Tuesday, September 4, 2012

wife or white?

Si started to walk in the airport of Phoenix on the way home (about four feet) and has continued to slowly walk more and more though he still finds crawling the fastest way to catch his prey. For future records that was Aug 24th.
After sleep training in Utah where we didn't have to worry about bothering an entire building, we finally got Si sleeping through the night. Upon returning we've put Si and Christian in the same room; it has been sweet as sweet. Often I can put them both down for naps or bed at the same and as long as Christian is there, Simeon doesn't cry. Of course I often hear squeals of laughter and Christian jumping around trying to entertain Simeon and throwing toys into Si's crib to entertain him, but eventually they both doze off. That's not to say that Christian doesn't do his fair share of waking his brother up too, but on the whole it's been a lot smoother than I imagined. The other day we were eating dinner (yes, I am pretending to be a real family and eat dinner together these days) when Christian came and told us he had an accident in the other room (okay, so maybe we're not together the entire time, but at one point we were). Stephen followed and asked where the accident was and Christian points to the dry floor. He then runs and slams the door and says "no more eating, let's play!" It was all a trap, that smart little fellow.
Now if you've read thus far, you may just be bored enough to enjoy the next story. I was down in a slightly rougher area of the city at the WIC office. The floors were sticky with some kid's urine (I was just grateful it wasn't my kid's--I'm not judging) and it was crowded. Christian was enjoying all the kids when a particularly cute little one year old girl came walking up by him in a pink flowered dress. She was probably 1/4 black and had blue eyes. He looked at her and said "she's pink!" then he started to call her wife. It was kind of cute, but a little awkward because the girl's mother thought he was saying "white" and looked at me funny. I just laughed and told Christian, that she wasn't his wife, she was just a girl. Then the girl's sister came up to Christian and he declared definitively, "another wife!"
Maybe our Mormon polygamous blood isn't out of the system after all.
For those interested in what the boys look like these days, there's a cute blog post of Becca's of Christian with her son Bronson at the Zoo: http://camdenbeccabird.blogspot.com/2012/08/summer-fun-3.html

6 comments:

Becca Bird said...

Super cute! I LOVE the story of Christian tricking Stephen into the next room. We miss you guys.

emily michelle said...

Yep, the story about the trap pretty much made my day. Smart kid.

Lori said...

I love that you have the boys dressed in plaid. :)

Sheri Money said...

I love the story about the WIC office! Partly because I can totally picture all of that! Is it the same as the food stamp office? The one on Market and 50-something? Also loved the trap story. So great.

Mary said...

Very cute family picture.

Nicole said...

Kinda funny (or not:) how the racial issues come up the further from Utah you live. We've had our share out in Nola for sure! Well, not as many until our wonderful Librarian decided to share the ins and outs of racism during MLK story time (thanks!)