Well, we raised these babies right! They don’t just pull out cuteness for fame and fortune. If it isn’t sincere, they won’t even bother. So when I can get Zach giggling like crazy or Rissa talking up a storm, and then I try to call the grandparents and leave messages for them while they are at work, but the babies look at me like I’m crazy for trying to inspire them to do what they were JUST doing, and the grandparents get empty machine messages of me sounding silly and the babies giving nothing… well, when that happens, you know they have ethics! They’ll be cute when they feel like it! And they know full well that if you could see them staring blankly at me, you’d think they were cute just doing that! They’d rather skip the gig than give up their ethics. And I say, 3 cheers! So grandparents, when you get home to empty answering machines, I’d like to preemptively apologize. And if anyone else would appreciate a courtesy empty answering machine message, let me know!
Daily Archives: April 18, 2008
Earthquake!
About an hour ago, at 4:40am, I woke up Matt because our room was shaking and I wanted to know why all of our dresser drawer pulls were rattling. He said, “I think we’re having an earthquake!” I’m mentally prepared for what to do for a tornado (grab babies and Hoochie, go to the basement) and a fire (grab babies and Hoochie, get outside), but not an earthquake! We “rode out” the minor shockwaves and prayed for St. Louis because Matt remembered that the epicenter of Illinois’ inactive fault line was around St. Louis. We got up and checked online but there was no info at all then.
I thought about doing Misty’s “wake to sleep” method where right before your babies wake up, you pick them up in their sleep, jostle them just a bit to reset their sleep cycle, then put them back to bed for added sleeping bliss because I wondered if they would be jostled awake by the rolicking motion of our whole house wiggling! I should have done it, because 20 minutes later, Rissa is crying and frustrated that she is awake. I went ahead and fed them so Matt could try to get more sleep because it’s kind of hard to ask them to keep sleeping for one more hour after they did such a good job for 10 hours since 7pm last night! I popped them back in bed and now, I’m headed back to bed. It’s really hard to fall asleep when you were going to get up in an hour anyway! Ugh, tired day ahead. I hope that’s all it is, because it could be far more devastating than just exhaustion for anyone hurt by the earthquake!