{"id":1863,"date":"2010-08-02T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2010-08-01T20:54:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T03:54:45","slug":"almost-made-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=1863","title":{"rendered":"Almost Made It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The many faces of Tori Savannah…<\/p>\n

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Picture above on right posted for Liza.? She confiscated your light meter.? Isn’t she developing her skills nicely?<\/p>\n

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Then I took the light meter away as any good mom (and friend) would do.? This is how she felt about that.<\/p>\n

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She then required a sippy cup, George, and her pony for comfort.<\/p>\n

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Phrases:<\/p>\n

“Push Bellies” – Tori’s word for push ups.? She gets into a crawl position and lowers her belly – thus push bellies.? Makes sense.<\/p>\n

“Go away.? Stop dat.? No bunny.”? – Typical comment to Tanner.? No bunny means not funny.<\/p>\n

“Bee bops” – Flip flops<\/p>\n

Yesterday I went to put her in bed while she was still building her block tower and she said “Mommy hold on!”<\/p>\n

“Oh yeah baby” – Ty said she learned that from The Incredibles.? :)? That’s what she said when I asked her if she wanted something at dinner the other night.<\/p>\n

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I have tried to teach the kids to wash their fruit in the sink before they eat it.? This backfired on me when Tori brought me a banana covered in wet toilet paper.? GROSS!? I can only assume she washed the banana in the toilet because it was easier.<\/p>\n

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Ty has learned (and is misusing) the word “accidentally”.? He told Tanner that he “accidentally” played his DSI.? “Accidentally” took a picture with it.? “Accidentally” (get this) recorded his voice.? Accidentally?? Really?? What an out of body experience that must have been to make a recording of all your silly sounds and later wonder how in the world it happened.? Interesting.<\/p>\n

Later, when he had “accidentally” thrown Tori’s baby and it hit her on the head on its descent, mama “accidentally” put him to bed a bit early.<\/p>\n

Tori wasn’t making my life any easier that day.? She does nothing on “accident” – it’s all quite purposeful.? I found her standing on the bathroom counter holding a pair of SCISSORS that she had got down from the TOP shelf of the medicine cabinet.? There is no such thing as “out of her reach”.? I had a mild panic attack over that incident.<\/p>\n

Maybe she was looking for a tool to help Ty make a bedroom jail break.? I have to wonder because a little later I saw her running across the house with a bottle of water that she was bringing to Ty in his isolation.? Next thing I knew, she was running again with a box of crouton’s in her hand.? Everyone knows that prisoners require bread and water – even Tori.? What a sweet little sister.? She is well aware of Ty’s love affair with croutons.<\/p>\n

He had asked me when I sent him to bed if Tori could come in with him.? It was one of many moments in my day where I was stuck trying to avoid his question.? The trouble is, I tend to hang myself when I give Ty direct answers.? No, I didn’t want Tori in the bedroom entertaining him while he was timed out (nor did I want her bringing him food).? On the other hand, Tori always follows Ty into his confinement and if I made a point to say “NO” then I was going to have to babysit that.? I was watching Brett Michaels win Celebrity Apprentice (and I was happy because he was my pick) and I didn’t want to have to pull her out of there every five seconds.? Raising kids takes a lot of work doesn’t it?? (This event happened a bit ago – did I already post this?)<\/p>\n

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Did I ever post this?? That Ty says “hala-jah-lettuce” for “hallelujah”?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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And while I was processing the pictures above, a little person crawled into the chair behind me.? Something felt oddly sticky.? I turned my head and came nose to nose with this:<\/p>\n

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This is Eucerin (Tori is looking at this picture while I type and she is singing “Tori Cweeaam? Tori Cweeaaam? Tori Cweeeamm? Cweaaam Cweeam”.? It was 9:30 PM.? Only 30 minutes from bedtime before disaster struck.? We almost made it.? But.? Not.? Quite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The many faces of Tori Savannah… Picture above on right posted for Liza.? She confiscated your light meter.? Isn’t she developing her skills nicely? Then I took the light meter away as any good mom (and friend) would do.? This is how she felt about that. She then required a sippy cup, George, and her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}