33 posts tagged “kids”
I am surprised at how calm I am over this. I thoroughly expected to freak out.
A random comment by Allyson this evening:
"this is not going to swallow down my drain."
She was holding a piece of apple peel up for me to see, before she threw it in the garbage. The fact that my four year old just called her throat a drain was really funny, in a cute mixed up words sort of way. Though if you think about it too much, it's just disturbing.
soooo... I'm listening to a playlist of songs on my Zune from Rock Band in the car with the kids, and when Ballroom Blitz ends, my four year old starts saying 'its, its, a blallroom blitz. its, its a blallroom blitz'. (yes, she has an extra L in there). Then she asks me to play the song again, which I do for her. We get home before the song is over, and she asks if we can sit in the car in the garage and listen to the rest of it.
I am about to blow her mind with Rock Band on the xbox 360.
Allyson has lost her voice, and she is all upset that Ursula the sea witch from Disney's The Little Mermaid movie took it. Her dad tried explaining to her that its just that she talks too much, but she is convinced its Ursula.
Allyson's birthday is in a few weeks, but her best friend moved away this week and won't be here for the party. So just before the new year we threw an early birthday party for the two of them. There are a bunch of party pictures here, but this one particularly cracked me up. She put on all her toy jewelry, hair clips, headband and sunglasses and told me she was going to be "so so so SO fancy!"
because naps don't usually occur on the living room floor. nor do they usually include the grown-ups.
Since their birth, my kids have been gifted with a wide variety of unusual critters from us and our friends. They've got stuffed monsters (probably a couple dozen), a number of dragons, and many random odd critters such as hedgehogs, a moose, a squirrel, a prairie dog, a phoenix... (think plush stuffed animals, not taxidermy. ew.)
So it is probably no surprise that on my list of Things I Want to Knit are stuffed cephelopods and octopus, both of which i first saw on Window's blog. The person selling the knit octopus pattern (on Etsy!) also sells patterns for squid, jellyfish, starfish... I think these would go nicely with the rest of my kids stuffed critters.
Yesterday at Ikea, we found what might be the holy grail of offbeat funky stuffed toys. I give you, the trilobite. Photo found online, as my daughter has hers is in bed with her right now and I didn't want to risk waking her up just to take an original picture. She spent all day today cuddling it on the couch or using it as a pillow while she was home sick with the flu. it currently has a little (approx the size of a medium-large apple) pink stuffed elephant hidden in its zipped shut mouth, with room to spare. in the bottom picture you can see someone's fingers in the lower left corner - that should give you an idea of the size of this thing.
best. stuffed animal. ever.
Quornflour put a photo of herself in 1982 up on her blog, which I remarked was unmistakably her. See for yourself.
Anyway, like any good trash-talking friend, she has challenged me to do the same and post a pic of myself as a kid. Now, I'm a bit older than Quorny, so I chose a photo from when I was the same age she was in 1982.
