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04/12/2005 Archived Entry: "wiggle wiggle"

Tabitha said something the other day that had us rolling on the floor. It has way too much of a back story to just put under "Quotable Tabitha." In her acting fundamentals class, they played a game with three people. Two people would pretend to have a conversation but all they could say was "blah, blah, blah" with inflections. The third person was the translator and therefore had to say what the blah-blahs meant. Tabitha wanted to play this game with Chris and I at home that evening and we agreed. Chris says his blah-blahs to me and Tabitha bursts out with "NO! I want to tickle your ass!" We were in hysterics.

The next day she wants to recap the conversation as she is wont to do. But this time she says, "Remember last night when I said 'No, I want to tickle your beeeeeeeep!?" LOL She censored herself which amuses me considering we never told her not to say ass in the first place. We're a bit loose with language around here, in case you hadn't noticed.

Good times. Good times.

Sunday afternoon we went to see The Wiggles. Tabitha and I went last year and it was such a great show that this year I wanted Chris to come with us. He enjoyed it as much as I did. Oh yeah, the kid had a fabulous time too, lol. She was bouncing and singing along. She was definitely one of the older kids there, but who cares? The baby slept through the whole thing. She fell asleep 15 minutes before we left, slept the whole way there, then was transferred into the Baby Bjorn for the walk and the show, put back into her car seat for the drive home and didn't wake up until we took her out and laid her on the floor trying to wake her up. Crazy kid. At least it didn't affect her sleep that night.

Yesterday we went to Disney and who did we see? Murray Cook, aka Murray Wiggle! He was even wearing a faded red shirt and had a red back pack, lol. He was with his family though and we have a strict rule not to bother celebrities if they are out with their family. So we just pointed him out to Tabitha and went on our way. We had a decent time at Disney yesterday, the crowd level isn't going down anytime soon so we don't do a whole heck of a lot. We got Prince Phillip's autograph and I took Tabitha's picture with him since the only other time she met him I took a picture of the two of them with Sleeping Beauty. So I changed out the picture on the Disney Character page. After that we rode Buzz Lightyear. Daisy has ridden it twice but she was asleep both times. Yesterday she was awake and it did not go well. I could not calm the child down and of course the ride stopped moving for a good 3 minutes. Figures. Now we know, if she's awake, one of us sits out with her.

She rode in the stroller without the baby seat for the first time yesterday. She was asleep when we arrived (as usual) so we put her in the stroller laying down and used the stroller boot to created a nice cozy bassinet for her. She slept just fine and woke when we expected at which point we fed her and then I put her in the Baby Bjorn. She has enough head control to face out so I try to use it as much as possible. She did okay, but she hats the sun hat we have for her. I can't say I blame her but it is the only sun hat I could find that even remotely fits. As it is I have a hard time dressing her because she's too young for sunscreen so she needs to be in long sleeves and pants when we go to Disney. But obviously they need to be light weight since it's so warm. She only has 3 long outfits that are light weight and still fit and I really hate the color of one of them so getting her dressed for Disney is quite the challenge.

Anyway, after a while she wanted to eat and go to sleep again so we laid her back in the stroller so she wouldn't sleep for more than an hour (as she would have if I carried her). When we were ready to leave, she didn't seem to want to be carried, but she didn't want to be awake and staring at the top of her stroller canopy either so we put her in one of the upright positions (it has 3, we chose the most laid back while still being upright) and strapped her in. I really think she enjoyed that. She wasn't laughing or anything, but she looked amused and she wasn't fussing. All in all, I'd call it successful. We'll start doing that more and more and just use the baby seat when we're in a store, I think.