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?)

Maybe we'll see a bird . . .

The other day Rain wanted to go for a walk. I agreed--we had been cooped up in the house and needed to get out. So, I was putting coats and shoes on, and then there were diapers to be changed, etc. While changing Rain's diaper, I was making up a song trying to distract her long enough to get the job done.

(make up any tune you want . . . I did)

Goin' for a walk

Goin' for a walk

What do you think we'll see?

What do you think we'll see?

Maybe we'll see a bird

Maybe we'll see a bird

. . .

Now all bundled up, we headed out the door. But what should we come upon as soon as we opened the front gate, fluttering around helplessly on the driveway . . . but a bird. Of course, Rain's new thing is to "hode it". I tried to catch it and put the poor thing out of its misery. It must have flown into the side of our house. After catching it, Rain held it "carefully" while I tried to decide how to deal with it humanely and without breaking Rain's heart. She absolutely loved it and named all its parts.

Thankfully Nature ran its course, very quickly, and the bird died while she was holding it. But it went on our walk around the entire neighborhood.

Unfortunately, after the walk was over, Rain STILL didn't want to relinquish her newfound friend. I said she could hold it as long as she stayed outside. This would have been fine-- except she stepped in a big mud puddle in yard and started crying because she was dirty. (I don't know how I could have a child that dislikes being dirty so much.) So, I had to strip her outside, pry the lifeless bird out of her hands, and put her directly into the tub. She didn't stop screaming about her bird for at least a half hour. At bedtime, she finally consoled herself with the fact that it was dark outside and the bird "went night-night."