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That’s what Colby calls “Veggie Tales”. I never pushed Colby to watch tv, and he never had an interest in tv until he watched the movie “Cars”. But now I am so glad he has taken to liking G-Tales. The series first came out when I was in high school. I remember youth functions where we would get together and watch Veggie Tales, because we truly liked it. There’s a lot of humor there that children may not pick up, and I appreciate the creators for realizing that if you’re going to watch something with your child, it may as well be entertaining for both audiences.
Anyway, if you’re not familiar, the two main characters are Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber. Except Colby calls them “Bob May-no” and “Ware-ry Cu-mummer”. (Cu-mummer sounds a lot like what he calls Grandmother - Gam-mummer.) Some people think Veggie Tales is weird because they don’t like talking and singing vegetables. I think it’s great. Colby will now pick up a tomato and say “Bob!” Then when the tomato is cut up and he’s eating it, he says, “Bye-bye Bob.”
What do you think? A ploy for kids to eat their vegetables? Or weird and uncomfortable?
By the way, every time I hear “The Hairbrush Song”, I think of mab. I think she was one of the ones to first introduce me to G-Tales, and I thank her for that.
July 27th, 2007
So its time for another video update. These videos are a few weeks old, but show some pretty cute things. Colby has really taken on the role of “Big Brother” quite well. He loves Kennedy and kisses her all the time.
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Kennedy has been smiling a lot lately, but this video is from some of her first smiling a few weeks ago. What a cutie:
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And last but not least is Kennedy with her favorite item right now, the bird. This is a little blanket with a bird that moves around and “tweets”. It was one of Colby’s favorite toys as well.
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July 8th, 2007
No, I am not speaking a foreign language.. I am speaking “Colby”. Most of you know that Alicia is not only my sister but my “built-in” best friend. Colby seems to have picked up on this, and now he has decided that Alicia is his playmate.
Let me back up a little bit… Colby loves to play chase with Cooper but it only lasts for a few seconds. He really likes it when Mommy & Daddy play chase. So, we’d tell him, “We’re gonna get you!” and go running after him. We hide behind the shed in the backyard and he runs right up to us so we can hug and kiss him and then put him back down to start over again.
So, Colby has taken to the “get you” part, and all it took was Alicia playing “git-chu” one time for him to be hooked! She puts on her tennis shoes whenever she comes over to see us because she knows she’ll be running for quite some time. My favorite is when he “asks” her to play.. sounds like this - “EEE-sha, git-chu, huh?” And he’ll bat his big eyelashes at her until she can get up to run around. Poor Alicia.
I need pictures of this event.
June 10th, 2007
So last night during our prayer time Colby and I were thanking God for our family and friends and then we started to thank God for Christ and what he did for us. Here’s the transcript of the end of our prayer:
Me: Thank you God for Jesus.
Colby: Tank you Jesas.
Me: Thank you that Jesus died for our sins.
Colby: Died sins.
Me: That’s right, Colby. Isn’t God great?!
Colby: Grape!
I couldn’t help but laugh. However, it reminds me how a child is born with a sinful nature and lacking a knowledge of Christ. Both of those together is a recipe for an eternity apart from God. If you have kids or you plan to soon, I encourage you to pray with them.
May 31st, 2007
So even before Colby has been able to talk, he has been saying his name… well, sort of. He calls himself “Lell-a” mainly because when he was very little I used to make faces at him by sticking in and out my tongue and making kind of a lell-o-lell-o-lell-o sound; Colby would mimic it. So I would say to him, “What does Colby say?” and he would do this thing with his tongue.
So since then he has called himself, “Lell-a”. Even when we try to train him to say “Col” and then “bee” and then “Colby”, he would always repeat back “Lell-a” to us. Well I finally decided I better catch this on tape before he started saying it properly.
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And sure enough… this was the last time it appears that he will say it the old “Lell-a” way… in fact… check out this next video. He has never said his name before today and now he’s just crazy with it!
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May 15th, 2007
So we went outside after I got home from work today and it was real pretty outside. We pulled out the bubbles that Aunt Charlotte got for Colby for his birthday. He loves them! Here’s a short video of him playing with Jenna.
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Here’s another cute picture of the kid:
May 14th, 2007
…can anyone tell me what that jingle was for? Extra points if you can “sing” the song…
So I’m on the hunt for good tv shows because the ones we have been watching have really started to go downhill. Too much violence and nudity, not to mention all the innuendos, suggestive material, guns… there’s also just a very weird overtone on some shows.
Anyway, I am looking for seasons of shows that I can watch because I’ll be nursing for a while (hopefully) and not really wanting to do much else but sit and look at my baby girl and let my cares and worries be drowned out by tv. So, this has to be kid-friendly tv (or movies will work too) because Colby will probably be in the room. Right now on my list are “Mad About You” and “Frasier”, which are both shows that I never watched when they were on prime time but now that I’ve caught a few episodes on re-runs, they’re really funny! (I love syndicated tv.) I’m also looking for funny stuff; shows/movies I don’t have to concentrate too hard to figure out… but if you have any good suggestions for those, let me know in a separate category. Anyone have any other suggestions?
If Colby could choose the show, hands down he’d pick the “Cars” movie. He calls it “Eye-ning Mmm”, which of course means “Lightning Car”. Cars say Mmm, if you didn’t know. He watches the movie for like 10-15 minutes right before his nap sometimes, and he’s totally silent while watching. I’ll talk to him about it a little bit, but then once I turn it off to go to sleep, he starts telling me all the things he has just seen… in complete sentences!… and I think I understand like 15% of it. 
Such a funny guy.
And since I’m telling Colby stories, I am so excited for his baby sister to get here because I want to watch how sweet he’s going to be with her. I washed a bunch of her clothes and blankets so we could pack a few things for the hospital. He has taken to this one pink outfit.. he’ll carry it around with him and say, “Baby Sister clothes.” and then he’ll drape it over my stomach. He also tries to feed her cheerios and milk through my belly button. He also practically undresses me when we’re in public and someone mentions baby sister.. he has to “see” her, and he can’t do that unless my belly is bare. I have a really sweet picture of him uncovering my tummy to give her kisses, and I’m putting it in her baby book to remind them when they’re older and fighting that they really did love each other, once upon a time.
March 9th, 2007
People have been asking me if I have been sleeping well at night. The answer has been no, but last night I got some Really good sleep. Then Kevin and I went to the doctor today and I told him he looked tired. I asked if he slept well last night and he said,
“I had to pull out the ear plugs.”
Well, apparently I’ve been hit with pregnancy-induced snoring. There’s actually such a thing! I asked the doctor about it and he said, “When you’re pregnant, basically everything inside of you swells.” (Surprise, surprise…) So my nasal passages are larger than usual, thus causing the need to snore. That, and the fact that I can’t complete a REM cycle for having to go to the bathroom every 1.5 hours, makes me very tired and wanting to sleep even more.
Today I also took a 30-minute nap on the couch, after the doctor’s visit. I woke up to find Cooper sniffing my face. I guess he had heard me snoring and was making sure I was okay, with this strange noise coming out of me. (At night Cooper can put his blanket over his head, but he knows not to get on the bed when we’re in it. Kevin said he tried to put a blanket over his own head but it didn’t work… even through the earplugs and the blanket, I snored on.)
I will say one thing for Kevin’s lack of sleep. He was wise as to not wake me up. Never wake a sleeping pregnant lady. My doctor even said so.
Oh, and by the way, my doctor checked me today. I am 1 cm dilated and 60% effaced. Due date’s in 4 weeks but I don’t think I’ll make it. Wahoo! My guess is + or - 2 weeks. Anyone wanna take bets?
March 7th, 2007
So, read this email I got from Bonnie, the aforementioned roommate.
Good news! Hope it is not too late and you are totally gonna kick yourself. But, you only need normal 39 cent postage to send a letter to my APO address. Because it is military there are no international fees. Okay, how mad are you? I’m sorry you had to go through all that, but I think it is super sweet that you would go to all that trouble!!! I wuv you!
Grr…. this is AFTER I went BACK to the post office and stood in line. Thankfully the weather was okay, the line was short, and Colby was on his best behavior. He likes the echo in the lobby. Oh, and the handicapped doors are still broken, but at least now there’s a sign on them. It says something like “Not working” or “Disabled”, which doesn’t seem like a very good thing to put on a handicapped door button… If it were me, I’d write “Don’t press button 50 times because you’ll just stand outside in the cold waiting for the door to open that won’t open and meanwhile 5 people have entered and exited the post office and could have held the door for you anyway. The end.” Then people would stop and stare at all these words written on a post-it note and plastered on top of a button with a 4 inch diameter. Ha!
Oh and Bonnie, about my 84 cent stamp… (yes, 84, not 80 like I thought… good thing I didn’t have exact change.) Just consider it my donation to Uncle Sam. Like he really needs one. My tax dollars at work. Or something.
January 21st, 2007
…”There must be some Toros in the atmosphere!!” Anyone, anyone?
Well, the people up north are going to laugh, but it’s 27 degrees outside right now and they have closed school. All you Colorado-ans that just endured the Huge snowstorm, stop chuckling. It’s raining and sleeting and it looks like there’s some snow on the ground, but I’ve been told that’s just more sleet… so Bryan and College Station schools are closed, as well as A&M and Blinn. My aerobics classes have been cancelled until further notice, and we’re staying inside and drinking hot chocolate. It’s nice though, because I’m getting some stuff done for MOPS and tying up some loose ends, without having to worry about rushing to the store or doing other errands.
Speaking of other errands, listen to my story about going to the Post Office yesterday. This is an email I wrote to my college roommate Bonnie, who lives in Germany with her husband. I haven’t sent her Christmas card to her because I don’t have a stamp! Read:
I never go to the Post Office, and when I do, I go by myself. It’s difficult lugging Colby in and out, and then waiting in line is atrocious. And, if I take him in the stroller, the handicapped doors don’t work properly so I can’t get in without lots of maneuvering.. a little difficult in my 7th month of pregnancy!
Oh, and actually, I went today, despite it being 30 degrees outside (I know that’s not very cold, but empathize with me anyway.) and freezing raining. I left Colby in the car because he said, “Brr… wainin, Mama.” So I ran into the Post Office (Yes, I really did run. It was cold.) and then I remembered today was Martin Luther King day. No big deal though, because I could buy stamps at the APC!, as they advertise on tv all the time, the Automated Postal Center. It’s like the self-checkout lines at the grocery store; you don’t have to wait in line! Unless someone’s there in front of you? Anyway, so I wait until this girl in front of me has mailed her E-Bay package, I think, and then I look at all my options. No international stamps. I know they cost 80 cents. I just can’t find them. So I go to the stamp vending machines. No international stamps. Drat. I really will have to wait in line now. All for one lousy letter to go to stinkin’ Germany for my stinkin’ old college roommate. The things we do for love. 
Oh, and one more interesting tidbit - they’ve closed down EVERYTHING tomorrow… A&M, Blinn, Bryan & College Station are closed! I don’t think they’ve closed the post office, but I’m Not going to try my luck in the rain again!
Anyway, I wanted you to know that your card is on its way, whenever it stops raining/Texas snowing outside and the roads clear up and I can get a stamp and wait a few weeks for your picture card to travel overseas. It’s not even going to be that exciting when it gets there. You’ll probably say, “Oh, that’s nice.” and stuff it in a drawer somewhere. Until next Christmas. Maybe this year I’ll send your card on Thanksgiving, so that I can make sure it gets to Germany-land by Christmas. Maybe.
January 16th, 2007
Oh my, you have to check this out…. I could spend hours at this place. Its kinda weird, but then you start watching all the things and its REALLY funny. My favorite is Strongbad. He is funny. Definitely check out his emails, that is the best… people email him and then he responds to them in such a crazy way. From the start click on emails, then email strongbad… or go here.
But in any case, I just wanted to post that website. I’ve known about it for a while, but never had just sat down and looked through it. Have phun!
February 5th, 2003
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