For all you engineers out there…
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(For those of you too lazy to click through, I’ll give you the punchline: “Engineering! It’s like math, but louder!”)
The difference between Math and Engineering
Super Ollie!
Food Paranoid
Me: “His name is Jack”
Evie: “Why?”
Me: “I don’t know, why is your name Evie?”
Evie: “You’d have to ask yourself that.”
Don’t you hate when they come back with the stuff you’ve told them before?
::hearing a squealing noise::
“That sure sounds like mommy’s brakes!”
Evie was very grumpy after waking up from her nap. Sara was walking and stubbed her toe.
Evie: “I’m not going to kiss it EVER!”
Evie continues to be suspicious about us eating behind her back (for good reason). The other day we were eating cookies with her in the car, and we told her she could have two cookies.
Evie: “Tomorrow I will have two more cookies.”
Sara: “I don’t know if there will be any left.”
Evie, suspiciously: “Let me see the container!”
We’re not sure if she was checking to see if we had eaten more than our share of two each (we had) or if she was making a mental note of the number of cookies so she could check in the morning. Either way, that girl is food paranoid!
My parents *were* awesome
Do you ever get the impression that, before you were born, your parents were a lot more awesome? Well, on the off chance that you find actual photographic evidence of said awesomeness, there is a website for you: my parents were awesome.
Now, it’s a pretty cool website, but a lot of the pictures are just old pictures of people. Those pictures would probably awesome if you knew the people, but for anybody else, they’re just pictures. However, there are some pictures that are just inherently awesome.
Awesome bowling / awesome mustache picture
This was clearly an awesome wedding reception
Awesome family photo
Seriously, how awesome are your parents to get your baby pictures with an ACTUAL NINJA TURTLE???
I think somewhere I might be able to find a picture of my dad similar to that first one up there. Anybody have pictures of their parents when they used to be awesome? You can post them on the site, but include them here in the comments too!
A tale of two babies
Having two kids is definitely interesting, to say the least. One of the things I was really looking forward to with a second kid is to see how the kids are the same, and how they are different. Even though Oliver is still pretty young, I can already see how different the two of them are. Note that I’m comparing Oliver at the age he is now, to Evie when she was his age. Obviously there would be a lot more differences between an infant and an almost-3-year-old!
How they are the same:
- They both liked baths – Oliver is generally a grump in the evening, and spends a lot of time crying. Not during bath time! Nothing is more sure to make him smile than letting him kick his legs like a maniac in the little bathtub. Evie was the same way.
- They both loved looking at the light and ceiling fan – This is probably the same for all babies, but they both could stare for hours at pretty much nothing at all.
- They both liked hearing Old Macdonald – I remember we used to sing this in the car to Evie for like hours at a time, saying every animal we could think of. We would even have variations of animals, like a bird is different than a crow, or a dog sounds different than a big dog. The same is starting to work for Oliver as well. It’s like a switch: turn off singing, turn on crying.
- They both had a blocked tear duct – This just means that you are constantly wiping away those little “eye boogers” from the corner of their eyes. Sometimes wiping it away will cause him to cry, and I just think, “Oh man, it’s just going to come back now!” Obviously Evie’s cleared up after a time, so we’re just waiting it out at this point.
- They both loved pooping with their diaper off -There must be some biological reason for this, but the second the diaper comes off, watch out! Of course this isn’t a big deal now that we are used to it. You just need to move fast and get something in position as soon as possible. Sometimes I don’t even have a chance to take the old diaper off, I just need to lay him down and start to unfasten it!
How they are different:
- Oliver sleeps a lot – The first thing people generally remarked about Evie when she was an infant was that she was so alert. Oliver spends a lot more time sleeping, at least for the first month or so. He has more and more (happy) awake time during the day, but after Evie he still seems like a sleepy head.
- Oliver shrieks like a banshee – Oliver can (and will) give out this bloodcurdling screech that sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before. He has quite the vocal range. They always say in books and movies that you can learn what a baby wants by his cry. In my experience that is not true. Evie had pretty much the same cry for everything. Oliver has many different cries, but I don’t think you can really interpret anything by them. He usually gives his horrible-bloody-murder-pain-shriek for pretty much anything.
- Poop velocity – Evie could hit a bee’s eye at 40 paces, and routinely coated the wall, or anything else not quick enough to get out of the way. Oliver more or less keeps it in the diaper. I can only think of one truly disastrous poopy diaper of the kind that Evie had like once a day.
- Oliver doesn’t like to be held – Okay, this is the weird one. I thought ALL babies liked to be held? If Oliver is crying, one of the first things to try is setting him down somewhere. Most of the time he’s happier on his own. Even when you’re holding him, he likes to sit up in your lap and face outward, not be cuddled or anything like that. He does sleep better if you’re holding him, but he still spends decent chunks of the day in the bouncy seat or lying on a blanket. It certainly can be convenient, but I’ve never heard of a baby who’s happier not to be held.
Shane Halbach 