Category: Tia

2016-03-16 5:38:09 PM onward Pidgin instant messenger log (mostly Nem and Dada)

Alex / / Alex, Nem Nem Niamh, Tia
Screen capture of WYSIWYG IMs between Nem and Dada
Screen capture of WYSIWYG IMs between Nem and Dada

Transcript for anyone who doesn’t receive the image:

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(5:38:09 PM) Nem: hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(5:20:17 PM) Nem: cai u can do it nou
(5:20:35 PM) Alex: ok
(5:21:31 PM) Alex: OH HAI!
(12:04:43 AM) Alex: hey hiya hi guys
(12:14:42 AM) Tia: done
(12:14:54 AM) Alex: good jorb!
(12:15:22 AM) Alex: I’m going to bed soonish.
(2:40:13 PM) Alex: Hi one sec k?
(2:40:54 PM) Alex: u need musix k thx bai
(2:41:21 PM) Nem: daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(2:41:36 PM) Alex: bunniesAAAAAAAAIIIII!
(2:47:25 PM) Nem: bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb why it not tiping bunnies?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!
(2:48:06 PM) Alex: It’s my random bunny interjector program. Every time you type a b, it rolls a pretend dice, and if it rolls a six, it replaces the b with bunnies. Which, coincidentally, it did just now.
(2:49:23 PM) Nem: but it not typing bunnies!
(2:49:39 PM) Alex: for you, you mean? No, that program isn’t installed on that computer. Only mine.
(2:50:16 PM) Nem: WHY!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? :’-(
(2:50:26 PM) Alex: lol i can install it. one moment.
(2:54:43 PM) Alex: Done. installed.
(2:55:20 PM) Nem: YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀 BBBBBBBBBBBBBunniesBBBBBBBBunniesBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBunniesBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBunniesBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBunniesBBunniesBBBBBBBBB
(2:55:24 PM) Alex: 🙂
(2:58:15 PM) Nem: 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 bunnies bunnies bunnies bunnies bunnies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
(2:58:22 PM) Alex: Ha ha! 🙂

GOLD! (Nasal Gold?)

Alex / / Alex, Nem Nem Niamh, Tia

Nem shows me little stringy and lumpy bits of dried glue, which, except that they are white, look like grotesque boogers.

Nem: Daddy, look what I found under the glue!
Me: In your nose?
Nem: No, under the glue!
Tia: He’s making a joke, Nem.
Me: Because they look like dried boogers.
Nem: No, I found these under the glue!
Me: I know, I joked that you found them in your nose, because they look like dried boogers.
Nem: Oh.

She offers a little courtesy laugh.

Tia smiles at me.

I laugh.

Nem: Daddy, look what I found in my nose!

She holds up the glue-boogers. I laugh more.

Nem: Daddy, Daddy, look what I found in my nose! Daddy, Daddy!

She keeps repeating things like this. I laugh harder until I’m in hysterics and crying. She tries to tickle me.

Nem: Daddy, look what I found in my nose! . . .

Nem’s Endearments

Alex / / Alex, Nem Nem Niamh, Songs, Tia

Every night, Nem-nem (now 5) wants a hug as she goes to bed, and she then methodically, meticulously gives me an Eskimo kiss, and kisses and butterfly kisses on my chin, cheeks, nose, and forehead.

She’ll then always insist that I sing a lullaby, which almost invariably is “[Nem-nem’s] Lullaby,” which is my adoption of Highland Cathedral, as described here (broken links/media at that page as I write this).

She’s taken to correcting Mother, that she should call me Alexander, not Alex, and she can spell that name out.

Speechless.

Getting out into nature

Tia / / Critters, Mago Elf Liam, Nem Nem Niamh, Tia, Uncategorized


We hiked to Stuart Falls on the 4th of July with cousins, mostly for the beauty of nature but also in order to deny the existence of any parade. Friday, we went to Provo Falls in the Uintahs and it was so pretty. I remembered my Camera but forgot my memory card. Still trying hard to be outside with my kids, I took them to float on pool rafts in Deer Creek Reservoir. They were excited to do this, but when we got there they didn’t like the dirty water or the rocky beach. Still we got an hour of entertainment out of our $10 parking fee …sheesh. Afterward Mago said, ” I want to just throw this whole lake in the dump!” and Nem nem said, “Yeah, or the graveyard!” They did say they would like to go out on it in a boat, though.

Nemmy’s canopy drape over her bed is a caniky, and a bikini is a vikini. A few days ago she found an earwig climbing her caniky when she woke up and now she keeps waking me up at night with imagined bugs.

In our backyard this evening I saw three baby deer drinking milk from their mama. I ran for my camera but missed it. My neighbor said he saw 8 babies all together one morning recently. I need to spend more time out there.

Vegetable Wars

Alex / / Nem Nem Niamh, Tia

Every day is a battle to get vegetables into Nem’s tummy. (Nem is four years old at this writing.)

This evening:

Tia: Nem, come here and get some veggies in your tummy…
Nem: Actually, I don’t very much eat those.

I chuckle.

Nem: What? What’s funny?
Me: You are.
Nem: No I’m not.
Me: I think you’re being very silly.
Nem: No, that’s not silly!

Later, I could’nt recall how she phrased her reply (to write this), so I asked her.

Me: Nem, what did you say about vegetables?
Nem: I said I don’t very much eat those…And it’s not funny. At all.

Final NASA shuttle flight ~4 AM MST 2011-06-03

Alex / / Alex, Mago Elf Liam, Media, Nem Nem Niamh, Tia, Video

Last Friday we woke the kids up early and drove to a view down the street to watch the final space shuttle flight, which we learned would be visible over the west-northwest horizon.  It was, and I videotaped it.  This video features this and the kids, as well as repeated misuse of the term “rocket” where “shuttle” was meant.  The video player isn’t displaying high-definition popups at full resolution (a longstanding problem I’ve found no solution for, and no acceptable alternative player either), so downloading and playing it from the link will have to do.  Sorry, no medium-resolution version of this.

Plain-text

Alex / / Tia, Uncategorized

Tia, in preparing a Family Home Evening lesson, copied and pasted from the online edition of Doctrine and Covenants, chapter 88 verses 17-20.  The pasted text included what was originally the little superscript letters that indicate footnotes, but as everything was pasted plain-text, the superscript combined with the verses to form new words:

..Therefore, it must needs be asanctified from all bunrighteousness..

Disarmed

Alex / / Alex, Nem Nem Niamh, Tia

So, a few days ago I fairly lost my temper over something.  (Surprise – I’m human!  Shocked?  Jealous?)

But within a few minutes Tia pointed out how I was being unfair, and I snapped out of it and apologized.  I then apologized to the kids.  In reply, Nem-nem again manages sweet and sour, (and plaintive, earnest, and emphatic), in her characteristic somewhat staggering speech.

Me: [Kids], I shouldn’t have spoken that way to mom.  It was mean.  I’m sorry.

Nem: Yeah, and I did say to you stop!

Me: Yes, and I should have listened to you.

Nem: Yeah, and you’re too heavy; I couldn’t put you in time-out!

Suddenly picturing this tiny 2-year old girl of mine hoisting me up, carrying me to a room, and informing me I was in time-out, I could only laugh.  The kids realized it was funny, too.

But it’s also incredibly endearing.

(And sobering.)