Grace Phrases ...

Those of you with children probably have compiled a list in your head and or on paper of the many funny things or daily phrases your children say. I was thinking of a few of my Gracie favorites today and would love to share them:

• "I'm to big." this is said when she can't reach things.




• "I am very, very busy." everything is "very, very" to being tired, to being hungry the list goes on.



• "CVDVD"s", this is meant to be DVD's

• "Uh, coldie." she says this when she is cold.



• "Muwkie" = Milk



• "I'm angry, stop talking to you mom." need I explain this one?




• "Oh yeah, wahoo, shake your booty, oh yeah!" Celebratory song ... dance inlcuded.



• "Good morning Mommy, what you dreamin?" every morning we ask eachother about our dreams, she always says shamu. I say daddy and a maide, this is an ethier or, certainly not the two together ha, ha, ha.



• "I'm not a cutie, I'm Gracie Hymas!" When ever I say she is cute, or my baby, or grumpy yada, yada, yada (sinfeld tribute) she say's this.




• And I can't really make out any of the words but on a typical day Grace loves to sing and it is usually about numbers, shamu, or going to the potty or any combination of the three. She belts them out, kind of funny when it is at the grocery store and people are watching.
  

I could go on forever, there are so many funny things she says in the day. I may add to the list when my memory is serving me better.

Guess Whose Birthday It Is...

So it turns out that February 26th was a pretty cool day in history. On February 26th, the following people were born:

• a German king (Wenceslas, 1361--yes, as in "Good King Wenceslas looked down...");
• the developer of the greatest invention of all time, dry cereal (John Harvey Kellogg, 1852--shout out to Kellogg's Foot Loops and Frosted Flakes);
• a famed French writer (Victor Hugo, 1802--don't deny that you don't tear up when you hear "Bring Him Home" from Hugo's Les Miserables);
• a famed German clothing designer (Levi Strauss, 1829--I still can't believe that a kid from my high school class, Brandon Vest, named his son after Mr. Strauss); and
• several famous singers (Mr. Johnny Cash, 1932--one of Tommi's favorite people in the music business; Michael Bolton, 1953--Tommi sported a Bolton hairdo at 10 yrs old; and Corrine Bailey Rae, 1979--whose "Like a Star" is one of those that you can't get out of your head even though you don't know any other words than "Just like a start that hmmm the sky, just like a hmmm that hmmm hmmm hmmm...").

There were also some pretty significant historical events that took place on Feb. 26th:

• 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from the island of Elba to begin his second conquest of France;
• 1952: Winston Churchill announces that Britain has developed its own atomic bomb;
• 1991: Gulf War--Iraq leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait; and
• 1993: The first World Trade Center Bombing--a bomb explodes in the garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.

But, of course, to me the most significant of all these events took place on a cold February morning in 1976 at Cottonwood Hospital when Tommi Jean Peterson came into the world (TJ's birth certificate confirms it indeed was Cottonwood, though her mother still insists Tommi was born at St. Marks). So last night was the 32nd anniversary of Tommi's birth, but this blog entry will be the final reference to her birthday, since Tommi has now decided that she will no longer allow a number/age to be associated with her birthday. From now on, February 26th will simply be known as a day to celebrate Tommi (you know, "Tommi Day," just like Mother's Day, Memorial Day or Arbor Day).

Yoga ... not just for sissy hippy freaks

I have taken up Yoga and I love it!! I didn't think I would like it since I am by nature a very busy and fidgity person. My idea of yoga was that I would go and relax and feel spirtually uplifed I suppose. I guess in some sense you are very relaxed ... by the end of class ... but during you are truly working out your body. My muscles are tight and sore the next day. I think this is the way you are suppose to work your body, it is so natural and it just puts everything back in line. I sleep better and I just deal with the day a lot better.

I haven't mastered any of the poses, well I take that back I am a natural at child pose. However all the other poses require the teacher to come over and make me a model of what not to do. My downward facing dog should be V shaped and I manage to make a U. I have come to realize how truly inflexible I am. I am not giving up until I can touch my toes.

If you need incentive to go here it is, go with the hopes that someone falls out of the difficult poses. I witnessed a friend fall out of crow pose and it was by far the best laugh I have had in a very long time. Side note: crow pose is super difficult so I take my hat off to her for doing it. I am sorry to my friend for laughing so hard and/or mentioning it here on my blog ... BUT thanks for the laugh. For instructions on Crow pose see pic above.