The guy who always calls me Kim is on vacation this week. So I’m imaging that Kim is on vacation in the Caribbean, Hawaii, or even the French Riviera. Wait, if she can afford to go to the French Riviera, why on earth would she be working here!
Yesterday Bug had her 18 month doctor’s appointment and shots. She is still only 23 pounds, 13 ounces and is about the 50th percentile. Her height is 31.5 inches and is in the 25th percentile and her head is above the 50th, but better than it used to be. She is doing very well developmentally and physically. She had two shots and a flu shot. Littlest got a flu shot too. Poor Bug is so sensitive when it comes to anything happening to Littlest. Daddy took Bug out while Littlest got her shot. Littlest threw up a little bit before the shots and Bug started crying and was very upset. Of course Daddy was out of the room and I had a tough time keeping Littlest from getting puke everywhere and still trying to make it be no big deal for Bug and to console them both at the same time. After the shots, they both only cried a little bit and had a good, early evening. Daddy put Bug to bed for me and did it successfully amazingly fast. I blame the shots for that one.
Bug has been quite the character lately. She does some pretty silly things. Early this morning, she was awake and crying. So that I could still get another hour sleep, I brought her to bed with Daddy and I. Apparently Daddy’s snoring, which was unusually quiet for him, was bothering Bug. She would turn to Daddy, and put her finger to her lips and say “shhhhhh, shhhhh.” (When she does this, she manages to put her finger up her nose at the same time.) She did this several times until I was laughing out loud and that woke Daddy up. He grumpily asked what he was doing wrong. Early in the week in the middle of the night, Bug let out a huge fart and then immediately afterwards said a satisfying “ahhhhh.” That girl has been hanging out with Daddy way too much. She also has been mothering her baby doll a lot. She feeds it dog food and she is constantly laying the baby down and putting a blanket over it and saying “nigh, night.” Sometimes it’s tough love, the baby gets thrown down and then covered and she always positions the baby on it’s face. I try to tell her that she has to put her baby on her back to avoid SIDS, but Bug won’t have it.
One final thing about Bug. She visited the Toddler Room at daycare yesterday. She will permanently move there in a few weeks, but they do a slow transition. She loved it and did very well, athough, someone bit her finger when she was trying to push them away. She didn’t really want to come home, but another child wanted to go home with me and that was not okay with Bug.
Littlest is just being super cute and laughs a lot. She was sitting on my lap on the couch with Sturdy Gurdy next to us. She started reaching out for Gurdy and Gurdy would lick her hand. Littlest thought this was fun, so then she would lunge at Gurdy’s nose, Gurdy would lick her hand, and Littlest would giggle and laugh time after time. Usually Gurdy doesn’t like to be bothered, but she was a good dog.
We survived another day, barely, Thank God! Onward to tomorrow!
