Toddlerhood

It's 3:30 p.m.  Milk: 30 seconds.  TV: DVR'd Handy Manny.   Awaken child.  Give warmed milk.  Carry 40 pound child to couch.  Manny already in progress.  Tantrum avoided.

Mariah Carey.  Jay.  Anyone see a connection?

Brotherly Love

Tackle = Hug

Being helpful

Giving Sarah her "papi"

Cherry Blossom Festival

We went to the "Tunes and Balloons" event at Macon State last Saturday-- windy, but fun!

Love. Just love.

Sarah's 2 Month Pictures

Sarah and Teddy at 2 months

What expression would you call this?

GO Sarah!

Just plain sweet

The Sleep Chronicles, Part II

Sarah slept 7 hours last night- 9:30 p.m. to 4:30 a.m.  The angels are singing!  I had all these involved dreams that I remember today-- because I got REST. 

Entertaining article about our generation's narcissism:
http://www.slate.com/id/2247489/ "I Hate Your Wedding Website"

I had a wedding website.  And I have a blog.  And a facebook page.  I know I am not important.  I walk the line of love/hate with all these new avenues of 'communication'.   Your thoughts?

Sarah's Stats

At Two Months:

23 1/4 inches long (83rd percentile)
10.4 pounds (1st percentile height to weight)

Tall and skinny!   Please don't worry Grandmas and Aunts.  She's fine!  I'll eat my Wheaties to bulk her up.

Taking her 2 month picture today if I can.  She had 6 shots/vaccines yesterday.  One was the Rotavirus, which is supposed to prevent dehydration if she gets a bad stomach bug, but also bothered her stomach last night.  So no picture in her cute overalls on her actual 2 month birthday.  No biggie.

We got to eat lunch today with a great girl and her kids from church.  So nice to have real conversation instead of a virtual one.

Hey, leave a comment today.   Would love to hear from you.

He Speaks!

This blog is an electronic baby book for me, so I want to record Jay's progress with his communication.  He is taking off.  He can 'count' to ten.  We will say one number, and he'll say the next.  Sometimes he likes to go back to one number (6, 7, 8, 9, 8).  He recoginzes the number 5 on the microwave and will say 5.   Every time we get to 10, we all clap.  I saw a friend's blog that listed her child's list of words, which I will now list for you with my own.

Activities:

Bath (baf)

Eat

Play (pay)

Sleep

Adjectives:

Hot (one of his personal favorites, says when points to the lights)

Soft (our instructions to him as how to touch Sarah)

Stuck (has a suction cup toy that he sticks to the dishwasher)

Animals:

Bird

Cat

Dog (pants after he hears a dog bark)

Duck

Frog (fwog)

Turtle (tur-tle)

Body parts:

Eyes

Ears

Fingers

Feet/Foot

Hair

Mouth

Nose

Teeth

Commands/Requests:

Down

Hungry

More

No No

Please (pee bee)

Stop

This (dis-points and pinches finger to elicit our response as in "I want this")

Up

Complete thoughts/action words:

Car go bye bye

See it (? -- he said something like this today since it is new, can't exactly remember)

Say hi

What's this?

Food:

Apple

Bagel

Banana (Ba-ga)

Bread

Candy (Can-kee)

Cereal (Cer-gal)

Cheese

Chicken

Cracker (Crack-ie!)

Fruit (Fr-oot)

Milk

Tea

Objects:

Ball (football, baseball, goofball- I'll call him a goofball and he giggles :) )

Book

Bubbles (bu-bbles)

Buttons

Car

Clock

Hat

Magnets

Pants

Puzzle

Shirt

Shoes (sues)

Socks

Stars

Tent

People:

Baby

Daddy

Mama/Mommy (!!!)

Manny, tools (Man-na for Handy Manny and his tools)

Nana

Natie (Na-nie)

People (says to look at a picture album)

Fire Trucks and Dollies

My Prisoner

Since Jay slept in yesterday to 8:53 (somehow sleeping times are vital to me), so did we.  I put him down for nap at the regular time, though.  He kept getting out of bed, shaking the door handle, and whining.  I gave myself til 3 p.m. to release him from his cell if he wasn't asleep.  When I went to check, I couldn't open the door more than a few inches.  He fell asleep, feet pointed towards freedom, fanny skyward, by the door. 

Made me laugh.