Have at you!
Not bad for the first time she ever held a bow!About that knighting ceremony. When we arrived at the school we were given a program listing all the events and where they were located. When I saw that there was going to be a "Knighting Ceremony", and that it was open to all young men, I said to myself, "Like Hell!" So when it came time for the ceremony and the Queen came out and asked for all the brave boys to come and get knighted, I told the Kidlet that she could go too if she wanted. "But I'm not a boy," she said. The husband and I told her it didn't matter and that she could get knighted if she wanted to. Telling my little girl that a boy can do something that she can't, evil people *grumble grumble* As soon as she was standing in front of the queen, some friends of ours sent their daughter out, and then another little girl appeared. Huzzah! Take that, powers that be!
I think she was knighted "Sir Kidlet the Brave", or somesuch.
All in all, it was an enjoyable evening. I'm curious to see what they're planning for next year. I keep wondering if maybe I should see if I can get onto some kind of planning committee or something for this event. Hrmmmmm.......
In Other News
MP3 is a bit....ummmm.....odd. Okay, you could have probably guessed that given who his parents are, but let me explain. At 7 months old, his first word was "ah-doh", otherwise known as "all done." I guess I should have said first words. The first time he said it was after eating breakfast one morning and I thought that he was just making the sound that I make when he's done eating, he couldn't actually be saying it. Later that same day he was screaming "ah-doh, ah-doh, ah-doh" while getting his diaper changed. Then while reading a book to him he pronounced, "ah-doh", slammed the book shut and wriggled off my lap. A few days later Mike was holding him while watching football, when the game stopped for halftime he again said, "ah-doh." Yeah, I think he means it. After that came "dada" (or dadadadadada), when he's upset he'll say "mama."
One super-cute thing he says is "lala." Mike often rocks him to sleep while singing this little tune "lala lalala lala lala laaala" so now MP3 will sing "lala" whenever he gets tired or just wants to cuddle (he's a good cuddler). He will sometimes even try to sing himself to sleep. Awwwwww.
Other oddness: My family is filled with early walkers. The kidlet was pulling herself to stand by 6 months, cruising all over the place by 7 months, and starting to take her first steps in the early 9th month. MP3 however, didn't even try to stand until well into month 7, and even then he didn't really cruise until his late 8th month. Comparing his progress with his sister's I figured that wouldn't be walking until 11 months or so. I was fairly certain he'd be walking by his 1st birthday, but not by much. Well, I've been reassessing that idea. He stands, often, for increasingly longer periods, without touching anything, while doing squats. Yes, squats. He likes to lean his back against the loveseat and try to walk toward the center of the room. Forget trying to walk to the table, or walk to the couch, he just wants to walk. So far he's only managed to get one real step in before he goes down, but he keeps trying. Yesterday he finished the 2nd step before he went to his knees. I give him 3 weeks.The other day he was cruising around with one hand on the coffee table staring at his feet and moving them very slowly. He'd twist each foot around while it was off the floor, wriggle his toes, flex his ankle...I swear he was trying to figure out how they work so he could control them better! I am not kidding. I am very, very serious. He is quite the thinker (help me), just ask my mom about how long he has to study each hallway before finally committing to crawling down one of them at her house ( help me).
In Still More News: I am insane. Okay, you probably already knew that. The reason for my insanity is this: I am taking college classes again. Yep, 2 kids (one of them teething constantly for 4 months...the tooth finally came in...now the next one is coming) and here I am trying to get homework done at night while chanting "please don't wake up, please don't wake up." It all started because I thought it'd be neat to learn HTML. Wouldn't it be neat if I could code my own little web page (you're reading it) without using the limited templates allowed by blogger.com? Well, it turns out that there's a pre-requisite for that class, and I'll need at least 6 credits for financial aid, which means I also need to take a history class, etc., etc. *sigh* Well, I managed to 4.0 last semester, and now I'm banging away in another semester. At least now I'm taking that HTML class that started the whole thing.
So. Perhaps at some point in the not too distant future you will be seeing some changes in this here blog. Of course, I'll only be able to muck about with coding after my homework is done, and MP3 isn't teething, and I'm not in the middle of a knitting project, and I'm not passed out from exhaustion. In other words, don't hold your breath. It will happen, just not anytime real soon.
I would like to send out a big CONGRATULATIONS to my cousin and her family! It seems that they are expecting a little girl this summer. I bet Miles is sooooo excited to be a big brother!
1 comment:
I've just spent a few days in bed with the worst 'flu I've had in years, and you make me feel so guilty! You're doing so much more and then some!! Your family are so wonderful! I can't wait for the day when I get to visit you!
Thinking of you all, and often too, your Aussie sis-in-law, Magda x x x x
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