Thursday, November 18, 2010

Public Restrooms

I'm pretty sure that every parent eventually earns a few public restroom horror stories throughout their child rearing years. I've only really got the one so far, and fortunately it wasn't that bad; although it did raise some questions.

After dropping mom off at a work the other day, Gia said she needed to go pee. I parked and we went inside to the first floor Men's room. Pretty much every time we go into a large, public bathroom, Gia makes loud chirping sounds the entire time, just to hear her voice echo. She was doing that while she pee'd, then I cleaned her up and pulled her off the toilet so I could use it. I usually end up going to the bathroom, looking over my shoulder the whole time telling her not to open the stall, no, I don't want her to wait outside by herself, and stop touching every thing, it's dirty. Instead, she is standing right behind me, leaning around and singing, "Don't forget to shake Daddy!!" Then I tell her to knock it off and go stand on the other side of the stall. I finish up and she starts singing, "Daaaaa-aaaaad, I saw your elephant trunk!"

I'm so glad that no one else happens to be in the bathroom with us, because this is really getting out of hand. First, I try not to go to the bathroom in front of her, and I sure as hell don't instruct her on the male system of peeing; so I have no idea where she learned about post pee shaking. Second, I certainly don't call any part of my body an "elephant trunk." I have no idea where she learns this stuff. When she goes to Grandma's house, it is all girls. I think I'm going to have to make Gloria cancel her Cinemax.

Also, a few weeks ago I accidentally killed one of our fish. Here is Gia holding it on a plate.

 I also had Gloria measure it.

Gloria had the fish on the plate. I was asleep when the corpse was discovered. So I'm asleep in bed, and Gloria comes into the bedroom and kicks me awake. I tell her, "What the hell? I'm sleeping!" She is standing there with this plate above my head and I'm thinking, "Awesome, breakfast in bed. About time." So I sit up and she shoves this plate full of dead, cold fish in my face. Let's just say that I was a bit disappointed.

Friday, November 12, 2010

What we do at night

So I was messing around with the laptop, and decided to try and make a time lapse video of us relaxing at home after work. I didn't tell Gia or Gloria that's what I was doing. Here we are in all our splendor.
This was taken over 3 hours and 32 minutes. 850 photos, one every 15 seconds.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY1YdDL-xzs

We miss the Johnsons

So our best friends moved away to Ohio. They were the same age as us with the same aged baby. Gia and Noah were fast friends and we will miss them all very much, and hope to see them soon. Here is a long video of Gia and Noah playing the last time we got together. It's a pretty long video of the same thing, but it was too special to not post.