I admire those that can update their journals everyday with something new and exciting about what is going on with thier kid(s). I'm just not one of those people. Are there new things everyday? Sure there are! I'm just too busy or too tired to remember what they are. Rather ironic don't you think as this journal is ment to be a preservation of their baby/childhood so that I won't forget.
The Kidlet- Well he's about to turn six years old in Aug. and he's a boy on a mission. He checks his teeth every 10 minutes or so to make sure that he does not miss out on a loose tooth. He is determined to catch it the second it becomes loose. I feel bad for the kid because it is only going to take one time of pulling a loose tooth to make him realize that finding one might not be the pot of gold at the end of his rainbow. And considering that the tooth fairy in these parts doesn't believe in cold soft paper cash, I hope he can settle for two coins to rub between his fingers. The tooth fairy doesn't count for a cost of living raise.
He's handling being out of school fairly well. He gets rather bored though. I didn't want him to watch t.v. and play play station games all summer long and he's done well not to. We've been trying to keep up doing projects like working out of the workbook that his school sent home with him but lately, with my lack of sleep, the choice to what he wants to do is all his. You can well imagine that my playstation has been running for quite a few hours during the day the last week or so.
The biggest talk around the house with him is his birthday in Aug. He wants to visit Chuck E. Cheese so badly. I hope we'll have the money to take him. The girl that lives upstairs works there and she said she'd give us a good deal if we drove pretty far out to the one she works at. It's worth a try!
The Wee One- Well he's going to be 16 months old on July 6th and I can not believe it. He's walking just fine and babbling a mile a minute. He tries so hard to talk. He just babbles like he knows exactly what he's saying. He just got his 3rd and 4th tooth on the top this month and he's breaking a 3rd tooth on the bottom. He had 2 teeth on top and 2 on the bottom since January. I thought this kid was never going to get his teeth in!
Sadly, he's still on the bottle. We (and when I say we, I'm sure you can deduce I mean me) nursed him for almost a year and then went to bottles when I had my gall bladder surgery. He is so attached to them. More so than his brother ever was. I think we're just going to have to go cold turkey and soon.
He's probably weighing about 23 lbs now so yay for the Wee One!! It was pretty slim there for a while. With him being constantly sick, he didn't thrive as fast as I think he might have. He's still a heavy, stocky little thing but he did get down into the 5%. He's caught up now, I'm sure. He's heavy! He's in size 18 month clothes and for the most party they fit only slightly loose.
His new thing is to shake his head no when he babbles. He also every once in a great while will "sing". HE plays peek a boo sometimes if he has some sort of clothing or blanket in his hand, he likes patty cake for about 10 minutes and he is down to one 1-2 hour nap a day. He goes to bed at 9:30 and without the risk of jinxing myself, I put him in his crib, cover him up and shut the door. I usually don't hear him after that unless he wakes up in the middle of the night and even then 8 times out of 10 he talks to himself and goes back to sleep. *knock on wood*
The best thing about the boys is that they are NOT sick!! Yes! They have been well for a few weeks now. I'm soooo happy.
More pictures later and how they are adjusting to Daddy's new schedule...