Seriously.

Danielle got a beautiful hat from Rachelle and her roommate the other day. She likes wearing it around the house and asking for hat.
Baby Madsen number two likes to kick me in the bladder. One of my greatest fears is peeing my pants while pregnant and I swear this child will do it. He also likes to move around so much I give up on sleeping and make blog posts.
I like these shoes. They are available at Piper Lime. They would look beautiful with my linen skirt. why are the shoes I like always so expensive? I was looking at piper lime and found a beautiful pair of shoes- which was on sale for 500 dollars. Seriously? who buys these shoes. I guess not that many people since they are on sale. Some days I wish I was one of the people who had enough money to buy five hundred dollar shoes.
Maybe you have to be born that way.

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Grease Monkey

Many greasy things have happened in my life recently. John replaced the alternator in my car today. I think that is pretty brave. Haven't posted in a while. I was sick this week. and my car broke. Who wants to post about stuff like that. Danielle wanted to help a lot and she got her hands pretty greasy grabbing something- I have no idea what.
Danielle sometimes sneaks into the bathroom on the main floor and puts soap all over herself. Like in her hair. We visited a friend and I captured her greasy hair. I wonder if this is part of her master plan to constantly be taking baths. We have to limit her to one bath a day. She also likes to put lotion in her hair occasionally. Today it was really hot on the way home in the Prius and she covered her head with her blanket to fall asleep. Sweat also causes greasy hair. Then the light for the hybrid system in the Prius came on. So we could possibly be able to spend even more money fixing cars.
Danielle is getting better at opening doors. The other day I took Austin to go to the bathroom in the front yard and she dead bolted the front door. She was able to unlock the deadbolt though, which was a good thing since I didn't have shoes on. Or a phone. Now we know she can escape the house at any time.
And I broke my tooth. Possibly two teeth. I guess one tooth a pregnancy so far. Why did I get a white gold crown? Yellow gold is clearly classier, don't you think?

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Junior High Jinx

Yesterday marked the beginning of an important thing in my life. A new season of the Bachelorette. I am almost as happy as I am disappointed that Shaun Johnson won Dancing with the Stars. How could she? She is just so darn bubbly. Of the 30 guys available of course she picked the weird foot guy and a guy with a horrendous crushed velvet brown suit jacket, but at least skinny tie and white socks went home.
That's not what this is about. The highlight of the show- the breakdancing. There was a dance off between professional breakdancing instructor and the short body builder guy. compensating? Anyway the dancing itself wasn't what was so fantastic of course, but a comment about the dancing is my favorite things I've heard in a long while. "Those were some of the best moves I've seen since Junior High"... or something like that. My friend Jeff was a good breakdancer but that was in High school. Junior high... I didn't actually go to Junior High, we had middle school and high school started in 9th grade.
The other day I was visiting someone and I said something the same time they did. They counted to ten and then said jinx. I don't remember everything from earlier than Junior high days but where I was from there was no counting involved in Jinxing someone. My husband explained it to me earlier tonight. According to him, you count to ten after you say jinx and if the other person says something before you get to ten they are not jinxed. For those of you who had forgotten more of those elementary days if you are jinxed you can't talk until the person releases you. I didn't honor the jinx for several reasons.

1. I realized I am over the age of ten. At this age all Jinxes expire forever.
2. They said something before they said jinx, thus nullifying the Jinx.
3. Did I mention I am no longer prepubescent? (see earlier posts about finding a car- you could totally jinx that guy)
4. I spoke before they reached ten.
5. John is wrong about the rules. I don't have to honor these new and in my opinion inferior rules. even though I don't really remember how to get out of a jinx... I thought if you could catch them and say the same word they do you get out of it.

Why are there different rules for such a basic thing? I would love to see more adults jinxing each other in professional settings. Or maybe it would just be annoying.
In English we say great minds think alike, but in German they say "Zwei Dumme Eine Gedanke" which means Two Idiots One Thought. They would rightly be too ashamed to point out saying the exact same thing someone else said. I don't know if German's ever try to jinx each other. and if they do counting to ten certainly isn't involved. Learn shame people, learn shame... like in Junior High.

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Spa Delights Giveaway

My sister Rachelle is having a giveaway on a brand new blog- check it out and you can get free soap and a washcloth.

CLICK HERE for the giveaway

I included the text of the giveaway here-




A SPA DELIGHTS GIVEAWAY!
To Introduce our store and generate a bit of excitement, we are having a GIVEAWAY! Hurray!The Grand Prize is shown in this post: a luxurious spa set with a hand-knitted face cloth by Dana, a hand-crafted wooden soap deck, and 3 bars of handcrafted soap from fellow Etsy sellers! (1 bar by Sagegold and 2 bars by Kelle's Kitchen - check out their excellent stores!)HOW TO WIN: There are two ways to enter. Here they are:1. Leave a comment about what color face-cloth you would like to see in the store in the future. Be sure to leave your contact info if it's not contained in your blogger info. This will get you one entry.2. FOLLOW OUR BLOG! This will get you an additional entry and prize of TWO MORE BARS OF SOAP if you are chosen. Make sure you post a comment that you are following the blog so you get your additional entry!We will randomly enter all comments (including those that say they "follow" the blog) into the random number generator on May 30, 2009 and notify the winner. Good Luck!- Rachelle and Dana

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John's Baby

Danielle inherited a lot from John- and not just sneezing in the sun.

Danielle always wants to watch the my little pony show. Or any show. I think "show" was one of her first words. When she wakes up she asks for a show and it doesn't stop. Friday I also noticed her with the remote control in the menu of the on demand shows. She was watching word world at the time and had somehow managed to turn on a new word world show. If she really knows how to do that (which I doubt- it was probably just luck) she figured out the remote control faster than I did.Danielle would watch shows all day if she could. When she won't go to bed when she is sick we watch a movie and she calms down. Last night she was feeling sick and couldn't really stop crying so we went to the new star trek movie. She was pretty good and understands that if we talk to the people around us we have to leave. Also she said goodbye to the robots at the end. During scary parts she closes her eyes and holds my hand. The only danger with her and movies is that she gets so excited and wants to talk about it. We try to take her to mostly kid movies lately but any type of show is OK with Danielle. She tells us she is happy when she watches shows.John likes watching movies ANY TIME- so I have practice monitoring television and movie watching.

which brings me to a question- Why do kids want to watch the same movie over and over and over?

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