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Name: Jim
Birthday: 11/5/1973
Gender: Male
Interests: Hip Hop, Cinema, Food, Dance, Krump, My Babies
Expertise: Gettin' Crunk, Xangangsta
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1/4/2007
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| Mommy is so offended.
David did not want to go to sleep, so in mommy's attempt to get him down for the night, she turned off the light and started slow dancing with him. They enjoyed dancing while she hummed a tune, but once she started singing, he squirmed out of her arms and said, "I want to go to sleep."
Guess David doesn't care much for mommy's singing. How rude.
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| Lauren's latest drawing and writing sample. She made our family look happy, though mommy looks a bit bottom heavy in this pic. Her penmanship is improving. One of her favorite songs on the Dreamgirls CD is Jimmy Got Soul (that's why she wrote that on her writing sample). The Jimmy she is referring to is Eddie Murphy and not her daddy.
 
And she loves High School Musical. That's Troy and Gabriella in the picture.
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| On Jim's request, I (hj11h and his wife) am cutting and pasting the blogs from my site onto his. For me, keeping up with xanga is very low on my list of priorities. Those who are moms know that there are always too many things to do and so little time... so that explains the infrequency of entries and low supply.
While reading, you might get a little confused if you don't understand my humor--a little dry and slightly sarcastic. The jargon is what will get you down, so here is a breakdown of the most important words:
Spanky= David (nicknamed after our favorite chubby Little Rascal)
Noren= Lauren (when Lauren was little, she couldn't say the letter L, so she called herself Noren)
dat one= that one (when Lauren was little, she kept pointing to things and saying dat one, so all of us just started integrating it into our everyday vocabulary),
dat one= meaning #2, can refer to either Lauren or David (i.e. dat one woke up means David woke up)
dos babies= those babies (referring to Lauren and David)
If there are other terms I have missed, feel free to flood Jim's inbox with multiple email messages. Or page him when he is flooded with patients in clinic. He loves that.
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October 30, 2006
Xanga
This morning Lauren and David got up way early. Since we were both still tired, Jim put in a video for the kids and came back to the bedroom to lay down. When Lauren followed him, Jim told her to go watch TV because mommy and daddy are taking a nap. Lauren nodded her head, closed the door, and said, "Lauren and David meed a break."
Spanky is a genius.
OK, well not really, but he certainly is surprising us. Lauren, of course has known her letters and letter sounds forever, but she is now teaching her brother phonics. Her "lesson" consists of the command, "David, do the letter k, kuh kuh kuh. He responds with his own "kuh kuh kuh." Her brother can now imitate all the sounds of the alphabet, but has particular pride in his mastery of the letter X. After he produces the sound, he proceeds to double over in laughter. But he really surprised us the other day by correctly answering Lauren's question of "David, do the letter b" and before she could model the sound, he responded with a "buh buh buh" of his own. Oh dat one!
Sunday, November 12, 2006
November 12, 2006
Lauren is our beautiful princess ("princess just like Belle from Beauty and the Beast").
Spanky, however, does not resemble a prince... nor does he resemble "the Beast", though Lauren says that she's Belle and Spanky's the Beast.
We have concluded that Spanky has an uncanny resemblance to the following characters:
- first, he looks like Mumble from Happy Feet, (especially in this pic http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808655509/photo/970405403 ). Daddy likes Mumble, but I think he wishes Spanky was a little more like Seymour, the hip hop penguin who does a mean Grandmaster Flash. I think daddy has secret hip hop aspirations for his son, as we all know Jim's fantasy is to be a back up dancer for J Lo or Janet Jackson.
-second, he looks like Curious George. Mostly, it's the hairline. But when CG is propped up on the shoulders of his own "dad," it takes us all back to the days our own little monkey was on our shoulders doing "push it, push it!"
-third, he looks like Pablo the penguin from Backyardigans.
-but all votes are in and the winner and the closest resemblance is to Chicken Little. Why? Because Chicken Little is really skinny, but has a big head.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Post-Midterm Elections
With the turnaround of our Congress from red to blue, I was expressing my enthusiasm with my daughter last week through song and dance. After our number, we sat down and I randomly asked her if she was a republican or democrat. She responded by saying, "I'm a democracker." She has shown a keen interest in our nation's politics. She does a mean imitation of the governator as she will randomly go around the house yelling, "Bustamante."
But back to her political affiliation... "Democracker" has now evolved, as she asked me yesterday, "are you a democrack, mommy?"
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Lauren's Nursery Rhymes
OK, I admit it. I don't really like kid music. I'm not a fan of singing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" because I really don't like barn animals, so I don't really want to sing about them. I don't like the melodies in kid songs, as they are the type in which you clap to the 1st and 3rd beat instead of the 2nd and 4th. And I don't do 1st and 3rd... ever.
So in the car, we listen to what we call, "mommy's turn." My music. Quality music. Like KC & Jojo, Chris Brown, Fergie, and even a little Ne-Yo sometimes. Lauren has really learned to like the music included in the "mommy's turn" CD, that she has now turned some of her songs, the songs she likes, into 'Lauren's turn" and the songs in which Spanky participates (he doesn't actually sing) into "David's turn." She doesn't know the names of the songs, but she knows the track number. In the car, when she wants to listen to her favorite song, "How Long Must I Cry, " she puts in her request. "I want number 16. Number 16, mama." And she will sing along, every word, with tremendous passion. She even furrows her brow when the song gets more intense as it increases in volume and changes key. What can I say?.... the girl's got soul.
So I was thinking. Is this ok? When other American families are humming soft lullabies to their children at night and singing about their papas buying mockingbirds, I am singing about a man getting his heart broken by a girl because she moved on and left him for another man. And he's asking, how long will it be, until you come back to me.. and I'm missing your love again....
Oh did I mention that Lauren knows how to get krumped too?... but that's a story for another day.
Lauren and her puzzles
Lauren loves puzzles. Well, that's actually an understatement. Lauren adores puzzles. It's her favorite thing to do. Dora puzzles, Backyardigans puzzles, Beauty and the Beast puzzles... She even does 100 piece puzzles that claim to be made for those 5 and up. She is so good at them that when her 30+ yr old daddy is having trouble finding the correct place for a piece, she gingerly points at the correct location and encourages him by whispering, "right here, daddy."
I made the mistake of buying a puzzle of the United States. While shopping at our local Fred Meyer, Lauren pointed to that puzzle and said she wanted it. I bought it because it was on sale and well, it's educational and all. I actually thought that Lauren might not like it when she tries it at home (no cool pictures), but hey, it'll probably come to some use later, right? Wrong. Lauren loves this puzzle. It's her current favorite of the bunch. She's not the most verbal of her contemporaries, but because of that puzzle, she can name all 50 states and find their respective locations on the map. She even knows the locations better than her mother. We were putting the states down in order and for a second, I had a brain freeze. What comes under South Dakota? Kentucky? Kansas? Hmmmm... Well, Lauren got a little bit impatient, so she decided to help me. "Nebraska, mommy, Nebraska, I need Nebraska.," she says (with what I thought was a hint of "DUH!!!", but I could have just imagined it--do 3 year olds have that sarcastic sense yet?... Anyway, she better not have thought that because that's just ridiculous. Who, but my daughter knows where Nebraska is on the map? The average American can't even name the second president!)
But back to Lauren and her puzzles. She can even spell Mississippi. She sings, "MI-SSI-SSI... (pauses)... PPI!... ha ha ha, PP... !" She is now on the floor doubling over in laughter, going, "PEE PEE, ha ha PEE PEE!"
Oh dat one!
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Spanky.. dat one
Dat one has his own language, though it is constantly evolving. Spankese (his language) used to consist of the prefix "ge." All nouns in this language at the time had the prefix, so what we know as "ball", is actually "ge-ball" in Spankese. Sometimes, if he is passionate about an object, he may repeat the root word and "ball" will become "ge-ball ball" or even, "ge-ball ball..... balllllll, ge ball". All those who are close to Spanky are familiar with his dialect and language. Last visit, Mishu (aka Rehey ...hey!) showed some quick fluency when only after a few days of being with David, she started speaking in Spankese. At the time, David was a bit fussy and Mishu was a little bit stressed. Who likes being around a crying child? Trying to remedy the situation, she looked around the house frantically saying, "where's his ge-milk?"
Now, the prefix has been dropped from Spankese and a new affix has been discovered. Instead of a prefix, the suffix "yay" has now been added to words. It's sounds a bit like pig latin, though the actual word remains intact. So instead of the word "four," in Spankese it is pronounced, "four-yay." The other day, we were walking along the sidewalk and I asked David, "where's our car?" He pointed to our Camry and said, "silver-yay." Oh dat one! I didn't even know he knew what silver was!
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Lauren is funny...
Lauren's storytelling sample: "Once upon a time, I had a bloody nose. Then daddy was asleep... now he woke up and he put some tissue in my nostril. Now, I took it out. Daddy put it back in. Now my nose is all better. The end."
Lauren showing mommy some attitude: When mommy was flipping through channels, Lauren walks over and says (seriously, but jokingly), "We were going to watch Grease, that was the deal!"
Lauren's riddle sample: "I'm thinking about a Spanky who likes cars and drinks milk. Who is it?" She smirks thinking she is so smart. "Uh, David?" I guess. "Yeah," she replies.
Lauren's clothing preference: she will only willingly wear clothing I say is "fancy." She is a fancy clothes wearing kind of gal.
Lauren's prayer: "Dear Jesus, thank you for Panda and Spanky Panda. And for this perfect day. And for riding on the airplane. And for moving to Chicago, Illinois. Amen."
Lauren's riddle sample (cont'd): "I'm thinking about a state. Now it's next to Indiana. And we are moving to Chicago, Illinois. And it has the letter I. What is it?" She waits eagerly for my answer, though I am stumped. Hmm... what could it be, could it be... "Illinois?" I guess. "Yes! Good job, mommy," Lauren says. My daughter is so encouraging!
Friday, March 30, 2007
New Evolution of "Democrat"
So now the word"Democrat" has evolved in Lauren's vocabulary...
While we were watching Meet the Press (don't make fun of me!), Tim Russert kept talking about "the Democrats." Lauren and I haven't had a political conversation for many months (you know they say never to discuss politics and religion, right?)... but she decided to bring this most controversial topic back onto the table when she asked me, "you are a Democrap, mommy?"
I responded, "Yes, I guess I am. I am a Democrap." (well, I'm actually an independent, but I conceded to Lauren's demand for an answer in my attempt to stop the political debate immediately).
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Another first for Spanky
I have a bit of insomnia, so I went downstairs and made some whipped cream buttercream for Lauren's birthday cake. While cleaning up, I heard David crying (he still randomly cries in the night, but it doesn't usually last for too long). Granted, he was crying, but he said his first (kind of) sentence!
"I wan mama-yay!"
The best he did before tonight was "all done."
How come we always get firsts when the kids are upset? Lauren's first rolling over experience was when she was a few months old and crying her heart out in her crib. When we came to her room to see why she was upset, she was rolling over. So instead of tending to her cries like a "normal" parent would, we decided to pull a Japanese tourist by getting the video camera and filming her instead! Oh poor Noren.
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| Our little one has a Vietnamese twin. Together, they make one "hard" gang. The Mopa gang.
 The Real Spanky
 The Vietnamese Twin
Wonder Twin powers, activate!
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