Our Kids

After their nap, the girls usually watch an episode of Dora or Diego.  That is definitely a bad time to ask a question:

Mystique: “Does anyone want to go to the store with me?”

Piper: “You’ll have to go alone.”

HAH!  She said it so matter-of-factly that I couldn’t help but laugh.  Sorry, mom, it’s Diego time.

In other news… just had a great four-day weekend with the girls.  I had some quality Landis time and also got to do some shopping and lunch with Piper, Lela, and Uncle JJ.  Of course, while we were at cool-Uncle JJ’s house, we had to play a little more rock band… the girls get such a kick out of that.

I took the girls to the new play area of the school just down the street from us.  It’s a pretty nice setup and Lela was happy when she saw that no other kids were there.  We played for almost an hour… taking turns sliding, swinging, and even kicking the soccer ball around a bit.  At one point another family showed up to check out the new play area, at which point Lela made a beeline for the swings and started talking about people being in *her* park.  I’m not sure she knew that the other folks could hear her talking so she didn’t hold back in talking about how she didn’t like to share

That’s it for the weekend… back to work.  I hear the girls might be going to a fire station tomorrow — can’t wait to hear those stories!

Overheard at dinner where Piper ordered Lentil Soup and it arrived with some sort of creamy stuff swirled on top.

Jason: Piper, what is on your soup?
Piper: Something very yucky

Overheard at home when Lela is/was called anything other than Lela (terms of endearment NOT allowed)

Mystique: Sweetie can you come and help me with the laundry?
Lela: My name is Lela, not sweetie.

Overheard while I was trying to quiet Landis.

Mystique: It’s okay, it’s okay peanut.
Lela: That is not a peanut it is Landis

Overheard this morning after I had just handled a tantrum from Lela because Piper is wearing the pink cowboy boots and she wanted to wear them.

Piper: Get my flashlight (asking loudly and not so politely)
Mystique: You are going to have to get it yourself (responding loudly and not so politely – and then feeling guilty about it)
Piper: OKAY (a bit put out, sort of like a grown up FINE)
Piper exits stage left and closes the door behind her, Mystique laughs

Overheard between Mystique, Piper and Lela. Lela is reading in the living room and Piper is with me.

Lela: Come and read to me.
Mystique: Just a minute peanut
Piper: Just a minute pea in a nut.

The girls can dribble a basketball pretty good.  I was quite surprised when we were at the park and Piper started to dribble the basketball like a Harlem Globetrotter.  Turns out that Lela can do it too.  I think they honed this skill while playing ball with Nana Peggy and Papa Norman.  Like I said before I am amazed at how quickly they can pick up things, even things they only do every so often.

It has been an interesting and new experience for us all this breastfeeding.  The other day I asked Piper to show me her broccoli muscles, we correlate growing big and strong with vegetable eating and they think its funny.  So she showed me her muscles while exclaiming that she was getting bigger.  Then I asked her if Landis needed some broccoli because she was getting bigger too.  She said no, that Landis eats moles.  Really big ones.  Of course I was confused and asked her what moles and she told me my moles.  So we all got a kick out of the fact that she thinks my nipples are moles and that is what Landis eats. HA!

Piper has also been seen breastfeeding her baby Reba.  She pulls up her shirt and feeds her and then pats her back and puts her down to sleep.  At least she sees what I do and from my perspective it looks pretty loving:)

We are combining the blogs!

Landis continues to grow and grow.  I have hidden my scale so that I can focus on fitness goals rather than weight loss so I don’t know what she weighs.  I think her next dr. appt is first week of Dec but will let you all know.  She still sleeps a lot and loves to be in her Moby.  I don’t think any sort of schedule or routine has emerged yet but I am not really paying that much attention.  With the girls I had to have a schedule so I would not go out of my mind but with Landis that it is not such an issue.

She has taken another bottle from Jason and doesn’t seem to have much trouble although it is not her preference.  She is starting to take a pacifier because she loves to suck.  It took me about a week of serious upchucking (from her) to realize that at night she doesn’t always want to nurse, sometimes she just wants to suck.  Since I can’t control my milk flow we finally added a pacifier:)  Duh, apparently the third child still has some tricks up their sleeve to teach her parents:)

Okay so Jason and his brother play Guitar Hero on the XBox 360, it is quite a kick.  JJ got Rock Band for the XBox that includes a microphone, drum set and another guitar.  The girls LOVED it.  It was quite a stitch to watch them all play.  I am always surprised by the girls abilities and this was no different.  Lela was keeping time on those drums and Piper was jamming along on her guitar.  They each took a spin on the microphone too and Lela was a bit like Axel Rose jamming and singer, Piper was a little more reserved on the singing side but still having fun.

I will get Jace to upload a video so you can all get a laugh.

Okay so we draw shapes for the girls and they tell us what they are.  Jason being the geek that he is draws them shapes like parallelogram and I chastise him and laugh.  Well the other day as we were waiting to see the head of dermatology at Phoenix Children’s I drew a shape for Piper and she proudly exclaimed “A Parallelogram”, Jason was a bit surprised and asked if we had been practicing.  The answer is no, just those few times that he had shown it to her she had absorbed and remembered it.  We all got quite a laugh out of that.

Okay so for those of you that are complaining about no posts lately I will give you a quick update:) LOL!

Last night I asked Piper if she was going to go with me to get some noodles, she replied “You are going to have to go by yourself” — too funny. The girls saying funny things has gone up exponentially in the last few weeks. They have the same speaking style that I do. Another funny thing that Lela will do is to tell me to “just leave her alone” when Piper has a tantrum. Piper likes to have her tantrum alone in the hall for about 1 minute, during this time she doesn’t want anyone to touch or talk to her so we just leave her alone. Sometimes if Lela thinks Piper is getting upset, she tells her to just go in the hall. You can’t help but laugh at them.

The girls are very active and their imaginations are amazing. It is so fun to watch them play Dora and Diego and rescue animals stranded in the tree or waterfall in our backyard. We go to the playground often and they love to play as long as there are no other “people” on there. Sometimes they will go on with me when there are “people” and Lela will announce that she is not afraid.

I promise to get better at posting.