1. Will is finally really starting to interact with Jake and by all appearances, seems to like him. I haven't pushed Jake on Will at all, and have just been letting them coexist until he took an interest in the baby himself. This is why we didn't have any pictures of the boys together until just recently. Well, that and because when I did attempt to get a picture of the boys together for our Christmas card, this is what happened. Do you see how Jake is a little blurry? That's because he's in motion, getting shoved off of Will's lap. So, you know, I thought it best to NOT try that again until Will was on board with the whole big brother role. And it would seem that he is starting to be.
It's so funny how baby toys become new and fun ALL OVER AGAIN.
That's a completely unprompted hug right there. LOVE.
2. I don't want to go into how we came to own a pink Little Tikes shopping cart, but we do. Yes, I did say A PINK ONE. I wasn't really psyched about it and I KNOW Jamie is considering sneaking off to paint it. My mother admonished me that I am "of the generation that isn't supposed to care about things like that." And I guess I don't. It's just that pink still screams "GIRL!" no matter what generation you are. Oh well. He's in love with it, as he is with anything that has wheels and is meant to be pushed. He keeps all his trucks in it. It's blurry, but the joy in unmistakable.
3. I miss Charleston. Like, a lot. The longer I live here in New Jersey, the more I miss it. The weather, the familiarity, our house. Mostly I just miss my house. I guess maybe I don't miss Charleston as much as just I miss our lifestyle there. I miss living in a house. Living in a town home is not the same. My friend Cristin put it best when she described it as "living in a hallway." It's not even that our town home is actually small, because it is probably kind of close to the size of our old house. It's just the close proximity of neighbors, the lack of green space, the layout that makes it feel small. Plus, I hate having two stories; having to open two safety gates whenever I need to go upstairs, having to take a noisy, slow stair-climbing toddler with me since he CANNOT BEAR to be apart from me and MUST go upstairs and also NEEDS to take a toy up there with us, usually a pink shopping cart full of trucks, OMG. I miss that my kitchen was a whole kitchen and not just a corner of one end of the hallway that is our house. I miss a decent sized backyard and so does Charlie. I just miss my house.
4. I got a Kindle for Christmas. I am in danger of neglecting my children as a result. Also, I am a closet teenie-bopper disguised as a 30 year old woman and the Kindle allows me to indulge freely in young adult literature without the shame of shopping in that portion of the book store. Also, I can read silly romance novels when the mood strikes me and NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW! Not that I do that often. But, you know, I can now. Anyway, so far this year I've read A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron which was so so good. If you're a dog person, I HIGHLY recommend. I then read all three books of the Trylle Triology by Amanda Hocking which was fun in a Twilight kind of way, though not as good as the Twilight series. And I just finished the three books of The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins which I COULD NOT PUT DOWN. Anyway, so YAY for Kindle!
5. I bought a cover for my Kindle. However I used the one-click buying thing. And it sent it to my old house in Charleston. UGH! We got in contact with the buyer who said she shipped it to us when it arrived, but that was two weeks ago. Not sure what to do. Sadness.
6. Will is getting SKINNY. He's a good eater now in that he will try most anything and can eat most anything, what with his 12 chompers (4 of which are molars). The problem is that he eats just a LITTLE of everything and then dumps his plate and starts throwing food on the floor. At which point I cut him off. SO FRUSTRATING! I think, if I would let him, he'd live on milk alone. And sometimes, when he WON'T EAT, I give in, because I'm just desperate for him to get the calories.
7. I'm still breastfeeding. We're doing quite well with it, to be honest. Once the stress of the early weeks and the travel/wedding was over, things really turned around for us. He gets maybe a bottle of formula of day, and that's usually only on nights when Jamie takes the night feeding so I can sleep. I'm honestly enjoying it. Plus, I'm sure it's helped me lose my baby weight super fast. That and chasing a toddler around. However, I find breastfeeding so limiting to my wardrobe! My mom uniform consists of a nursing sleep bra, a tank top, a hoodie, and jeans/yoga pants because anything else makes nursing a pain in the butt. And what makes it worse is that I really do fit in to my old clothes now. I'm actually 3 pounds lighter than I was when I got pregnant with Jake (not that I LOOK the same, hello deflated belly pouch, you disgust me). Shopping might honestly be fun at this point. Oh well. I guess maybe once he nurses less frequently I'll venture out into the world of slightly more constrictive and more complicated clothing. But for right now, ease of access is key. Whatever. At the rate we're making babies, I'll probably end up buying maternity clothes at that point anyway. That was not an announcement, by the way. I'm just saying.
I especially love his joy at pushing the cart.
Posted by: Andrew | February 02, 2011 at 01:00 AM