Funny things you say, #1, #2, and #3

Unless you have experienced a toddlers need to explore their world this post probably only won't make much sense to you.  As Samantha began to crawl and then to walk and then to run, she begun to see, touch, and taste everything she could.  I noticed that Karie and I were starting to say things that if taken completely out of context sounded really funny.  So I started to make a list of some of the better things that have come out of our mouths.  So far I only have three, but I am sure there will be many more to come.

Samantha really liked to chew on shoes when she was older so this lead to Karie saying:
1.   "Dogs eat shoes, not babies"

After the Christmas tree was put up I turned around saw Samantha  walking around the tree putting ornaments into a fed-ex sack I had just emptied:
2.  "We do not trick or tree off of the Christmas tree"

Then the other day Samantha was trying to tell me something with her fingers in her mouth:
3.  "Take your fingers out of your mouth, I can't understand you.  Go ahead and put them back in, I still can't understand you."

All Done

It's amazing how much joy a little one can bring into a household, especially our little Samantha.  Karie and I are constantly laughing at the things that she does as she tries to figure this crazy world out. 

Because we usually spend our Thanksgiving in Indiana, we have gotten into the habit of setting up our Christmas tree the weekend before the holiday.  This way it is already setup when we get home and don't have to worry about it.  When we get back from Indiana we are so tired that setting up the tree became a burden and not a Joy.  This way it's always a Joy.

Well, the tree is setup in the playroom and last night we were playing in there with Samantha.  Other than the candy canes on the tree, Samantha is generally pretty good about leaving the tree alone.  However, last night I turned around and Samantha had a FedEx bad in her hands that I just emptied.  She was walking around the Christmas tree putting ornaments into the bag.  It took me a second to realize what she was doing and then the funniest words came out of my mouth.  "Samantha we don't trick or treat off of the Christmas tree."  It's an honest mistake, how was she to know that you only trick or treat at Halloween.  I still giggle when I think about it. 

Then the next day just after lunch, I was sitting downstairs playing with Samantha before I went back up to work.  Samantha likes to play a "night night" game where she pretends to got to sleep only to pop back up after 30 seconds to surprise me that she wasn't really asleep.  I don't have the heart to tell her that I can see she isn't asleep because she never closes her eyes.  But today she did something different.  She put her hands together right before she went "night night."  I asked Karie if she was praying and Karie held up a Prayer book that she got at the library.  Karie and Samantha had been reading the book so Samantha was starting to pray before she went "night night".  As Samantha sat there Karie says,

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
may angels watch me through the night
and wake me with the morning light
Amen

And Samantha very proudly replies "All Done".

It took a couple minutes for Karie and I to stop laughing.

What?!?

Karie had another baby appointment today and after an hour wait we finally got to hear Rebecca's heart beat (162 bpm).  It was well worth that wait, I really love that swooshing sound.  However, Samantha wasn't sure what to make of it, at first she was upset because she didn't know what the doctor was doing to mommy.  After a few moments, she started to smile.

 As we were leaving the office, we go into the elevator and a few people join us for the ride down.  For some reason people are really pulled to Samantha.  Maybe it is that way with all little kids, but it seems like a lot of people go out of their way to talk to Samantha.  The people in the elevator say "Hi' and Samantha smiles at them.  They continue to look at Samantha then out of nowhere Samantha says very loudly and very clearly "What!?!" with about as much attitude that a 17 month old can muster.  (All you parents out there will understand that is a lot of attitude)

I laugh, but I also see visions of things to come.  I envision Samantha as a teenager staring at me saying "What!?!"

Well Karie was baffled by this behavior because she can't imagine where Samantha would have learned such a thing.  Unfortunately daddy knew exactly where she learned it.  Whenever Samantha gets into a staring mood and stares at me, I look back and say "What?"

Lesson learned.

Babies = Projects

One thing I realized as babies enter your life, your "to do" list never seems to end.  With a second little one on the way, I think my "to do" list is about a mile long. 

For normal people, they would just start one project and finish it, then start the next.  For some reason my brain does not work that way.  Every project I create seems to spawn more projects that spawn even more projects.  This little voice in my head says "Well, while you are doing [insert task] you should go ahead and do [insert slightly related task]" until I am so far away from the original task that it sometimes doesn't get done.

Currently I am in the process of removing all the furniture from our second living room and making it into a play room, even though the new babies room still has a lot to be finished.  I just got it into my head that it needed to be done and there I go!  No sure why I felt a need to start yet another large project while I had a dozen others going.

Then, as I was moving furniture around in the room and clearing it out, I noticed the mantle is a little messed up do to a plant that over flowed.  I am trying to resist taking a hammer to it.  I have a vision of this awesome NEW and IMPROVED mantle.  However, I wouldn't be able to move forward with the playroom project until the mantle is done.  AHhhhhhhh, stop the insanity.  This is also the reason why some of the time I get so overwhelmed with a project before I even start it. 

My other problem is that I don't like prolonged projects.  When I start a project it's all GO 100% until it's done.  You can ask my wife, she generally stays clear when I start a project marathon because sometimes a cussing storm develops.  Then there is the dreaded F-Bomb tornado that spawns when something goes FUBAR!!!  When I decided to paint the new babies room I tore the room down, painted ceiling, accent wall, the rest of the room, touched up, put the room back together, assembled the crib and the dresser in about 24 hours.  Karie would peek in now and again when she hadn't heard me cuss in a while to make sure I wasn't dead.  Karie tends to hover a lot when I am working on something in the house because she is grew up with a dad and ended most of his home improvement projects with a trip to the hospital.  That is a little dramatic but the guy is missing 1/2 a toe and has a metal ankle.

I am hoping that I can get the play room done quickly so I can get back to the other projects that I am suppose to be working on.  I still have a closet to gut and rebuild, a book shelf to build, another one to paint, and a dozen assorted projects to get done before Rebecca gets here.  I still have 3.5 months but with 2 major holidays in the time ahead it is going to go by quick.  I guess I should stop my typing and get to work.