Terms and Phrases

I realized last night that my wife and I had started using various terms and phrases as a short hand when talking about the kids. Some of them are kind of cute, so I thought I'd share them.

• squiggle or squigglet - This one started in the NICU and came from us watching the kids trying to move. It wasn't quite a wiggle but was more than an squirm. I'm not sure who, but one of us put the 2 together and ended up with squiggle. I think it refers to the child and not the motion.
• pants - As in making pants or pants face. It's exactly what it sounds like, and I think we adopted it because it was easier that saying "dirty diaper" at 2am. Pants face refers to the look the child gets as they try to make pants.
• squirrel - Ok, so you have your child swaddled in a Kiddopotamus ( or whatever) and they manage to get a hand free just loose enough to be moving around in the swaddle and maybe even poking out on top.... That's a squirrel because somehow it looked like something was running around in the swaddle. Versions of this include:
  
  • "this child has squirrels" - hands are just starting to break free and you can see it running around in the swaddle.
    
  • "squirrel attack" - one or both hands have broken free just enough to let the child get handsy with itself but not completely out of the swaddle.
  • "squirrels stole her binky" - hands have broken out of the swaddle and are stuffed in the childs face, usually resulting in a lost pacifier.
    

That's it for now....Oh, I've changed the way I do headers since the blog keeps track of the publish data anyway. Now the titles should speak to what I'm talking about in that post. - enjoy