Saturday, January 14, 2012

oh what a night

well the saints are out of the running so i no longer care about football.  not that i cared that much to begin with.  and i only like the saints b/c i love new orleans.  but why else would you like a football team?  i like san francisco, so maybe i'll root for them.  lord knows if there is football on, it is on at my house.  but since ben dutifully and without much complaint has watched and will watch hour upon hour of law and order in this marriage, i can give him football.  that seems fair. 
anyway.  once you have two kids the sick becomes endless.  at least that is how it feels here this week.  today is the first day in about 4 that marley has not had fever.  thank god.  so now of course davis has it.  though she is just congested so far.  no fever yet, which is good b/c girl will NOT take medicine.  last night i was trying to trick her into taking her meds (doctor ordered benadryl, about five drops, to help dry up the congestion) by nursing and then slipping a tiny squirt of medicine every once in a while.  the only thing that accomplished was making me sticky.  oh well.  the doc ordered benadryl for marley too.  just once yesterday and since she seemed better today i thought we could skip it, but then she had an allergic reaction to dinner.  on the bright side, hopefully they will both get a good nights sleep. 
a couple of days ago marley was reading to davis while davis was in the jumperoo.  as i am sweeping i hear:  god is good, god is white.  my mom is trying to teach marley her prayers and obviously they still need a little work.  girlfriend managed to bring up two big doozies at once: religion and race.  now religion is easy.  i studied religion for a bit in college.  find it fascinating.  and basically most major religions boil down to a prophet that teaches you how to live.  or to sum it up even more most religions have some form of the golden rule.  i can get behind that.  i want to introduce the girls to every possible religion.  but somehow keep them away from the followers.  christianity is good.  a lot of christians are not.  islam is good.  a lot of muslims are not.  that may seem to overstate things, but here is a case in point.  the elca has decided to be ok with the glbt community.  awesome.  a lot of people have left our church b/c of this.  they have decided to attend a church that preaches that being gay is wrong.  well, maybe i have read the bible wrong, but didn't jesus say he who is without sin cast the first stone?  judge not lest you be judged?  i find a lot of hypocrisy in people that attend organized religious institution and that bothers me.  not to imply in any way that i am perfect....god knows that is not the case.
but race i have an issue with.  do you point out different races and, in my belief, perpetuate racism?  or do you ignore it and thusly downplay the importance racism has played in our history as a culture?  those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  and racism is not a distant memory, unfortunately.
and who knew an almost three year old would bring up such deep questions?  ben and i tend to lean towards the hippy dippy side of things, especially when it comes to raising our girls.  that being said, marley is a sponge.  heaven forbid i pick my nose, marley will have her finger in her nose all the live long day.  (although i think granny is teaching her to pick her nose.  j/k)  anyway.  a lot of life's important lessons are taught not by words but by actions.  i just need to make sure i can answer and address the important things verbally as well. 
enough of the serious crap, here are some cute pictures of davis.
puffs!  finally getting the hang of them.  sort of

nothing beats daddy for a good snuggle nap

help!  i'm in baby jail!

maybe i can chew through this magical force field.
to be clear davis actually likes her playpen.  she sits up in it and plays with her toys while i cook.  today is the first time she's done this.  not real sure what it is all about other than she loves to chew.  on anything.  also for some reason links have been popping on up certain words.  don't click on them.  i don't know what they are but i did not put them there. 

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