Lately, I've been entering the living room of my house (returning from my morning run, coming down from upstairs, after putting Jemma to bed . . .) to find Annie and Jason having a total dance party on the rug while Toto songs blast from the speakers and their videos play on the TV. Strange? Not at our house, where we are the current holders of a "Toto Videos" DVD from our Blockbluster online account. So, one of the very first "non-kid" songs that Annie knows some words to is "Africa," which has the most non-sensical lyrics ever. (At least it isn't Poison's "Talk Dirty To Me," another, less-appropriate Jason favorite which he karaoked at our neighbor's party last night.)
Other things that have been happening at our house: Jemma has spent the last two days repeating her new-found consonant sounds - b, d, and g - over and over; Annie has (hopefully) emerged from her worst bout of the terrible two's ever (in which she told both Jason and I, "I don't love you," and calmly uttered the phrase, "Actually, I am going to keep hitting you," after a very ineffective time-out for hitting); we ate an entire batch of oatmeal cookies that Kelly made on Thursday afternoon before she came back to babysit again last night (!); a Three Chairs delivery truck pulled into our driveway on Friday afternoon and out popped a new dining room table and six chairs in what has to be the most ridiculously perfect and extravagant 30th birthday present EVER from Jason plus lots of our extended family (I love it! It's huge! I'll keep it forever and ever and ever!); we actually ALL made it to church this morning AND managed to last through the entire hour. Whew!
It's raining and cooler today, which of course makes me want fall desperately. (Not winter, just fall.) As a result of last night's party, we're even more in love with our neighborhood and are so excited for all the fun fall things we'll do this year - tailgate before football games! have a Halloween party! host a fall pj breakfast party! But for this afternoon, the girls are napping, the house is mostly clean, and I might just get to finish reading my Real Simple before we're on to the next family adventure.
Other things that have been happening at our house: Jemma has spent the last two days repeating her new-found consonant sounds - b, d, and g - over and over; Annie has (hopefully) emerged from her worst bout of the terrible two's ever (in which she told both Jason and I, "I don't love you," and calmly uttered the phrase, "Actually, I am going to keep hitting you," after a very ineffective time-out for hitting); we ate an entire batch of oatmeal cookies that Kelly made on Thursday afternoon before she came back to babysit again last night (!); a Three Chairs delivery truck pulled into our driveway on Friday afternoon and out popped a new dining room table and six chairs in what has to be the most ridiculously perfect and extravagant 30th birthday present EVER from Jason plus lots of our extended family (I love it! It's huge! I'll keep it forever and ever and ever!); we actually ALL made it to church this morning AND managed to last through the entire hour. Whew!
It's raining and cooler today, which of course makes me want fall desperately. (Not winter, just fall.) As a result of last night's party, we're even more in love with our neighborhood and are so excited for all the fun fall things we'll do this year - tailgate before football games! have a Halloween party! host a fall pj breakfast party! But for this afternoon, the girls are napping, the house is mostly clean, and I might just get to finish reading my Real Simple before we're on to the next family adventure.
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