1) I don't ever remember my mother ever using the common curse: "I hope you have a child just like you." And everyone acknowledges that Eleanor is her father's daughter. However, every time I search through the house looking for one of Eleanor's shoes (she can't seem to take them off in the same place) I hear my mother's laughter... I also heard it yesterday when I went up to Eleanor's room after she was supposed to be in bed asleep and she had raised the blind and was reading using the light of the streetlamp.
2) (Warning: this story contains potty training. If you don't want to deal with it, skip to Luke's story.) Amanda has been in the midst of half-hearted potty training for a while. She likes her diaper off, and if we aren't going anywhere, I let her keep it off. So far she's managed to pee on her potty chair about twice, but she doesn't quite get it yet. Today I looked up from cleaning the kitchen when I noticed that she was too quiet--she was sitting on the potty chair! "I'm going poop!" This was great---of course, it would have been better if she hadn't been sitting on her dress... Progress is progress, I suppose.
3) Today Luke wouldn't take a nap in the morning. I would get him almost to sleep and then he'd spring awake as I put him down. I did let him cry for a while in hopes that he would fall asleep, but when I got back into the room he had pulled himself up onto his knees and was leaning his head out over the railing of the crib. Needless to say, we moved his mattress down a level =). I really don't remember when Eleanor and Amanda hit these milestones. For Eleanor at least, we have an email newsletter we sent with ridiculous regularity to all our family. Amanda didn't have any notes taken at all for a few months while I was trying to deal with food allergies (from 9 months up to about her first year). But it does seem to me that Luke is being especially early with these physical developments. I'm hoping that we will get an outdoor playset when he's about a year old---that should make my life slightly easier.
2) (Warning: this story contains potty training. If you don't want to deal with it, skip to Luke's story.) Amanda has been in the midst of half-hearted potty training for a while. She likes her diaper off, and if we aren't going anywhere, I let her keep it off. So far she's managed to pee on her potty chair about twice, but she doesn't quite get it yet. Today I looked up from cleaning the kitchen when I noticed that she was too quiet--she was sitting on the potty chair! "I'm going poop!" This was great---of course, it would have been better if she hadn't been sitting on her dress... Progress is progress, I suppose.
3) Today Luke wouldn't take a nap in the morning. I would get him almost to sleep and then he'd spring awake as I put him down. I did let him cry for a while in hopes that he would fall asleep, but when I got back into the room he had pulled himself up onto his knees and was leaning his head out over the railing of the crib. Needless to say, we moved his mattress down a level =). I really don't remember when Eleanor and Amanda hit these milestones. For Eleanor at least, we have an email newsletter we sent with ridiculous regularity to all our family. Amanda didn't have any notes taken at all for a few months while I was trying to deal with food allergies (from 9 months up to about her first year). But it does seem to me that Luke is being especially early with these physical developments. I'm hoping that we will get an outdoor playset when he's about a year old---that should make my life slightly easier.
Comments