This is actually post 301. I just noticed my count and I am feeling oddly proud of that number. Now, if I had one of those impressive "professional" blogs, I would probably have a giveaway to celebrate this moment. As I do not have one of those blogs, all you get is a new post...
I am up at 3am tonight because we have a pukey boy. Why these things always have to happen at the holidays is beyond me. The one consolation here is that perhaps Christmas is safe now...
We were supposed to be hitting the road to NY in about 4 hours, for Thanksgiving. Now it looks like we have an unexpected long weekend at home. All the laundry is already done so the sky's the limit for what we do with our time. Unless of course we all get this. Sigh.
As I have an inability to sleep when anyone in the house has a tummy bug, I will pass the time writing about some of the wonderful aspects of my children, to offset this not-so-wonderful part of parenting.
Ivy: Her most recent trick is the "sniff-laugh". I shall have to try to get it on video as I don't think I'll do it justice in words. When she's particularly tickled about something she looks you in the eye, wrinkles up her nose like a little bunny, twinkles up her eyes in a smile, and giggles by sniffing in and out at you. It is like she's sharing some tremendously funny secret with you. It's adorable.
She's a pro at sitting, grabs any toy or object in the vicinity and transfers it hand to hand and then hand to mouth, and bounces on her bum when she gets excited. Her favorite toys right now include an egg separator, her gummy yummy teether, a wooden napkin ring, her brother's hotwheels (oh how she loves them) and a newly discovered infatuation with the light-up phone toy. She's not had much experience so far with the light-up, music-making toy genre before the past few days, but she's fallen hard...
Oh-- the other most adorable thing about her: when she greets us she not only gives us that sweet smile (the smile that is, in fact, the reason for the perpetuation of the species) but she kicks her legs and flaps her arms at the most terrific rate. This is most striking, and hilarious, when she's being held by someone else, facing out, and then sees one of us. She turns into this little ball of arms and legs going every which way. Her excitement is palpable and quite endearing.
To be continued about the boy....
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