Apologies for the absence. I wish I had a good, glamorous excuse.
Barring that, I give you a few recent observations:
-Erin took Leo for an all day excursion in NYC to Little Boy Heaven aka The Intrepid Museum yesterday (see photos, above-the fountain shot was taken at a park just next to the museum and yes, that's Leo piloting a helicopter) while Ellie and I went for mani-pedis. Oh I kid. Really we hit the thrift stores (three words: rick rack jumper-score! (for Ellie)) and she took a marathon nap while I did some chores and caught up on my DVR. The most surprising part of the day was Ellie spent the first hour asking for and looking for Leo. According to Erin, Leo did something similar. Whenever they saw a small girlish looking person Leo would excitedly exclaim “Eh-yee! Eh-yee!” So again, with the love-hate relationship. They aggravate each other to no end but the second one of them is gone their little lives are thrown into chaos.
-Ellie has a bunch of new phrases: “He’s running! He’s walking!” (upon observing people, well, running and walking—this is when we are driving in the car). What do you want? We live in the suburbs. Sadly, walkers are not so commonplace as they were in Brooklyn.
-The other night Leo (aka Lightening Hands) somehow squirmed his little mits into the (baby locked! Honest!) Dreaded Poisonous Under-the-Sink Cabinet. He pulled out the not so deadly pet scent neutralizer (thankfully it’s non-toxic) and managed to spray Ellie squarely in the face. Awesome. Just another reason NOT to have toxic chemicals around…but anyway. Did I mention he managed to do all of this in the span of the few seconds I spent looking away from the two hooligans? I thinking I was doing something nervy, like washing a dish.
Of course, Ellie was terrified and was quickly reduced to a puddle of hysterical tears. I appropriately admonished Leo with the requisite time out. Apparently Ellie was taking notes and paid close attention to what I said to Leo, because all weekend she would walk over to the under-the-sink cabinet and say over and over “Leo spray me! Leo spray me!”
Kind of boring, right? But strangely at the same time, never a dull moment.
