Randy was here January 20, 2009

Yesterday, my dad got to come for a visit and spend the night.  He arrived just before dinner.  We had a great time.  We started off by listening to some music on the computer.  Papa Randy watched Zac play his gameboy for a little while.  Then we had dinner, played Indiana Jones Life (which Zachary won), and headed for bed.

Bedtime had Grandpa Randy sleeping on the hide-a-bed with a guest: Reagan.   I knew he would get woke up with either chatter or feet in the groin!   BUT…. that’s the price a grandparent has to pay sometimes. 

Papa Randy had some lovely stories of his evening to share…..

Reagan discovered how much fun her flashlight can be with the lights off.  They used the lights to pretend they were walking on the ceiling, they made shadows and Reagan was using her light to get in and out of bed.

At some point in the night, Reagan woke up Papa and said “Papa Randy, you’re embarrassing me with all that snoring!”

Early morning hours had Papa Randy needed to go to the bathroom.  When he returned Reagan said “You sure do get up a lot!”

Papa Randy even called me this morning, very happy to have had that one-on-one time with his only granddaughter (also his youngest grandchild).

Hockey Game January 18, 2009

I took Zac and Reagan to their first hockey game tonight.  Zac got free tickets from school.  I almost forgot about it and let it slip right on by.  But we got there 30 minutes after it had started.  It was after the first period so the kids were not sure what was going on.

The game was the Fort Wayne Komets playing the Muskeegon Lumberjacks (Jacks for future reference).  The Jacks had 2 and the Komets had 0.  During the 2nd period we were able to see the Komets tie the game!!  It was quite exciting.  Here is a cute little exchange between me and Reagan:

Reagan: Who is the orange guys?…………… Me: The Komets.  We want them to win.

Reagan: Who is the black guys? …………….. Me: The Lumberjacks.  We don’t want them to win.

Reagan:  Ok.  Who is the orange guys again?…… Me:  <sigh>The Komets.  We want them to win.

Reagan: We want the Orange Komet Guys to WIN!!  We don’t like black guys.

Thank goodness the game is loud and no one can really hear a 3 yr old!!!

During the game, however, Reagan went from one seat to the next.  I had to move the pile of coats 3 times while she decided how she liked to sit….  on her butt on the first seat, up on her knees on the third seat, in the last seat laying on her back/feet in the air hitting the lady’s knees behind us/head down in the aisle….  Uuuugggghhhh!!!  Zac wanted to go rather quickly after we’d gotten there before the 2nd period even started.  But I convinced him to give it a chance and after seeing the two goals scored he wanted to stay the rest of the game.  Reagan, however, was not as enthusiastic.  She managed to find a relatively comfy (if you can call those stadium seats comfy) spot with her head on the coats, her body across the 2nd chair and her feet up on my lap.  During which time she tried to chew the metal armrest!  I give up.  I’m not going to warn her of the dangers of ingesting germs or the fact that if she bites down to hard her teeth would break.  I’m gonna just try to enjoy the game, what’s left of it, and hope she doesn’t end up sick and toothless.

The drawback to this game….  it was so spur of the moment due to my lack of memory that we didn’t eat dinner before we left and I purposely didn’t bring any money for snacks.  So the kids were smelling the popcorn all around us and mentioning that they were hungry (STARVING!!!  is more accurate of a statement!!).

We ended up leaving a few minutes into the 3rd period, which didn’t set the best with Zac but he handled himself VERY maturely.  Also knowing there is another FREE game in a few weeks that we can go to made leaving early tolerable.  It’s on a Saturday night so either me or Daddy can take JUST him!!  And I intend to do just that.

All in all it wasn’t bad.  I have learned I really want to avoid taking Reagan to things like that, but we survived.  AND… she’s neither sick nor toothless from her dinner of metal armrest!!!

Butt Cramp January 18, 2009

Reagan woke up yesterday morning and was downstairs before I could say “Mornin’!”  I got up, went downstairs and acted very surprised and happy to see her.  I jumped on the couch, bounced up & down and layed down on her blanket cocoon she made herself, kissed her cheek and said ‘Good Morning’.  She said “Uhhhh!  Mommy, you’re squashing me!”  I told her I was just so happy to see her as I got up and then told her I was sorry.

Reagan then said “You made my butt hurt, Mommy.  Now I have a butt cramp!!”

Ooops!!

You Can’t Even Tell! January 10, 2009

Zac is a huge fan of Star Wars and Indiana Jones.  I guess his age allows him the innocence of not realizing Harrison Ford is in both.

So he has both sets of Lego’s as well.  He could spend hours making things and playing Lego’s.

The other day, he was very excited with his newest creation!  He has two Lego guys in his hands and comes to me and Daddy and says:

“LOOK!!  I took Han Solo’s head and put it on Indiana Jones’ body and took Indiana Jones’ head and put it on Han Solo’s body and YOU CAN’T EVEN TELL!!!”

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Reagan has her own logic January 8, 2009

It just seems I can’t keep up with how fast Reagan is moving!!

Yesterday, Reagan came up to me with my house slippers on, raised her foot and said “Tol-Shuh”.  That is ’slippers’ in chinese.  We had watched an episode of Ni hao, Kai-Lan months ago.  It was a sleep over and everyone had slippers.  So that word was repeated a lot.  Granted, I am spelling it phonetically, but not many could read the actual chinse word, which is

鞋

tuō xié

slippers

Isn’t that just cool?!

THEN… we are at a Burger King play place.  The kids are doing good until a little boy and Reagan start arguing over the same spinning toy on the wall.  Reagan starts yelling “LADIES FIRST!!  LADIES FIRST!!”   We can thank Daddy for that.  He’s trying to explain that to Zac and Reagan has overheard.  This is the most wrong thing to have happen as she will use it strictly for her own benefit!!  She’s also heard my friend Von tell her daughter “Guests first”.  So when we’re over there, and Reagan and Anna are having issues with a single toy, Reagan will loudly state “I’m a GUEST!! GUESTS FIRST!!”   Next on my list for Reagan….  Manners.

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Later that day, Reagan was playing Littlest Pet shop.  She was sorting them, this time, into Boy and Girl areas.  She picked up the cutest pink sheep and said “Boy”.

I said “This is clearly a girl.  She’s pink WITH a bow.”

She takes it from me, points to it’s eyes and says “It doesn’t have eyelashes!!  It’s not a girl.  It’s a boy.”

As you can see from these pictures, there are clearly some animals with eyelashes and some without.  I had no idea that non-eyelash having animals were boys, regardless of their color.

So I say “Spongebob has eyelashes and he’s a boy.”

She states “If he has eyelashes, he’s a girl!”

I wonder what she would’ve said if I used DADDY as an example instead of Spongebob.

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TODAY…

Reagan had gotten a cute penguin for Christmas from Build-a-Bear.  She immediately named him Quackers.  It was a boy from the instant she saw him.  Until today.  He has a little tuft of hair on his head.

She comes to me and says… “Quackers has sticked up hair.”

Me: Yes

Reagan: So he’s not a boy.  He’s a girl.  If he has hair he’s a girl.

Me: But lots of boys have hair.  Zac has hair.  Daddy has hair.  Papa Randy has hair.

Reagan: Well…..  Papa Randy doesn’t have much hair.