March was sick. And I don’t mean S-I-C…as in cool. I mean sick…as in runny noses and coughs and fevers and strep. Right around Valentine ’s Day, I made the mistake of saying “Wow. We’ve almost made it all the way through cold season without being sick.” Of course, the next week, we were sick. And we’ve been sick ever since. One cold after another. But the beautiful thing about spending time at home with sick kids is you get to spend time with your kids. Most of the time they were too sick to go to school or daycare (coughing or snotty) but felt mostly good. So they were up playing and doing all the silly things my little girls do. That is one thing I learned during our time together… My girls are silly. See for yourself...
Maggie likes to sing in the shower. One night she was making up her own song. It went like this...
Nice knowing you
There's the door
I have to go make pie
She wants to have twin girls named Aqua and Violet.
And the best one...we are big American Idol fans and this season Maggie has a favorite - Adam Lambert. From the moment she saw him, she was mesmorized. And since Adam has black fingernail polish, MANscara and the whole emo look, her Dad is thrilled! Well, one night this month, Adam came out dressed in a suit (no tie), his hair slicked back and no fingernail polish. When Maggie saw him she said "Catch me." When I turned to ask her "what?", she fell into my arms...too weak to stand when she saw him. Silly girl.
Molly is just as silly, even at 2! Her Daddy told her she was goofy because she was acting silly and she told him, "No I'm not. I'm Mickey".
She has names for her babies...two are baby Reece (after our friend's daughter), one is baby Callie (another friend's baby) and the last one is Fred...after Fred on Scooby Doo.
Molly also likes to sing in the shower and "play piano". She clears all the shampoos off the bottom shelf in our shower and pretends it is a piano. She does this while standing in her baby doll's bathtub and swinging her hips wildly from side to side. What does she sing? you ask. You know that sound when you stick your tongue in and out of your mouth...bleder bleder bleder...that's it.
She saves her best performances for the public. Maggie had a choir performance last month and the older kids sang Beatles songs. A week or so later we were at Costco and Molly threw her arms out and at the top of her lungs screamed "Here comes the sun...do do do do". And it's very fitting since she has proclaimed a number of times that she is the next American Idol. Silly I tell you.
I even got them on video... http://www.flickr.com/photos/mom2magnmo/
