a new word

Jul 27

Posted by: Rachel in: blog, caleb isaiah, just another day in paradise, ramblings

Main Entry: whin·ish
Function: noun
Much like the definition of it’s sister word giberish meaning unintelligible or meaningless language: a: a technical or esoteric language b: pretentious or needlessly obscure language, whinish is the lanuage following giberish, now using words in a whinny manner and fussing over every single little insignificant thing.

Caleb whines all day every day now. I deal with is better some days than others. Today is not an “I’m dealing with it okay” day. I took him to get his hair cut. He start flipping out as soon as I put him in the chair, so I opted to hold him. Now let me explain further. We haven’t been able to use the cape thingys since the first few haircuts. He flips out over them as well. So putting him in my lap means that both of us now get covered with hair instead of just him. So I whipped out the goldfish. Nope. No good. Then I tried the new sticker book about cars that we had just purchased 10 minutes earlier at Books a Million. Nope. So I dug out a trusty old pappy and plugged it in his wailing mouth. This combined with Charley calmed him down, so she cut and snipped away with out too many problems. I thought, okay, rocky start but this is turning out okay. Then came the bangs. The hair began falling. He got it in his mouth, which caused him to take his paci out to wipe his tongue. With his hair covered arm. Commence SCREAMING. People in the mall walking past kept looking in to see what the problem was. He screamed no less than 10 minutes straight. I had to take him in the bathroom and wipe his mouth out with a wet paper towel. Then came the itchies from all the hair, which just caused more problems. This all might have been tolerable if it wasn’t so damn hot outside. I don’t do heat. I don’t like hot weather. It makes me unhappy. Some days you’re the pigeon, some days you’re the statue. Anyway, enough of my whinish.

On a different note, I’m watching TLC’s Bringing Home Baby. The woman is a total nutcase! I thought I was uptight, jeez. I would love to see a peek into her life after their baby is about two. She is driving me nuts, I wonder why her husband married her!! She is a total control freak. They got home from the hospital and an hour later the family began pouring in. The grandmother and great grandmother came through the door. The hugged and kissed and her great grandmother said “Well you still have a little pooch there huh?!” Ugh, now that made me feel sorry for the poor girl, but by the end of the show, I was back to thinking she was a beyotch. Of course grandma and great grandma wanted to see the baby. Now we all know newborns could sleep through a Nascar race. Well the new mom is like “I guess you can see him, even though he isn’t supposed to wake up for another hour.” Hello! He’s sleeping 22 hours a day!!!!!! She won’t let the poor dad do anything. In the followup when the baby was 8 weeks old, the dad actually said, “My job has become somewhat removed, she does everything until she can’t handle anymore, then tells me to take him, that’s when I step in.” How sad. She got mad because he fed the baby before changing his diaper, and she wanted it done the other way around. Oh and THEN, the next episode comes on. Guess what this couple says?? We purposely didn’t buy a carseat because we thought the one the hospital would give us would be good enough!!! Why? Why is there not an IQ test before people are allowed to conceive? The carseat had no base, it was a 3 point harness, and looked to be around 4-5 years old, in other words, almost expired. Who knows whether it was used or not. I just wanted to slap them. It was really lose when after they installed it. And their car was loaded, TV screens in the headrests and everything. They weren’t poor. They had just bought a new house, a new car…yada yada. Okay I can’t talk about this anymore!

PS The second couple did redeem themselves by going and buying a Graco travel system, which of course had a Snugride with it.

Comments

One Response to “a new word”

Frank
August 7th, 2007 3:16 pm

Helpful advice………Let dad take care of the haircuts. Let Caleb go with Scott when he gets a haircut. After a time or two, he will want to, as Logan says “Take a haircut” just like daddy.

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