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Jan. 15th, 2008 10:47 amI have duck-nibbling type tasks to accomplish at work today, so you get a post!
Dillo's 18 month birthday was not marked with any ceremony. His new words are door, nose, balloon (which is ADORABLE: b'loon!) and bottom. He is very interested in watching me pee and grabs his diaper when it's wet or poopy. If it weren't winter, and if he weren't only 18 months old and lacking in some degree of physical coordination, I'd think of starting to potty train. As it is, I change him when he asks, let him watch me pee, and talk about when he's a big boy and the pee-pee will go in the potty.
He was home sick yesterday with a low fever - I'd have sent him to school except he was warm enough to the touch that they'd have taken his temp like we did, and sent him home. He wasn't acting sick at all. He woke up this morning rather snotty and grumpy, but not feverish, so to school he goes. He's been a devil in the night that last 2-3 nights - up every 2-3 hours, argh! I'm blaming it on the sickness.
Casper passed a very whiny weekend for no particular reason; maybe she's a little sick, too. We watched all of The Sound of Music (twice) which led to my attempt to explain the Anschluss to my 4 year old. She didn't really get it; kept asking, "Why did Rolf want to be a Nazi?" (I refrained from explaining adolescent psychology to her.) She's so articulate and bright that one tends to forget her actual understanding can lag considerably. We were waiting for the bus home from La Leche League last night in the cold and dark and singing little rhymes and she sang a long one (made up) about God bless this and God bless that and I asked her if she had any ideas about what God was. She couldn't really reply to my question at all; she didn't have any means by which to talk about the concept. It was nice to spend a whole evening with her (Dillo stayed home because of the sickiness).
Baby names:
At work, to a male coworker, Lucy. I *like* Lucy, but I know an awful lot of them for it being only 152 on the SS list for 2006 (and lower before that).
At LLL, "Ayres," I believe. It was pronounced that way, anyway. A boy. Nobody else new.
Dillo's 18 month birthday was not marked with any ceremony. His new words are door, nose, balloon (which is ADORABLE: b'loon!) and bottom. He is very interested in watching me pee and grabs his diaper when it's wet or poopy. If it weren't winter, and if he weren't only 18 months old and lacking in some degree of physical coordination, I'd think of starting to potty train. As it is, I change him when he asks, let him watch me pee, and talk about when he's a big boy and the pee-pee will go in the potty.
He was home sick yesterday with a low fever - I'd have sent him to school except he was warm enough to the touch that they'd have taken his temp like we did, and sent him home. He wasn't acting sick at all. He woke up this morning rather snotty and grumpy, but not feverish, so to school he goes. He's been a devil in the night that last 2-3 nights - up every 2-3 hours, argh! I'm blaming it on the sickness.
Casper passed a very whiny weekend for no particular reason; maybe she's a little sick, too. We watched all of The Sound of Music (twice) which led to my attempt to explain the Anschluss to my 4 year old. She didn't really get it; kept asking, "Why did Rolf want to be a Nazi?" (I refrained from explaining adolescent psychology to her.) She's so articulate and bright that one tends to forget her actual understanding can lag considerably. We were waiting for the bus home from La Leche League last night in the cold and dark and singing little rhymes and she sang a long one (made up) about God bless this and God bless that and I asked her if she had any ideas about what God was. She couldn't really reply to my question at all; she didn't have any means by which to talk about the concept. It was nice to spend a whole evening with her (Dillo stayed home because of the sickiness).
Baby names:
At work, to a male coworker, Lucy. I *like* Lucy, but I know an awful lot of them for it being only 152 on the SS list for 2006 (and lower before that).
At LLL, "Ayres," I believe. It was pronounced that way, anyway. A boy. Nobody else new.