Simon Says Funny

Simon always says things that surprise me and make me laugh.

When we were talking about the Easter Bunny lately, he had all kinds of ideas. He was convinced that the bunny was actually a "human in a costume" or a "musician." He meant magician :) We also asked him what he thought the Easter Bunny had to do with Jesus or Easter and he said, "The Easter Bunny killed Jesus?" That one's on us.

Here is an explanation we got on video:

Videos

Here are a handful of short videos I have taken in the past few months!

This one is just of our girl's amazing laugh. It's pretty spectacular. I have watched this about 30 times already today.

 


 This one goes back to Christmas 2013. The kids were all upstairs waiting for Santa to arrive with all of their gifts.

    

 This one they were watching out the window for Santa and SAW HIM!!!!!

 



 This was during our heavy Fox Song days. Love her moves.

 

 This was Simon's rendition of the Fox Song.

 


 This is Cecie showing off her knowledge of colors. (Spoiler: EVERYTHING is pink in her world.)

 

 This is from this morning. Cecie required a bath because her diaper fell down to the bottom of her footy jammies after she pooped. Good times. She found these two "guys" and asked Simon to "fight."

 


 Who watched all of them? Hahaha :)

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C and Sleep

Cecilia has traditionally been a great sleeper at night from early on. Napping, on the other hand, not so much. She hasn't been terrible, but she's not particularly consistent. She is getting less and less consistent as she gets older, almost like she just doesn't need a nap every day. Sometimes she will play in her room happily for 2 hours before falling asleep. Then I have to wake her up otherwise she will sleep past dinnertime and not fall asleep until very late at night.

So anyway, part of why she won't fall asleep at naps is because she is having way too much fun. She has nothing in her room except two empty dressers and a bed, but somehow that's enough to keep her highly entertained. At nap time, in the morning, before bed and even sometimes in the middle of the night she will be in there having the time of her life. She will be in there laughing hysterically and we could not figure out what she was doing, so we figured she must be playing with friendly ghosts or something.

This morning, she was at it again. Laughing hysterically and having the time of her life. I quietly went to the door and solved a little mystery. She doesn't have ghosts that are making her laugh (not for sure anyway). She has a bed. She sleeps on the bed about 50% of the time as far as I can tell, but I would be money that she is using it every single day for this:

She moves her bed all over the place and gives herself enough room to flip over the headboard.

It is so funny how different she is than Simon with her lack of fear and love for adventure. We took both of the kids swimming the other day and she would have just walked right in the deep end without a second thought. She was mad that we weren't letting her swim on her own too. She thought FOR SURE she could swim all by herself (gotta love her confidence?!). When Simon was younger I remember taking him into my sister's pool and Simon literally said, "this makes me nervous" while clinging on for dear life.

I love seeing her personality continue to emerge. I so wonder what kind of kid she will be when she's Simon's age!

Happy girl?

This really gives the illusion that we had all kinds of fun during this mini photo shoot. Hahaha.

Lent - Day 14

Ok so a couple people called me out on my whole "picture a day for Lent" thing. The truth is that I HAVE gotten my camera out way more and have taken more photos of my kids. The truth is also that it hasn't been every. single. day. The truth is also that I tried to upload a bunch of pics recently and it kept saying "upload failed" over and over so I obviously I couldn't upload. The truth is also that I am perpetually overwhelmed with life and work and everything seems to be faltering a little. Except Facebook. There always seems to be enough time and energy for Facebook. Maybe I should have given Facebook up for Lent....

ANYWAY.

On Day One I posted 6 pictures. Today I have 2 more so that is 8 (for you math duds out there, I added for you). Tomorrow I will have a bunch more so I will get caught up....one a day for every day of Lent is all I promised and I did NOT promise to blog every day contrary to what seems to be popular belief :)

Simon here was completely ignoring me whilst being immersed in finding a Pokemon in this book. He claimed after that he knew I was there, but I can't be sure. So many more that wouldn't upload....stupid internet.

Off to bed.

Off to insomnia probably.

Stupid brain that won't shut off.

PS Cecilia almost put me over the mommy edge today. And by "almost" I really mean "absolutely and completely DID." A simple trip to the store with the best of intentions lead to me locking myself in my bathroom with a possessed toddler banging on the door while I took deep breaths and tried to find some fucking zen. I found it during nap time.

Is it okay to use the F word in a post with Lent in the title?

Day 1

I decided to get out my big girl camera every day of Lent to document my life/children better. Lent starts today, so here are my pictures for the day!

These first two photos were taken about a second apart....

And bam! Booger city. HA!

I cannot stop laughing every time I see that picture. LOL. For real LOL. A lot.

And the ones of the boy are a little more tasteful...

Love that face, but it's looking way to damn old.

And my two new favorite photos that I've already gotten printed:

Day 1 is complete!