What's On Your Head?

I'm a multi-tasking mom. I'll admit, I'm always trying to get more done in a short time frame. I've got so much to do I have to use my time wisely. For the last couple of weeks I've been hacking at the caulking that surrounds the tub. I can't look at the crumbly mess anymore so I'm chipping it out and I plan to recaulk. Of course the chipping that I do takes place while I am running the bath water for my daughter's bath. At 2 1/2 it takes some time to get her psychologically prepared to get in the tub. First, she has to sit on her potty. She thinks she has to go, but then she doesn't, but then she does, but then doesn't. So she sits for a while. I'm pretty sure she's stalling so when she sits, I chip. And chisel. Last night, I was hacking away with my back to Anja as she sat. When she said, "Hey mommy, look here," I figured she was done with her business and ready to hop in the tub. I looked up and burst out laughing. She had taken the foamy blue seat cushion ring off the potty and had it wedged on her head like a halo. Ok, I'll admit. There's a picture of me with the plastic potty bowl on my head when I was 2 floating around out there. The seat cushion was wood in my day. Did you know you can also wedge that cushion around your face like a picture frame?

Happy Birthday = Valentine's Day!

The Valentine chicken brought cards and a really cool Dora and Anja's Rescue Adventure. Shutterfly superimposed Anja's picture onto a cartoon body as one of Dora's friends. Her name is included throughout the text. She helps rescue Boots. She was so excited about seeing herself along side Dora, Boots and Isa. She said "Thank you. Happy Birthday!" All holidays are equal to birthdays.

Butt-Scooting Baby Anja

Baby Anja (pronounced Ahnya) is a day care baby. She started day care at 3 months old. When they moved her to the next classroom in the series, I remember meeting Sam. Sam's hair stood straight up like he had static all the time. But was really funny about Sam was that he scooted on his butt instead of crawling. I had never seen such a thing. I even commented to one of the teachers about it. How odd. Being a first time mom, I just assumed that kids were blobs, then they crawled, then the walked. I didn't read the manuals for post-delivery, only for pre-delivery so I didn't know what kids did. It must've been contagious because next thing I knew, baby Anja was sitting, stretching out her legs, digging in her heels, then pulling her butt across the floor up to her heels. And she could motor. No hands to push either. It was the most fun to plop her down on a carpeted airport floor and watch her scoot and watch passerbys burst out laughing. My little circus pet was great entertainment. Makes for some dirty pants!