last one to bite the dust

Adler has been running around like a manic. she seems to have sucked up all the energy that us sick-o's have lost. she has been super hyper even. until yesterday, then she hit the wall. she was warm with only a 99 temperature so not really high but all she wanted to do was snuggle and be held so i knew she finally got bit by the cold/flu bug. i would give her Tylenol or Motrin then she would feel a little better. last night she woke at 2am and i went to get her she was on fire. she had a 101.4 temp not ungodly high but i hate when my babies have fevers. I know it is a good thing and the body is fighting off the germ itself but always worries me something fierce. she did not want to go to sleep she wanted to eat, i guess thinking it was morning. as she did not eat much dinner i got her some Gatorade and some crackers along with some more drugs. after a snack and drink she feel back asleep till almost 7am today. she was cooler but still warm. more drugs and breakfast and she is back to running around like a crazy lady. managing to pester the hell out of her sister.

twinkle toes

we found a pair of shoes that had blinky lights in the toes at the GW yesterday. good side they were in great shape, bad side is that they just now fit so they wont last long at this house. we put them on when we got home and showed Adler when she walks, stomps, or jumps they light up. well she went around for the rest of the afternoon stomping and jumping and falling down. the falling down part was because she would be bent at the waist looking at her toes watching them twinkle. silly girl.

two names

I call Rigby by her first and middle name all the time. this is not considered a bad thing i just reference her as Rigby Jai just like i did my brother growing up. i was always calling him Cole William. so it is my thing. the funniest is now Adler is calling Rigby, Rigby Jai all the time too.

what?

I think Adler's hearing is fine along with her comprehension. it is her sense of sarcasm that kills me at age two. OMG. we are going to be in trouble. if she does not understand (rarely) or if she does not like what you are saying she says "what?" and you know this is sarcasm or denial as you can repeat what you said and she will continue to say "what?" so it is not a matter of actually hearing. it is her attitude towards you/the situation. this one is going to make ALL my hair go gray early i am sure of that!!!!

pavlov's dog

every time I turn on the hair dryer Adler comes running. she wants to brush her teeth. it does not matter what time of day it is or how many times she has brushed her teeth it happens with out fail.

pick up sister

Although they sometimes fight like cats and dogs after we drop Rigby off at school Adler misses her sister. If we go out and run errands she is not bad but if we just come home after about 20 minutes she starts asking about Rigby. she begins asking "go pick up sissy?" this is on a loop for the next four hours till it really is time to pick up Rigby. UGH!!!

Hershey's Kisses

I don't know what Hershey's spent on their holiday commercial but it must be good bang for their buck as they have run it for quite a few years. you know the one i am talking about the 10 red and green kisses that are mimicking bells. well, this commercial stops Adler in her tracks when she hears it. i remember that it use to do the same thing for Rigby. Must be the combination of the simplicity of the visual and the clear music.

boobie covers

I am not sure how it started but instead of calling a bra a bra we reference it as a booby cover. i think it started with breast feeding/pumping but not sure. whenever it started it has stuck. Adler is always calling them booby covers and the other day we were in a woman's store and there was a lingerie section and Adler just starts shouting at the top of her lungs..."BOOBY COVERS, look mom BOOBY COVERS." i just laugh.

Ho, Ho, Ho

Adler does not really say the letter "S" so the word snuggle is just 'nuggle. so I guess that is why she has opted to refer to Santa as "ho, ho, ho." so we went to visit 'ho, ho, ho' yesterday. I was pretty sure that we would have another year of at least one crying baby. I was right. Adler was NOT happy and cried the minute daddy put her on Santa's lap. in her defense it was about an hour past nap time. I thought for sure she would sleep all the way to the store but she did not fall asleep till we were almost in the parking lot. UGH. she loved looking at the fish swimming in the tank and she made it thought our almost 2 hour lunch and almost the whole car ride home but then she crashed hard. she got over a hour and 1/2 hour nap but when time was up she did NOT want to get up and was very fussy and clingy. we had to 'nuggle for quite sometime.

encouragement

I know she get it from me/daddy but it is still really sweet when you hear the girls encouraging one another. phrases that I love Rigby and Adler saying to each other...beautiful...excellent job...proud of you...pretty girl.

DO NOT TOUCH

DO NOT TOUCH is a phrase that Adler hears a lot these days. yesterday alone she must have heard it 1000 times. we got the Christmas tree and i was rushing to get it up and decorated so i could get dinner made all before i had to pick Rigby up from school. mission accomplished, but we broke a few ornaments along the way. ugh!!!! she it at the age she understands DO NOT TOUCH, but just for the life of her can not abide by it.

oink, oink

whenever we get coin change back (or even dollars) the girls are always asking for money. we hand them a coin and if they can manage to hold on to it the whole ride home we insist that they "feed the pig" as soon as they get in the house. Once Adler drops the coin in she oinks. it is the cutest thing, i thought she did it on her own, but found out it was a learned behavior from daddy. it does not take away from the cute factor.

read to me

Adler loves to be read too. Anytime you sit still she pulls out a book and jumps up on your lap and shouts at you "read, read."

so funny

yesterday Adler had gas. she would let rip these farts then laugh, and laugh, and laugh the most evil sounding noise. it was funny and creepy. that kid is odd.

scared to death

i put Rigby to bed, but like every other night she finds about a dozen ways to get out of her room and come ask me random questions. As i snuggle Adler trying to get her to go to sleep i just send Rigby back to her room and tell her i will be in a minute. finally Adler is asleep i take her to her room and lay her down in bed. i gently close the doors and head into Rigby's room. Rigby has decided that she wants me to switch up the pillow cases. as i have not done it in a few weeks so i agree. so as i am starting the switch i hear Adler start fussing before i am done switching out the 1st case she is bawling. i try to go super fast and put the second pillow case on and get out by the time i am done she is keening like nothing i have heard before. you could hear the absolute fear in her screams. it is dark in her room/office but the curtains were parted so that some of the moon light and Christmas lights were shining in. so it was dark but not pitch black. i am sure she was 1.)upset mommy was no longer holding her, 2.)she was scared of the dark, and 3.)pissed off she could not figure out (in the dark) how to open the pocket doors. i fling the doors open and she is right there in the door way a wet(tears,) blubbering, snotty mess. i felt horrible. as Rigby has a set of Christmas lights in her room i stole the night light out of her room and set it up in Adler's' room and let her see how it shown and the room would not be dark anymore. it was probably another 20 minutes or more of me holding her in my arms to get her to fully calm down and get back to sleep.

Jack is back

Well our elf on a shelf showed up this morning. I tried out the name Buddy again with the girls but they were not having it. they opted on Jack. So today Jack showed up in the kitchen on top the fridge. I will have to now set a reminder in my phone to remember to MOVE him nightly.