It's Twins!

The Yellow Gum Chewer

this is what happens when you try to do chores and Lillian occupies herself

exhibit 1:
We were playing Martha the Talking Dog as I was emptying the dishwasher before we left the house. Lillian kept asking me if Martha was yellow. When I found her she had a piece of yellow chalk in one hand and was coloring herself yellow so she could be Martha.


exhibit 2:
This morning Lillian asked if she could have some gum after she ate her breakfast. I said sure and she went to get the package. I saw her put one piece in her mouth and walked out of the room. When I came back her mouth looked strange. I asked her to open her mouth and I saw lots of gum. I asked her how many pieces she put in her mouth she said ten but I only found five wrappers.

A star is born

We went to the local children's puppet theatre for New Year's Eve. At one point during the show, the children were asked to be part of the show. We encouraged Lillian to go up on the stage but she did not want to. After she saw several other children go up and get in costumes, the girls were princesses, Lillian decided to go up. Mommy and Daddy were pretty sure as soon as the two puppeteers turned to her to give her a costume she would bolt but she did not. Lillian let them put on her costume, a purple tutu and a pink tiara, and listened to the directions. She did get a little bored after a bit and came off the stage. When the participation part was over, she climbed back on stage and gave the costume back. At the end of the show she even gave Ms. Polly a hug.

The puppet show shares space with the comedy club that Joe is a part of. The stage she was on was the same one she wanted to dance around at the club's holiday party she attended. She hears Joe and I play practice some of the games and has started to join in. Just tonight she was playing the 185 joke game: 185 [blanks] walk into a bar and the bartender says we can't serve you [blanks] here. And the 185 blanks say [insert punchline}.

We do fear/believe/hope/encourage that she has a fondness for the stage!

Happy New Year

Our New Years Eve was spent at a puppet show, eating with chopsticks and receiving fortunes and having a NYE tea party. Plans for a grown-up night out were curtailed due to no babysitter.

We did not explain the whole new year's traditions to Lillian this year so I decided we would have a little tea party to celebrate. Lillian had an early dinner and I set up the tea party. We had hot herbal teas, blackberries, grapes and star cookies in front of the Christmas tree. We all had a good time to end 2008.

Chopsticks

Christmas 2008

in pictures:


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It's juicy

The scene: living room during lunch/snack time today as Lillian goes up to Daddy and hands him a dried cranberry and says:

Here Daddy. I brought you a cranberry to eat. I sucked on it for you so it would be juicy. Eat it.

And as any good Daddy, Joe ate it.