Late Night Readings

Justy is here and we are enjoying it immensely! The kids think it is great fun to have someone to follow around and bother and I like them having someone to follow around and bother. Danny and I can't get over the fact that we could actually go somewhere at night, although we have yet to do that.

I fell asleep last night at about 5 pm and slept until midnight. It was great. Then I woke up and got into a hot bath and read my book until 3:30. I don't know what's the matter with me sometimes, except that deep, down inside I know that the middle of the night is the only time I can really be alone.

I went to bed thinking, "I only have 3 hours to sleep before it is time to be up again." But I had only been in bed for an hour when Tristan came in and said he had an accident in bed. Time for another late-night bath. Re-dress Tristan, put him to bed, crawl back into bed and then get up again in one hour. I got all the right amount of sleep, just in the wrong order.

 The book I was reading was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and I loved it! Mommy got it for me for Christmas (thank you, Mommy!) and it truly is a charming book. I know that sounds trite, but it really is. But it deals with hard truths, too, about WW2, that are hard to accept. You should all read it.

 I wish I could send each of you a box full of books that we have read in the Book Club. They are so varied and interesting. You would open your box and have your pick of biographies, fiction, history, educational and children's books. And I would throw in some heavenly chocolates, too because we always have good food at the book club.

I love going to the book club. There is something so magical about all reading the same book together. Maybe because it is the closest thing there is in this life to living the same thing. It brings you together. And just like in real-life, you all have a different perspective.

Well, I will end this rambling now. I was just thinking of Meggie and how she gets sad when no one has posted for a while. :) But to close, here is a lovely pic of Alaina. One is with her new (to us) dress, and the other is her outfit she picked after church. You can tell me which one you like better.

Giant, gender-bending pigs!!

Well, it's been a while and there was a bunch I was going to write about. But now I've waited so long I can't remember any more! So, I will just write about what comes to mind.

Can you guess who this is??  This is Alaina! She came to me this way today and said, "I'm a pig!" She is wearing boys' underwear, which is what she prefers since they have all her favorite characters and a "pocket" in front to boot! She never wears pants at home since she uses the big potty now, she put on Alex's socks and shoes on her own and then put on this old helmet cover of Danny's. Like I said, giant, gender-bending pigs!

Before Haley left (we do not speak of such things!) she helped me re-arrange our room. I liked how it was before, but the bed was in the corner, so if you were on the side by the wall, which was usually me, you had to roll over the other person to get out of bed. As they say in China, "It is not economical to go to bed early to save on candles, if the result is twins." Hehehehe... No, actually it was just really annoying and it was hard to make the bed. So we moved everything a million times and found all kinds of really cute ways to arrange it- if I was willing to give up my rocker. Since I am not willing, this was what we came up with! It was really weird to sleep facing a whole different direction, but I really like having two sides to the bed, especially when Danny works early, and I'm sure he will really appreciate it after the baby is born! And, it is sooo much easier to make the bed every morning!

You can see my rocker, shoved in the corner. It's still a tight fit, but I don't care. I looove it! 

I am working very hard on organizing and getting things all ready for the baby. By the way, we are thinking of the name Emmersyn, and call her Emme. I like Emmersyn Monet, but Danny isn't won over yet. Here is a shot of the nursery, with the crib reassembled. Alaina likes to lay in it with her dolls and pretend they are going to sleep. Maybe someday I will feel motivated enough to paint it and other stuff. For now, this was the picture of the better side of the room. (Ya'll know what it looks like anyway!)

I tried to get a picture of Alex's missing tooth. It was hard to capture. The tooth next to it is really loose, too. When it came out, Alex seemed mildly surprised, but Tristan was nothing short of amazed! It took all the restraint we had not to tell Tristan that if you are bad, then you get your teeth pulled out! But we didn't tell him that, so maybe he won't need too much therapy when he grows up. You know how they have college savings funds? I wonder if they will start "Therapy Savings Funds" soon.

Other funny things the kids have said (I've probably already told you all of this on the phone)- Tristan loves to feel the baby move. (It is really close to the front, and soo easy to feel!) He had his hand on my belly and was laughing at feeling the baby and saying, “I felt the baby!” Well, Lainey couldn’t be left out, so she climbed up next to me, put her hand on my chest and wouldn’t stop pushing and saying, “Feel this baby!!”

Last Family Home Evening, we taught the kids about Esther and how she had save her people from being killed. At the end we told them about how Esther had been saved for that time to do something important, and that they were saved for this time to do something important, too and that they each had something to do. At this point Tristan piped in, “Yeah! I will kill all the people!!” Hmmmm.....
 A few weeks ago in sacrament Alaina kept saying something to me, but I could not figure out what it was. It sounded like, “Ima homo homo!!” She was really excited about it and kept saying it over and over, but I had no idea what she was talking about. Then a few days later Haley was here and she had this little cowboy hat we had found on her head and kept saying it again. “I’m a homo homo!!” Haley and I were dying laughing, but had no idea what she was talking about. Finally, later I asked Tristan if he knew what she was saying. So she says to him, “I’m a homo homo!” and he said, “Oklahoma!” “Yeah,” said Lainey. “I’m a homo homa!” At last, we had it figured out. She was saying that she was like Oklahoma, because she had a cowboy hat on! It was pretty funny, and we have been working with her since on the right way to say Oklahoma!


Today Tristan was watching tv and I told him he needed to turn it off and he said, “My brains are not coming out of my ears yet!” So I showed him some earwax from his ear and told him they were, and he turned off the tv.


Also, the other day he saw a crack in one of the cabinets and said, “The kitty scratched this!” I told him that it was just a crack. Then he saw another crack and said, “There’s another crack. Our whole house is breaking apart!”

For my last thought, I was on the phone with Megan and Audrey came up to her and had done something not very good. Meggie chided her and then was telling me what had happened.  Then I heard Audrey say in her little Audrey voice, and Megan told me her hands were folded across her chest, "I'm not listening!" Meggie, your kids say the funniest things!! I miss them!