Twitter Weekly Digest for 2011-12-25

Alex / / Twitter Digests
  • My nephew's guess of a movie title in a game of charades: "Mr. Spock Goes to Town". LOL! #
  • Nem tearfully refuses to eat a sandwhich because it will make her "grow up", and Dad doesn't play with her enough. That's true, will fix… #
  • Tia, after a read of a book that described a tradition of asking this: "How has God's light touched your life?" Nem (emphatic): "I'm bored." #
  • Far, far better bored than entertained but in the dark. #
  • Nem cries for grandpa Riley Clark, whom she doesn't remember: "I miss him." Of Joan C. C. K., who died before Nem was born: "I miss her." #
  • I have tasted the fruit of a tree sweeter above all. #

Where teh tooth is?

Alex / / Alex, Mago Elf Liam

After pulling Mago’s tooth out, I floss him for bed time. I look in his mouth and make a puzzled face. He sees this, and starts to be amused.

“Wait a minute”, I say.

He starts to giggle.

“Wait five minutes! Something is different!…”

He’s giggles more.

“Wait an HOUR!”

He laughs a lot.

Over the next few days he says to me at random times: “Wait an HOUR!” – and laughs.

Twitter Weekly Digest for 2011-11-13

Alex / / Twitter Digests
  • Nemmy (now 4yo) recieves and sends dictated emails from/to her cousins. So affectionate, straightforward, and sweet. I'm so charmed. #
  • Nem, remembering a name Tia was forgetting (laughs): "My brain works, and yours doesn't! That's funny! But they're both yucky and smelly." #
  • Mago: "I can't find Kai's spinjitsu. Niether can I find his dragon sword of fire." #legos #

Sleep talking

Alex / / Nem Nem Niamh

In her sleep, Nem says:

But mom, my tummy says to eat one more snack.

I go to her room and whisper:

I think you’re OK.

She starts to protest, then breaks off grinning, half laughing (still in her sleep):

No wait, I was just dreaming it.

I start to chuckle, and impulsively, still in her sleep, she puts her arms around me and turns my head to kiss me on the cheek. I start laughing but try to stay quiet, and – still in her sleep! – she asks:

Why are you laughing?

(why would I not laugh?)

I don’t explain, and she kisses me and continues sleeping.

Bargain

Alex / / Nem Nem Niamh

[Tia apparently sent this from her phone via email a few days ago (too long to send via twitter?)]

subject: can’t twitter this

I promised Nemnem that if she ate a whole banana, I would buy her a beautiful sparkly wand. It wasn’t enough so I added a princess dress and she added a doughnut and icecream.  She cried through the whole process of chewing and swallowing one bite, then cried, “Just buy those things!”