all the little things

so manuel and i are here together...listening to pandora "yo la tengo" station...after perusing several friend's blogs i thought it would be fun to write a blog together...he is really a talented writer (i'm quicking writing this part while he is in the bathroom)...he keeps a file he named "liquid" with his own thoughts, feelings, fears, hopes, observations, daily ramblings etc. in a free form style...he, too prefers all lower case letters but he is much more to the point and writes in short phrases, right justified...it is much easier to read...

this photo of sea and story was taken during our coop preschool...they were working on a craft together and there were so many "little things" in this photo...their baby feet, the sunshine filtered through her tutu, both of them engaged in life and oblivious to me capturing them, sea intently placing glue and sequins just so, the two of them together...anyway, my motivation for this post was not based on the photo, i just tried to find a recent photo of both of them that had "little things" in it...

basically i just wanted to corroborate with manuel to list little things we love and will miss that our children do daily or frequently or in these most recent moments...so here goes in no particular order...

--"too much" as in, i love these cookies "too much" or i'm having "too much fun"
--sea was recently in to counting and somehow we came up with "two ones" to describe her and her brother (they are each "one" and there are two of them) so manuel will say something like "how are my "two ones?"
--every day when manuel leaves for work sea will watch him walk to his car through the side window and then runs full speed to the front window to wave to him as he drives around the corner...he caught on to this and will stop in front of the front window and they blow kisses to each other back and forth until he finally has to leave...but she keeps blowing, very quickly and deliberately...i've gotten this on video but just realized it would make a cute photo with the huge window looking out over the bay and sea's sillouette blowing kisses and waving...
--story wants to climb more than anything right now...he'll go over, up, through so many places to get in to trouble but most specifically he loves to reach up to windowsills, pull himself up and climb up the wall...manuel and i have bets when he will walk...sea didn't crawl early but walked at 9 months and 1 week...story crawled at 5.5 months and manuel's prediction is thanksgiving (3 weeks from now! at 9 months) and i predict xmas just cuz i love his crawl and don't want him to lose it
--sea is really in to having people chase her...this is not new for her but has intensified now that story can crawl so quickly...so she'll find some toy he is really engaged with and then will slowly back away from him so he'll follow her and then she squeals at the top of her lungs and RUNS away and he crawls as fast as he can to catch her
--i know i've already written this one down but i will be sad when we leave our house with stairs...every time we leave or return to our apartment sea wants to act out the youngest daughter's role from the sound of music..."so long farewell" at the end when she goes up the stairs backwards on her bottom and then lies her head down on the top step to be picked up...sea will not get up until i pick her up and carry her in to the house...she kept telling us how she wanted us to get a different house that had stairs in it and it took me awhile to realize that is why
--sea has some cute ways she mispronounces words such as "hossible" for hospital and "gocker" for doctor...although she now corrects both of these when i use her old pronunciation...she still says "laylo" for yellow
--today we went to a birthday party and of course once the pinata came sea wanted to be the only child swinging the stick...so she kept trying to "help" the other kids and take another turn, stand too close for them to do it on their own, etc. and then all of a sudden she had an idea and ran into the woods there at the park and next thing i know she came back with her own stick...
--one of story's nicknames is "squeaky" cuz of some of the cute little sounds he makes
--one of our friends mentioned that he had always thought of sea as an "old soul" who had been around in a previous life and although i don't believe in that, she does like to place herself in to stories she is told...like my mom was telling sea a story about when she (my mom) was a little girl on the monkey bars and she fell and skinned both knees and sea's response was "i was there watching you...and i held your hand"

well on that note...sea likes to say "goodnight mama, goodnight" and kiss me ever so gently on my cheek like i do when i kiss her to bed at night...and although it is daylight savings and i "gain" an hour, if you've been following all my blogs on sleep issues, i'm sure i'll lose sleep somewhere...not meaning to end on a negative note but i am really tired...

i should add this post was almost entirely me with a few reassurances from manuel...i point that out because i really would like to put his words, his ideas, his way of talking in the body of some of my future blogs...keep your eyes out for them and/or post ideas you'd like us to write about...