Mine!

We learned a new word yesterday: "Mine!" This very quickly morphed into, "No, no, mine!" But during dinner she topped herself.

Towards the end of the meal she was full and getting bored, so she started banging on the table with her fork. After a warning the fork was taken away from her. She looked at me and said, "I want mine!" Up until this point she had never combined words into any kind of sentence; she can say probably 75-100 words by now, but has never even said things like, "drink milk," or "me eat."

Her first sentence is "I want mine"??? Are you kidding me?

At least she's cute.


(Clara and her cousin Morgan bouncing on the bed at Uncle Eric & Aunt Jen's house.)

Words

Last night on the way home from school, Clara was babbling in the back seat. I decided to play along, and said:

"Clara, say car."
"Caa"
"Say Mama…"
"Ma ma"
"Say Dada…"
"Da da"
"Say ball…"
"Baa"
"Say silly…"
"Sih yee"

We went on for a while, hitting all of her words I could remember when I said:

"Say I…"
"Ahhh"
"Say love…"
"Laaa"
"Say you…"
"Yooo"
"Say I love you…"
*lips smacking in a kiss*

A Tale of Two Curses

This is the story of Oliver's Family Curse and Kristin's Family Curse. What might those be, you ask? Let me explain...no, there is too much. Let me sum up. (Points to anyone who can tell me where that comes from.)

Part One - Oliver's Family Curse

Oliver is one of five children - four boys and one girl. As of today, he and his siblings have the following children:

Matt - boy, boy, boy, girl
Jared - girl, boy, boy, boy
Oliver - girl
Sara - girl, boy, boy (soon)
Eric - girl, boy, boy

See the trend? Apparently there is only one girl allowed per family, period.

Part Two - Kristin's Family Curse

My dad is one of four children - one boy and three girls. He and my mother had two girls. He and his second wife had one girl. He now has three step-daughters through his third marriage. His first grandchild is a girl.

No boys allowed.

One of these curses will be broken in late March/early April. Anyone want to wager a guess as to which one it will be?

We'll let you know in about a month.

Totally Bizarre Happening

Last night I was on campus until 2am. Around 1am I walked into the MBA Lounge and found a person working there I didn’t know. So I struck up a conversation. Her name was Brittany. She’s in the MISM program, but works in the MBA lounge because it’s warm and the MISM lounge is nasty. She was pleasant, and I figured I’d see her a few more times this year and that would be that.

Right now I am sitting in a booth in the café on the first floor of the Tanner Building. It is a long table, with a bench on either side. A little while ago some random girl came up, plopped her stuff down, and walked off. It was beyond random, and not a little disquieting. I continued working and she eventually returned, sat down, opened a book, and started studying.

It was so random I had to twitter it.

After a little while, the random girl from last night, Brittany, walked up. “Hey, Oliver.” “Hey, Brittany. What are you up to?” “I’m meeting my friend, Bonnie.” “Oh, where is she?” “Sitting right next to you.”

You’ve got to be kidding me. So, random girl from last night knows random girl from today. That’s a little too much randomness for me.