What kind of rolls?

Last night after Victoria ate all her dinner she asked Eddie if she could have a cibvamiv roll. He asked her what she was talking about. She again asked for a cibvamiv roll. He again asked what kind of roll. She put her hands on her hips and yelled CIB-VA-MIV roll. She wanted a cinnamon roll...

First Art Showing

Victoria has always been a very creative child and we encourage it. So when she said she wanted to hang some of the pictures she drew up on the wall we were okay with it. Little did we know it would be half the wall in the living room. At least I got a pictures so when she is a famous artist I have the "First Showing".

Bald Dad

Victoria and Eddie have quite interesting conversations sometimes. I don't know how they started talking about baldness but it led to another funny comment by Victoria...
Eddie asked her what would she think if he lost all his hair and went bald. She replied (with much confidence) I would get very mad and not talk to you anymore.
Apparently Victoria doens't like bald guys...

Daddy and Daughter

Many of my favorite stories revolve around Eddie and Victoria. Victoria may be funny and outgoing like me but she also has a lot of Eddie's personality traits too. This is usually were the good stories start...

This story goes WAY back...Victoria must have been only a couple of weeks old. Since I was on maternaty leave and Eddie was back at work I was getting up every night with her for feedings. One night shortly after I got out of the hospital Eddie offered to get up with her so I could get some rest and get better. That night when Victoria woke up Eddie jumped out of bed to take care of her. I quickly fell back to sleep. Some time later I woke up with Eddie standing over me. He started apologizing for waking me up but he didn't know what to do. It had been hours and he couldn't get her to go back to sleep. I rolled over to see all the lights on. I went into the living room...the TV was on and she was laying on her activity mat...the poor kid was overstimulated. We I got up with her I did everything in the dark, changed her diaper, fed her and put her back to sleep. I shut everything off, held her for a few minutes and she fell right to sleep. Never again did Eddie turn the lights on.

Here is another daddy/daughter story...I am a morning person and Eddie is a night owl so it works out perfectly. I am in charge of getting her up and dressed for the day and Eddie is in charge of putting her to sleep. One day I was giving Victoria a bath. After I washed her up she was playing in the tub so I was just sitting there so she could play for awhile. She had a washcloth in the shape of a frog and she put a square washcloth over it as a blanket. She started to rub its back so it would go to sleep. She then says...for the love of God go to be. Yes that is right. I walked into the living room and looked at Eddie and said for the love of God go to sleep?!!?? He said...well she wouldn't fall asleep. i couldn't believe it, but we ahve all felt that frustration at some point. Hopefully she never said that at school...

Friends

As I have mentioned before Victoria has "friends". Jake was the first and she had him as a friend for awhile. Well, Jake was naughty (more like the bad Victoria). If Victoria did anything wrong she blamed Jake. She was having a fit and peed on the kitchen floor...that was Jake. She said damn it (a grown up word as we call them)...that was Jake. Well, Jake continued to be naughty. One day I had it. I was tired of all the naughty behavior getting blamed on Jake. I told Victoria Jake had to go, he was just getting her into trouble. So that was the end of Jake. She "kicked him to the curb".

Now she has new friends (yes there is more than one). Lately is the first one to come around after Jake. Lately is a girl and has much better behavior. Next came Marnie and Potato (I have no idea where she got these names). People must think I am nuts because on more than one occassion I have had to hold open the car door or pick them up and put them in the shopping cart.

Never a dull moment...

Sick Mom

This story made me laugh so hard I HAD to share.

I have been sick for about two weeks now. I think I have the flu but because there is no rest for the working Mom I have not been able to take any time to get better. Well this weekend it all caught up to me. I was almost in tears. I was laying on the couch trying to take a nap. Victoria says to me I must have eaten something bad and I need to drink only water so I will get better. She ran upstairs and got a blanket. She covered me up and then went to the kitchen to get me some water (I know...she is so good to me). On her way to the kitchen she says....I don't know why Daddy isn't doing this...

Graduation

Yesterday was a big day...Victoria graduated from pre-k. (I lost my mother of the year on this one. Apparently they put an invitation in her folder last week. I only check that thing every couple of weeks. So I was talking to her director on Monday and she asked if I was coming to graduation...I guess it was time to check the folder).

There was a very nice ceramony at her school. It was a Hawaiian theme. They had on grass skirts and got lei with their diplomas. They also did a hula dance. Victoria was SO cute!! She picked out a dress (I know I was shocked too) and tons of jewelry. I took lots of pictures. I did okay until the end. The teachers had squares of paper and ballons. The parents were to put on the paper waht they wished for their child, tie it to the ballon and there was going to be a ballon release. Yep, that was it...I started crying as I was writing. Eddie and I both put a message on the paper and then she released it. It was really nice.

Well, it is official...it is the beginning of the end. She will start elementary school on Aug 4th. It will only get more interesting from here...

Real friend?

My Dad is in town for a conference this week. Tonight after work we went out with him. Victoria was telling him about her friend from school. He looked at me and said Is this friend real? You can never be too sure with Victoria...

Jake

Let me take a minute to introduce you all to Jake. Jake is Victoria's "friend". Let's just say I called her doctor when she started talking to Jake and he said it was fine and showed creativity. If he only knew...Jake has recently left because he was very naughty and she now has some new friends (to be introduced later) but Jake will be in our hearts and of course stories forever.

The first story i really remember about Jake takes place one night when she was about 2 1/2. Eddie does nights and he was putting her to bed. I was in the living room and all of a sudden I heard her yelling. I immediately thought it was completely inappropriate for her to be talking to Eddie that way and I got up to go see what was going on. I had no idea what I was walking into...There was Victoria jumping around her bed, obviusly in the middle of a fist fight with someone. I asked what was going on and Eddie said Jake had said a grown up word (that is what we call swear words because it is okay for grown ups to say them, just not kids). Victoria yelled at Jake for saying it (apparently the yelling I had heard) and they were now in a heated fight. Oh don't worry it gets better. Not only was Victoria throwing punches at her imaginary friend but on a couple of occasions she even took some punches! Yes that is right, she was taking punches from her imaginary friend. I had to walk away I was laughing so hard.

Girl bed

Here is a recent story...On Sat night Victoria woke up in the middle of the night. She crawled into bed with us. Instead of putting her back into bed and risking a fight Eddie just let her sleep with me and he went in her bed. Sunday morning Victoria and I went into her bedroom to wake Eddie up. Victoria says "Daddy wake up. You know Daddy, this is a girl bed you really need to start sleeping down stairs on the couch."

Only Victoria...

A few of the classics

At four and a half I already have more Tori stories than I could have ever imagined. Victoria has quite a personality and the stories truely bring laughter to all those I have told. So, not only am I going to tell all new stories but I am going to go back to some of the classics.
I like to call this one Spider Daddy. So Victoria has always loved Spiderman (I think it is in her genes. Spidy has always been Eddie's favorite superhero). Her love for Spiderman started on her second birthday. I, being a fun mom, wanted to bring a bunch of goodies and ballons to school for her birthday. So the weekend before her birthday I took her to party city so she could pick out her decorations. Well she headed straight to Spiderman and so it began.
When she turned three I took her to the doctor for her well check. Everything went fine with the check up and then it was time for Dr Reznick to go over the developmental milestones. He told me her "rankings" and then let me know we should work on making sure she knew my and Eddie's full name, phone number and address. You know stuff like that. Well on the way home I started to work with her. So I asked her my name and went over my phone number. Then it came to Eddie. When I asked her what her Daddy's name was she stated with confidence"...Peter Parker".
And her love for Spiderman continued...