Elia
“Hi bus.” Bye bus!”
“Hi meow meow. Hi woof woof.”
[ ] Wakes up, sits up, no crying, talking and singing.
[ ] Wiggling her butt to “Shake it off.”
[ ] She loves buses, dogs, cats.
[ ] Taking one bite out of every chicken nugget.
[ ] First words, besides mama, dada, and jie jie, are da! for dog, and waw waw was, for woof woof woof.
[ ] Elia is one sweaty baby.
[ ] Saying hi to dogs and babies.
[ ] Moving her arms up for Let it Go.
[ ] Creature report!
[ ] Brushing her return with Curie’s toothbrush, washing her face with the washcloth
[ ] Climbing into the shopping cart.
[ ] First step in Cancun on my birthday.
[ ] First words were jie jie.
[ ] Sleeps on the Orange blanket or on Albert.
[ ] Her baby food stage was two weeks.
[ ] Loves her orange pacifier.
[ ] Says Dada and mama and jie jie
[ ] His the table when she wants more food.
[ ] She startles every time Albert coughs.
[ ] Taking the pacifier in and out of her mouth.
[ ] Laughs when you run your head on her belly.
Curie
Hey where is my light saber?
[ ] Writing on my phone.
[ ] “Hey! Why is my toe rattling like this?” – her foot fell asleep.
[ ] Dancing with daddy to “You”re the inspiration.”
[ ] Watching stars with mommy and daddy on the front step.
[ ] Talking with a British accent after too much peppa pig.
[ ] “I will find it with my sense of smell.”
[ ] Eating ice cream together and telling jokes.
[ ] “One little pig, sitting on an egg, then out popped a baby pig.”
[ ] “Mommy, you know a lot about this world.”
[ ] “Mommy? How did The Artist make me?”
[ ] “Hey! Pop pop calls me rascal.”
[ ] “No, you’re a silly rascal!”
[ ] “But I want a hug from Elia.”
[ ] “Curie, if you could go anywhere on the world,where would you go?” “January.”
[ ] Blind bags!
[ ] “I want only mommy” or “I want mommy all by myself”
[ ] “Elia and I are best friends.”
[ ] “Mommy, you are my best friend.”
[ ] “Mommy and I are best friends.”
[ ] “Yay, purple bowl!”
[ ] “No, I’m the waiter!” (She means leader :))
[ ] “We are lion cows. MOOOO!”
[ ] “You’re the mommy lion, and I’m the baby lion.”
[ ] “Mommy, I need some ice cream. It feel me better.”
[ ] “Up, down, across!” (Making a letter A)
[ ] “Mommy, look! ABC’s!”
[ ] After I vacuumed: “Mommy, the kitchen looks wonderful!”
[ ] After my c-section: “Mommy, you better now?”
[ ] “Perfect!’
[ ] After I come home from the hospital, eating PF Chang’s in the cafeteria, she throws her arms around me and says, “Curie and Mommy!”
[ ] “Baby sisser Eliiiiia!’
[ ] “Baby poopy. I have change her.”
[ ] “You have brush your teeth!”
[ ] When we pretended to be asleep while Albert was taking a picture.
[ ] While I am out on bedrest: “Mommy, no pick up me. Hold my hand.”
[ ] “Mommy, I want hold your milk.”
[ ] “Mommy … I farted in my mouth.”
[ ] “Mommy, do the dance.”
[ ] When she waved to the pelicans in Charleston, SC.
[ ] “I want one I like.”
[ ] “Happy birthday, Anna-bellaaaaaa,” sung in a low voice.
[ ] “Old McFarmer had a dog, and bingo was his name-o”
[ ] Dancing and twirling and holding hands to Playing for Change, Stand by Me.
[ ] “Choo choo! Alli-board!”
[ ] “We need our tickets.”
[ ] “Daddy, we need milk and ice.”
[ ] “You have take your pills.”
[ ] “You need this.”
Albert
[ ] Albert is the kind of guy you want on your team. It doesn’t matter what kind of team. Soccer, bowling, math team, underwater singing. You want him on your team.
“There are evil people in the world, I’ve realized. Because if I exist, then other people must.”
“Confessions of a Closeted Master Criminal”
chapter title: “my subconscious is smarter than I am”
“so I married a closeted criminal mastermind”
“high functioning sociopath”
“i have a very strong moral compass because I created it myself”
“I have high EI. I just choose not to use it./ choose to ignore it.”
“Everything in moderation. Including morality.”
Albert has a ring he wears to remind him to be moral. He takes it off on the weekends.
“i have annoying down to a science”
More insightful:
“Lace is full of holes. If you just focus on the holes, you’ll miss the lace.”
Lawn analogy: your first love fills up your whole being, your whole patch of grass. But then as you get older, your patch of grass gets bigger. And you love others, and it takes up your whole being … And then your patch becomes a lawn, and then a field. And that little patch is still there, and sometimes you stand on it, and you think, this feels nice.
“you will have to cut my legs off to carry me out of the house.”
Albert is larger than life.
He does things other people only think about. Like buying the kid the balloon after his got loose.