03.09.10
Posted in Alex at 9:15 am by Shannon
Lately, Alex has been asking for 100 kisses at bedtime. Daddy gives them, Mommy doesn’t. (She cuts him off at 12.)
Last night Eric came in to say goodnight to Alex while I was putting him to bed. Daddy asked for 100 kisses. Alex sat there perfectly still, not even moving his head. He darted a look at me, back to Daddy, and then back to me. You could almost read his thoughts:
”Is he serious? Can I say no and not get into trouble?”
I just laughed. Alex grinned and said “No, Daddy!”.
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03.06.10
Posted in Beth, Firsts at 2:12 pm by Shannon
Beth took her first two unassisted steps just now. Granted, she almost did a face plant afterwards when she missed my outstretched hand, but I caught her with the other hand, so she didn’t actually fall. It will probably be another couple of days before she does it again, and it will be a few weeks before we call her “walking”, but it’s a start.
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03.03.10
Posted in Alex at 8:14 am by Shannon
Last night just as I was trying to get Alex to crawl into bed, he started stalling. Wanted to play with his truck (which I didn’t care, but I was leaving). No, he wanted Mama to stay.
I said “Alex, I have to go downstairs and clean the kitchen because Olya and the boys are coming over on Thursday”.
Alex: “Did you say Bill and Olya are coming?!!” He sat straight up in bed.
Me: “No, Bill isn’t coming. He’s staying home to play video games with Daddy. Olya is bringing Damien, Sergey, and Xavier to our house”
Alex: “I’m going to nap right now! Thank you mama, for telling me that Olya is coming. Thank you for telling me that Bill is not coming.”
At which point Alex laid right down to go to sleep.
I almost died laughing when I got out of there it was just such an absurd conversation!
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03.01.10
Posted in Alex, Beth, Jenna at 8:32 am by Shannon
Yesterday, Jenna was playing a game on the computer. Alex was watching her yelling, “Go, go, go” at her. Next thing I know, there’s Beth, standing next to Jenna and holding onto her chair, saying “Go, go, go”.
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02.24.10
Posted in Beth at 11:31 am by Shannon
Beth is so close to walking we can taste it. You can see her hanging onto walls reaching out towards something and trying to decide if she can make it. Then she’ll stop, get down on the floor and crawl instead. She’ll walk very slowly if you hold at least one of her hands. But she’s become really quick on the crawling and has abandoned the Quasimodo crawl for a regular one. And if she sees the gate open, she’s on those stairs lickety split! Funny how she can get halfway up them when no one’s watching, but it takes her an eternity when you’re actually allowing her to crawl up just in front of her.
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Posted in Alex at 11:25 am by Shannon
I don’t know what happened, but after almost three weeks of almost no accidents, Alex suddenly regressed. Friday night he pooped in his underwear. Sat & Sun he did the same. We didn’t have any successful pooping in the potty all weekend.
Monday at daycare, he had another accident. Not only that, he asked Barb if she smelled something. When she said yes, he blamed it on Beth! So she changed Beth to find out it wasn’t Beth. It was Alex all along. Monday night I told him specifically at bedtime to try and go poopy. Nothing. Not five minutes later, he had pooped in his underwear and seemed to think it was a joke. I was really mad. I restrained myself from yelling at him, but did make it clear that mommy was not happy with him. He got no story that night, no hugs, no kisses, no “Goodnight”. I just got him dressed again and told him I was leaving because I was mad at him and he should finish his snack and go to bed. Hopefully now he realizes that it was not a joke.
Yesterday he didn’t poop at Barb’s and Eric did manage to get him to poop in the potty at bedtime. We’ll see if it gets better again, but right now I’m frustrated with him. After three good weeks, this was just too much!
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02.17.10
Posted in Beth at 1:01 pm by Shannon
So Beth hasn’t been feeling well the last day or so. Monday she woke up from a nap with a slight fever. Barb didn’t call us because we’d be there to pick her up within the hour anyway, and she wasn’t that warm, just slightly. Honestly, she sometimes does seem rather warm right after she wakes up.
But her appetite was down at dinner that night and she fell asleep on my lap about a half hour before bedtime watching me play around with the blog listening to Raffi through iTunes. We put her to bed. She made some noise and went looking for her pacifier at least three time over the next 2 hours before we went to bed. At 4am she woke us up, crying. Eric went in to calm her and brought her back to me because she had a fever. 102.4 under her arm, which when you add the 0.8 the instructions say to, you’ve got 103.2. We called the doctor.
They asked a bunch of questions, one of which was if she had had the chicken pox vaccine in the last 17-28 days. Yes, she had. Apparently it is a possible to react to that vaccine in that time frame. Lump at the injection site, fever, possible mild rash resembling chicken pox (1%-4% of people), and 1 in 1000 can develop seizures caused by the fever. Alex didn’t react to his vaccine, so we didn’t know any of this.
Anyway, the Tylenol was already bring down her fever by the time I left for work at 7am. It stayed down all day. She didn’t eat much during the day, but she did eat a good dinner. She’s back at daycare today since the fever did not return.
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02.15.10
Posted in Misc, New at 9:57 pm by Shannon
The site has been upgraded and includes at least one new feature. Unfortunately, it also no longer auto emails. Bummer.
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02.12.10
Posted in Beth, Firsts at 8:53 am by Shannon
Last night we prompted Beth to say “Bye” to Olya as we were leaving. And she did!
One day last week Barb was prompting her to say “Hi Mama” when I arrived to pick them up, which she did as well. Yesterday I got her to say “Hi Dada” when I handed her to Eric.
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02.10.10
Posted in Alex, Beth at 9:01 am by Shannon
Last night Alex suddenly pushed the mouse away from him while playing on the computer and declared
“I don’t want to play anymore!”
Me: “What’s wrong, Alex?”
Alex: “Beff is teasing me!”
Me: “Beth is teasing you?!”
Alex: “Beff is teasing me!”
Me: “How is Beth teasing you?”
Alex: “Beff is playing a trick on me!”
At this point I’m trying desperately not to laugh because I know darn well that Beth could not possibly be teasing him on purpose just yet.
Me: “Alex, Beth is too young to be teasing you. She doesn’t understand. What is she doing?”
Alex: “She’s teasing me!”
Me: “What is she doing?”
Alex: “She’s pushing the shelf away.” (The keyboard tray rolls back and forth.)
Me: “Alex, Beth’s not doing it on purpose. I’ll get Beth and you can play.”
At which point I removed Beth from the area and distracted her so Alex could play his game again without the keyboard rolling out from under his fingers. (Of course, it’s OK for Alex to do the same thing to me, isn’t it?)
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