My thoughts this morning involve Ike and praying my friends in Houston are ready to weather the storm. I truly appreciate Kristi's blog to let me know her parents are safe with them in Brenham and they are prepared.
The absence of postings reflects the craziness of the week - Molly's four-month checkup Tuesday was three weeks late - eeekkk - but her sweet pediatrician assured me that I was not a failure but we will have to delay all checkups now to space out the vaccinations appropriately. She does not do well with shots and when my baby girls cries, things are bad, really bad. Crying for a couple of hours Tuesday night eventually woke her big brother and daddy (but, you know, must be a good time to make a sandwich and have a snack!) She is still off a bit and we are having one to two-hour sessions about four a.m. I do enjoy the special time with her and was thinking how beautiful she is by the light of the oven's little lamp...
As for Cole, he is hilarious. Just plain hilarious. Mimi and PawPaw gave him the movie Milo and Otis (pronounced together as milo-otis) for his birthday since it was a favorite of Hunter's- and Cole now LOVES milo-otis. When I called to check on them yesterday, I heard "hang up, Kip. milo-otis" and learned that Maggie had been sent to watch her shows in the other DVD-less room so as not to interrupt the repeated showings of milo-otis. The part of me that has reservations about young children watching TV is beaten down by how excited he is and how he talks about what is happening during the animals' journey...definitely better than the fascination he had a couple of weeks ag0 with "watch kids, daddy." which meant the kids in The Goonies and, as we figured out, the source of "sut up" since the kids use the expression A LOT!
One of the cutest things about Cole's pronunciation of words involves replacing "er" with "ee" so he says "my diapee" and "SeeSee's diapee", "my razee" and "daddy's razee" when it is time to shave, we have Alley Cat and Sneezee instead of Sneazer. The funniest one yesterday was opening the Hercules DVD case and finding the Blues Clues DVD. I said it was a switcharoo and Cole now has a new word: "switcheeroo"!
So, the things I cherish this Friday are tiny, dimpled hands that touch my face in the early morning hours and the sound of Cole's voice as he learns new things and makes connections. (Even when he says "listen" in a tone a small boy should not use with adults - add to that getting the stick and waving it a Maggie!!)
What a world!
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