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Bella, drawing, DVD, Grandma Duncan, ice storm, Mickey Mouse, Nemo, No, Norah, playing, scribbling, talking, TV
Their favorite book
Bella and Norah are now entering the phase of the newly explored world of TV Land. During this great exploration, the girls have officially become Mickey Mouse’s #1 fans. I get them up in the morning, get them dressed and bring them downstairs and the first thing they say to me is, “Mickey Mouse.” One of them will even go over to the television and turn it on, while still repeating, “Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse.” They absolutely love Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. If I have time I will usually let them watch a few minutes of it while they eat breakfast. When it is time to leave they will tell Mickey Mouse bye-bye. It is really cute! However, it gets annoying really fast when we get them home in the evening and they start asking to watch it. It is only on in the early morning and again in the early afternoon. They do have it On Demand, but with the whopping choice of four episodes, we have watched each episode at least 5 times over the past couple week, but it feels more like 50 times! I swear that I can recite all four of those episodes verbatim. Even more frustrating (and I am sure that you experienced parents out there can attest to) is that trying to rationalize the concept on not being on, or only on at certain times to young children is close to impossible.
Playing with flashlights
The girls also really love Nemo. It started a few weeks ago when my mom (Grandma Duncan) was up and mom asked about letting them watch the DVD player in the truck on the way over to Ellie’s Birthday party. They now expect for Daddy to put Nemo on every time they get into their carseats. He says the he doesn’t mind it as much because when the girls do watch Nemo, the are less likely to remove their shoes and socks. This way he says, that he does not have to hunt for them as they tend to toss them. So it is like choosing between the lesser of two evils. They even ask me for Nemo when I am taking them to daycare, but of course I don’t have a DVD player. Try explaining that one to them….which I have many times over. They of course think that every car should have a DVD player. Of course when I was young, perhaps I thought every car should have a cassette player instead of an eight-track player or even a CD player over a cassette player.
A quick funny story from daycare:
Wendy (our daycare provider) asked Aaron when he was picking the girls up, “Have the girls had fish sticks to eat before?” To which Aaron replied that they had. Wendy then asked him, “What do you call fish sticks at home?” Aaron was like, “Ummmm…..fish sticks?” He explained to me that during this time he was trying to figure out what the girls could have said, because Bella likes to say “Oh shit” from time to time. So he was thinking maybe something like “fish shits” or a variation of such. He was getting prepared to apologize for the girls. Wendy then explained that during lunch, while she was feeding them fish sticks, Bella held a fish stick up and was just looking at it. Wendy then told Bella, ” Those are fish sticks.” She said that Bella looked at it for a minute and then said, “Nemo!” Then as she ate them, she would take a bite and let everyone know how great the fish sticks were by exclaiming, “Yummy Nemo!”
Smiling Bella
Aaron was just grateful that Bella did not help teach the other children any foul language. However, I think it is very neat that she is able to associate the word “fish” to Nemo. Every fish, from food, to fish on TV, to even the bath toys that are fish are now Nemo–not fish.
Last week I bought each of the girls a magna-doodle. They love them, but once Aaron drew on it for Bella she expects us to draw her pictures of both Mickey Mouse and Nemo. I guess it is a good thing that Aaron has that Art Ed degree and can draw pictures that closely resemble these cartoons. Of course she promptly erases the picture and asks us to draw a new once (usually of the exact same thing). Although the girls accept my drawings as Nemo or Mickey, Aaron the art critic, is more harsh and critiques my work like the art teacher he is. He even has tried to give me lessons. Norah really likes to scribble on hers, but Bella now prefers us to draw for her over and over and over again.
As the folks up in our area know, Aaron has been off school for the past few days due to the icy weather we have had. He actually only went to school on Monday. I had Tuesday and Wednesday off and we stayed snug and warm inside. So we had the opportunity to have the girls with us. Everything went well, but I went to get the girls up on Wednesday morning and Norah had thrown up and slept in it. It stunk to high heaven, but surprisingly I managed to get every thing cleaned up and even got the stains (dinner the previous night was spaghetti) out of the sheet, blankets and teddy bear. Aaron who was MIA during this time decided that know was a good time to shovel the drive. Of course he actually did more “hammering” than shoveling as he attempted to break the 2″ of ice that coated the driveway.
Pictures from ICE STORM
Ice
Ice of Tree
Ice, Ice Baby
Grass with Ice
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Another funny thing that we really need to capture on to video is Norah getting upset. When she trips, falls, or bumps into something that hurts her, our little Norah will begin to chastise angrily what caused her mishap. She will babble a very stern tirade mixed with words and baby-babbling. She shows so much expression as she really lays into it voicing her concern and displeasure. Now, 99.9% of the time, the objects of her disaffection are inanimate objects! So for example, if she trips over a toy she will fall and start to cry. Then get up and begin with, “No! Bad (insert inanimate object here)! No! Stop…(unintelligible babbling).” She is very dramatic about it and is definitely going to be a hand-talker because of expressionistic she is with her hands and arms, along with the over the top facial expressions. We will try to capture one of these tirades for it is quite humorous to witness and the words explaining it do not provide adequate justice.
Enjoy the pictures for the week. Don’t forgot to check out the Picture of the Week (accessible at the Top Menu) or by clicking here for the techno-handicapped people of the world.
On the plus side of things, Aaron is almost completely finished with his coursework for the final two administrative classes he has to take before he gets his license (yay!). The girls have been into everything. They especially love to open the cabinets, pull stuff out and then try to climb inside. We bought some cabinet latches, but the ones we got will not work with where we have placed the pulls on the cabinet doors. I guess we will have to go back to the store and try to figure something out because I am so tired of telling them “NO” over and over and over!
