I walked into the kitchen after putting Baby P down for his morning nap to find Little B and Little D kneeling on the floor around a spilled bowl of rice krispies. Little B immediately assured me, "I'm cleaning them up Mom!" What a relief to see evidence that my clean-up lessons are sinking in. Also, note to self to stop buying rice krispies. Despite his and my best efforts, I've been stepping on them all day!
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| He had one little tuft of hair that curled up today, looks wind blown here but that's really how he looked all morning! |
I came upstairs after starting a load of laundry to discover Little D kneeling on the couch while Little B "drummed" on him! (This may sound random, but Little B has been really into music lately.) Little D was totally playing along but I felt the need to redirect before the drumming turned into hitting, so I pushed them together, started tickling and turned them into giggling machines. The best music of all:)
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| When they were younger people always thought they were twins...their hair in this picture still makes them look that way! |
I've been trying to teach Little B how to dress himself. I sat there this morning in awe, wondering when in the world my kid got old enough to put on his own clothes? The whole process wouldn't be so bad if he didn't move so in.cred.ib.ly. slow. My patience will pay off in the end when he can get dressed on his own, right? Although I suppose it will still be a battle to get him to do so. This morning he told me he didn't want to do his morning responsibilities, which include getting dressed. I told him that I didn't want to wake up but I did anyway so he needs to do things he doesn't want to do sometimes too. I know, a little snarky of me. And the logic didn't work. Oh well, I still won in the end:)
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| Also, when did he get old enough to climb like this?! |
Little B has been out of diapers for 5 or 6 weeks now. He still struggles to get through nap time with no accidents, not because he can't physically do it though, I think it's all mental. I've turned into the big bad mommy and told him that from now on he can't watch any episodes of his favorite shows until he gets through nap with no accidents. Today was a success, we'll see if that bribe, I mean motivation, works going forward! For better or worse, there's no turning back now.
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| Love this boy! |
Nothing especially memorable happened with Baby P today but he is growing and changing fast so each day is special in some ways. Baby P turned 8 months old last week. He is a mommy-loving, crawling, teething, hair-pulling, eating anything he can get his hands on little boy. Days with him are fairly predictable right now. He has morning and afternoon nap times, eats 3 meals of solid food with us at the table, and crawls around in between. Unless he wants to be held, in which case he cries - loudly - until one of us caves in. In an effort to make his afternoon nap a long one today, I let him go to sleep with a pacifier and got a 2 hour nap out of him - glorious!
And now it's night. The boys are in bed. My kitchen is clean and the fridge filled with leftovers for another night. And I got two loads of laundry washed, folded and put away today - not bad for me on 6 hours sleep! Time to wrap this up and go watch House of Cards with Hubby T so that the gory, violent sounds of him watching Waking Dead don't push me over the edge. I pray for peace for each of you reading this, that God grants you strength when you are weary as he did for me today. And I especially pray for Hubby T's family, as they remember the passing of his grandmother one year ago today, and for my friend who is today sitting by the hospice bed of her own grandmother. "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you." John 14:27
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