The best of the bunch........

My wife does everything for our family. She's nurturing, kind, considerate, loving, patient, helpful, and thoughtful. She's always looking out for the best interest of our children. She does whatever it takes to make sure they're always learning even when doing things that don't seem like learning.

As a result, my daughters love her unconditionally. When Mommy enters the room, anything being done at that time is dropped and the girls make sure to let Mommy know that they love her.

What a blessing that I have a wife that is such a good mother. She makes my job easy at times because she's able to do so much for our family. You can never thank someone enough for that, but I'll keep trying.

Just to be clear.........

Kali 4.2 had to clear up an issue with Daddy a couple days ago:

Kali: Today at school, all the boys stood on one side of the room and all the girls stood on the other side of the room.

Me: Which side did you stand on?

Kali: (laughing) I stood on the GIRL side.

Me: What?

Kali: I said I stood on the GIRL side!

Me: Wait, your a girl?

Kali: YES!

Me: When did this happen?

Kali: It happened when I was born a girl. God made me a girl.

Me: Oh, he made you a girl?

Kali: YES!

Me: Oh, well that's good to know.

Kali: (giggling)

First night being a 'big girl'..........

I just took down Giselle 1.5's crib tonight and replaced it with a toddler bed. She's in her room right now trying to figure out what's going on.

She's very excited to have her own bed. She rolled around in it and checked it out with Kali 4.2. She decided to toss her pillow out of bed. She wanted to lay down without a pillow. She's got 'bunny', 'puppy', and 'blanket' in there to keep her company.

We'll see how it goes. Hopefully a nice quiet evening.

Glad we're rid of him.......

The U.S. Navy Seal Team knocked on Osama Bin Laden's door a few days ago and gave him his final punishment: death. He obviously deserved it and it was long overdue.

I'm sure that his death won't end terrorism as we know it. There will always be another idiot looking to gain power by attempting to strike fear in the hearts of people. With that said, I'm glad that my daughters will never have to know a world with Bin Laden. I'm also glad that they'll be able to look back in their history books and see that a bad guy who did some terrible things eventually was dealt with by our armed forces and that he wasn't able to get away with his actions without consequences.

Hopefully his computers have an address book of names that we can deal with the same as we dealt with Osama.

Where's the words?

Giselle 1.5 has some issues with communication right now. She'd like to have things or do things, but she's decided that she's going to stick with grunting and yelling rather than migrate over to asking specifically for what she wants. We know she knows the words, but (even the second time around) it can lead to frustration by both Giselle and me.

I think part of the problem may be that Giselle is a bit more like Daddy than Kali 4.2 has been. Kali's very nurturing and doesn't hide her emotions much like her mom. Giselle is very forward and lets you know exactly how she feels much like Daddy. It should provide an excellent learning experience for me as I learn how to parent my doppelganger.