Ha ha! I have some "you had to be there" stories to tell today but I will try my best to help you feel like you were there!
Well yesterday morning I hopped in the shower and put Linkin on the bathroom floor with his toys. As soon as I turned the water on and drenched myself...there's Linkin clearing the fog on the shower door with this little hands and face as he proceeds to scream and cry as if I had fallen off a cliff and he witnessed. So OFF with his clothes and IN the shower he goes! He felt excited for about a half a second and then he stood up to my leg screaming looking up at me with one eye closed and the other barely open as water dripped onto him in ways he was not comfortable with! So OUT he goes back to his toys. (I dried him). As soon as I shut the door, the terror scream began again. It was as if he felt that something horrible was happening to me. He just stood up at the door and pressed his face up to it. IN he goes again! Screaming and crying continued. I had to finish so OUT he goes and he continued having a fit until I got out of that darn shower and picked him up. He was terrified. ??? I normally take baths and he stands at the side and splashes in the water and plays and has a great time so this shower thing.....He was NOT having it! Stupid story I know but it's for the Mother's sake that I write it. (Me being the Mom).
Has anyone ever played SODOKU??? It's a super fun puzzle game. It's very addicting and you feel so accomplished when you can finish one. I highly reccommend you play it for those of you that have way too much time on your hands! Anyways...last night I had the opportunity of playing that game in my own sort of way. You see, for my Child Care I have to plan menus and turn them into the USDA Coordinator. It was a complicated matter for this girl who hasn't been to school or work for almost a year! You have to plan each meal so that it has a variety of colors, Of course it has stipulations on the type of food you feed them, and you have to have Iron once a day, Vitamin A three times a week, and Vitamin C once a day. You also can't serve the same food twice in one week, and you can only serve the same "kind" of food (for instance "beef") as long as it is in a different form as it was earlier and only twice per week. So I could have a Hamburger but then the beef would need to be used for like tacos later in the week. So I have to plan breakfast, snack, lunch and snack. It's chaos man. It's so much like playing sodoku. It took me forever!! Also you can't serve two different foods in the same "kind" of way either, so if you had Chicken A La King for lunch, you can't serve "creamed" corn with it. Get it? There's so many more rules if only I could list them all. ha hahaha! Not! You'd fall asleep! So I ended up recruiting Craig to help me after so long because I just couldn't think anymore. We play sodoku together sometimes so this worked! Well we were sitting here rockin these menus when all of a sudden Craig screams, "cockroach!" well cockroaches are fairly normal and not such a big
deal but when the HUGE sucker stopped, we realized it WAS NOT a cockroach! It was a gigantic SPIDER! In our house. NOT COOL at all. I know my blogs have mainly consisted of the stories of frogs and spiders and whatever else but I had to tell this story and I so wish you could have been here. So Craig and I ran into the kitchen to fight the bugger and I said WAIT, let's take a picture. He started to run rampant so Craig screamed "I'm smashing it". I said NO!! because it was one of the biggest spiders ever and I wanted a picture for sure. So Craig lifted up the rug to where it was crawling under and I proceeded so snap some shots of it, but it didn't do justice because it looked tiny in the pictures, so I said put something next to it. So Craig was like, "yeah I'll put my credit card next to it" He was almost SHAKING cuz he was so scared as he shimmied his credit card about three inches away from it. I said Craig, you gotta get it next to the spider or it serves no purpose, so he starts to slide it closer to the spider and then the spider moved a little and Craig started to SCREAM like a little girl and DROPPED the rug on the spider and then started dancing around in terror, so I screamed too because he frightened me and I
started to dance around the room too and I hopped up onto the chair and I look over and Craig is stationary with one leg but takes his other leg, lifts it clean up into the air and teeters over and stomps right on top of the rug where he imagined the spider was. I wish so bad I could video this stomps because his body didn't move at all just his leg and it pulled his body over there. It's like he didn't want to go any closer but he had to step on it, so he just teetered. Oh my gosh it was hilarious. He was holding his "place" and saying how he just about peed his pants. I was laughing so friggin hard I wanted to die! So we lifted up the rug and he actually smashed the spider right on. So we took a picture of it smashed. he eheh! Fun times! I thoroughly enjoyed seeing my wuss husband in fright!!
My sweet little boy has learned to throw a ball and he is so very proud of himself. He is so cute. I must post another video. I just love him to death and all his little accomplishments make me so proud. He's also learned to clap but he just hasn't perfected it quite yet! Um, sorry the video is so dark. I'm using the video on our digital camera so quality is low. I cut everything out but two throws too. Short and sweet!! :)
How come does Linkin impersonate a monkey when throwing the ball? :)
Posted by: Camille Brady | August 03, 2007 at 08:44 AM