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Something in the male gene wants to put babies in the strangest places.....

With Baba

Dad is doing a GREAT job with both kids! He has all sort of hidden powers to entertain 3.5 year old girls and 9 month old boys (= Who knew!? Layla has been so happy to have him around to play the prince to her princess and to dance with her etc (= Lj is going through a wierd spat of looking sideways when I take a picture.....bizarre. This dress is from mom from Thailand. Lj said she was going to "wear it for 10 days in a row"......uh...I don't think so kid!

Old Friends...and New Friends!

Vic and I were able to visit one of our friends here in town - we had all been pregnant together at the same time with our first babies (= We've all had our second babies by now so that was a whole new dynamic! Ryan and Metha were SOOOO into each other! It was funny how focused on each other they were. It was a really lovely visit - very comfortable and easy to connect. I LOVE those days!

Cute Phrases

Just a few funny things Layla has said lately:

me: Layla I'm going to feed Ryan and then I'll work on getting dinner on the table
Lj: Are you going to feed him in the kitchen or from your breast?

We were at the park with some friends and I was pushing Lj and one other little boy at the same time. After awhile:
Lj: Mama are you tired?
me: Why?
Lj: Well you are doing so much pushing!

Lj is listening to all our conversations and is always asking "what are you talking about?" She does the same with songs (= We have to be much more careful now! Anyway, I had called Tom on the phone while I was in the car with the kids. He was lamenting about how the guy who was supposed to help him with all our visa paperwork had stood him up AGAIN. (this guy has done nothing for Tom for three months! He is supposed to help us navigate all the bureaucracy.) Anyway, Layla was trying to follow the conversation and really wanted to understand.
me: Well Layla, it is like if Rita called to say she would come and play and then you wait and wait and wait and she doesn't come over. You would probably get a little sad and frustrated.
Lj: hmmmm. Maybe he has a wife and wants to be with her!

All for now. It is almost 9pm and I am headed to bed!

Self Explanatory!!!!!

 
 

A good read

 


She looks pretty comfortable doesn't she! We got some new-to-us books in the mail this week! Layla LOVES anything from Richard Scarry and is happy to stare and stare at the pages for what seems like ages (= Thank you Cary, Christy and the Palmer family! I think the books actually belonged to Austin who is Tom's cousin's son. What does that mean to Layla? Second cousin once removed?? No idea (= We're just happy for some new books!

Language School

For the thousands who follow my blog (!) you may have noticed that I'm a wee bit slow on the posting these days. It is largely due to the fact that I am in language school and having to do HOMEWORK during my free minutes here and there. I haven't tried to seriously read formal Arabic for almost 4 years and it is painful to restart (= I love it though. I am reading very slowly and very inaccurately at about a high school level. So I'm guessing I'm like those poor students in the US who make it to high school and are constantly misbehaving because the material is so far over their heads. I greatly sympathize. If I wasn't 37, motived and a mother, I'd be throwing fits in class too!