Mitten Man Knows it All

Jakob insisted on wearing his winter mittens to bed tonight. I snapped this a few minutes ago, and he was none the wiser. That boy can sleep through anything!

It was a bit of a rough night as we took them to Ruby Tuesday's for dinner and he kept jumping up & down on the booth cushion, and running his Spiderman car up the windows separating us from the bar area, annoying the people on the other side. He would not listen to us at all. Later, in the bathtub, he got a little crazy with throwing water around (a common issue around here) the floor and ceiling, and proceeded to tangle up the cords to the blinds above the bathtub and get the blinds all askew-- this is a BIG NO-NO, he KNOWS he is not supposed to mess with the blinds-- and Mia promptly ratted him out. As punishment he wasn't allowed to watch Spiderman & His Amazing Friends tonight before bed; he still got to watch Little Mermaid, which Mia picked, but he couldn't BELIEVE we weren't caving and letting him watch Spiderman. I rocked and sang to him a lot though this evening and we talked about behaving, but I doubt he will remember by tomorrow.

On another note, he knows his state capitals! They have been learning about different states as part of summer preschool camp, and out of nowhere late last week, he just started naming states and capitals. It is very funny to here him say "Tallahassee" and "Sacramento." He likes to joke around, as in if YOU ask him about the capitals (instead of HIM bringing it up), he will answer "Pheonix" for all of them, grinning the whole time. I love my funny boy!

Hannah Boatanna and Mamma Mia

Mia, yesterday at Target whil walking past a rack of Hannah Montana merchandise: "Oh, Mom, look-- there's Hannah Boatanna. You have to be 8 years old to get her stuff."
We haven't jumped on the Hannah Montana generated buzz-- the kids have never watched it, but I guess she's heard about it at school.
My other favorite thing she says is "Panpakes" instead of "pancakes"

Jakob-- watching a commercial for the new Mamma Mia movie-- put it all together, pointed at me, and said "mommy, it's a show about you and Mia! You're the Mamma, she's the Mia!"
Pretty slick for a 4 y/o!

My Tiny Dancer & Curious Climber

The kids were so cute tonight-- I had TIVO'd America's Got Talent from last week, & Mia watched it with me-- the last act was a guy singing "Ain't too Proud to Beg," (he was awesome), and Mia went CRAZY dancing! She was watching herself in the fireplace glass the whole time-- she made me rewind the entire song 4 times so she could keep dancing, gyrating her hips all around and making these herky-jerky moves watching her reflection. I asked her if she wanted me to dance with her, and she said, no, she was the best dancer so I should just stay on the couch. She also told me earlier that she was prettier and that my mom & I were just "OK."

Jakob,after getting his bath, got dressed in his Batman jammies and we caught him in our room, watching Spiderman, climbing almost all the way to the top of the bedpost!!! I got pictures of him doing it-- one when he didn't know I was taking it, and the other with him grinning like "You caught me!" HILARIOUS.

Sing me The You Love Me Song, Mom

-Jakob requested the "Sing me The You Love Me Song, Mommy" again tonight. He means "The More I See You." I told him I didn't know which song he meant, that he'd have to sing it for me first so I'd remember it. So he did! It was about the cutest thing ever, this little 4 y/o voice changing around all the words--
The More you see me, the more mommy loves me
Somehow this feeling just grows and grows
Whenever my mommy's lost, she is so lost without me
So sad without me, and so it goooo-oes
Can you imagine that my Mommy loves me so much
The more you see me, as years go by
You know the only one for you could only be me
Your arms won't free me
My mommy's heart won't try

Now only did he make my heart melt, I was truly amazed he remembered virtually ALL the lyrics, and also (mostly) appropriately changed all the grammar!
He got, like, 5 extra songs tonight for his cuteness. :)

Disgustamondo

My big toenail on my right foot ripped completely off last night, as I jumped up from the table to make sure Jakob wasn't going to fall off the stepstool he was climbing on.

Ouch. It actually didn't hurt that bad. It was basically dead ever since a 15K race I did back in March. I had had to drill a hole in it to relieve the pressure, and after the initial pain then (which I swear hurt more than my c-section), it hasn't bothered me. I have just kept cute shades of blue/ green/ purple nail polish on it and no one was the wiser of how gross it looked.

The only thing that hurt from it getting ripped all the way off was my feelings. Now I'm on a quest to find a pedicurist who will make me a new acrylic toenail. The sites I've read online on SpaGeek.com and a few others say it is indeed possible but that it'll have to be put on with prosthetic glue. So anyone know where I find that? I'm thinking Dermabond won't work. Hmm. Well, that'll be my online project for tonight if I ever get another break-- full house on L&D, 2 sick patients on the floor, and 4 people on Magnesium. I think I'll have my hands full!

Where's Daddy's Wii?

My twins cleaned up the family room all by themselves and let me into the room to show off their job. They did a fabulous job, just maybe a little too well...

Fred asked them, "Guys, Where's Daddy's Wii?"
"We put it away, Daddy."
"OK-- where did you put it? You know, Daddy's Wii Fit board?"
"Oh, we don't know where we put it Daddy. We forget."

World's Best Compliment

Proving my 4 y/o little boy doesn't differentiate b/t appearance all that well, he gave me the best compliment last night. I was holding him on my lap by the computer, just talking, and there was a catalog from Victoria's Secret on the desk. "Look Mommy, " he said..."There's a whole book with pictures of you!"

I laughed so hard I could barely speak as I corrected him. Oh how I WISH I looked like those models, but my little guy thinks his Mommy is pretty just the same, I guess. He got a big kiss & hug from me. :)

My little spiderman

I am going to have to replace some of the doorknobs in our house. Jake keeps hanging on them and climbing up the door--almost to the point that he is parallel to, or even higher than, the level of the doorknob. He claims he is "helping Spiderman fight crime, Mommy!" But he's about to rip to doorknobs right out of the door!

I asked him what he wants to be when he grows up. First he said he would like to be a "good pirate-- not a bad one." Then he changed his mind and said, "No, I want to be Batman. He's the best one and we need more Batmans."

Mia, when asked the same question, said "A mommy and a doctor." I asked her what kind of doctor she'd like to be, did she want to be a doctor for mommies and babies like me? "No, I think I want to be the kind of doctor who just helps all kinds of people. I can do that 'cause I'm really smart." I was so proud!

I helped Jake charge up his remote control car tonight and he sat on my lap and we just talked for the whole 20 minutes it took to charge the car. I will be sad when the day comes that he won't do that anymore.

Mia dismissed me after just 3 night-night songs tonight-- she always seems irritated when she asks for Row Row Row Your Boat-- it's like the shortest song EVER, so I usually sing it twice b/c I feel like she's getting cheated with that song. She get annoyed that I sing it twice. So tonight, as soon as I got to the ending of the first time through, she put her hand over my mouth and said, "Stop." She then proceeded to sing the whole song herself, "Row Row Row your boat, gently down the stream, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Life is but a dream-- STOP. THAT's how you're SUPPOSED to sing it, Mom. Now you can go, no more songs for you tonight." And she climbed into bed and sent me out of her room!