Randomness

This post is a compilation of little snippets of everyday memories I wanted to record. And the pictures don't necessarily correspond with anything, they are also random photos.

• Going out the door, or if she is done “talking,” aka “listening” to me, Rain will say, “Okay, bye!” and walk away.

(I forgot to buckle the high chair seat belt and Mesa started falling out the bottom. It was worse, but I adjusted her before I took the picture for safety's sake.)

• If I get after Rain for something, she cries and runs to me saying “scaredy.” I’m not sure where she learned this word, but she uses it frequently. I promise I’m not abusing my children. If it helps, whenever the dogs bark, she will run to me saying “scaredy.” And oddly enough, she always brings me string and wants to be "tied up". Don't ask me where she is getting that one.

• Lately, we have watched Tinkerbell, almost every night, in 8 separate 10-minute clips from YouTube. When one segment stops, she says “Uh-oh, uh-oh, drop it” (Stopped) in a traumatized voice, and I have to go to the computer to load the next segment. We have really been working on learning patience.

(One of the girls' favorite pastimes:

"Let's See How Fast We Can Empty the Dresser Before Mom Finds Us")

• Rain is getting quite vocal, especially when singing. It’s quite common for her to sing for two hours in her bed during naptime before finally falling asleep. Some favorite lines are:
• “Everbuddy, everybuddy, everbuddy wants to be a CAT!”
• “Wet’s go fwy a kite! Up to the highest hite. Wet’s go fwy a kite!”
• Ol’ Mcdonald had a farm, ee-ii-ee-ii-oooooooooo!”
• “I often go walking, in meadows of clover, . . .”
• “Hakuna, matata”
• “Hey-ya, hey-ya . . .” the drum song from Pocahontas
• Colors of the wind
• Jingle Bells
• Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer
• If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands
• "Tew everbuddy I'm wah, wah, way" (Tell Everybody I'm On My Way from Brother Bear)
• "The wheels on the bus go roun' and roun', doors go opie an shut, opie an shut, etc"

If you haven't noticed, we sing a lot. I use it to distract from unpleasant situations such as diaper changes, or to pass the time in the car when sitting in the car seat for one more milisecond has become insurmountable.

Rain goes to sleep with the Primary Children Songs on cd. I think the Nursery leaders were a little surprised when she could sing all the words to the songs they sang. 

She also has a few medley/combo songs where she will start singing one song, and end with another. Example: “Tinkerbell, tinkerbell . . . jingle all the way”

• One afternoon, I was trying to catch a few winks, so I laid down on the floor while Rain was watching Pocahontas. How long I dozed, I’m not sure, but I awoke to Rain screaming hysterically, and sobbing, “Kokoum, No, Kokoum.” Needless to say, this is a part I always have to fast-forward through now.
• When watching movies where there is trauma such as when Nala is chasing Pumba in The Lion King, Rain starts yelling, “Be nice! Be nice! BE NICE!!!”

(Rain loves to help with anything that Mom is doing)
• When Rain wants to wear her shoes outside, she will say “Get the boots on?” But when she doesn’t want to wear shoes, she will say “Outside, toes in da grass?”
• "Lidol"- mix between little and lidon, I think. It means “lid on.” When I get her a sippy cup she’ll say: “Where’s the lid-o? OH, der it is!"

(Rain plays for hours with the squirt bottle)
• She also says Thank YOU! and then You're Welcome immediately afterwards. It has lightened my load considerably. =)
• Rain, watching a jet leave a trail in the sky: “Look, he’s coloring . . . Make an elephant?” (One of the Baby Einstein movies has an airplane that flies in the sky and draws animals with the jet trail).
• At bedtime, Rain wants the door closed, and the light OFF so it’s all dark. Thus, during naptime when I can’t turn off the lights to make it dark AND I have yet to put up her curtains, she has decided the light is “broken”. I leave it at that.
• We have two new little baby cousins in the family and Rain loves to hold them.

(Rain has a zoo of animals that have to sleep with her every night. They have their very own pillow.)

(Sometimes she even opts for the baby cradle so the animals have more room)

We went to a cousin’s missionary homecoming in Las Vegas. We only made it to St. George before we had to stop and get Rain out so she could throw up. We BARELY made it before it was too late. She only lasts an hour in a car before she starts throwing up. I hope this car sickness stage doesn’t last long. Rain was awake the whole drive there. Fifteen minutes after arriving for dinner, she announced she was ready to go home and go “nigh-nigh.”

On the way home, Mesa was done being in her car seat and was inconsolable. As she lay there fussing, Rain looked over at her, stating matter-of-factly, “Mesa needs to go “nigh-nigh.”

We had to make another lay-over in St. George on the way back so Rain could get some fresh air and Mesa could have some time out of her car seat, relieving our poor ears. There truly is NO PLACE LIKE HOME!

(I've given up trying to keep Mesa out of the mud)

(So we get lots of baths, and of course, Rain wants to join in the fun.

Is there anything cuter than two girls in a sink full of bubbles?)

When I Grow Up, I'm Gonna Be . . . A Beautician

Valentines Day dawned like any other year, except this year it landed on Sunday, so it was a mad rush to get to church on time, so we weren't banished to the hard chairs in the back of the chapel. The weekend had been busy, so trying to stay awake at our early meetings, even with two wiggly girls, was a challenge. But we survived. After unloading the girls at home, I laid on my bed for a few minutes, thinking about the week ahead. Shane came in and we talked a little before Rain hopped on the bed, not wanting to be left out. She was pretending to "go nigh-nigh" by mom. But she quickly grew tired of that and soon found a bag of hair accessories that she began putting in my hair. Her favorites were the claw clips, which she was learning to open and latch onto things--like my hair. It was at this point I slipped into precious dreamland. Swirling in and out of my dreamy frame of mind was the feeling of the claw clips tickling my scalp as Rain put them in and out of my hair.

Then suddenly, my mind started registering a slightly different, more horrifying feeling--and accompanying sound--of scissors cutting hair. It took me a little longer to register that it wasn't the clips anymore. When I heard that sickening sound of cutting hair, I flew off the bed so fast, saying "No, No, No, NO, OH NOOOO!" as I ran to the bathroom mirror to survey the damage that I KNEW I would find. Clumps of hair started combing out with my fingers.

Of course, Rain started crying. I didn't want to make her feel worse, so I didn't cry. It was  a good thing I had already chopped a foot off my hair recently so I was mentally prepared to cope with something like this. My hair had been in a clip, so of course she didn't cut at the bottom where it would be easy to disguise; she cut on the very top, front of my head, too far back to even make bangs.

Luckily, she is still learning to manuever scissors, so her bites of hair weren't really big. And she cut them at slightly different lengths, so I am not dealing with as big of blunt cut areas as it could have been.

It was a little difficult to capture the effect because the scissors hacks were so haphazard that the longer hair was getting in the way of sorting it out for pictures. I guess it does help disguise it that way. This is only one clump that I was able so salvage enough for a picture.

It has been a little bit of a pain dealing with the short chunks as they grow out-especially when the wind blows. Those areas are also more prone to curl being as short as they are.

But my new hairstyle has probably been tried in some professional salon at one point or another, so if anyone needs a new modern haircut, I have an excellent recommendation-- and the price isn't too shabby either. It's FREE!