Help the needy at this time of year!

These people really need your help--what an awesome father! Click below to read the heartwarming story and PLEASE help them in any way you can!


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Conversation at our house

Squirt:  "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
D:         "Ven, Squirt, te voy a alimentar."
Squeak: "No, Dada, tu no puedes."
D:          "Por que no?"
Squeak: "Porque no tienes grandes senos."
D:          "Quien tiene senos grandes? Pip, tu tienes senos grandes?"
Pip:        "Si!"
Squeak: "No, Pip no tiene grandes senos!"
D:          "Nena, tu tienes senos grandes?"
Pip:        "Si!"
Squeak: "No! Solo Mami tiene grandes senos."

We're glad we all know where the best food comes from!

Here's the translation (although it's not as funny in English, in my opinion!):

Squirt:  "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

D:         "Come here, Squirt. I'm going to feed you."

Squeak: "No, Dada, you can't."

D:          "Why not?"

Squeak: "Because you don't have bigbreasts."

D:          "Who has big breasts? Pip, do you have big breasts?"

Pip:        "Yeah!"

Squeak: "No, Pip doesn't have bigbreasts!"

D:          "Nena, do you have big breasts?"

Pip:        "Yeah!"

Squeak: "No! Only Mami has bigbreasts."

 Part of the humor of the Spanish version is how Squeak kept saying, "grandes senos" instead of "senos grandes"--it's hard to translate that.

Missing autumn and a little bit o' crack

So glad we had such a lovely autumn. So sad that it's gone! We went for walks every day and enjoyed the beautiful weather. Here are Pip and Squeak enjoying their first autumn in the scrub oak grove across the street. My kids are not good at holding still/posing, and I'm not good at action shots, so they're blurry. Too bad!

 

Other happenings: So my kids speak Spanish as their first language. Well, sometimes there's a word that we don't know in Spanish, so we use the English word and give it a Spanish accent (like Cheerios, for example). D felt like Squeak needed to learn the word "crack" so he taught her that one.

Yesterday I heard some screaming coming from the bathroom. "What's going on," I wondered. "No! No! No, Pip!" I heard, and then this: ""No puedes tocar mi crack!" Then the bathroom door bursts open and Squeak runs out (naked from the waist down) yelling, "Pip, no puedes tocar mi crack!" Pip follows, laughing maniacally and screaming, "Crack! Crack! Crack!" I had to hide my laughter, and I must confess that it totally made my day. Am I a bad mom?

Awesome Christmas Carolers

The other night we heard a knock at the door and were greeted by Christmas Caroling LLAMAS!! It was spectacular and brought back fond memories of when I used to volunteer at the annual Llamafest.

Isn't this funny?!?

We don't really take Squirt to public places yet--trying to avoid the whole RSV and swine flu thing. So we switch off going to church. The other day D was at church and told me about the words of a young man who recently returned from being a missionary. He said something like, "We met this lady.  She had twins. She had horrible bags under her eyes and her hair was all crazy... It was amazing, as time went by and we taught her the gospel, the change we saw in her." D and I snickered at the naivete of this 21-year-old. Someday he might be married with a wife and a newborn, and his wife just might have bags under her eyes and crazy hair--and then he'll understand that "the change as time goes by"*** is about getting a whole night of sleep.  A few weeks ago, I got to sleep for six hours straight for the first time in about a year. I felt like a million bucks! I'm hoping it keeps happening.

One of my friends with twins says she used paper plates for A YEAR. My sister heard that and said, "Hey, I've never had twins and I STILL use paper plates!" I haven't had twins either, but I'm really taking to heart the advice to "relax my standards"--I haven't made my bed for TWO MONTHS. I've hardly cooked at all--still using those frozen dinners I made and the convenience food I stocked up on before Squirt arrived. The kids aren't back into cloth diapers yet. I've hardly gone shopping--and then only if something was absolutely essential (like desitin or bananas or milk for the kids). Halloween decor is still out. Laundry gets done, but then sits clean in baskets for days. Wrinkly clothes--who cares? For me right now, it's all about getting a nap, and then whatever else I can fit in, which isn't much!


***I don't want you to think that I don't believe Jesus Christ can change people. I was a missionary and did witness many times a great change in people as they learned the gospel, but in this young man's story, the lady had small children, and anyone who's been there understands that bad bags and bad hair are part of the deal.