The other day, my husband reminded me of a cute story about something our oldest daughter did when she was younger, probably around 4 years old. He said I should write it down somewhere so we don’t forget about it, so I decided to write something about all four of our wonderful kids, starting with the oldest and going down. Here’s a visual:
TAYLOR – About 5 years ago, we began finding the letters “WCPL” all over the house. The letters were always written together like a word, and they were everywhere – walls, books, VHS movies, chairs, everywhere. We couldn’t figure out what word our then-4-year-old was trying to spell, so we had a talk about not writing where we’re not supposed to, cleaned it all up, and moved on. A few weeks later, I took my daughter to the library to check out some books and movies, and that’s when I saw the labels on the VHS cases – WCPL = Williams County Public Library! She had noticed that all of her books and movies that came from the library had those letters on them, so I guess she figured things were supposed to be labeled WCPL – hehehe!
SAMANTHA – Sammie is a very unique child. She can be a real spitfire, but she just has this incredible spirit about her… But she’ll ask me questions that I have no idea how to answer. When her older sister was her age, she would ask the normal kid questions about life and how things work, and even if she didn’t phrase her questions correctly, it was always easy for me to figure out what she wanted to know and where she was coming from. Not true with Samantha! Since half the time I don’t know what she’s asking about, I can’t think of any of her confusing questions to share here on the blog, but I will say that she is the type of kid who asks the embarrassing questions in public – and loudly. We went to a nursing home to sing Christmas carols during the holidays, and there was a gentleman in a wheelchair who suffered from a muscle illness that made his tongue swell. He loved the caroling and really got into it, singing quite loudly. This got Sammie’s attention. She asked me, “Does your tongue hang out because you get so old?” She just has such a different way of looking at things… This is the same kid who asked me one time (really loudly of course) why someone was wearing purple underwear in the bathroom stall next to us!
DISNEY – It’s funny because Disney and Sammie look very much alike, almost like twins years apart. But their personalities are night and day. The other day, Disney, our 2-year-old, looked up at the sky and said, “Airplane! See it, on ceiling?” Awwww…..
CHRISTOPHER – I remembered something I forgot to mention about my son’s 6-month doctor visit. The nurse said he should be eating 3 meals a day – something that seems obvious, but I’m actually really glad she mentioned it! When you have a baby and you’re used to popping bottles in his mouth all the time, you forget that when he’s old enough to be eating solid foods that he needs meals just like big people! My son loves all kinds of food; he tries to grab as much as he can, and he shoves it into his mouth with his little fists. As he gets older, I’m starting to notice the difference between girls and boys, especially when it comes to their eating habits. Boys are messier and more enthusiastic eaters, while girls tend to be dainty and more picky. But again, maybe these are just differences in my kids, rather than a difference based on gender, who knows. And from what I remember, all the kids started out not being picky about their food – they were just so happy to be experiencing flavors after an entire life of only formula!
I have been blessed with 4 kids, and they have 4 very individualistic personalities. It’s really neat to watch how they interact with each other. Well, except when the interacting involves fighting!
All very unique and lovable even Dis seems to be getting out of her boy shyness… or is it just me? What is the red streak in Sammie’s head…abover her right eye… brown eyes cool color. Must be one of those interactive moments that involve fighting… KIDDING.
I loved reading about 4 of my “angels”. I miss them so much. Yes, they are each unique and I love them all.
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Ah the stories that parents have. Every one of my girls have different personalities too. Life would be dull without that.
The mystery… The excitement… The intrigue… The enthusiasm… All can be yours- be a parent! 😀
By the way, when making your posts, you can manually make your pictures small and linkable to the full-sized pics so you can have nice small pics for the blog but people can still see the full-sized one by clicking on it (I’m sure there is still a way to do this with the editor but I no longer know how since wordpress was updated by our admin a couple times- he might be able to show you how). After adding your picture, go to the html tab and find the picture code which will look something like this (from your post):
{img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-880″ src=”https://tangents.org/4/files/2009/02/1-2-09-003.jpg” alt=”1-2-09-003″ width=”1024″ height=”768″ /}
And change it to this:
{a title=”My goofy kids” href=”https://tangents.org/4/files/2009/02/1-2-09-003.jpg”}{img src=”https://tangents.org/4/files/2009/02/1-2-09-003.jpg” alt=”My goofy kids” width=”500″ /}{/a}
Then go back to the visual tab and make sure it worked. It should have. Note that I changed the braces so the code would show up in the comment. Change { and } to .
Blah. It still cut out the proper braces. The last sentence should read: Change { and } to < and >
❓ What happened to my last comment? It was a correction to the above comment. If you use the above code, { should become <, and } should become >. Part of the last sentence got cut.
It’s all Greek to me. I am a computer idiot. Actually I took the picture and put it on my desktop as wallpaper.
It’s Greek to ALL of us… except Derek and JustJ probably… I’m sorry Derek, but you’ll just have to view my large pics – I don’t have ANY time to be messing around with code! But thanks for the hints!
It isn’t Greek to me, but I don’t usually do that. After many years of moving stuff on dial-up, I shrink the pictures before uploading them.
If somebody really want a big pic of anything on my blog, they will have to ask.
Well, as I said you should be able to add it through the “add media” button and get it to show up as a reduced link to a larger picture. That’s how I did all the pictures on the “New HPX” page a while (and a couple WordPress versions) ago. I’ll look into it again and let you know.