Archive | 29. Apr, 2008

Uh-oh Baby

Those are two words that Bug uses quite a bit these days.  She doesn’t use them together fortunately, but she uses them a lot.   Baby, baby, baby, baby all day long.    She loves her sister.   She also can say sissy, dada, mama, da (dog), a version of I love you (for real), a pretty cute growl, and shakes her head no, a lot, even in her sleep she will shake her head no.   I asked her the other day if she knew what she was saying when she shook her head no - she shook her head no.   She also does this thing that looks like when Jeannie on I dream of Jeannie would do her head bob and blink.  I think Bug is doing a yes head bob, but if you ask her, she shakes her head “no.” 

Bug also loves to share.  She will share her binkie with Daddy and I, sometimes even offer it to sister.   She will share her food, especially with Big Yellow Dog.   She likes to tease Big Yellow Dog, she will offer the food, giggle and take it away.  Mostly she just gives it to him.   Yesterday I caught him just going in and taking her cookie away very gently while she was distracted.  I gave Bug another cookie which she promptly gave to Big Yellow Dog.   Sometimes she will take a bite of cookie, let Big Yellow Dog have a nibble or lick and then take a bite herself.   Before you get excited, we try to stop her before she gets in her mouth, but sometimes, it happens before you know it.   If there is something you put in front of her to eat that she doesn’t like, she will do a sideways throw off the highchair.   I told Daddy to watch what I did the other day - I put a piec of broccoli in front of her when she wasn’t looking.   Just as I expected, she grabbed the broccoli and flung off her highchair it to the right.  She hates broccoli, so do the dogs.    She is growing up so fast.   She will walk a ways now just holding onto one hand.  She does it in a kinda side-step fashion.   Last night Bug and I laid on our backs on the dog beds and pointed to things in the room and chatted.   Then she would growl and attack me.   It’s good to be with Bug.

Today Daddy is watching Bug and Littlest all by himself while I work.  Bug has a fever, so can’t go to daycare.   Daddy said that Bug talked in her sleep a lot last night.  Too cute.   Everybody is tired at our house.  I have that cold and Bug has the fever, Littlest is just doing her being a baby thing, and Daddy hasn’t gotten much sleep because the rest of us. So we are on all on a low functioning mode.   Oh well, such is life in the two kids in the one and under phase of life.  We will live, barely, but we will.  It’s just starting to get really fun. 

Another little piece of good news.  We are getting the septic system fixed thanks to the help of the county.  The Lake of Fire will be a thing of the past and the back yard will be reclaimed by Big Yellow Dog.  Watch out squirrels!