butt water

tonight as i tried to keep adeline's spirits up (as amelia was dumping all the bath water adeline had worked so hard to fill up a bucket cup by wee cup) i started to make butt-tooting-poopy jokes. addy is in the stage of really finding my 'dirty' jokes simply hilarious, so i am instigated to tell these not so funny jokes. so we came upon the idea of bath water being called butt water (this was to help remind adeline a few months ago why she was not to drink bath water: B/C YOUR POOPY BUTT IS IN THERE!) & tonight i was rolling with the whole butt water idea. you know, oh there goes butt water down amelia's face! egads, that was a lot of butt water near your lips, etc. & then adeline starts to giggle & would say something like 'butt water gilly {silly}' & catastrophe was averted b/c of the giggles.

wes took amelia after amelia decided her bath was over, which she told us by climbing out of the tub repeatedly & throwing mini cups of water at me (laughing while doing it, at least). so adeline & i were alone in the bath room & i mentioned to her which classmate she is to buy a christmas gift for this year for the preschool gift exchange. she starts laughing uncontrollably & i was like 'do you not like this girl?' & was getting a bit concerned of the match-up for christmas gifts if they didn't like each other. then addy finally stops giggling & says the kid's name & then says 'give her butt water!' & starts to laugh uncontrollably again...then i started to laugh b/c my little girl made a 'dirty' joke. hopefully she doesn't really intend to pick that as a gift, i don't think the school would allow it, right? come on, butt water is nearly as bad as coal.

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and, drumroll: amelia has another ear infection! her fussiness started to increase last weekend & was full throttle this morning (at the mall, ugh...why am i always the one walking the screaming kid in the stroller through the mall?! i even finished browsing the kid clothing stores with a screaming toddler & no one glared at me! it must be the holiday spirit making people a bit more cheerful & forgiving?). so we made an appointment for her this afternoon & sure enough, ear infection. she didn't even make it 6 days without antibiotics (which makes me wonder if the last round of antibiotics actually did anything?).

we are now being referred to an ENT for the (cochlear??) tubes, which we pretty much expected given amelia's continuous ear infection status for the past 7 months. i know this is a fairly common procedure, but i'm still nervous to go through it all. i'm sure it will be fine. the good news is that we will most likely get the tubes put in before 2010, which is good b/c we've *totally* reached our deductible for the year. i think it was met by last april, sadly.

& officially, addy is an advent-calendar-candy swiper--christmas eve will find one little girl a bit sad for her lack of candy that night...maybe she will remember november 30 as the night she took chocolate from that numbered box when she shouldn't have. & amelia can say hat & wassssAT & dog. & she likes to play the screaming game with me which now puts my parenting skills at a new low... (the game goes like this: i try to take an object, like a bottle of medicine, from amelia's steely grip. she screams until her forehead gets all red & blotchy. i then grab the item again & imitate her screech & laugh. she laughs & screeches again. after 10 or maybe a dozen times she's finally coaxed into giving up the item. but then must have an equally enticing object around her. see, parenting low.)

a friday morning

last night our ex (boise) neighbors left to continue their journey. we had a great time with them! we miss you, houcks! adeline looked out the window & went 'hhmm, choo choo??'

so this morning is shaping up to be a normal friday morning. we have a possible get-out-of-the-house playdate, amelia has a boo boo, adeline has watched dora AND curious george & i'm not even finished with my 1st cup of coffee.

so while adeline was eating her breakfast, amelia colored her first picture. on addy's book stickers (they're not normal stickers, they only stick to this certain princess book). adeline has not discovered this intrusion of personal property yet....

& here is what a 12 month old looks like after a free 5 minutes with a marker.

so amelia's boo boo went like this: baby climbing up wooden kid slide. baby laughing & dancing to music. baby attempting to turn around on top of slide. baby fell under the hand rails, backwards & hit head & eye on corner of wall. yea, lots of screaming. but adeline came to the rescue sharing her little bear & stuffed curious george.

i am trying to be positive today, you know, this *will* be a good day, etc blah. maybe it will. maybe adeline will act like a spawn of the devil as she did last night. maybe amelia will only nap for 40 minutes like she did yesterday. who knows. but already the was picked up house is a mess & the girls are fighting (well, amelia is antagonizing, adeline is being selfish you know the rest). & why am i typing when i could be drinking coffee?!