the baby blog of bryan and rebecca
At some point one of the kids bumped their head. At another point in time Mason bumped Norah on the head and got a timeout.
Now Norah will be playing with a baby doll and she’ll deliberately nail the baby’s head into the wall, cabinet, bed frame whatever and then say in a very concerned voice “oh baby hit head!”
Usually this ends in a little cuddling on Norah’s part but occasionally the baby gets a timeout.
Norah will tell you what sounds animals make. Cows moo. Birds tweet. Bunnies hop. (?)
But when she talks about ducks she says quack quack quack but its always accompanied by her make her hands into little duck bills.
Also pigs squeal, more like a velociraptor. Rarely is it oink.
Kids upstairs, dad downstairs.
Mason: DAD! Norah is playing in cosby (the cat’s) water!
Dad: NORAH! Are you playing in Cosby’s water?
Norah: YES!
Dad: Norah, do you want a time out?
Norah: YES!
Dad: Ok, go sit on the stairs and take a time out!
Norah: OK DAD!
She seemed pretty happy with the idea. Sounds good to me I guess!
Norah in the back seat of the car:
I go pee.
I go pee.
I go pee.
I go pee.
I done pee.
Norah has one of those first words books. I was sitting on the couch and she went over and got the book and walked up to me saying ‘book book book’ and it was clear she wanted to sit on my lap. I picked up my iPhone and she immediately glared at me and in a more direct tone said ‘NO! Book! Book!’. I was just moving it out of the way!
So we went through the book and she was able to identify everything in the book aside from the picture of the house, which is a typical house one would find the suburb. Sorry, our house doesn’t look like that.
Mason: finches live here. But owls and parrots and storks don’t live around here. They live in real life.
bryan: so this isn’t real life?
Mason: this isn’t real life. this is the city.
Mason and Norah share a room where we have 2 cribs next to each other. Usually they talk to each other for a while before the fall asleep. Today they were up talking per usual and after a while we went up there to check on them, tell them to be quiet and tuck them back in. We found Mason had climbed into Norah’s crib and was trying to get her to stop crying. Funny stuff.
So I find it pretty funny that mason can pick up my iPhone, unlock it, go to the menu, choose the mxtube application, and pick a movie to watch.
Right now, mason is waking around with the iPhone headphones, which are just white earbuds but they have a microphone on them so they act as the wired handsfree setup. Mason is holding just that wire, pretending it is a phone and calling everyone he knows having minor conversations with them.
My high school BFF Norah of Sheriff Peanut fame had a birthday party last night. Since we are at that age, kids were invited early in the evening. We showed up little after 7pm with both kids in tow.
Mason doesn’t love dogs. I think he wants to like them, but they scare him. Norah has a medium size dog that is friendly, albeit scary to mason. (“I was scared of chewey so I went to the other room” -mason, the next day)
Combine that with the fact that we GOT to the party after his bedtime, and he didn’t last too long. By 8:30pm, mason was borderline crying and was falling asleep in the chair with mommy. By 8:50, he was all out crying. So we said good bye to everyone (mason was able to say goodbye and wish norah happy birthday while crying, which was kinda funny).
As soon as we walked out the door and hit the sidewalk walking to the car, Mason stopped crying and said “I had a good time”.
Norah was smiley and fine the entire time, but she had napped more during the day.
So now that norah and mason are both in beds next to each other in the same room, it is fun to listen to the yao of them interact. Right now they have both woken up from their naps and where usually mason is yelling for us or norah is just crying, now mason I’d talking to norah and she is laughing. Much nicer.