Day-to-Day Funniness

This Saturday morning while eating breakfast, Daddy, Logan, and Delenn
were having a pleasant conversation. Somehow the subject of size came
up and Dad commented that generally men tended to be larger than women.
Logan found that interesting as he did not know that. He said that
women can have babies but Daddy and him couldn't because we were men.
Then Logan told Delenn that perhaps one day she would be a Mommy with a
baby. Delenn said (in her broken, hard to understand english), "When I
grow up, I am going to be a Mommy and have a baby. I will have Mommy's
milk out of my nipples and I will squirt milk in the baby's eye."
Logan (and Daddy) both laughed pretty hard at that as we have no idea
where she would've gotten an idea to do something like that. After all,
Mom has never done that to Elora (that Daddy knows of). Mommy nearly
choked laughing later upon hearing it.

Speaking of choking, the other night (just before going to her
Alexandria Quartet woodwind rehearsal), Mommy choked pretty hard on the
grape innards as it accidentally shot into her throat while biting down
on one. Mom banged on the kitchen sink and then moved over to the wall
and banged there to try to get Daddy's attention. At this point Daddy
noticed something wrong and jumped up and ran to try to help (with the
Heimlich), but just as he arrived Liesl was finally able to retrieve a
bit of air into her system. Talk about scary!

After dinner Dad asked Logan if he could be so kind as to clear all the
dishes from the dinner table, not just his. Both Mommy and Daddy nearly
fainted to his swift never-heard-before reply. "I'd be delighted!" Upon
completing his chore, he then stumped us again with, "Is there anything
else I can do to help you?" Dad thought about taking him to the
hospital to get checked out! No doubt tomorrow he'll be back to the
other boy we also love. Lately Logan has been quite good at showing
empathy and helping his sister(s) out (albeit tormenting from both sides
does continue). For instance, today, while riding bikes to a
playground, Delenn wanted her water bottle. Logan knew she couldn't get
it out of the holder by herself, so he ran over to get it out for
Delenn. Delenn screamed for him to stop as she wanted to do it. He
stopped and didn't move forward. Then, after Delenn gave up in
frustration at trying to get the bottle out, she asked for help and
Logan then moved closer (after having waited for her to ask for help)
and he summarily pulled it out and handed it to her.

After getting back from watching Mom's field hockey game, Daddy asked
Delenn to please take off her shoes and socks. Surprisingly she did so
(with some help), but when asked to please put her socks in the laundry
basket, she made a modification to her repeatedly used phrase "I'm too
dizzy" (you know, the one mentioned a few weeks ago that is done in a
slow southern style drawl whenever she doesn't want to do something)
Instead, her reply this time (in the slow southern drawl), "I'm tooooo
busy!"

These days Elora goes even more wild than ever when put down in her
little overhanging activity center floor mat. She bats and kicks and
coos at everything, sometime clinging on to an item, and sometimes
getting frustrated when she doesn't understand how to let it go. Today
Logan and Dad were cheering her on as she desperately tried to turn over
to get at something she could just see that was lying down off a bit to
the right of her head. So close, yet so far away. She really is a
happy babe, especially when outside and being rocked in our 3-seat
rocker. Then she'll give plenty of smiles, or she'll go right back down
to sleep. She also seems to not be too upset by noise. We went to
listen to a friend's band play music (it was a celebration of our
friend, Danny's, just completed CD album) Elora never got upset or
batted an eye the entire time :-)