Lucius and his darn brain.

Lucius hasn't been napping at daycare.

Tom: Lucius didn't take a nap today.
Me: Uh oh. Lu why didn't you take a nap?
Lucius: Well, my brain told me to keep playing so I couldn't take a nap.

Next day.

Me: Lucius' brain.
Lu: Yes (said in a robot voice).
Me: Please let Lucius take a nap today instead of playing.
Lu's brain: OK Mommy. He can take a nap ( in robot voice).

Oy vey. That kid and his excuses. He's also turning into the quintessential older brother.

(in car)
Lu: Mom, Ah-yes (that's how he says Alice) is looking at me.
Me: Well, you're her big brother and she loves you. She likes to look at you.
Lu: But she's making a face. I don't want her to look at me. (pulls the carseat visor down so Alice can't look at him...and is instead left staring at the underside of her visor).

And so it begins...

3.5 Year Check-up

Because of the move we're 1/2 year off for Lucius' check ups. Anyhoo, he had his 3.5 year old check up on Friday.

Height: 40"
Weight: 36.5 lbs

He's pretty much stayed at 90th percentile for height and 75th for weight for the past 3.5 years. So consistent!

He started fussing about the "pinchers" and saying he didn't want the doctor to hurt him. What??! Where did he get that from?? He's never been bothered by shots before so I'm blaming someone from daycare.

He ended up getting two shots, one in each arm...he didn't even flinch...but still had to tell me how painful it was ;) He hasn't mentioned them so I'm assuming his arms aren't sore.

I didn't really have any questions for the doc. I guess he seems on track. We go back in two weeks for Alice's 6 month check up. Now I can expect screams from that girl...

Back to work

Now that I'm back to work full-time (yay!) the blog will not be updated as often as I'd like. However, I'm going to try to jot down some notes here and there.

Alice slept until 6am this morning without eating! The solid foods (banana, sweet potato, and avocado) are really helping her sleep through the night. Sleep is such a glorious thing!
Of course she's now constipated from the food and does little rabbit turds throughout the day. Which makes her scream due to a red butt. I might try giving her a little prune juice to see if that will help push things along.

Lucius is Lucius. We still got the 3 year old attitude over here, but he makes us laugh a lot. Likes to pretend to read and still loves dramatic play. That's the fancy way of saying pretend. I learned that at his daycare's open house. They're really great over there.

Ah. Time to get ready for bed so I can read...I must finish The Time Traveler's Wife! I started it before Alice was born...and two interlibrary loans later and I'm still not done.

Good night.

Birthday parties and friends

We went to Chuck E. Cheese for a birthday party.

Poor, poor Lucius got stuck in the tube crawl on the ceiling. I was getting my picture "sketched" with Alice when I realized I hadn't seen Lucius in awhile. I looked up to see his tear and snot filled face pressed up against the plastic window at the end of tube crawl. He couldn't figure out how to get out. I had to send an older friend up to get him down. I felt really bad...but it was kind of funny too.


Alice chilled in her carseat.


We then went to the pool party afterwords.
Alice tolerated the pool.


Lucius loved it. Oh wait. That's not Lucius.


There he is.


Alice hung out with her girlfriend. Addison is one month older than Alice, yet acts (and looks) about 1 year older! They're really cute together. I love how babies "know" other babies.

Playing

Missy loves her cow and dollies.



New glow in the dark skeleton shirt.



Alice Anne has started some grunting thing. It's kind of annoying...she just growls and grunts. Not sure what it's about.

We started her on bananas and she LOVES them. Tomorrow we'll try some sweet potatoes. I really hope that eating solids twice a day will help with her sleeping. I don't know what happened to my sleeping baby, but she doesn't like to sleep anymore. Needless to say, I'm up a lot!

Visit with Uncle Jeff

Uncle Jeff came for a quick visit and the kids loved seeing him.

Thanks again for coming! And bring Gini next time!


Look at the camera Lucius.


Look at the camera


For crying out loud.


Butt hug.


He thinks it's really funny.


Gotcha!

5 Months!

I'm 5 months!


And a very dainty girl.

We survived

the last two weeks! I went back to work full-time after a year-long-quasi-hiatus. Alice started daycare on Monday, 8/24. She's doing really well there. She's eating from her bottle and sleeping. Well, I should say she acts the same there as she does at home. Her schedule still changes day to day. Some days she sleeps a lot other days she'll barely nap. Some days she'll eat 3 6oz. bottles and other days they can barely get her to eat 1. That's our Alice! She's also been having some major poop blowouts. I'm thinking it's diarrhea but that seems to be her only symptom. Needless to say, most of her clothes now have poop stains.

Lucius still loves daycare and seems to be doing well.

I'm adjusting to working again. I spent Saturday at the AC Outlets trying to find work clothes. This is the first time I've ever had to dress up 4 days/week. I'm in desperate need of teaching clothes.

I'll update with some pictures soon!