From - Sun Dec 12 23:47:29 1999 Received: from ftpbox.mot.com (ftpbox.mot.com [129.188.136.101]) by admin.inetport.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA00250 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 08:15:39 -0600 (CST) Received: [from mothost.mot.com (mothost.mot.com [129.188.137.101]) by ftpbox.mot.com (MOT-ftpbox 1.0) with ESMTP id HAA28906 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 07:15:38 -0700 (MST)] Received: [from cerberus.ibmoto.com ([129.38.252.34]) by mothost.mot.com (MOT-mothost 2.0) with ESMTP id HAA02115 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 07:15:38 -0700 (MST)] Received: from ibmoto.com (stephen@chevelle.ibmoto.com [129.38.130.54]) by cerberus.ibmoto.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA03213 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 08:15:37 -0600 (CST) Sender: stephen@ibmoto.com Message-ID: <384FB989.B9308D80@ibmoto.com> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 08:15:37 -0600 From: Stephen Reeve Organization: Somerset - PowerPC Microprocessor Development X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; AIX 4.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tana & Stephen Subject: [Fwd: Pearls of wisdom from Samantha] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------4492194B2AAB487930542E93" X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-UIDL: 1caa98f028d262f65f4ebc4732207ec9 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------4492194B2AAB487930542E93 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------4492194B2AAB487930542E93 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from erebus.ibmoto.com (erebus.ibmoto.com [129.38.203.1]) by cerberus.ibmoto.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA03270; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:45:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by erebus.ibmoto.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA10372; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:45:13 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: erebus.ibmoto.com: smap set sender to using -f Received: from inetport.com(204.96.100.2) by erebus.ibmoto.com via smap (V1.3) id sma009801; Wed Oct 14 21:37:11 1998 Received: from admin (as01-9.inetport.com [204.96.100.89]) by admin.inetport.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA18672; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:37:10 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:37:10 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199810150237.VAA18672@admin.inetport.com> X-Sender: stephen@inetport.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: brreeve@juno.com, AFcanmp@dia.osis.gov, reeve@groupz.net, EarlEastab@aol.com, ddukro@stny.lrun.com, dsltr@flash.net, reeve6@juno.com, tshultz@mindspring.com, LHAUBL@worldnet.att.net, mstrbill@inetport.com, jay@ibmoto.com, laurap@ibmoto.com From: stephen@inetport.com (Stephen and Tana Reeve) Subject: Pearls of wisdom from Samantha Be VERY careful what you say around a three-year old because you are going to hear it back in some form or another ... here are some examples: (1) Samantha participated in a sticker chain letter. Basically, instead of sending money or postcards, you send stickers. Anyway, she received some stickers in the mail today. She was all excited until we opened up the envelope and she saw that they were Barbie stickers. She crinkled up her nose and said "ewwwww, yuck, I HATE BARBIE!!!, can I give these away to somebody else?" I think that my feelings about Barbie are pretty clear, I just didn't know that Samantha had absorbed them! (2) Yesterday was a little hectic. Stephen and I had a frame-stage walk through of our new house at 3:30, and we were scheduled to babysit for Cassidy, one of Samantha's little friends, at 6:20. I got a babysitter for Samantha during the walk through, one of the Moms in our Sunday School class who happens to live in Cedar Park. Our walk through ran long and we finished a little after 6:00. It takes about 15 minutes to travel between our current house and our new house. I had to go up to Cedar Park to pick up Samantha and then back down 183 (read, nasty road to travel during rush hour) to get home. Samantha knew that Cassidy was already at our house by the time that I picked her up, so she was in a hurry to get home. We were driving down Highway 183 on our way home and Samantha started yelling at the pickup truck in front of us. "Move out of our way you stupid pickup truck! You are blocking our way!! You are beating us home! You are a stupid truck!" I started laughing and pointed out that the pickup truck didn't really have any place that it could move since there was another car right in front of it, so Samantha responded: "Move out of our way all of you stupid cars!! Clear the entire lane just for us! We are in a hurry!!" Gee, do I really sound like that when I get aggrevated in the car? (3) Lately, whenever Samantha sees something in a store or catalog that she wants, I tell her to put it on her Christmas list. I have also been trying to explain to her the concepts of not asking for too many things and that just because something is on your Christmas list doesn't mean that you WILL get it. A couple of days ago she asked me: "Mommy, if I take the Veggie Tales stickers off my list will I still get them?" Then she asked, "Mommy, how many toys are too many to put on my list? Can we call Santa and ask him?" When I responded that I didn't think that we would be able to get hold of Santa on the telephone, she said "Well, we could call and leave a message on his answering machine, or maybe we could send him e-mail!" (4) This one really threw me: Day before yesterday, Samantha and I were watching Mister Rogers Neighborhood on television. Samantha said to me "Mommy, is Mister Rogers married?" I responded, "Hmmm, I don't know, I never thought about it". To which Samantha came back with "No Mommy, he isn't married, he isn't wearing a ring." Two things happened recently. The first was that Samantha was told that Mommy's ring box on the sink was off limits. I keep my wedding ring, my engagement ring, my college ring and my watch in a little heart shaped crystal box next to the sink in the bathroom. I explained to her what each of the rings meant to me and why she was not allowed to play with them. The second was that Cassidy came over one night with her parents for dinner. After dinner, Cassidy and Samantha went upstairs to play and the four adults sat downstairs and chatted. We thought that the girls were playing in Samantha's room and we remarked a couple of times at how quiet it was upstairs (two three year olds do not usually play together for long periods of time without squabbling over something!). When we finally went upstairs to check on the girls, we discovered that they had been carrying ALL of Samantha's toys out of her room and had stacked them all on top of our king size bed. They had also cleared off the top of both my and Stephen's night stands. It was quiet a pile. They said that they had been packing to go to Grandma's house. When we found them, they were each sitting on a pillow pretending to drive. It was amusing, but it was a HUGE mess. Anyway, it took some time to find Stephen's wedding ring and watch (and over a week to find the tv remote and bathroom clock). Samantha was told that Daddy's wedding ring and watch were off limits (and last night, we wouldn't let Samantha and Cassidy play in our room - we DO learn from our mistakes!) Take care! - Tana --------------4492194B2AAB487930542E93 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Stephen Reeve Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Stephen Reeve n: Reeve;Stephen org: Somerset, SPS-ASP
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