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i'm reading this book (lamb: the gospel according to biff, the messiah's childhood friend -- or something like that) & i find it funny & a bit thought provoking. so thanks, hillary & jenny for recommending this book! but ever since about chapter 1, i've been trying to figure out how to get words like *smite* into everyday sentences. i've had no success so far. i try it out in my head first; still, it sounds stupid. but i love that word! SMITE SMITE SMITE! maybe i'll use it on adeline first to gauge the reaction. i know i've heard the word before, but after reading it a few times, it just seems pretty cool. you know, adeline if you don't put your shoes in the shoe cubby, i will smite your preschool self! or don't smite the great smiter. or fellow driver, if you sit through another green light playing with your phone i will smite you. see, sounds dangerous, eh? what a great word.
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it's 8:46 a.m. & amelia is still sleeping. that may just be b/c she was awake again last night for hours. why? does she not realize that her parents need our sleep? we are tired creatures also. in fact, i'm so exhausted daily that the steroids i'm on hardly have any effect on my energy level (as dr im said would happen: you're so exhausted that this won't do anything negative to your sleeping habits, etc. he's pretty good, eh?).
so the word on the street with dr im is that my thyroid is 'normal' which means HIP-HIP-HOORAY! the next step is a bit more applicable (he was just trying to rule out thyroid mostly): the general diagnosis is fibromyalgia induced by major surgery, more specifically, adrenal dysfunction, more specifically addison's disease. i think all the symptoms fit me except 'irritability' LOL. (that was for you, wes, smile, it was a joke!). no really, i'm not all that irritable, unless i don't get 12-14 hours of sleep. (which never happens, get it?). so that's what's going on with me right now. my next dr im visit is in a few weeks, so i'll know more then. until then, i'm a 'roid popper. watch out, my new guns may smite you! (wrong, wrong context, still figuring it out).
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this morning adeline wanted to go to work with her daddy. she asked wes when she got up 'addy go to work with daddy today?' & wes responded that he'd love to have adeline come with him, BUT there's nothing for her to do there & she'd have more fun with mama, etc. apparently addy didn't hear anything after the 'but' b/c she came down a few minutes later with her shoes on, put handfuls of granola bars & her sippy cup in wes' lunchbox (she is so practical!) & i think was even getting her coat on when wes broke the sad news to her: you have to stay home. i know one girl who will be looking forward to take your daughter to work day. then she'll be there for an hour & start screaming & that'll be history. i think it's wonderful that she's so in love with her daddy. i mean, i'm in love with her daddy, but i don't want to go to work with him. so either she doesn't know what an engineer does (hello, math, which i suck at) or she's even more in love with her daddy than i am! (gasp!)
& right now for whatever reason addy has taken all her clothes off (thankfully we have finally talked her into leaving her underwear on during these nudist times) & is laying on the couch watching cartoons on pbs. have i mentioned on here that adeline is learning to read? i am amazed when she does it, mostly b/c she's just learning to say these words but now she can say & *read* them?! & last night she told me her favorite song is 'on top of spaghetti' but i think she is in a quandary over on top of spaghetti & viva la vida (HER song that we MUST listen to every morning while driving her to preschool. there's lots of head bobbing & clapping & if amelia doesn't get into it, addy will instruct her what to do: CLAP BABY. DANCE BABY. CLAP BABY. SONG BABY! soon she will be saying, CLAP BABY OR I'LL SMITE YOU!
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as for amelia, she's just great when she's not crying for hours at night. she is learning how to do many, many things including talking & walking & running (yea, i think she's the kid who doesn't want to learn to walk, how boring. let's learn to run first!). she totally cracks me up how she learns very naughty things from adeline or laughs when adeline is in trouble. typical 2nd child stuff. & let me tell you, she loves cheetohs with all her heart. maybe even more than she loves her parents (probably not as much as she loves adeline). i got a bag at the rec center for a surprise snack the other day & she saw then & was in *attack* mode.
but really, there are few sounds better than listening to kids eating & enjoying what they're eating. then there's her laughs & giggles. she's just plain adorable right now. BUT...the tantrums have begun. yes, she's only 14 1/2 months old, but this week we have counted 2 fully defined tantrums. i couldn't help but laugh through most of both of them b/c she's just so darned small & feisty! i hope that doesn't give her a complex that i don't care about her needs.
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speaking of needs, this book i'm reading has also brought up this thought: why does that christmas carol, away in a manger, is it? why does it say 'the little lord jesus no crying he made' b/c don't babies, especially newborns, cry to communicate their needs? why do people make jesus as a wee baby to be angelic? i have no way of knowing of course, what jesus was like as a child or baby, but i'm only guessing that as a newborn he still *cried*. was he never hungry? this thought occured to me years ago, while singing this christmas carol to adeline as a 3 month old & ever since then i've disregarded that carol as *stupid*.
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& this is the year folks. the year we explain to adeline that santa claus is a fun, imaginary character to pretend...but, santa is not real. he will not bring you gifts, just as he doesn't bring gifts to other kids all over the world. i grew up knowing this & although it may have fueled my fear of random people dressed in costumes like santa, the easter bunny, etc...it did not damage me in any other way & i think it made me a bit more thankful to my parents for our gifts. so i'm sorry if my kid tells your kid that santa's not real. but for real, kids have a strong imagination; even pretending that santa is real can be magical & fun. come on, addy knows curious george is not real, but when she saw a curious george character at the new albany classic, she about peed herself she was so excited! see, kids have the ability to know reality & myths & still she enjoyed imagining that it was the real curious george there to see her.
it is now 9:15 & amelia is still not awake. i must go check on this...
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it's 8:46 a.m. & amelia is still sleeping. that may just be b/c she was awake again last night for hours. why? does she not realize that her parents need our sleep? we are tired creatures also. in fact, i'm so exhausted daily that the steroids i'm on hardly have any effect on my energy level (as dr im said would happen: you're so exhausted that this won't do anything negative to your sleeping habits, etc. he's pretty good, eh?).
so the word on the street with dr im is that my thyroid is 'normal' which means HIP-HIP-HOORAY! the next step is a bit more applicable (he was just trying to rule out thyroid mostly): the general diagnosis is fibromyalgia induced by major surgery, more specifically, adrenal dysfunction, more specifically addison's disease. i think all the symptoms fit me except 'irritability' LOL. (that was for you, wes, smile, it was a joke!). no really, i'm not all that irritable, unless i don't get 12-14 hours of sleep. (which never happens, get it?). so that's what's going on with me right now. my next dr im visit is in a few weeks, so i'll know more then. until then, i'm a 'roid popper. watch out, my new guns may smite you! (wrong, wrong context, still figuring it out).
***
this morning adeline wanted to go to work with her daddy. she asked wes when she got up 'addy go to work with daddy today?' & wes responded that he'd love to have adeline come with him, BUT there's nothing for her to do there & she'd have more fun with mama, etc. apparently addy didn't hear anything after the 'but' b/c she came down a few minutes later with her shoes on, put handfuls of granola bars & her sippy cup in wes' lunchbox (she is so practical!) & i think was even getting her coat on when wes broke the sad news to her: you have to stay home. i know one girl who will be looking forward to take your daughter to work day. then she'll be there for an hour & start screaming & that'll be history. i think it's wonderful that she's so in love with her daddy. i mean, i'm in love with her daddy, but i don't want to go to work with him. so either she doesn't know what an engineer does (hello, math, which i suck at) or she's even more in love with her daddy than i am! (gasp!)
& right now for whatever reason addy has taken all her clothes off (thankfully we have finally talked her into leaving her underwear on during these nudist times) & is laying on the couch watching cartoons on pbs. have i mentioned on here that adeline is learning to read? i am amazed when she does it, mostly b/c she's just learning to say these words but now she can say & *read* them?! & last night she told me her favorite song is 'on top of spaghetti' but i think she is in a quandary over on top of spaghetti & viva la vida (HER song that we MUST listen to every morning while driving her to preschool. there's lots of head bobbing & clapping & if amelia doesn't get into it, addy will instruct her what to do: CLAP BABY. DANCE BABY. CLAP BABY. SONG BABY! soon she will be saying, CLAP BABY OR I'LL SMITE YOU!
***
as for amelia, she's just great when she's not crying for hours at night. she is learning how to do many, many things including talking & walking & running (yea, i think she's the kid who doesn't want to learn to walk, how boring. let's learn to run first!). she totally cracks me up how she learns very naughty things from adeline or laughs when adeline is in trouble. typical 2nd child stuff. & let me tell you, she loves cheetohs with all her heart. maybe even more than she loves her parents (probably not as much as she loves adeline). i got a bag at the rec center for a surprise snack the other day & she saw then & was in *attack* mode.
but really, there are few sounds better than listening to kids eating & enjoying what they're eating. then there's her laughs & giggles. she's just plain adorable right now. BUT...the tantrums have begun. yes, she's only 14 1/2 months old, but this week we have counted 2 fully defined tantrums. i couldn't help but laugh through most of both of them b/c she's just so darned small & feisty! i hope that doesn't give her a complex that i don't care about her needs.
***
speaking of needs, this book i'm reading has also brought up this thought: why does that christmas carol, away in a manger, is it? why does it say 'the little lord jesus no crying he made' b/c don't babies, especially newborns, cry to communicate their needs? why do people make jesus as a wee baby to be angelic? i have no way of knowing of course, what jesus was like as a child or baby, but i'm only guessing that as a newborn he still *cried*. was he never hungry? this thought occured to me years ago, while singing this christmas carol to adeline as a 3 month old & ever since then i've disregarded that carol as *stupid*.
***
& this is the year folks. the year we explain to adeline that santa claus is a fun, imaginary character to pretend...but, santa is not real. he will not bring you gifts, just as he doesn't bring gifts to other kids all over the world. i grew up knowing this & although it may have fueled my fear of random people dressed in costumes like santa, the easter bunny, etc...it did not damage me in any other way & i think it made me a bit more thankful to my parents for our gifts. so i'm sorry if my kid tells your kid that santa's not real. but for real, kids have a strong imagination; even pretending that santa is real can be magical & fun. come on, addy knows curious george is not real, but when she saw a curious george character at the new albany classic, she about peed herself she was so excited! see, kids have the ability to know reality & myths & still she enjoyed imagining that it was the real curious george there to see her.
it is now 9:15 & amelia is still not awake. i must go check on this...
4 comments:
My sentiments on the big SC exactly. We tell Jude he isn't real, and he knows that, but he still really gets into the whole myth. This year I'm adding the instruction not to tell other kids he isn't real, since some of them like to really believe. What a convoluted, strange world where I have to instruct my kid to passively lie to other kids so they can keep believing a happy lie. So I guess you know where my sentiments uh, lie. But we go ahead and read books about him (oh how I loathe children's Christmas books; I have yet to find a decent one), and Jude looooves to see him at the mall--from afar.
At least your doctor is attempting to figure out your ailments and treat them. Good luck.
I read the book "Biff . . ." many years ago. I found it to be very interesting. It's really about Jesus's childhood and teenage years that there seems to be no detailed record of. I'm sure he cried as a baby--maybe the song needed a certain number of words and a certain rhyme in that spot? Hence, the strange statement "No crying he makes." Just found yesterday a Cincinnati station playing 24/7 Christmas carols. Is Sunny 95 doing it yet?
Glad you like Lamb.
I've been debating about Santa myself. It feels wrong to lie to my kid, even about something that's happy.
aww. I love that carol, but can understand. I guess there are the times that Elliott looks like a little angel just lying there in his crib, not making a peep. He doesnt cry all of the time, I am sure that Mary had those pull out her hair type moments...and then those moments that Jesus melted her heart.
Growing up, Santa brought most of our gifts. I felt bad for my parents once we discovered that Santa wasnt real...he got all of the credit. Santa is a part of our Holiday tradition, but he only fills the stocking. My kids are still believers but know the real reason why we celebrate Christmas. We are ok with Santa and all of the fun that comes with him. Don't worry, If Addy says anything to Andrew and Owen...it won't be the first time they were told he wasn't real. They just wont believe her. lol
We have decided that if they ever ask, we will tell. So far, they have not asked.
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