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Friday, April 09, 2004 Family

Our kids are adding to their vocabularies every day through the wonders of Disney. Sleeping Beauty brought us “You pompous windbag!” and “love’s first kiss” (muttered for a while there after each kiss from Mommy).

Hercules has taught them things they don’t even understand. I once overheard Logan pretending to be trapped under a couch cushion and shouting, “Call IXII!” I was five minutes into an explanation of the Roman numeral system before I noticed his glazed expression (or as we say in Silicon Valley, “screen saver face.”) and finally dropped the subject.

The Little Mermaid has given us wonderful, French-accented exclamations. That chef… he’s such a nut. A violent nut, but still. He appeals.

Logan: [curled up on couch with tummy ache and fever]
Gil: “Buddy? Would you like me to bring dinner in here so you can stay comfortable and keep watching your movie?”
Logan: “Oui.”
Gil: [pause] “Did you just say, ‘Oui?’”
Logan: “It’s a dumb word.”

Thursday, April 08, 2004 Family

In between naps tonight (did you think I did anything so quaint as “sleep?”), I extricated myself from between my two youngest and went in search of less close quarters. I wandered into the hall and paused, trying to remember who was where and listening for restless children.

Satisfied, I opened the door to my room, and was surprised to see a bedside lamp on. I started to ask Gil if he was reading, when I suddenly realized that there was no one in the bed. The five of us were distributed between the three children’s beds, and the roomiest bed in the house, a luxurious Eastern king, went begging.

And it looked strangely smug.

Thursday, April 08, 2004 Me, Me, Me

Yahoo! News - Chocolate During Pregnancy Has Good Impact on Baby

More evidence that my children always come first.

Thursday, April 08, 2004 Humor

I know this is fluff. I know it’s a waste of the three seconds you’re spending here to see if it’s worthwhile to keep reading. I don’t care. I laughed.

I wish I was a glow worm; a glow worm’s never glum.
Cuz how can you be grumpy when the sun shines out your bum?

[found in signature of Shylah’s email to me this morning]

Wednesday, April 07, 2004 Oddbits

*Down on her beggin’ knees thanking the cosmos for her very excellent health care resources*

Note: I was fascinated that the doctor who eventually treated this woman interpreted her actions as evidence of “a mother’s instict to save her child.” Huh. Don’t get me wrong, but I think it’s at least possible she wanted to save herself from an excruciating death via childbirth.

[swiped from Catawampus]