Friday, March 20, 2009

Friday

John has lately been creating "babies." He'll wrap up any little thing in anything else that is soft and call it a baby. Then he asks me to hold the baby and to nurse the baby. The below "baby" is a laundry net bag full of clean socks.
This morning John helped me bake a cake for a potluck we were attending. One egg carton + one bag of dried beans + three Dixie cups = peace and quiet for Mom while she cleans the kitchen!
John tries his best to keep the beans on the table, but the play does result in some degree of mess. I've found that red beans are easy to see and sweep up, unlike, perhaps, dried rice.

We were going to a La Leche League "enrichment meeting" (a playgroup with an assigned discussion topic--today "baby sign language") and when John saw me baking the cake, he said I was baking a "party cake" and we were going to go play with some kids. So he ran upstairs in his pajamas, donned his backpack and hat, and he was ready to go!

Mary dressed for the day:
The other day I needed to find a photo of myself, any old photo would do. I had to search back to November (four months ago) to find one photo of myself, when I take half a dozen photos per day of everyone else. So this morning I took a photo of myself just for the principle of the thing.

John has begun enjoying brushing his teeth lately and even asks me during the day if he can brush them.

I made it through the week! Chris is on his way home from the airport as I post this . . .

5 comments:

  1. The look on Mary's face in the picture of you is cracking me up!

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  2. Wow! You look terrific Katherine! I totally wouldn't have guessed that you had a baby in November! You look back to your normal size!

    That's so cute about John turning everything into "babies" :-) Leo actually said "baby" for the first time today. I've been trying to teach him the word for several months now! When my friend Adrianne's daughter was little, she used to pretend to nurse her dolls in imitation of her mother which I thought was very cute.

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  3. I can't believe how clearly he says his "r's." Most of my kids have said "w" for a while. It seems like John never did that! He must have a very good ear.

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  4. Sarah Faith: John says other typical toddler things, like "W" for "L." One of my favorites is "smell" which sounds like "smew" said in a nasal accent.

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  5. Christina says "Y" for an initial "s" which I think is so cute. "I do it my-yelf"; "Yowen" = Soren, etc.

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