The Hope Show

This blog is becoming a list of silly things that little girl says, but there are so many things that are funny. She should have her own sitcom; some of the things I'd expect to see on a goofy comedy show. Last night for dinner I made parmesan-crusted tilapia, new potatoes, and ceasar salad- pretty good for me! At the table, Hope says "Dad, this is the best dinner ever!" (she says that every night). David told her she was talking to the wrong person and she needed to discuss that with mommy. So she says to me (you can see it coming, can't you) "Mommy,....Daddy made the best dinner ever."

Naomi continues to wake up three times a night. The doctor said friday that we have two to four more weeks of "purgatory" before she starts to sleep longer, but I think she still has a little bit of daytime/nighttime confusion. Maybe it's that I have more fun playing on the computer than taking care of her during the day. She'll sleep for four hours in her swing, wake up and eat, and sleep another three hours, but at night she can barely make it two or three hours at a stretch. I guess I'm going to have to make an effort to keep her up a little more during the day. And move her swing up to her bedroom:)

The things she picks up....

I really don't like that the people of the entertainment world make animated shows that really aren't appropriate for kids. It looks like a kids movie, but there's all sorts of adult humor in them. And Hope likes to watch anything animated. Lately it's been Fairly Odd Parents, Spongebob, and Jimmy Neutron, all of which I don't really like. But since she tends to watch tv in the basement and I don't want to go down there and change the channels for her, she watches whatever is on the Disney channel. Anyway, yesterday morning I was in bed with her and we were talking, and she says "Wait, I need to tell you two things." She holds up her first finger, then says "shut", holds up the second finger and finishes with "up". I know she could tell I was trying not to laugh as I was telling her that wasn't nice and not to say that again. She was smirking because she knew she'd said something funny-it was more the delivery that was funny. David said he saw that on something she was watching, so at least I know where she got it.

She doesn't watch VeggieTales as much as she used to, but she still listens to the CDs every night. So the other day when we bought a cucumber at the store, she said something about Larry the Cucumber. David cut up the cucumber for his salads and has been eating it for a few days. Last night when she wanted a bite of his dinner, he put in a piece of the cucumber. Being my kid, she can tell if there's the smallest bit of something that she doesn't like in what she's eating, so she spit out the piece of cucumber and said, "Larry doesn't taste very good!"

Friends

I'm sitting here watching an episode of Friends I've never seen! I didn't think one of those existed. It's one of the last ones; it's pretty stupid, but it's friends- you gotta love it. David is in Chicago tonight for a training thing, so its just me and the girlies. We went outside earlier; it's getting cooler earlier so it was comfortable to be out there. Hope kicked around her soccer ball and I sat on the deck with Naomi and tried to read a book. I think I got about seven paragraphs read in half an hour. It's tough to keep Naomi jiggled around and read a book at the same time. How can the batteries go out in her swing and her bouncy seat on the same day?? But it felt so nice out there. I wish Naomi would've gone to sleep and it wouldn't have gotten dark- I would've stayed out there for a long time. I think that was the first time since we've been here that I actually enjoyed the weather.