toni, I want a Cinderella….are you making a list?’ She said daily ‘Macaroni Toni is watching me…’ which actually sounded creepy, but somehow worked!
Brett got a little aggressive going up for naptime and I caught him pushing Bailey out of the way to beat her up the stairs. I tried to express how it could hurt her if she fell down. I asked him to say sorry. He did. I asked him to give Bailey a hug. He did. I asked him to say ‘I don’t always have to be first’. His response: ‘I don’t want to say that!’
Brett was starting to be a little lippy. I told him that Macaroni Toni will tell Santa that he was talking back to mommy. He said ‘Then Santa will say BRETT, I’m going to eat you up!...and then I will fight Santa like a bad guy’ WHAT?! We are missing the point somewhere.
For a couple weeks, Brett was coming into our room literally 10 min before my alarm was to go off. So I would let him lay with me until I had to get up. This sparked the funniest conversations. One day he asked if when he was older if he could marry Bailey. I told him that was nice but we can’t marry our sisters. He said, ‘I know, I’ll marry Asha’. I said, ‘well it’s actually frowned upon to marry cousins as well’. Brett said, ‘well that means I can’t marry Aubrey either’. ‘OH how about Auntie Kylie?!’ I said, ‘well Auntie Kylie is married to Uncle Phil and he might be sad if you take her away’. I tried to explain that he should look to marry someone that was his friend, someone who makes him laugh, who’s a good person…he says ‘OH I know I can marry YOU Mommy!’
Bailey wasn’t feeling well but told me that Colin makes her feel better.
Brett yelled, ‘Yay Christmastime! My Santa’s coming!’ I said, ‘yes but who’s birthday is it?’ He said, ‘Bailey’s!’ I said, ‘yes her birthday is soon. But Jesus’s too. Remember, that’s why we celebrate Christmas’. He said, ‘oh yeah, him too’
I was changing a poignant diaper…I said ‘oh that was stinky’. Grace walking by, says ‘Sure is Kelli, sure is’
Kids were a little hyper one morning and I let out a pretty big sigh when I finally got them all down for naps. I stopped outside of Bailey’s door to hear her belting out “Happy Birthday Jesus!’ I thanked God for letting her remind me to just relax and enjoy the little things.
Bailey has a way with saying things…she has turned many single syllable words to multi-syllables! DA-ANCE! MO-ORE! PUH-LEASE! What’s even more humorous…ask Rob what a syllable is:)
When Bailey still had her pacifier, I told her to put her binky up on the counter since naptime was over. She said, ‘be patient Mommy’. I asked ‘Be patient for what?’. She said, ‘Be patient for Wes Welker’. The girl loves the Patriots. To expand, she just fought her nap because she didn’t want to miss Tom Brady playing.
While in Ohio, Grandpa was trying to race Brett down the school hallway. Papa was running backwards ahead of Brett…which prevented Papa from seeing the floor waxing machine which then propelled Papa flying feet over head and crashing him down to the floor. Brett picked up the bottle he dropped and kept running. After we made sure everyone was ok…they raced down the next hallway. Which led to Brett asking ‘Papa, are you going to fall again?!’
Brett and Bailey were tag-teaming in making it IMPOSSIBLE to get out the door last weekend on the way to a birthday party. I found myself a little frazzled. I finally got them in the car after (I’m not exaggerating) a million “MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY!”. Brett said ‘Mommy!’ I just about had it. ‘What Brett?’. ‘I just wanted to say I love you and you’re pretty all day’. I mean really…he’s such the little charmer.
Bailey was playing, I heard her say ‘I had a good day at work. I had toys, and tools, and pink pants and my daddy and my Brett Brett and my mommy. I love today’. I love today too honey.
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