Finch's Preferences

Delightful Finch takes her meals in this lovely booster seat from Fisher Price. She's my independent child. I always put her in facing the family, but she prefers to pick her own position. Using her feet to move the seat, she turns herself around so she's facing the wall. Then when she's done eating she turns herself back towards us and complains until we let her out.

It kinda looks like I make her eat in the corner...or that she's in time out. But she's doing it herself. I've no idea why she'd rather eat facing the wall than us. I guess she just likes to pick her own settings.,...and it does give her toes something to play with.

Guess who..

"I'm sorry, we can't accept your forms because your middle initial doesn't match our records."
Me (to them): "What's my middle initial?"
them: "We don't have access to that information. You'll need to contact..."
Me (to others): "What's my middle initial?"
others: "W"
Me: "Phew, that's what I remembered, too. So why didn't it work?"
others: "Them's computers must be messed up."
Me (to them): "others confirmed I'm using the correct middle initial. So how can we fix this?"
them: "There's nothing we can do - it MUST be fixed through Others"
Me: "...but it's already correct there. So how can I get it fixed on YOUR records?"
them: "You keep asking me the same question."
Me: "I'm sorry, I guess that's because I'm confused."
them: "How many times do I have to say it - you MUST fix it through Others."
Me: "...how can I fix it there if it's already correct there?"
them: dial tone [they hung up on me!!!! after hours of being on hold!!!]

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If you guessed the IRS, click here.

Breadmaker, Breadmaker make me some bread..

My first loaf of breadmaker bread. It was tasty - warm and gooey and thick. The raisins were yummy but you couldn't really taste the cinnamon even though I put extra in.



The kids loved it....except Delightful Finch who was too tired to love anything but her jammies and her daddy.

It was much harder than I expected. You have to measure and add all the ingredients by hand!!! hehe...kidding. It was hard because the power went out twice today. ...and the breadmaker doesn't do well w/out power. Luckily it stayed on the second time.

Oat Tales

[A few months ago, I was feeding oatmeal to Delightful Finch.]
Strong Bear: I want some! I want some! (this is his way of asking for things.)
Mom: I'm sorry, sweetie. I can't give you any because it has oats in it. It'll give you owies. (He's allergic to oats.)
Strong Bear: No, it doesn't have oats - it's yummy!
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[Last night Strong Bear forgot to go potty for too long and had an accident.]
Mom [holding up a bunch of paper towels]: Come clean it up, Bear.
Bear: No mom - it has oats!
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[A few hours later....Strong Bear was eating an orange...]
Beautiful Rabbit: Bear, can I have some?
Bear: No, it has oats!
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Happy April Fools' Day!!

I used to hate this holiday. A day where people are supposed to lie to each other??? Stupid. Mean. dorky.....

Then Beautiful Rabbit cured me. She loves tricking her mommy and daddy. She's always sneaking downstairs and "throwing" her voice to trick us into thinking she's on the stairs. I finally got to trick her today!

When Rabbit came home from school, I told her she had to clean her room all the way before she could have her snack. (She's always starving when she got home from school.) I was afraid she'd try to talk me out of it. Sometimes we play a game where I ask her to do something that's completely unreasonable just so she can practice not crying and asking to change it to something more reasonable. That's really hard to remember when you're starving, though. So she stomped up to her room.......only to find that Mom, Bear, and Finch had cleaned it completely and unpacked the left over boxes.

She came right down the stairs and told me that Delightful Finch went straight to sleep for her nap....she tricked me! She's much better at tricking people than I am ;)

Delightful Mornings

Delightful Finch wakes up happy. (Unlike Strong Bear who cries because he woke up to discover he's all alone.) I love going in to get her because I'm always rewarded with a huge smile. She gets happy legs and plays like she's running away from you. The whole time she's chock full of giggles. After a hug and a kiss, I place her on the floor and she runs off to play with toys. Sometimes she's so happy playing, she doesn't follow me down the stairs for 30-45 minutes!

Some days I find myself getting out of bed sooner so I can be the one to go wake her up instead of Sexy Haqon or Beautiful Rabbit. Haqon can tell you, Delightful Finch didn't get her morning-time delightfulness from me. I need my 'wake-up-slowly' time..hehe :)

Good Robot

It's so nice to come down to a freshly vacuumed floor every morning.

Last weekend, the main floor was getting too cluttered and HAL wasn't able to vacuum every night. I missed the clean floor and vacuum lines. So, I spent all of Saturday cleaning. I had to take 3 serious naps before I got the floor clean. I packed up most of the toys and sent them up to Beautiful Rabbit's room. So now, at bedtime, I just kick the toys into the bottom of the bookshelf and HAL's good to go.

Rabbit's room is a disaster -- but it's not really her fault. I plan on helping her clean it sometime this week. I just need to find a day where I have a bit of energy...haha.

Most prego gals have to give up vacuuming--esp if they're carrying twins. I'm glad I'm not one of them. My mom will be happy to hear: I think I'm turning into one of those people who keeps their house clean. Oh, I'm still messy, but it's just too hard to clean things once they're all cluttered. It's much easier to just keep it clean and just tidy up a bit. (esp if HAL's the one who's tidying...hehe)