Sam's been afraid of monsters for a while now, but her fear only recently kicked into high gear.
She sees monsters everywhere: In her room. In my room. In the hallway. At Wal-Mart.
Recently, she had me move one of her beloved stuffed bears from her room to mine because, she said, he was going to eat her in the middle of the night.
Apparently he won't eat her in my room, though. I love the logic.
Finish reading 'The monster mash' »HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
Hope all of you mommies got at least a few special moments either by yourself or with your kids Sunday.
I got a very cool digital picture frame -- and two kids with nasty coughs and fevers. *smile* It's probably the thing that makes me feel most mommy-like anyway.
Sam is super-intense right now.
I'm talking always-in-hyper-drive, do-everything-125-percent, take-no-prisoners-and-leave-no-part-of-the-house-organized-in-any-way intense.
And oh, man, is it driving me nuts.
Finish reading 'Does she have an off switch?' »
Here's a new pic of my baby. It has only recently occurred to me that he won't be a helpless baby for much longer -- he's going to be sitting up and crawling and getting into everything in just a couple of months.
Not sure how I forgot that part. Think I was having too much fun just kissing him and cuddling him.
I think it's official: Sam has become as good an artist as I am.
Here are some recent drawings:
Even though my yesterday ended at 2 a.m. and my today started at 5:45 a.m., it's still been a good day.
That's because this morning, little Mr. Noah, in an unprecedented string of babbling, blurted out "mama" AND "dada."
I know, he doesn't know yet that those sounds together have special meaning for us. But it was still darn exciting.
Every day, one of the first things Sam says to me is "Mommy, do you have to go to work today?"
I actually get a jabbing feeling in my heart when she asks. And because she's still figuring out time (she still does a lot of stuff "last morning"), my explanations about when I'll be off next just don't make sense.
Then, there's her confusion about why I go to work.
Finish reading 'Time to make the money' »As a treat for being good while I registered her for kindergarten (which is a whole post of its own), I took Sam to McDonald's for lunch the other day.
Let's just say it's a good thing that I didn't know anybody there and that we won't be going back for a long time.
Finish reading 'Who taught her THAT?!?' »Noah had his 4-month-old well-baby checkup Monday, and Sam got to come along for the ride.
She loves our pediatrician -- his name's Dr. Mark Baker, and I can't recommend him highly enough -- and his nurse, Karla, so she was excited to go along.
We got into the room, and within 20 seconds, Sam had snagged a pair of green exam gloves and was wiggling her skinny fingers into them. She stepped up on a stool beside the table, then hopped up onto it.
Sam: "OK, I'm all ready for baby Noah's checkup!"
Nurse Karla thought this was cute. So Sam got to help measure him (yet another of her odd fascinations: tape measures), and she trotted down the hall with us to weigh him (13 pounds, 8 ounces, which is not bad for a baby who didn't eat for two and a half straight days since his last checkup).
Finish reading 'Dr. Sissy' »Noah figured out today how to maneuver those strange things on the ends of his arms to touch stuff.
He's been staring intently at things for a couple of weeks now, and he's occasionally batted at stuff with the backs of his hands.
But today, I held a stuffed lion up in front of him (his name is Bobby Lion, by the way -- my husband's little twist on Sam's ever-present Baby Lion), and he put his hands straight out and grabbed onto the fuzzy face.
First try. No hesitation. Those hands hit exactly where he wanted them to go.
It made me look at him in a new light. He's not my teeny, tiny infant anymore. He's in the "baby" stage now.
This means I need to do a few things:
1. Get my long hair cut to keep it from being yanked out of my head
2. Make sure all possible choking hazards are well out of his reach
3. Prepare myself for the oh-so-fun game of "Pick Up Everything I Drop At Least 50 Times"
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