recent quotes, short stories

we couldn't find amelia's bunny before bedtime a few evening ago. wes & i were talking in our 'missing bunny lingo': b-u-n-n-y A? 

no, b-u-n-n-y A is not around. we should go to b-u-n-n-y B.

so we grab bunny B out of our dresser & surprise amelia with finding her bunny. she says: this is my A bunny, mommy. see, it has an A on it! (then points to the A in her name, which is sewn on the blankie part of the bunny.)

apparently wes & i must find a new code...but i guess that really doesn't matter because it appears we left bunny B at the zoo yesterday. 

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amelia was doing a TA-DA! mini dance & pose when she put a new outfit on, showing us her moves. adeline turns to her, pats her on the back, being *muy* condescending, & says "no NO, amelia. to be rock star you must say ta da like this: ta-DA! & then put your hands like this" (she flutters her hands out to her sides, sorta like a butterfly ???).

amelia tries to be rock star again, doing the ta-DA & hand flutter & addy just says, "that was only sort of rock star, amelia."

i don't even know where they learned this idea of rock star. i'm more of a 'that's hard core' quote kind of mom.

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& this week i'm feeling super stupid & risky...we've had a long play date the same day the girls left for to spend a night with grandparent. i've left a really hot iron & ironing board out when i ran to pee...only to find addy ironing the material with the super hot iron (she did a great job! especially since she's only seen me iron one or two times). i took amelia to her preschool screening, had lunch here, then left around 12:30 for the zoo--getting home at 5:30, eating dinner here, then leaving for a bridge opening town-party-thing at 7:15! we are usually such home-bodies.

maybe the knowlege that amelia GOT INTO PRESCHOOL! it's 4 days a week, 2 1/2 hours. the same class that adeline will be in (yes, they'll be together...dunno how that will go, but i guess that's just another risk we're up for right now *wink*). & today i plan to take 3 kids to toys r us to get amelia a backpack, then to the rec center to play for a bit, then home for lunch. call me crazy...

this morning, on my pillow, was a present from amelia: a pair of shoes. i knew it was her because adeline would've tried to hide somewhere to watch me wake up next to a pair of shoes, giggling. amelia, she would totally just throw them up there, run out of the room & then laugh. plus, i knew it was amelia because at that same time amelia was screaming: WAKE UP ADELINE! AAAAAADDDDDYYYY! WAKE UP!

& now i hear some odd conversations upstairs.