Notes, 16 June 2010
To sum up our life for the last six weeks, we:
-packed up most of our apartment
-traveled to Ethiopia
-got custody of twins
-attempted to figure out how to parent said twins
-packed up the rest of our apartment
-moved to another country, and the far end of it at that
We're still unpacking, which is difficult to do with both twins in that lovely separation anxiety phase. OHMAGAWWWWWWWD! You're six inches away from me! OHMAGAWWWWWWWD! I might DIE! And where would you be? Six inches away, that's where! THE HORROR!!!! Weirdly, the twins seem completely confused about which parent to have the anxiety about, so it's both of us. Which means that if I'm holding Dinka and Xander walks into the room, Dinka is immediately in tears and screaming because--oh no!--Dada is not connected to him, too! In a perfect Dinkee world, we'd walk around linked together as a blob of a foursome, limbs sticking out every which way. If I had time, I'd draw you a picture.
It gets worse when we have people over. It's like any progress we've made is immediately thrown out the window with guests. Oddly enough, this does not apply if we meet people out somewhere. So for the next couple of months, I guess we'll keep any meetings with friends and family at destinations outside the home. I know. It sounds crazy. But trust us, we've learned our lesson. After three days of no guests, I'm only just starting to recognize my kids again. Three days.
In other Dinkee news, the twins turned one this week! We decided to wait to celebrate until this weekend, since our place is still filled with boxes. But we did take them out to the farmers market, and I was reminded what a tomato should taste like. Tomatoes are grown best in hot places, I tell you, so those Quebec tomatoes never quite did it for me. There's no shortage of hot weather here, though. I thought the Fabertids were going to melt yesterday, but we all survived. And they slept through the night! If this were a science experiment, which it kind of is, I'd say that heat exhaustion is a great way to get your baby to sleep.
6 comments:
Happy Birthday babies!!! I forgot they are so close in age to Naomi.
And what state did you move to?
I love reading your blog!! You are truly one of the most humerous and authentic people I know which makes you so much easier to love! Give those youngins (since you're back in GA) a hug from me for their 1st B-day!!
被人揭下面具是一種失敗，自己揭下面具卻是種勝利。...............................................................
Well, I think Mr. 嘉剛 really says it perfectly. :) Happy Birthday Dinkees!
Weirdly enough, I just watched an episode of the X-Files last night where a flying saucer that the military was testing at Area-51 crashed and caused a time-space anomaly to occur in which two objects could exist in the same space at the same time. A lizard got its head stuck in a rock, Mulder had his identity switched with another government dude, and these two teenagers who were making out got stuck together in a big blob. But, in the end, the time-space wrinkle corrected itself, and everything went back to normal. Maybe you should take the kids on a trip to Area-51? Just to let Dinke experience blob-hood for a little bit?
(This is also reason #942 why I'm not a parent.)
Anyway, happy birthday, kids!!! Give them big hugs from Aunt Liz! I'll call you guys soon, because, guess what, I can call to where you are now! Yay!!!
Didn't even know you were leaving.
Well... au revoir, then! *waves*
And happy birthday little ones!
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