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altarflame) wrote2011-06-07 09:08 am
altarflame) wrote2011-06-07 09:08 am
Kid Things I Don't Want to Forget
Ananda and Aaron's social lives are EXPLODING...suddenly Ananda is not at all freaked out about going and spending the afternoon at Christina's or spending two nights in a row at Sophia's (both of which often involve being taken along to movies or stores where other kids they know are meeting up). Aaron whines at her to stay for 3 nights or a week - I think he would move in with Cybele if I wasn't careful O_o Aaron tells me he, Adrian and Logan have formed a gang and they call themselves the Ninja Dolphins. Both of them use the phrase "all my friends", as in, "All my friends are allowed to play Call of Duty!!", or "All my friends have cell phones!", or "Oh thanks for getting me these books all my friends have read them and I've been wanting to!"
They both expect and beg and plead to be able to go to TLC (the learning club, totally kid led and organized and somewhat older than PATH, but with a significant overlap) on Fridays, as well as their classes and PATH on Thursdays (and Girl Scouts on Mondays and Boy Scouts on Tuesdays and peoples' houses on the weekends....) This has led to them making lists of friends when I ask "like who?" about the "all my friends" thing that include names I'm not even familiar with.
At TLC last week I was on some blankets in the shade behind the library with a couple of other moms and little kids (Isaac, Jake, and Elise as well as Elise's best friend Georgia) and we were talking about how obvious it is that ANANDA and another boy who I won't name just in case there is some odd way it's found out...have CRUSHES ON EACH OTHER.
It's so crazily innocently adorable, watching her grin nonstop around him and how the two of them like orbit each other within the group that's walking around the track or nonchalantly sit near each other when everyone's sitting in the meeting rooms.
There have been a lot of really hilarious things said around here lately.
Grant: We're going to be a few blocks away for about an hour tomorrow, but we'll have our phones and I can come back for a minute if you guys need anything. We'll set you up with a movie before we go.
Aaron: Wait, where are you going?
Me: I have a doctor's appointment. You know how close Dr _____ is.
Ananda: She's getting her IUD.
Aaron: What's an "IUD"?
Me: It's a kind of birth control, so I don't get pregnant, since I really shouldn't get pregnant again with my belly messed up and all.
Aaron: *total confusion* How would you get pregnant?
Me: *incredulous* Babe you know how people get pregnant.
Aaron: *suspicious* Yeah, but how would YOU get pregnant?
Me: Uh, you may have noticed I'm married dear?
Aaron: *genuinely confused* So?
Me: So, married people generally have sex.
Aaron: *horrified* But you already did that!
Me: ...What? ...Aaron when people love each other and live together they usually want to "do that" on an ongoing basis.
Aaron: You mean...*shakes his head and walks out of the room, disgusted*
*sigh* Grant and I have been laughing and saying "But you already did that!!!" to each other a lot lately :p And of course Aaron needed a detailed scientific breakdown on how IUDs function in the following days as the initial horror wore off.
The little kids' ferrets usually come out for awhile each day and run around the house with at least loose supervision. During this time they ALWAYS steal all the shoes and hide them, generally under my bed in the corner where someone has to shimmy under there and slide over to collect them all for everyone. I mean it's wild and hilarious how consistent they are about it and to see them dragging shoes across the house, even though it's also somewhat irritating when we need to hurry up and go somewhere. They try to take shoes off of peoples' feet, and will even stand on their hind legs or leap in the air to get at a shoe held over their heads o_O
So anyway the other day we were headed out the door and I told Elise to get her shoes on. A couple of minutes later, from the back of the house I hear her screaming "FERRETS! FERRETS WAKE UP RIGHT NOW! WHERE ME SHOES IS FERRETS?!" This made me lol forever, picturing them napping in their hammock like usual while she stands at cage-height next to them with her bossy little fists on her hips.
When Kristin was here last week, she was commenting on how funny it is, that Elise has relatively complex thought processes that she obviously doesn't have quite the language abilities to express correctly yet. Apparently when Kristin walked in Elise had asked her, "You know nah song, 'Friday, Friday' - me hate nah song, STUCK ME HEAD!!"
Last night Jake was trying to get Isaac to let him in their room. Isaac had locked the door (they'd been playing chasing and hiding games). Jake was laughing and offering different strategies - threats, bribes, ploys, etc. Finally it went quiet for a minute and then G and I heard him knock calmly and say "It's Tina!"
They both expect and beg and plead to be able to go to TLC (the learning club, totally kid led and organized and somewhat older than PATH, but with a significant overlap) on Fridays, as well as their classes and PATH on Thursdays (and Girl Scouts on Mondays and Boy Scouts on Tuesdays and peoples' houses on the weekends....) This has led to them making lists of friends when I ask "like who?" about the "all my friends" thing that include names I'm not even familiar with.
At TLC last week I was on some blankets in the shade behind the library with a couple of other moms and little kids (Isaac, Jake, and Elise as well as Elise's best friend Georgia) and we were talking about how obvious it is that ANANDA and another boy who I won't name just in case there is some odd way it's found out...have CRUSHES ON EACH OTHER.
It's so crazily innocently adorable, watching her grin nonstop around him and how the two of them like orbit each other within the group that's walking around the track or nonchalantly sit near each other when everyone's sitting in the meeting rooms.
There have been a lot of really hilarious things said around here lately.
Grant: We're going to be a few blocks away for about an hour tomorrow, but we'll have our phones and I can come back for a minute if you guys need anything. We'll set you up with a movie before we go.
Aaron: Wait, where are you going?
Me: I have a doctor's appointment. You know how close Dr _____ is.
Ananda: She's getting her IUD.
Aaron: What's an "IUD"?
Me: It's a kind of birth control, so I don't get pregnant, since I really shouldn't get pregnant again with my belly messed up and all.
Aaron: *total confusion* How would you get pregnant?
Me: *incredulous* Babe you know how people get pregnant.
Aaron: *suspicious* Yeah, but how would YOU get pregnant?
Me: Uh, you may have noticed I'm married dear?
Aaron: *genuinely confused* So?
Me: So, married people generally have sex.
Aaron: *horrified* But you already did that!
Me: ...What? ...Aaron when people love each other and live together they usually want to "do that" on an ongoing basis.
Aaron: You mean...*shakes his head and walks out of the room, disgusted*
*sigh* Grant and I have been laughing and saying "But you already did that!!!" to each other a lot lately :p And of course Aaron needed a detailed scientific breakdown on how IUDs function in the following days as the initial horror wore off.
The little kids' ferrets usually come out for awhile each day and run around the house with at least loose supervision. During this time they ALWAYS steal all the shoes and hide them, generally under my bed in the corner where someone has to shimmy under there and slide over to collect them all for everyone. I mean it's wild and hilarious how consistent they are about it and to see them dragging shoes across the house, even though it's also somewhat irritating when we need to hurry up and go somewhere. They try to take shoes off of peoples' feet, and will even stand on their hind legs or leap in the air to get at a shoe held over their heads o_O
So anyway the other day we were headed out the door and I told Elise to get her shoes on. A couple of minutes later, from the back of the house I hear her screaming "FERRETS! FERRETS WAKE UP RIGHT NOW! WHERE ME SHOES IS FERRETS?!" This made me lol forever, picturing them napping in their hammock like usual while she stands at cage-height next to them with her bossy little fists on her hips.
When Kristin was here last week, she was commenting on how funny it is, that Elise has relatively complex thought processes that she obviously doesn't have quite the language abilities to express correctly yet. Apparently when Kristin walked in Elise had asked her, "You know nah song, 'Friday, Friday' - me hate nah song, STUCK ME HEAD!!"
Last night Jake was trying to get Isaac to let him in their room. Isaac had locked the door (they'd been playing chasing and hiding games). Jake was laughing and offering different strategies - threats, bribes, ploys, etc. Finally it went quiet for a minute and then G and I heard him knock calmly and say "It's Tina!"
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And crushes?! Oh, I love crushes. So sweet.
I meant to write on your other post with the photos how amazing it is that your children are so BIG, but more than that: how kind of odd it is that their faces are now so familiar to me. Like, I think I would recognise them if I saw them in the street (unlikely, obviously, considering I live on the other side of the planet). This internet thing, it's a bizarre kind of wonderful how you can just connect with people all over the world.
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OMG. *dies* Amazing! I hope he remembers saying that when he gets older, haha.
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Just that..for about 10 minutes straight.