July 10, 2011

  • July 10, 2011

    Madeleine has just been on fire with the funny verbal things, lately. She's such a storyteller now. During her monologues she tends to repeat phrases she's heard elsewhere. Last night she was eating hamburgers, and said something like, "Hmmm. Something's missing. I know! Ketchup!" It was funny because she knew exactly what was missing the whole time, whereas normally that phrase is used if you don't actually know what is missing, just that something is. She also told me yesterday to finish something "lickety-split".   I had to run upstairs to tell Brian that, because it amused me so much.  It’s just a near constant stream of funny and cute things coming out of her mouth. 

    Grant says lots of stuff too.  One of his favorite phrases is “come you!”, which usually means he wants me to go somewhere, and he’ll often pull me to where he wants me to go.  But sometimes it means that he wants to go somewhere with me.  He also likes to put the word “time” after things that he wants, such as “milk time!” (that’s a big one).  He sort of put two “sentences” together, though I am struggling to remember exactly what it was.  We were upstairs and I wanted us to go down to eat dinner last night, and Grant said something like “No eat.  Milk time.”  I think that was it.  I know it was two two-word phrases in a row to make it very clear that he did not want to go downstairs for dinner, but wanted to stay upstairs and have some more milk. 

    Back to Madeleine… she will repeat word for word lots of things that I say to someone else.  She’s a little parrot, copying a ton of what I say, and usually repeating it to Brian or someone else, as if they hadn’t just heard everything I had said. 

    We went on a little adventure the other day.  On Friday we went to have lunch with Brian, and on the way I saw an overpass that went over the freeway.  I had always assumed it was a ramp to the highway to Kennewick, but this time I noticed that there was a train crossing right next to it.  I noticed because there was actually a train going through the crossing, and the gates were down.  I had never realized there was a regular road there before, and wondered if that was the way to the interesting place down by the river that I sometimes see from the freeway.  So after lunch we went back to explore, and found that indeed, it was the way to that  place.  It was the Chamna Natural Preserve (http://www.tapteal.org/pages/chamna.html), and we had fun walking around a little.  The kids were excited by the river and the mud and the dragonflies, the trees and the hidden spots and the berry bushes.  It felt a bit like someplace over on the west side underneath some of those trees that grew up along the Yakima river there.  So today we went back after church and took Brian with us.  It didn’t go as well this time, as the kids were whiny and Grant needed a nap, but it might be nice to go there sometime when we’re better equipped and explore the trails some more.

    We watched the women’s world cup soccer game today, the U.S. against Brazil, and it was crazy.  I was so incensed at the screw job, and then took a shower during extra time, and Brian told me it was over because Brazil had scored… but then it wasn’t, and… yeah.  We were excited. 

     

    Anyway, I have a new list of links for my mother to look at.  I’m sure you’ve seen some of them before, but here ya go anyway:

    http://tweeaffect.blogspot.com/2011/07/were-gonna-save-world-tonight.html

    http://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=115618&nID=554315

    http://plug.pt/forum/index.php?topic=370.1200  (translate that one)

    http://www.brothers-brick.com/2011/06/19/ive-told-her-to-stop-but-she-wont-listen/

    http://maodeabs.com/arte-com-pecas  (translate that one)

    http://angrylegonerd.blogspot.com/2011/06/bigger-but-not-better-fixed.html

    http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/275867

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/ltdemartinet/5889374057/in/photostream

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/antimatterthegodly/5885746317/in/photostream

     

    There’s probably more, but oh well.