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i was eating the bottom layer of a biscuit and lucas asked if it was a pancake. i said no, it’s a biscuit. he said, “kinda like a pancake. it’s a circle.” observant of him.

i went to start lucas’s bath and he said “what’s that?” pointing to the bath mat in the tub basin. I said it was the bath mat, that I never took it out last night. He continued saying what’s that, so I paid more attention and saw a creepy unknown bug on top of the mat. no idea what it was. after i got done being creeped out, i washed it down the drain. lucas had some reservations about it crawling back up, but i told him it was quite washed away, plus the plug was inserted. i came downstairs to find out what my unknown bug was. i typed into google, “creepy bug with lots of legs,” expecting to have to wade through a bunch of google images to identify the right one, because let’s face it, there are a LOT of creepy looking bugs out there. so this bug must really creep out a lot of people, because both the top web result and the top row of google images were all of my bug, now known to be a house centipede. google it and be afraid. or at least mildly disgusted.

me: it happened again…it just keeps happening!!!
steph: wat
me: mornings
steph: every day of your life

the current going ons in the beechner household:

paul is boring. i have nothing to say on his behalf.

arianna is still a baby. she started sleeping at night at 7 weeks, sleeping from about 9pm until 5am on average. she and i have scintillating conversations that consist of “ohh” and “ahh”.

lucas’s gymboree school class is changing starting in May so that it will be from 3pm-6pm Tues/Thurs. I think they are adding the sports class type activities to the end of his school day activities, but he still has his regular sports class on Thursdays. I guess i’ll find out more in May or when I bother to ask. he really is enjoying going, though.

as for me, not much going on. taking care of kids, lots of scrapbooking, trying to make it through my backed up list of DVRed shows, etc. i start back at girl scouts tomorrow and i have no idea what we are going to do.

i know lucas understands numbers because i told him he could have one cookie. he took a second one from the wrapper and said “two.” so i let him have two and he said, “have 3” and took a third one. paul said, “way to be a disciplinarian.” and i replied, “it’s teaching him to count.” 

Lauren and Jenn and I were trying to figure out Arianna’s eye color at the hospital. b/c i’m neurotic like that i wanted to know what color her eyes are. with the computer era, you can now find out exactly that. I took a close up photo of her eyes in the daylight and loaded it into photoshop. Then I used the color grabber tool and used it to pick out the colors in her eyes — both the lighter and darker areas of her irises. I’ve been calling them steel blue but didn’t think they really looked very blue and they aren’t really.  they’re like really grey. slate grey. that blows away the whole “all babies are born with blue eyes” theory.

i’m scrolling through the baby announcements for my Feb Baby Board to see what the Feb moms ended up naming their kids (mostly looking for any odd ones). So far I’ve found:

– 2 little girls with the middle name London

– some cool ones: Kai x2, Declan x3, Rowan x4, Everley, Avaleigh, Emerlee, Vienna as a middle name, Jace Donovan, Trevin, Drake, Roman, Asher, Brynleigh, Irelyn, Rylan, Kylon, Aubrianna, Trace

– an Alexandria,  Damon x2, a Hunter, an Ethan, Lucas x 2

– Aidan x 4, Eliana x 4, Sera x 2, Landon x 4, a bunch of Reeses, 2 Paisleys, 2 Willows

– Albert the 3rd, Larry, and Maximus

– the odd ones: Logan Viking, Thatcher, Briar,  Giovanni Valentin (this baby is destined to be an Italian clothing designer or something), Zakk, Ma’Riyah Zyerria, Stanislaw, Billie Jean (a boy), Balthazar, Atlas, Journey Raine, Zyaire, Breslynn, Dorian Gray

how come every girly teen movie requires a fashion montage of the main character trying on a bunch of different clothes at a store to music? is it part of the costume designer’s contract to have her wearing a set number of outfits in a movie so they just throw ten in at once?

how come in the movies/tv, when someone’s get-together gets crashed by being turned into a raging party, 100 people show up *all at once* and they come bringing kegs, cups, and stereos for the music? i have never brought my own stereo system to a party.

i don’t care if “the script called for it,” Mr D, it’s just stupid

so adding strawberries and honey to a reg vanilla shake is quite yum and you can pretend it is sorta healthy b/c it has strawberries in it.

adding cream cheese cake icing to a reg vanilla shake is not very good. the icing doesn’t really blend and you just get clumps of it. also, the flavors don’t seem to mesh well.

I will keep you all updated as I discover new creations.

i forgot one of the things lucas said…

we were watching a farmville video on youtube where the animals are talking, and when the pig was talking lucas says, “pig talking. not ‘oink oink’ “

i might strangle my blog for the way it just emailed out my entire entry as one massive paragraph. i fixed it on the actual website, but i cant do anything about the emails you have already received. so better to look at ally-cat.com to read it if you don’t want your eyes to go numb

“lucas has a baby in the belly”

omg lucas just did the funniest thing
he spilled milk on the kitchen floor and abby was cleaning it up. when she was done i gave lucas a paper towel and asked him if he wanted to clean up the rest. he dropped to his hands and knees and tried to lick it up off the floor like abby was