Nicknames, schmicknames

I love to assign nicknames to my kiddos. The problem is that I can't stick with just one. Here are all the ones I can think of for each of the short people that call me mommy (or mamamamamama as la princesa calls me--okay, she doesn't really CALL me that, she just says it and I choose to believe she's asking for me!!):

First is the scrappy young kid I call my son: critterboy, wild man, little man, sweet potato (pronounced puh-TAYT-uh --come on, we're in Oklahoma, how else would we say it?), sweet potato pie, munchkin, love dove, wiggle worm, toot toot, monkey boy, bubba, and angel baby.

Next is the little beauty that has been stealing the show at our house lately: miss priss pants, sissy, sissy girl, sissy priss, long body (because her body seems really long sometimes!), la princesa, princess, mi amor, and lady bug.

If I could only decide on just one for each kid, life would be simpler.

Doesn't her body look really long to you?


Okay, now for more important matters. I had to go to the bank today to deposit the last dimes we could scrape together until I go back to work. With gas prices being what they are these days (I'm so sick of hearing about it--just lower the prices already!) it's important for me to make the most of my time out of the house. Help me rationalize my obsession of buying clothes for the short ones. Here's how I spin it to my dearest husband: "Oh my goodness honey! I just happened to go into Old Navy today (Umm, no, I went on purpose, totally premeditated. I got a $10 bucks back coupon on Monday and I only had until the end of the year to use it. I didn't want to take a chance on it expiring! hee hee) and they had TONS of stuff on clearance. I got 12 things (2 were gifts for my new friends the Covey's whose new baby is due any day--yes guys, I'm cheap, but it's super cute stuff and I'm including a gift receipt--fancy!) for less than $30." I mean, can he really argue with that? Sometimes a girls gotta spend money (okay, swipe that darn Old Navy card, which by the way, is also good at Baby Gap. Sigh.) to save money, right? I surprisingly haven't taken the time to add up the original prices, that I would NEVER pay by the way, to figure out just how much I saved, but I'm guessing it was in the neigborhood of $100. I got really good stuff for practically nothing! Is there a 12 step program for moms like me?

Now for the really fun stuff. The kids took their first real bath together tonight. I've had them in the tub at the same time before, but la princesa was always in her little baby tub inside the big tub. Tonight though, I had to bribe the little man to get in the tub and the only thing that worked was to put sissy priss in with him. It was so cute. Check them out! She did really good and even flipped over on her tummy/hands and knees a few times. All that time in the pool lately is proving to be handy!



I think that's all of the excitement for tonight. I'll have both kids home with me tomorrow, then a big weekend: our area Guatemalan adoption get together Saturday and our big anniversary celebration (sorry, you won't get all the details!) on Sunday, so I'm sure I'll have lots of stuff to share next week. Ta ta for now!