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Here’s the scenario:  You are female.  You are at the movies with your friends.  They only sell drinks at the movies that are 64 oz. so the call of nature goes out to everyone so no one can hold anything for you.

1) In the stall of the restroom, do you:

• a) Hang up your purse and balance your drink on your purse and hope it doesn’t fall
• b) Balance your drink on the toilet paper dispenser
• c) Put it on the ground close to the stall door and pick it up when you leave
• d) Ditch the drink

2) You are in the stall and your phone rings.  Do you:

• a) Pick up the phone and answer it with a cheery, “Hello?”
• b) Pick up the phone and whisper, “I’m busy, call you right back.”
• c) Let it ring
• d) Glance at who it is and reject the call

3) Your friend starts takes the stall 2 doors down from you and starts asking you what you thought of Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker.  Do you:

• a) Respond with your opinions about how he will definitely be a posthumous shoo-in if nominated
• b) Tell her you can’t hear her and will discuss it outside
• c) Ignore her
• d) Pick up your phone and make her phone ring so she stops talking to you

The next few questions involve inside the movie theater and you don’t have to be female:

4) During the movie, your phone rings because you failed to heed the Turn Off Your Cell Phone notices in the opening commercials.  Do you:

• a) Answer your phone and carry on a brief conversation allowing time to find out what the caller wanted and then politely inform them that you’re watching a movie and will have to call them back
• b) Answer the phone and run out to finish the conversation
• c) Run out with your ringing phone and then answer it and finish your conversation
• d) Reject the calland put your phone on silent or shut it off

5) During the movie, the person in back of you repeatedly kicks your chair.  Do you:

• a) Turn around and politely ask him not to kick your chair
• b) Sigh heavily and adjust yourself in an attempt to make him aware that you’re not happy with the kicking
• c) Ignore it and endure
• d) Move

6) During the movie, someone around you is either a heavy-breather, a commentator*, an open-mouthed chewer, or has a super-sized Doritos bag that crinkles each time he reaches in to grab a chip.  Do you:

• a) Breathe heavy along with him, respond to his comments or be MORE witty with yours, start moo-ing, or ask him if you can have some Doritos; the bag makes it sound so yummy!
• b) Sigh heavily and adjust yourself in an attempt to make him aware that you’re not happy with the situation
• c) Ignore it and endure
• d) Move

Granted, your answers will most likely differ from mine, but I’ll do my best analysis in tomorrow’s post.

*A commentator is one of those guys who makes comments or loud exclamations or predictions during movies, either unknowingly or consciously in an attempt to be funny

While I was getting ready this morning, Baby Mochi decided the 20 or so goldfish I put in her bowl just wasn’t cutting it.  So she went into the kitchen and got the bag off the counter (is she that tall already?!) and poured them all in her bowl.  When I saw her, she tried to bail, but couldn’t take the full bowl AND run away so she left the bowl.  Then she picked up the bag and handed it to me as if to say, “What?  I left some in the bag, see?” (6 left at the bottom).  When she finally COULD run with the bowl, she got as far as the giant bean bag and then tripped, leaving a nice little pile of goldfish for me to clean up. 

Later, after cleaning up and getting them changed, I was putting up Big Mochi’s hair and realized it had gotten a littlel too quiet -  you know that quiet that means someone little is getting into something they shouldn’t be into.  Sure enough, she got G’s bag of Doritos!

And let’s not forget that Dorito fingerprints only happen the day after you vaccuum your off-white carpet and wear white pants!

I guess when you’re 2 and learning how to speak, the best way to practice is to speak whenever you can.  Since the vocabulary is limited, the best way to fill the silence is to repeat.  To make it interesting, you can increase the volume until someone acknowledges you.  Or even if they don’t acknowledge you, it’s always fun just to keep naming whatever you see as loud as you can – repeatedly. 

And then when they learn to speak well, it’s a good idea to keep watch to attempt to divert their attention when you see something you KNOW they will comment on.  Once when we were entering the supermarket during the summer, Big Mochi saw a woman up ahead wearing a tight low-cut tank top exposing a very large bosom and she asks Baby Mochi **very loudly** if she was hungry. 

Or that time when we were visiting Baby Mochi in the NICU walking past an elderly woman who was in a wheelchair and Big Mochi declares it’s a lady in a stroller…

31) It’s not entirely true when they say you want your kids to stand, walk and talk - and once they do, you just want them to sit down, keep still and shutup.  Not all the time, anyway.  Kidding!

Perfect weather, perfect beach day.  Headed out to Huntington Beach to play.  Hot with a nice breeze and the water was nice and warm.  Turns out Baby Mochi still wasn’t digging the sand, but once she got on the hard wet sand and the ocean, she was in Baby Beach Heaven.  I don’t think she stopped running the entire time, and we were there quite a while!  Big Mochi went collecting shells in the shallow breaks while I attempted to fly a ready-to-fly kite.  Apparently it wasn’t quite ready cuz it never took off.    Later she went swimming with G and didn’t want to go home. 

I had my camera, spare batteries, and would’ve got some great shots – if only I had remembered to put my memory card back in the camera after the last download.  

Sorry, guys.  Next time!  Just believe me when I say it was a GREAT day.  We finished off our great day at Casa Gamino, where Aunty told us had great food.  We were not disappointed.  And turns out Baby Mochi also loves refried beans.  She never ate it before so it was quite the shocker!  Breaking new ground, that one…

We had a playdate with Princess S and Baby G today.  Great fun for everyone.  We had grilled chicken, couscous and corn on the cob for lunch.  The kids had plain couscous and the adults had veggies mixed in.  Very yummy, but new to my asian sticky-rice crew.  Big Mochi took a huge spoonful of it.  Then she tried another, and after that, decided it wasn’t her thing.  Lisa thought it was funny that when she tries new things, instead of taking a little nibble like most people, she takes huge spoonfuls, no doubt for full effect.  Baby Mochi on the other hand, LOVED couscous!  She was having a field day in her high chair, getting it ALL over the place!  In the end, I had to take her outside and shake her off as it completely covered her, her hair, in her ear, and later on (don’t ask me how), I discovered some crumbs in her diaper and her bellybutton!  And she was wearing a dress!  With a diaper cover-up thing!

I got my passport in 8 days!  I submitted on Tuesday, got it the following Wednesday.  How’s THAT for service?!? 

G’s been working late the last couple of days which means I have both mochis by myself at night.  It’s interesting… I am able to feed, bathe, clean up and put them both to bed on time and have time to spare when it’s just me.  Why is that?  You’d think it’d be easier with 2 adults, wouldn’t it?  Last night was no different.  I had time to take them both for a stroll so we could enjoy the cool evening air before Baby Mochi’s bedtime.  Then the second she was in her crib, Big Mochi and I busted out a deck of cards to play Concentration, which is like Memory (just keep flipping over 2 cards until you find matches until they’re all gone).  We have to wait until Baby Mochi goes to bed because otherwise she’ll 1) step on all the cards because she likes it when they stick to her feet, or 2) she’ll lie in the middle of the all the cards and pretend she’s making snow angels, but with cards. 

Anyway, I got smoked, as usual.  We play a game and a half.  The 2nd half is played with only half the deck so it doesn’t take too long.  But then Big Mochi was saying things like, “The other Ace was right here last time.”  I’m like wha???  How am I supposed to compete with someone who can remember where the cards were LAST game?!?!  No fair! 

30) Just because it’s still good, it doesn’t mean you have to keep it.