ARGH!!!

Yeah, you guessed it! Blog Effect transcended even my switching of blogs!!

Bad night + early morning = tired, grumpy Mama.

But, still hoping it was a fluke b/c Malía is also sick with a bad cold. The over the counter meds barely seem to give her relief.

Doesn't stop her from being raring to go at 7 am on a Sunday (she's also been up at 1, 2, 3:30. and 5!!) as this conversation proves:

Setting: Mama's bed. Mama is trying to stay cozy and get Mal back to sleep. Mal is having none of it.

Mal (sitting up): Não quero, Não quero, Não quero Não quero... (a litany of "I don't want to"

Mama: Honey it's too early!

Mal: No! Não quero!!

Mama: Aw, come on, Mal. Have a heart.

Mal: (getting up and standing at the window above the bed) No. Mama, ou'side.

Mama: Don't even think it.

Mal: Debbie (our neighbour)

Mama: She's in bed where you should be. (I pull her down and she bumps her knee on the headboard)

Mal: Ow!

Mama: What now, Malía?

Mal: Doi-Doi! (boo-boo) It hur's! Ow.

Mama: Here, let me kiss it.

(she smothers ME in kisses then)

Mal: Down? Chão (floor)

Mama: Mal!

Mal: Couch?? TV. Peese. (grabs my face) Peese, Mama. Couch. (she says the ch like sh and gives me a bunch of kisses)

Mama: In a minute- give me just a minute.

She throws herself on top of me, I get an elbow in the ovaries, a hand on the trachea, a forehead in the eye. There is much ow-ing and moaning, all from me)

Mal: (astride me)Chó-chó, chó-chó (horsey) and proceeds to bounce. (I am thinking I might throw up)
(then noticing my pj top) Mama, 'is pupple.

Mama: Yes, baby. What else?

Mal: Wed, peenk, bwon.

Mal: Very good, Mali.

(I try to cuddle her back to the mattress)

Mal: No, mama, shop it! shop it! (stop it)

(she hears a truck outside and jumps up again)

Mal: Ou'side! Twuck! Blue Twuck!

Mama: Uncle Ewold? (debbie's husband)

Mal: Yeah! Ewolt! Ou'side! Shwings!

Mama: Mal! NO SWINGS! It's too EARLY!!

Mal: (there is a pause, then hopefully) Vai pa paia? (vai pra praia? - we go to the beach??)

(Mama laughs outloud and gets up to fix breakfast :)

Thankfully, she ate well- an egg, 1/2 slice whole grain bread, 1/4 cup frozen blueberries, 2 Maria cookies (begged b/c she she saw the box), water. At 7am, she'd had milk, too.)