Our friends Beka and Simon came to visit with their 3 year old and 6 month old on Saturday. Jocelyn and Jesse were quite stricken with the baby and didn't give him much space! It was cute. After they left Jocelyn cried because she thought the baby forgot his caterpillar toy, but we assured her he had taken it, so then she was ok.
Earlier on Saturday Jocelyn was running full speed around the house with Jesse following somewhat close behind. She corners pretty well and turned 180 degrees quickly and started back the way she came. Unfortunately Jesse doesn't corner quite as well, and they met face on. I guess Jesse comes about up to Jocelyn's mouth, because he took some teeth to the head and she got a nice bloody fat lip. She, of course, was hysterical over it. She cried for what felt like forever. Finally I told her it was enough, that I had fallen down and hit my tooth when I was her age and I managed to live through it and she would too. She stopped crying long enough to look up at me and say "and did your daddy tell you a funny story so you would not cry any more?" I laughed and then tried my hand at a funny story, but then she just looked at me and yelled "but that's not funny!" and started crying again.
Tonight Jesse and Timothy were wrestling and somehow Jesse took a cuff to the mouth and was bleeding and so not only was he crying but so was Jocelyn. She had come running in from the living room to get us, quite sure he was dying, and it's good to know she was upset at that thought! But he was barely even injured and all was well.
So THEN I offered to read the kids a book. I took out How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight, and Jocelyn FREAKED OUT. She was hyperventilating and generally looked like she was going to need hospitalization. Once we got her to calm down, we got the story out of her. Apparently she told a friend at school that she didn't have that book. She was hysterical that she had lied. I tried to explain that it's not a lie if it's a mistake (I mean geez, we hadn't read it in probably a year, it's not the biggest deal that she forgot we had it!), but she was still inconsolable. Josh said she could tell her friend tomorrow that she made a mistake, but then she cried HARDER! So I finally got her to calm down by saying that I would email her teacher tonight and tell her that Jocelyn had made the mistake, and that her teacher could tell Shelby. My goodness!
So as you can tell, there is generally a lot of crying that happens at our house.
Tomorrow is Jocelyn's thanksgiving performance, so I'll work at home in the morning and then go into the office after the performance as I have to meet with some consultants in the afternoon to try to explain to them how our business works so they can do something useful instead of just waste my time. Yeah, that shouldn't take long.
We had a major reorganization announcement late last week, or at least the start of one. Very unclear what happens next and there are more announcements that need to unfold. So far my area is in tact, and in fact I told my boss that if she found any other departments lying around looking for a place to live, I'd be happy to expand my empire. haha.
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