Ayla walks in and sees Tay tearing her sandwich apart and banging it on the plate. (while I sit next to him folding laundry. pick your battles, man)

Ayla: Hey, Tavian... you.. playin' with my sandwich?? ... it's not to PLAY with, it's to EAT!

::She watches him for a few seconds::

Oh for CRYYYY-IN' out loud. Humph.::takes the sandwich and ( Read more... )

Dear skin, hormones, or whatever the eff is causing the problems I'm having ( Read more... )

We went out this morning. Walked to the grocery store.

I don't often have High Horse Parenting Moments, but I did today.

( This is me being self-righteous )

( A Regular Post That Turned Rambly )

Ayla just said to Ben, (while listening to the FOTC CD and spinning in the computer chair)

"Yeah. I like this one. The humans are dead and they poisoned their asses!"

I can't breathe. I can't breeeeathe.
ps. I don't care if you think it's disgusting that I laugh at her swearing. it's a WORD!

( Cut to spare The Intellectuals )

Shrek seriously makes me laugh out loud. I'm cooking while Ayla watches it, and I keep chuckling. She, of course, starts laughing too, which just makes it more funny.

Phew! Shrek, was that you!?? You can't just let one off like that, you gotta warn someone. My mouth was open and everything!

I've lost over 75 pounds. All by myself. No pills, no ( Read more... )

So we've been talking about sex. And by "we" I pretty much mean every person I've talked to in the last two weeks. Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm putting it out there because I'm one, big perverted (and loving it) nymphomaniac. Or maybe it's just the moon. Or maybe everyone else just needs to talk about it, and they know I'm cool with it ( Read more... )

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This just in:

Tavian can shape sort. I'm pretty sure he's brilliant.

And crawl. Kind of. I give him two days and he'll be flying across the floor. THANK GOD. I thought this child would be crawling at 5 months. He WANTED to be crawling at 5 months. This should eliminate a loooot of frustration, and - subsequently - a lot of tantrums. Let's hope.