Meet my newest secret weapon in parenting: the BAGEL!
Would you believe he ate that entire half bagel in one sitting? The child clearly inherited my carbohydrate addiction!
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Susie desperately wants to be a “mommy.” She constantly asks me what I’m wearing (down to my color underwear and whether or not I’m wearing socks) in order to determine what she will wear. She has taken to carrying a purse around, pulling out a Candyland card in lieu of a library card at the library, trying to discipline her siblings, even arranging the sheets in her bed to mimic mine. If you ask her what she wants to be when she grows up, she answers “a mommy” without hesitation. She’s always been a very careful observer of others’ habits, especially adults. It’s quite endearing to watch her mimic me, and it keeps me on my best behavior! One of these days she’s going to start raiding my closet for real (although I hope at that time she doesn’t put her pants on backwards!). Today Jimmy decided to celebrate his upcoming birthday by acting as if he’s two years old. First, he climbed out of his crib when he woke up from his nap (he’d never done that before). Next, he locked himself in his room. And then, a few hours later, opened an off-limits cupboard and stuck his hand in the sugar jar. Finally, he rounded off the afternoon by putting his hand in his brother’s very dirty diaper that I had just removed. Needless to say, his hands got washed several times today. As my sister-in-law told me when I informed her of his antics, “Welcome to the world of boys!” Good thing he’s such a cute almost-two-year-old!
The girls haven’t been taking naps for quite a few months now, really ever since they started afternoon preschool a couple days a week and weren’t napping on those days. I thought I would desperately miss having them sleep in the afternoon, but it’s worked out well. They used to sleep from 2-4 or 5 and then lie awake in their beds until 10 or 10:30 at night, which wasn’t ideal. Now, they play in their beds for 1-2 hours and then usually fall asleep very soon after they’re put to bed around 8:30. I still have the downtime in the afternoon where they’re out of my hair (well, other than repeatedly jogging upstairs to tell them to keep their voices down for their brothers’ sakes), and they’re less groggy in the morning because they fall asleep earlier at night. It wasn’t a seamless transition, because it took a while for the evening grumpiness to wear off when they stopped napping, but on the whole, it’s working out for everybody. And one bonus is that I get to be entertained by their imaginative antics while confined to their beds in the afternoon. Yesterday I went in to get them up, and I found them both sitting in large boxes (that I had placed in their beds earlier, per their request). Susie gleefully announced, “Look! We’re Jack-in-Boxes”!
We’re ALL so happy it’s park weather again.
And I’m especially happy that Jimmy’s old enough to enjoy much of the park without my direct help, thanks to his sisters’ patient guidance:
He’s a fast learner – and quite fearless!
Susie, chasing after her sister, who was holding something she wanted: “Becky, that’s mine!” Becky: “But I found it!” Susie: “It’s not finders keepers.” Becky: “It’s losers weepers. If I lose it, I will weep.” One of my favorite aspects of my parents’ recent visit was watching my dad bond with the boys. Jimmy was especially attached to his Grandpa (or “Bee-Pa” as he kept calling him). I think the feeling was mutual!
Grammie and her youngest grandchild:
The above picture reminded me of another one I took when Susie was almost 7 months old. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of seeing my mom cuddle my babies!
My parents flew home today and I’m missing them already. It was a whirlwind of a visit and we cherished every crazy minute of it!
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