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[same_sky]

I should start posting during the day instead of at night. It might cut down on the falling asleep in mid-post thing.

Evelyn is at that age when you just begin learning what she knows that you don't even know that she knows. grain_damaged mentioned recently that her daughter had gone to get sprinkles from the cabinet and she didn't even know she knew that they had any. I was watching Evie play one day and thinking about that. E runs around the house all day long, just kind of inspecting things. She opens cabinets and peers over my shoulder and drags things out from under the furniture. She acts like she's studying the layout of the house and the location of every item within. I love it when I hand her something and tell her to put it up, and she immediately opens the right drawer. (And then doesn't actually put it within--she's smart, not crazy.) We spent a long time sitting snuggled up on the couch with her last night, all three of us, reading a giant Elmo book. We started asking her to point out things that we didn't think she knew. She knows Zoe and Grover and all sorts of things that I've already forgotten. It's so funny to watch her learn! Parenting is entertaining sometimes.

It was less entertaining moments later, when she was letting me know that she did NOT want to sleep, NO NO NO, and doing so by the skillful application of hands striking at my face. Bad baby! I know logically that it should not make me angry when she fights me and stiffens up and tries to get away from me, but emotionally it's another story. I feel like I'm rewarding her for bad behavior when I eventually give up and let her play a while before bedtime.

While Carrie was here, we discussed the feasability of starting up a huge new project. We came up with several ideas, one of which was x-rated and will never see the light of day, and one of which we abandoned after we realized that we could never tell anyone that we were the geniuses behind it. (On the bright side, we would be able to truthfully answer "yes" when asked via meme if we had ever kept a secret from LJ.) It turns out that we don't know all that much about.... well. Anything. So, I guess the huge new project will have to simmer for a while. We are so not good for each other. M was at work during this brainstorming session, but Mike looked terror-stricken. I am guessing that while Carrie and I have obviously forgotten how very much WORK Mosaic Minds was... our menfolk have not. ;) This time would be different! Really! ...

Wish I could remember what it was that I wanted to post about. Right now, E is pulling my hands from the keyboard and asking for nourishment so I'd better go take care of that. Her appetite is back tody, thank goodness--I was kinda worried about dehydration yesterday.

Comments

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

Does that mean you've erased the projects from your to-do board?

It is so fun to see what the know, though it is not so fun when you think something is hidden and they go right to it. Evie is such a good, sweet baby though. I would want another two or three if they were all that happy. Except for the sleep thing. But we had that without the happy baby. I totally know what you mean about the emotional response being anger. I tend to be a wee bit emotional over certain things. You never would have guessed that, I'm sure.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I think we've erased both of THOSE projects from the list, haven't we? Hypothetical Project As Yet Undiscovered, now, it's still on the list!

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

We came up with several ideas, one of which was x-rated and will never see the light of day

Oh come on! You know you can't write a line like that and NOT spill the beans.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I am evil that way! :)

[grain-damaged.livejournal.com]

Yeah, now it's worse. How does she know where I hid the unwrapped BD present? She dragged a chair over to the linen closet this morning and asked to play with the train! WHAT?! Seriously? How did she know that?!