Austrollia

If the girls can sleep in for at least a few more minutes, I'll be able to complete this post and post it. Let's pray.

How's it going? Hope you are all well, and that you avoided the winter colds and yucky stuff, and if you did - lucky you. We didn't exactly and Celia is getting over what Effie had for it seems weeks, and hopefully it doesn't recycle itself back into the household. That would stink.

Other than the sickies we are all good.

Lately when I've been thinking about blogging, the only thing I want to write is "Effie is so cute. Effie is so cute. Effie is so cute."

I mean, even when she was sicky, she'd say with her eyebrows at a frown, "no mom, I sicky". Too cute. In fact she says almost everything with that little confused frown as she squints her eyes, and it's so dang cute I just can't dang stand it!

You wanna know how cute she is? Well, if you didn't know already her words and speech has been a little limited till now, but the other night I was putting the little monkeys to bed, did all the night checks, and Celia was down for the count. Then, out of no where, Effie, who hasn't said more than 2 words at a time, said "I lub lu Mom". Then... a few seconds later said: "I lub lu Lela". "I lub lu too Dada". It was one of the happiest moments of my mom life.

And speaking of night checks. Celia has added one to the nighttime routine:

Did we play with our glo-sticks? Check!

The other day Alex got some glow sticks for them, and he likes to play with them at night of course, and they turn off all the lights in the house and hide them around and collect them up, then repeat this way too many times. It's really fun for them, tiring for me when I actually want them to wind down for bed. But whatever, you can't put limits on fun for a kid can you? Anyhow, last night for the second time this year, they took a glo-stick bath. You gotta see this - we turn out the lights while they are in the ducky - the bath - and drop all the light sticks in the water and they light up the bath tub. It looks like they are swimming in a park fountain. And it's hilarious. You should try it!

And I hear them, so I'll make this quick, but yesterday we were playing with Celia's imaginary friends and I heard her say "oh, how do you do? I'm from Austrollia!"
That was funny. I gotta go.

Post 65

FYI - I didn't draw this - a student did.

Where have you all been? It feels like it's been 7 weeks since I've written, but it's only been about 3. Either way - internet was unavailable for a short time, and so I had to live life not only without television but internet. But it's back, and not as accessible as before, but till I get a laptop, I'll try to blog every week again.

And in case you are wondering - yes I'm alive. Yes I'm busy. Yes, I've been trying to keep my house decent, my children well fed, and all that mommy stuff. And to top that all off, I've been about 13% more organized, so I feel good.

It's been a fun past few weeks. Quite a few zoo adventures, where we walk around the zoo, and the girls keep magic powder in their pockets that protect the animals (especially the mighty sea eagle) from losing their coats/fur/skin to the evil witch of the zoo. It's perty entertaining, and a good place to walk.

We have been frequenting the library - and go once a week now with the 3rd muskateer - Sasha - Celia and Effie's cuzin, so running around town with 3 kids has been a good exercise in mommy-ing for me. The biggest pain about having 3 kids is putting 3 kids in 3 carseats - other than that, when another pal is around, they tend to entertain themselves better and it gives me a little break.

On our last trip to see Hershel - you know him, the astronomer who lives at the Observatory, it happened to be Valentine's night. We had to park WAY at the bottom of the hill by the tunnel at Griffith Park, and walk all the way up, me carrying 35 pound Celia, and Alex carrying 32 pound Effie, and it must've been 46 degrees outside, and the entire way down, Celia ran screaming as if the big bad wolf was chasing her - but she does tend to over exaggerate - and people who saw her must have thought she was running from a kidnapper or something - but it was fun - except I had to chase her with Effie in my arms. Alex was 1 step behind her to make sure she didn't run into the street cuz it was pretty dark.

But have you ever noticed all these lovey couples go out on Valentine's day? I mean, I knew the Observatory view was romantic and all, but I had to idea it was the 2/11 hotspot in LA. I'm talking a zillion couples, all cutesy, cuddly, and smoochy. Love was definitely in the air, and I never in my life saw so many public displays of affection. I felt so outta place, and wanted to warn the people out there that they better not get married and have kids if they wanna keep those butterflies in their tummies. Hahaha.. yuk yuk yuk.

We got to look at Venus through one of the monster telescopes which was cool. Celia was dressed up like Snow White, and her dress stuck out of her 3 jackets, and her cape, headband, and long dress made it apparent of who she was, and EVERY person who saw her either laughed or said how cute it was that mini-snow white was running around. Effie was Mulan, but you couldn't tell cuz she was under even more layers. Even though I was thinking in my mind "Oh heck no" when we had to park at the bottom of the hill, I'm glad we went - cuz it made for a nice first Valentine's day out on the town with the family.

And you guys? What's up with you? Huh? Any news? Well, let me know - cuz I'm interested, and I hope to see your faces soon. I'll be sure to write again soon, so stay tuned.