A Bug's World

Ooozing Happily Along

My sweet little piglet is a wonderful wonderful baby. Even though I don't take all the pictures, or write about her or sometimes not even talk about her all the time. She's just so sweet and loveable. And right now, oozing from every orfice it seems. Well, I guess not every orfice. That would be disgusting and I think we might be hospitalized. However, despite the oozing she sure doesn't seem to be upset about it. She has icky old wax and nastiness coming out of both ears, a consitent amount of snot coming out of both nostrils, and gooey stickies in her eyes as she recovers from pink eye. In both eyes. She also has one little spot on her bum that is like a thrid degree diaper rash. And she still laughs and giggles and appears just as sweet natured and tempered as always. It's just so sweet its pitful.

"NEVER!"

I was prepared for "NO!". In fact, I sort of got rather accustomed to it. Even thought I was doing a pretty good job handling it, and working my way around it and her. HA HA Ha. Fate and Destiny may be evil and cruel mistresses, but let me tell you, Payback is truly a bitch.

My dear, darling Bug, has been born with a drama gene that could surpass all of the Bitneys, Lindseys, and Parises of the world. Put together. She sings and dances her way through the day. All day. She sings about everything she does. It's like living in a preschool Opera. And this weekend she died in a very Shakespearan manner. Such drama.

But the "NEVER!" is going to kill me. Here's how it goes:

Me: Jess, i need to brush your hair now.
Jess: Mommy i need 4 minutes!
Me: You've had 4 minutes, it's time now. We need to get to school.
Jess: NO!.. NEVER! NEVER! ( with much dramatic inflection, followed by running to her room and slamming the door)

So. Um. Yeah. Insert any request that I have for her.

She'll be four on Friday. I am just so excited about the upcoming teenage years. Can I start the prescription for Valium now, please?

Upward and Onward

Just a little over a month ago, the Piglet began crawling in earnest. All over the place. She scoots faster than I can keep up with her sometimes. And of course, everything she comes across must be tasted. Everything goes from hand to mouth in the blink of an eye. No she is already starting to pull up and even "cruise" around the coffee table. She's only 7 months old! Stop! Stop growing up so fast! This week we had tubes put in her ears after 4 earinfections in 3 months and "water on the ear" for that entire time. I didn't really realize how common a procedure that had become until we showed up at the surgery center at 6:30 in the morning amongst 3 other babies then 4 new babies when we left. From the time they took her from me until they called me back to the recovery room was maybe 20 minutes. Sigh. It was a hard 20 minutes on me though. So, she is crawling, pulling up, eating off a spoon, has tubes, but still no teeth. But it is a beautiful toothless grin.

The Bug started in the 4-yr old pre-k room at daycare this week. She won't actully be 4 until the end of the month, but it was decided the move would be good. She's been having problems with the teacher in the 3 yr old room. Our darling Bug has quite a temper on her as well as a good strong stubborn streak. SO far she seems to be doing okay in the prek room -- although she keeps telling us that she is "too litte" to be with the big kids. I agree.. I hate seeing her grow up so fast. She has been dancing and singing at home like mad. I think I'm going to have to put her in dance class. Well, I had planned to anyway, but her love of it seems to be just the excuse I need. She really like dancing with Raquel Welch from the Muppet Episode she was on. Nothing can scare a person more than watching one's almost 4 yr old daughter follow moves and flip her hair while singing "I'm a W-O-M-A-N". Well, unless of course it is watching her mad delight and crazy antics singing her FAVORITE song "Barbie Girl". Oh yes. Boys be warned.

I can't believe I have two of them.