My sweet hubby doing the "duty" to take care of a dirty bum before he even finished his first cup of coffee this morning.....what a dad!!!!
"I'm so hungry I'm furious but I DON'T want to eat what you're trying to give me!"
Ok must do another post to update and preserve very funny baby memories. I know my writing is getting more extensive but I'm just in the mood to journal. Other events you basically get the date and brief explanation of photos. But, onto today's fun thoughts. Oh the laughs we are enjoying with our little Chloe these days. I always heard how entertaining children can be but like the rest of life you just don't know until you've been there. These kids are just an endless source of entertainment for Bri and me. Every day poses new challenges with these two. Physical, emotional and spiritual challenges. The physical is obvious. Being parents we find, is a little exhausting. To get through a night when both kids and both cats for that matter stay quiet long enough for us to get some uninterrupted sleep is rare. Chloe is a bit of a morning person. No matter how late we try to keep her up she still seems to want to wake up with the sunrise....and that's a good day. Some days she starts to stir at 0500. Ugg! Brian and I don't do anything well at 0500, we have that in common. I remember when Abigail went through this phase. Luckily she outgrew it and the difference was we would just go get her when she stirred and put her in our bed and we'd get 2-3 more hours out of her. No, not Miss Chloe! Once she's sees our faces she knows it's go time. He attempted again this morning to put her in our bed at around 5:45 and I just laid there as I heard her smacking Brian and giggling.
I posted an array of pictures to prove the many moods of Chloe Brianne. The coats and jackets are a cute phase she's in. Just an odd fascination in the putting on of coats and wearing them around. She does it a lot. The meal time photo is proof of the horrible experience that is meal time these days. I mean it's going to drive me to drinking some days. The girls, both of them are SOOOO picky and irritable at meal times. I try so hard to give some nutritional variety to the menu but some days there isn't a food item on the planet that would make them happy. Well, besides peanut butter. Not on anything for Chloe, just a "peanut butter lollypop" as I lovingly refer to a spoonful of the stuff. But seriously, why are meals such a drama producing fiasco?? I was a little picky but I know....I hope I didn't give mom this much trouble growing up. I am so tired of cooking butter and noodles, peas and Campbell's soup. Grilled cheese sandwich with honey mustard. And heaven help poor Brian when he's on duty and makes it with any variation from the way I do it. Abigail Grace will be sure to let anyone know "that's NOT the way Mommy does it!". :)
Chloe is shocking us these days the way she's coming into her own little personality. Her intelligence is really developing and it's a blast to watch. They all go from just chubby lumps of baby sweetness to actually showing signs of a human being in those cute little bodies and I'm always amazed at the transition. I remember being equally in awe when the Bit started to actually make some sense. I just knew she was the most brilliant child to ever hit the face of the earth....and well she was to us! :) Now Chloe is doing so well. Her speech just like the Bit's is slow coming. It's a blessing about second children you just don't worry about this stuff anymore. She probably says about 5 or 6 words, if you can even say that. It's more vocal fluctuations then anything else. A very enthusiastic "HI!" is her favorite reaction to Brian getting home at night. A nice "Uh OH!" when anything is dropped, pretty standard. And her most frequently used is "unnhh Ma-Ma!" . This is used for any and all desires that hit her little mind. Much to Brian and Mi-Mi's dismay and coaching to use other names. Recently I'm proud to say she is really getting the sign language that I'm working with her on. She will now enthusiastically rub her baby belly to imply "please!" when she desires something. Much preferred to grunting and barking my name. She has mastered "all done" when full and is getting good at the sign for "more" when she's still hungry. Again, I used to make fun of granola mom's and sign language until I got blessed w/ late talkers. It really helps my sanity to establish some communication.
Chloe is showing some fleeting traits and signs of cleanliness and helpfulness which is a fun new thing to observe. She has thrown her own diaper away after floor changes several times now, unprompted. She will wipe her own nose and discard the tissue in the trash and she is actually getting useful in unloading the dishwasher. She loves to put the silverware away and the kids dishes that just go loose in a big drawer. What breaks her little baby heart is when I'm done w/ the clean and start to load the dirty. She can not wrap her brain around not being able to continue removing items and putting them away. She broke down into all out tears last night when I put a stop to her "help". :)
We are enjoying a game we used to play with Abigail all the time. Brian and I love to get each other with using the babies as weapons basically. The girls are taught ...mostly by me... to bounce with vengeance when I chant "boogaty boogaty boogaty boo!". So it's a blast when one of us is holding her to start chanting and then the victim gets slammed by a bouncing baby bum and lots of baby giggles. It's the most fun when one of us has to pee. :) You can't get mad it's too stupid cute so you just take the beating and enjoy the good laugh.
Random details are so precious to me. I can't wait to look back on them when these girls turn into women and see if they are still doing some of the same things. I hope Abigail cries less and Chloe looses the dramatic storm out of the room when she doesn't get her way traits but hey, they are who they are right?!? God and Brian and I ...well love 'em to pieces!
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