She is my daughter!

No- those are not half eaten. That is how they looked fresh out of the pan. And while they may be just about the ugliest cinnamon rolls ever, they were yummy and delicious. :) And made from scratch.

We went to the carnival and fireworks for the Fourth. Bin loved the carousal, but was more then willing to abandon it when she heard that there was a teacup ride. After the teacups, she shouted, again, again. :) Another funny thing, when her daddy went to buy the tickets (while I waited with her in the ride line), she shouted his actual name after him, not daddy. This is something new that Cutie has not actually noticed, but Bin has done it a few times.

And then it was time for fireworks. The last time we went to fireworks, she pretended to sleep through them, eyes firmly shut, her daddy's hands over her ears. This time, the first firework startled her, she climbed in my lap and then she started watching. She eagerly pointed to them and said, "look, daddy, look! Fireworks." And when they ended she asked "more fireworks?"

More cute stories: After we went to the beach (for father's day), despite our sunblock, I, of course, was massively burned. I think if I spent the day at the beach in a burqa, I would somehow still burn. Bin noticed my skin, peeling away and with the most concerned, intense look, asked "mama, are you ok?" It was the cutest, sweetest look, as she seemed honestly concerne with my funny looking skin. I told her I had a booboo but would be fine. She then said, you need medicine and went to her little play doctor kit and pulled out some medicine for me. See, KJ, she does love me!

In the weirdly clever, I changed my toe nail color from purple to green while Bin was sleeping. The next afternoon, she got out her markers and colored her toe nails as well.

Philosophical question- is it possible to be happy where you are at and yet still regret the road you took to get there?

That's all for now. New snapfish pics of Bin and her daddy putting together a puzzle. She is actually very good at jigsaw puzzles. And she thinks they are the neatest thing ever.

Pool time

Bin has decided she likes playing in the pool. In the community pool, the tiles are old and randomly discolored. Bin used them like a Rorshach test. She found dogs and cows and sheep in the shapes. Then she asked me, "What does a cow say? It say Moo! Moo!" then a minute later "What does a dog say? Woof" She did stump herself on the bunny question. I answered hippity hop. Which led to another tricky one- what does a hippo say? :)

New Nickname

Turns out Red Eyes has a nickname at work. They call him Cutie. So, henceforth, he will be called cutie on this blog. After all, too many nicknames just gets confusing. :) And he turns a lovely shade of red whenever cutie is mentioned.

To clarify, the pic on the last blog is the homemade bread I made.

What kind of freak am I becoming?

Bin stories- as we were grocery shopping, she picked up the hot dogs and holding it up, like it was a person, she announced "I am sailor moon! (something I couldn't understand) And that means you!" The sailor moon quote is I am sailor moon, champion of justice, and in the name of the moon, I will punish you. I will right wrongs and triumph over evil. And that means you."

Right now she is taking swimming classes. So far, it is half an hour of her screaming to get out, followed by her screaming to get back as soon as I pull her out.

Other family stuff- Red Eyes is enjoying his job, though the 7 am start time is still a bit of a challenge. He is also now trying to update our hurricane kits. Apparantly, from his safety prep lessons, he has learned we do not have enough water for a hurricane, so we need to rectify that. :)

Home from Mesa

NEW SNAPFISH PICS POSTED!
Well, we are back from Mesa. Bin was very upset that grandma wasn't here when she got home. She says she misses grandma, but when I asked if we should go back, she said "No, I got my tea sets." The child can now have tea for 19 (that is 5 4person tea sets with one cup lost).

Too smart for me

I decided that we had watched too much tv for the day, so I turned it off. Of course, Bin just turned it back on. So, when she wasn't looking, I switched off the extension cord it uses (I didn't feel like hours of her switching it on, going to time out and then immediately doing it again). I told her "it's broken." She looked at me, then climbed over the tv to the extension cord and switched it on. Of course, luckily for me, there are two extension cords over there and she switched the wrong one. I said, "honey, that didn't fix it, it's still broken." She smiled and said "we'll see."

Here are some other cute things she has said recently:

"How about some milk in a cup?"

"I'm going to go home and eat some food." (One doll to the other).

"Christmas tree?" This one took me a while to figure out- when I said show me, she took me outside to the garage and pointed to the box of ornaments, then said decorate? One of the episodes of Calliou has them decorating a Christmas tree so that is where she gets it from. How she remembered where the box was in the garage is anyone's guess.

"I think he's outside." When we asked where dog was- the cute part is how bin says tink for think.

Defiant child

HeeHee! HeeHee! I look over as my daughter is climbing up the bookshelf. I have my nativity village on the top shelf and she likes to look at it. Laughing, she says "I'm climbing, mommy, I'm climing." I then ask her, "Should you be climbing?" She proudly proclaims "No! Go away mommy!" She does make life interesting.

Bin's new house

New snapfish pics!!!
And some are quite shocking- prom night photos. ;-)

Bedtime

I am so not a morning person. So, this morning, Bin wakes up and I drag myself out of bed, only to crash on the couch. Bin looks at me, asks "Mommy sleeping?" Trying to, but failing. Then, she insists that I follow her. She points to her bed and then starts pushing me in, completely ignoring my protests that I am way too big. Finally, I crawl into her bed, where she puts a blanket over me, kisses my forehead and activates her glo-worm. She then wished me a good night and closed her door on me. Two seconds later, she popped her head in to check on me and then snuck back out. :)

We also had fun with ice cream today. We went to Marble Slab Ice cream. Bin was so excited and wanted to watch the woman mix in her candy. So, I picked her up so she could see. Bin immediately grabbed the plastic shielding and tried to propel herself head first onto the table where they mix the ice cream. Obviously, she did not want to wait for her ice cream. What I found strange though, is the ice scream scooper woman said, wow, I have never seen a kid try to do that. How is that possible? Ice cream, a row of candy jars and just a thin plastic shielding- surely lots of kids try to fling themselves over it. Red Eyes says I am just the only parent silly enough to hold a kid up that close to the ice cream.

Bin and the Camera

Bin got a hold of the camera today. You can see all the things she found worth taking pics of on snapfish. :) Of course, I did not include any of the pics of me- which was the majority since the puppy was climbing all over my legs. I figured no one needs to see a bunch of crotch shots of me. She was very excited to take pics of the puppy and her toys.

While at the children's museum, she found a stuffed version of Loki. We thought maybe it might make things a little easier to let her get it. Like at night, when she screams for puppy, we could let her sleep with the stuffed puppy. We'll see if that actually works out.