Some Typical Craziness (and Cuteness)

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- posted by Lenise @ 8:38 PM |

 
Gettin' There

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- posted by Lenise @ 8:30 PM |

 
DOB!!!
Daniel was putting away blocks the other day, and so I commended him with a "Good job!" the first couple of times. He started yelling "DOB!!" every time a new block went in, looking at me expectantly. This is not a habit that dies easily ;)

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- posted by Lenise @ 10:50 AM |

 
Oldie But Goodie
I stumbled upon this video from last year and had a good laugh. It's AMAZING what difference 14 months has made.

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- posted by Lenise @ 11:54 PM |

 
Inchworm

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- posted by Lenise @ 8:47 PM |

 
Bim Bam Boom
By the way, Daniel
- started crawling
- pulled up for the first time, and
- started using a real word (no doubt about it) within a couple of weeks.

And started stealing food from his brother- can't forget THAT milestone ;)

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- posted by Lenise @ 9:42 PM |

 
Sticky Fingers
Coffee cake doesn't last long in this house. I was doling it out to the big boys just now, and while I was working on Jay's piece, I heard Isaac start kicking up a fuss as I saw a chunk of his fall to the floor. I looked up to scold Isaac for not being careful, but what I saw was Daniel with a handful of coffee cake.

Isaac may watch Daniel a little more closely now when he's got to walk past with food! (Isaac did get a new piece of cake, but while I was convulsed in hysterics, Jay and Isaac were rather traumatized.)

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- posted by Lenise @ 6:24 PM |

 
Pulling Up and Throwing Down
There was a whole lotta crying going on around here tonight. Jay started the tantrum train during dinner, but calmed down eventually and was the mature one for the rest of the evening (as is only fitting, of course). Isaac was next, though his fit didn't kick in until he was instructed to report to the bathroom to brush his teeth. When he didn't follow directions, he ended up being sent (carried) to bed.

At this point, he changed his screaming refrain to "I wanna bwush my teef!" Too bad, little man. Then came the pajamas. These didn't seem to help, and I couldn't tell whether his monkey pajama scream was of the let-me-wear-them or the you-can't-make-me-wear-them variety. At this point, I decided to let Isaac scream for a while, during which time I'd retrieve Daniel, who'd been put into his highchair so I could attend to Mr. Terrible Two.

Daniel had (naturally) started his own tale of woe in the meantime, so when I returned to the boys' room, I had not one, but now two screaming children. Somewhere in here, Jay got his pajamas on, and over the ruckus, I got him to understand that I wanted him in his bed. "I would love to go to bed!" was his reply, about the third time around. I think it's an attempt to curry favor, and, as it turns out, it's quite successful (at least with me). Isaac would not stop screaming and flopping long enough to put on his monkey pajamas (still), so he was banished to the master BR to allow prayers to proceed at a civilized volume.

He returned to the tooth-brushing phase of his fit and attempted to go back downstairs. Now I had successfully navigated the stairs carrying a thrashing Isaac once, and I did not plan to reprise the feat. I made him understand punishment would be forthcoming if he continued his descent, so he screamed his way back up the top two stairs, and after some more threats, I got him out of the hall and back into our bedroom.

Holding Daniel (who is perfectly quiet while being held, generally speaking, and in this specific instance), I began the prayers with Jay. A cacaphonous two-year-old approached, screamed some about monkey pajamas, was banished again, and returned, eventually settling quietly under his comforter (having been warned that there was to be no more pajama talk until after prayers), so we began the prayers again.

Prayers concluded, I had to replace Daniel in the crib so I could get Isaac properly monk-ified. Daniel's screaming is sadder, but much more tolerable than Isaac's. At least to me! Anyway, I told Jay his water request would have to wait, since I had to put Daniel to bed, and then my four-year-old played his trump card. A bleeding wound delivered by scaredy-cat (she stepped on him as she was fleeing in terror), and I decided I had better come downstairs for some alcohol, a washcloth, a band-aid, (and may-as-well get the water) first.

By the time I got upstairs, Jay was singing, Daniel was standing up wailing (first time pulling up!), and Isaac was asleep.

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- posted by Lenise @ 8:43 PM |

 
Quicker than Quick, Faster than Fast
Daniel's gotten to be a speedy little scooter over the past couple of days. He was still doing some flailing last evening for our Bible study group, but he remembered how to get places after a while, and today he's really traveling.

*PRODIGY ALERT* ;)
Maybe, just maybe, he's got his first real word down. He's been working on all kinds of different consonants, so there was a lot of da-da-da-ing and ga-ga-ga-ing, but these past couple of days, Daniel's been saying "Mama", not just when he's in a talkative mood, but when he's tired, hungry, whatever, he'll even cry, "Mamamamaaaa". Even Isaac didn't start calling me anything this early...

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- posted by Lenise @ 8:33 PM |

 
Still Around
Daniel started rolling over front-to-back this week, and is quite the expert at it by now. We started trying some of the activities in the Barbara Curtis book (given to us by our dear friend Jamie and her new husband) and Jay and Isaac really enjoy them.

Our yard sale was an unmitigated disaster, but I sold my maternity clothes through an employee classified bulletin board at work, gave nearly all the newborn clothes away (to a friend and a co-worker) and we got a local charity to take the old behemoth entertainment center, so we've dealt with the pain and are moving on :-7 I still have to return the newborn clothes my friend in Maryland sent us. They're mostly gathered into one of my dresser drawers, so it's really the boxing and shipping that are the problem. We've also got a lot of post-Isaac clothes borrowed from Cathy, but I'm hoping we can keep some of them for Daniel (please?).

We've reached the point where it's only out-of-season clothes which get packed away. Other than that they pretty much get handed down directly. A lot of the summer clothes seem to migrate back-and-forth between Jay's and Isaac's drawers. Options, y'all! ;)

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- posted by Gary @ 4:25 PM |