I quit my job today. You would too if your boss looked like this.
Seriously.

Who's a fairy?

After his bath, Birdie came into the baby’s room to put on his pajamas while I was getting the baby ready for bed. He does this every night. I often wonder if he likes companionship when he gets dressed or if he likes to show everyone his nakedness.

He is a bit of an exhibitionist which completely cracks me up, because seriously, if you can’t enjoy being naked when you are young and cute, then when can you? It drives my parents completely crazy that he will walk through the house announcing his nudity and they tell him to go put his clothes on immediately.

He thinks that is hilarious because he gets a rise out of them and makes everyone looks at his exposed self, and I think it is hilarious that he thinks it is hilarious.
He is going to be trouble.

After getting himself dressed, he asked if he could get the baby’s butterfly wings out of the closet. What? Your daughter doesn’t have butterfly wings? Shame on you! You gotta be prepared for every girl emergency, you know.

I feel Birdie tap on my leg and I turned to see him wearing those wings and an angelic smile.
“Am I a fairy?” He asked sweetly.
“Yes.” I say, “Go tell your father that you are a fairy.”
He runs off excitedly.
I hear heated conversing in the other room and a string of noyou’renotsandyesiams.
Finally, Birdie comes back looking dejected.

“Daddy says I am a moth.”

She said "UP!"

Our littlest is named Baby Monkey because until the age of twelve months, she touched and grabbed everything with her feet. She kept her hands and arms curled up against her body and rarely used them. After an inclonclusive MRI at six months, it was determined that she was severely developmetally delayed. She has had extensive OT and PT therapy - through which she is rapidly catching up to an age appropriate level. We have our theories that she may have had a vaccine injury, and have had her vaccines divided out and spread weeks apart since the time she was four months old. I can't give any scientific data that this has made a difference - I just know that she has made remarkable leaps since we were told that she may never be normal.

She is fifteen months now - crawling and pulling up. She has met all of her OT goals and has been dismissed from therapy. The only thing that she is truly lagging behind on is her speech.

She says "bye bye"; but we have not been sure that she understands what is being said to her because she does not respond...until last night...

She pulled up on the side of the bathtub, looked me in the eyes, raised her arms up to me and said, "UP!"

I just stared at her. Did she just say that?

"UP!" She said again expectantly.

Yes! Thank You Lord! She said "UP!"

What this means, I don't know; but it looks as if we have nowhere to go from here but "UP!" Blessings abound!!

Birdie Boy

My first born is nick named birdie boy because when he would finish eating, he would purse his lips into a beak like shape and pull his arms up to his body in a way that reminded me of a tiny baby bird. He was and still is yummy and wonderful. He is five now. He has changed so much that sometimes I look at his growing body and wonder who is that person? His mind works over time and he asks the most hysterical questions. A sample of an everyday exchange:

Birdie: Where are the Indians?
Me: (trying to keep it simple and not thinking it through) Well, America was full of Indians, but the white man came and took over the land and some of them died.
Birdie: Did the white man kill them?
Me: (uh-oh) Well...not really....but the white man killed the buffalo that they needed for food and they were forced to live on a small part of land in America.
Birdie: Why did the white man kill the buffalo?
Me: Ummm...they killed them for their horns and skin.
Birdie: That was not very nice of the white man to kill the buffalo and Indians.
Me: No, you are right.
Pause
Birdie: Who are the white man?
Me: We are the white man.
Birdie: (horrified) IAMAWHITEMAN??!!!???
I hope that this is not a life long disappointment.