Daley Ponderings

...is going great, but has its challenges.  I'm probably not the only one to brush someone's teeth with one hand while bouncing a crying baby with the other.  But bedtime is pretty much the only time of high demand from all at once.  Jonathan is great about waiting and about helping Faith to wait (singing, bouncing);  Noah needs more practice, but he's good sometimes.  Although just now, he brought over Faith's bouncy seat so he could sit in my lap (instead of crying about not being able to sit in my lap while I was holding her.)

Posts have been overdue, so here's what I have in my notes.

9/2 - Jonathan often asks me to tell him a made up story as we're going to bed, and he likes to give me a list of characters to work with.  That night, he said it should be about a dog with a big family.  The people's names were Joe, Bill, Pete, Forbes and Craig.  There's a Pittsburgh kid for you!  (The dog's name was Ruff-ruff-ruffer.)

9/10 - Jonathan: "Mrs.Gabriel brought a yellow jacket inside and left it in the kitchen."
Aunt Janet: "Well, go and bring it back for her."
Jonathan: "But it might sting me!"
(All the adults assumed he was talking about a coat that was made of yellow fabric.  However, he truly meant the insect, which Aunt Janet took care of.)

Noah likes to play This Little Piggy and Ring Around the Rosies.  Here is what he says:

Mah (market), ho' (home), bee' (beef), nuh (none), wee-oo-wee-oo ho' (wee wee wee, home!)

Wow (round), woh (rosies), pah (pocket), a' (ashes), dow' (down!)

9/23 - When Noah was finished with his breakfast, he said, with complete pronunciation, "Done, down."

Noah can jump with both feet now, including jumping off one stair.

Noah's new favorite word, which he pronounces correctly, is "Why?"

Faith is filling out, though not as fast as Jonathan I think.  We haven't weighed her since she was four days old (and now she's four weeks.)

She is starting to smile, including a good long one at Jonathan when he was bouncing her in her seat.

Mommy and Faith are working on elimination communication together.  It is pretty fun and much nicer than changing Noah's messy diapers.  I'm thinking of writing a longer post about our experience so far, but that will have to wait.

We've gotten many gifts of girl clothes, and of course she looks cute in them all.  Alissa gave us some teeny hair clips, which really are adorable, but Jon said (hard to spell this) "pppffftt!" when he saw one in Faith's hair.

She usually sleeps three hours at a time at night, which is great for this age.  A snuffly nose (cold caught from me) makes it harder, but she's getting better.  She does like to be awake at 10 when the rest of us are going to bed, but after she gets to sleep (11 or sometimes later) she sleeps well.