What Are the Kids Doing These Days?
Mary, at three months old this week, is growing like a weed. She has great head control and, if she is lying somewhere like on the bed, she likes to watch me as I walk around the room. She spends much time staring at her hand floating mysteriously in front of her face. Mary loves to smile--especially first thing in the morning when I turn on the bedroom light--and coo, whether to herself or in "conversation" with someone else. A few days ago, Mary began outright giggling, first when Chris was kissing her bare tummy and later when I invited a very silly song that went something like, "ziggity ziggity ziggity ZIG!"
Mary remains a great sleeper, giving me one five- to six-hour stretch most nights (although it begins around 8:00 p.m. and I don't go to sleep for another hour or two, so I don't gain the full benefit of her long stretch). Unfortunately, Mary is very restless each morning starting at around 4:00 a.m, which means that I am generally awake for the day by then--and that is getting pretty old, I must say!
Mary has a mullet, which I must photograph one of these days. Although the hair on the top of her head has thinned out, as is normal for infants, she still has two to three inches of locks at the nape of her neck!
John, at two years and two months old, is at a very interesting age. Most fascinating to me is to watch his language development. These days, nearly every preposition is "a," which--as a transient speech pattern--I find very humorous and charming.
"Play a-gether?" [play together]
"Paint a table?" [paint at the table]
"Jump a couch!" [jump on the couch]
"Help a snaps?" [help with the snaps]
John makes delightful errors based on regular grammatical rules. For example, with forms of past tense: he'll say, "I seed it!" I'll reply, "You saw it?" He'll correct himself, "I sawed it!"
As I wrote in an earlier post, John calls us "honey" much of the time. When he is calling up or down the stairs, specifically, he calls out "Chris!" or "Katherine!" (in imitation of his bellowing parents). And lately John has begun calling me "Mommy," which is cute, but also makes me feel sad because it is more mature than "Mama" and is on its way to "Mom"--where is my baby boy going?
John currently loves to jump with two feet, especially off of the two short steps that descend into the den. "Ready, ready . . . jump!" Recently Chris taught him to dance the Hokey Pokey. And John does love to dance--especially when he is naked and fresh out of the bath tub! Even better than dancing, John loves to be chased in circles. "More chasing!" he says.
It is fun to watch John's developing creativity. I taught him how to paint with water colors a couple of weeks ago. Then today in the yard, he dug a hole in the mud with a stick, then would carry the stick to a tree and smear the mud on the bark, exclaiming "I painting!"
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