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i was a bit rushed with that entry i put up yesterday (didn't even edit it, so i hope it's legible), but i just remember that i forgot to tell how this conversation with Melody started (i should be calling her Neh'ima, but give me a couple of days to mentally accept this haha)...

how the conversation started is that i was in the salon (doing schoolwork/reading) and Melody was performing for the little ones, pretending that she was at a concert and singing "Yerushalayim shel Zahav" for Olivia and Manni... in the middle of the song, that is when she came to me and interrupted my reading with "ima, my name is Ofra now, okay?" (renaming herself after Ofra Haza)....

forgive me for being hyper-superstitious, i was hesitant to agree with her, "why Ofra, sweetheart? is this because you don't have a Hebrew name?" (forgive me, i never gave her a Hebrew name, i wasn't at all observant when i had her about 8 yrs ago).... she agreed with me saying that i had a Hebrew name and so do Olivia & Manni (my birth name is Ester (Juju is a nickname), and her name is "Olivia Gila" and his actual name is "Darcy Shneur Zalman"**)

this is why yesterday, i needed to take a break from my work, soonly, and look up the Hebrew translations of the word "melody"....

oh, and something has popped up for Olivia... well, she is about 2 years old, and i was having a HELL of a time keeping her dressed... she was a wannabe-nekkid-baby... the only thing that helped me catch her and dress her again was that she loves to give off a high pitched squeal (and i mean HIGH pitched) as she got naked.....

just recently we were visiting with local friends (Jonathan and Bryan), and i heard that squeal (and i broke into a sweat) and got up from our tea and tried to find Olivia in the salon... but this time i found that she had not only stripped herself but also undressed Manni, and then she pulled her dress onto my little man and was trying to pull his pants up her legs (they didn't fit, she was too big for them)... and when i tried to get the pants back from her she started crying and hung onto them.....

SO, i wondered if i could just dress her in pants from now on (no more dresses) and see if she would keep them on... for the past week or so, i have dressed her in pants every day and she has NOT stripped herself, not even once.... my fingers are crossed... the only down side is bring her to shul on Shabbat and looking exactly like the little boys (you know how they are with their long hair and barettes, there is no way to know that she is a little girl).... oh well.
shalom! - Juju/Ulla & co.

** btw, i am not fond of the name "Darcy", it is took dark a name, but his father's favorite grandfather was named Darcy... i agreed to it but only if we could call the baby Manni (a fave brother in law of mine, Ulla's husband is named "Manuel Noach" and went as "Manni" when he was growing up)

i managed to get thru the 25 pgs. of toxic chemical risk & assessment (it was HELL)..
i did manage to get a couple sewing "breaks" (see below), as well as able to save all the satellite screen shots, AND my power-walking (almost 2,000 steps actually)....

this entire time i was doing the usual bi-locating... the men usually "baby sit" for me if they are around and i have a lot of schoolwork to do, but today it was a little different.... Jules and Wesley wanted to go down to the sea, and Seamus wanted to go with them..... usually Melody skips along, side by side, with her 3 fathers, but not today... she decided to stay behind and play with her siblings (both babies were awake, not napping).... i agreed that she could stay behind IF she was a good girl and let mommy do her schoolwork.. (she was mostly focused on the babies, so it all worked out)...

but i was around 1/2 finished with the reading when she came to me and said that she wanted to change her name from Melody to a Hebrew name that meant the same thing... i just asked her "okay sweetheart, but to be honest, i have to google the computer a bit.. i don't know the Hebrew translation yet".... she very patiently let me go back to my reading after promising her that we would look it up in an hour or so....

Google gave us a handful of words but Melody refused a lot of them because of the gender of the words (obviously), i suggested that we just pick one of the words and alter the gender, but she would have none of it... but she read a word "Neh'ima" that means "tune, melody, tone, descant" -- i had to pause when i saw that last word (i had to make sure it didn't mean anything "ugly"), but once i read that the word generally referred to a rather soprano form of music sang in hymns/chants... the word also is used to describe a rather "loquacious" person, but Melody actually got a kick out of that..

she lowered her face just a smidge and smirked "i *do* talk a lot, ima" (making fun of herself), but as per usual i popped into mommy-mode "oh honey, but we LOVE that you ramble like you do, your words mean so much to us!"... Wesley had once told her "you are just sharing a large part of yourself verbally... we *need* those words" (his major was English Lit., i'm surprised he doesn't follow her around with a tape recorder)...

barush Hashem, for my Neh'ima
shalom! - Juju/e. & co.

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