Friday, April 24, 2009

Facebook Buzz

Facebook is kind of a weird thing to me. I don't understand the point of it. I think it's fun to look at people's photos and maybe find an old friend. However, I don't understand why knowing when a person is doing their laundry or finishing up a term paper or getting ready to watch Survivor is important or even helpful. I do have a facebook page, mainly so I could look at other's pages to see what all the buzz was about. One thing that turned me off from it is that I read a line on someone's page that said, "Be careful. It's addictive and it'll suck you right in". Anyway, maybe one day I'll have an a-ha and understand it.

Insight from a Seven-Year-Old

Bear, out of the blue, comes up with this the other day...

Mama, you know what? God is like the principal, Jesus is like the teacher, and the Holy Spirit is the assistant principal. The disciples are the teacher assistants.

As I considered this analogy more, I realized how much he was right on the money. I was impressed!

Terrible Twos

Birdie is almost 21 months old, and Bug is three and a half years old. Although neither of them are two, they both seem to be experiencing the terrible twos. It's sort of like the twins all over again. Birdie and Bug's terrible twos aren't so bad, because for the most part, they are both very laid back. However, Birdie especially has opened up a whole new part of her personality. In the past 2-3 weeks, she has become somewhat "feisty", a word we typically only use to describe Lou Lou. It seems that overnight, she got some spunk and shows it off everyday. She is still very loving and always wants to kiss and hug everyone. She lets me know when she is unhappy with a forceful grunt, a scream, or a toy thrown from her hand across the room. She has also hit me as well as move her hand as if she was going to hit me. All of her fits are always accompanied by cross eyebrows. There's some other word for this but I can't think of what it is. When she has her face like this, it immediately makes me think of the word "cross". Most of these fits are brought on by things like me asking her to take some non-food object out of her mouth or to let me change her diaper.

Bug doesn't really throw fits, but seems to always really want the opposite of whatever I just said. She doesn't really throw a fit, but many times, will ask me a question about something she wants to do. If my response is not what she wanted, she always says these three words: "Just real quick?". I guess she thinks if we do it quick, it will be okay. Her upset times are usually at times when we're headed out the door and she wants to do something that is not a "morning before school" activity.

I'm not complaining about these terrible twos, and it is really not a suitable name for this stage of a child's life. They are both so precious and hilarious and loving! They especially love each other. Birdie is enamored with all the other children, and is excited when she is doing whatever they're doing. She wants to be right in the middle of whatever they're doing. Her eyes (and Bug's eyes for that matter) are so so expressive. That is also something that she's just recently begun doing, maybe in the last two months. She makes all these silly faces and her eyes get real big as she does something, almost intentionally to make the others laugh. She mimics what anyone around her says, but when she says "Please", somehow she makes it into two syllables, like "pee-dah". When I'm putting ice into glasses for supper, she says "ice" in such a Southern accent way that it sounds almost like "i-us".

On the way to school a few days ago, I started saying the books of the Bible and asking Birdie to repeat after me. She cooperated and began attempting to say all these multiple-syllable words like Deuteronomy and Leviticus. When we got to Ruth, we had to stop because we all couldn't stop laughing. For some reason, when I said Ruth, she must have thought I was making a dog sound (Birdie is all into all the animal sounds and looking at animals, especially dogs). After I said, "Say Ruth," she said, "Roof-roof!" really loud and deep!

Bug is natured so like me, so sensitive and upset over the smallest thing, especially if she thinks she did something wrong. She is very very verbal, and when she uses words incorrectly, it drives Lou Lou crazy. For example, anything in the past, whether it was a few hours ago or two years ago, happened "yesterday" in Bug's vocabulary. Also, she adds "ded" to the end of most verbs in the past tense. She might say, "Mama, you 'member yesterday when Birdie had her birthday [which was back in July], Mama C and Papa and MaJe and Papa J cameded here and we ated breakfast and ated birthday cake and Birdied blowded out her candle?". Then Lou Lou pipes in, "That was not yesterday!".

Bug has a puzzle of a map of the USA. She loves putting it together, and after it's all finished, always wants to know where people live. She calls it her land puzzle, and she says it tells her what land everybody we know lives in. She knows we live in North Carolina, and her eyes get great, great big when I answer most of her questions with North Carolina also. "Where does Mama C live?" When I tell her North Carolina, she has a look of surprise and utter glee and responds, "The same as us?". She is hilarious!