for you, my one reader

there may be 2, or even 3, but I'd be surprised if there were more. What's new, you ask? Well, there's a reason I haven't been posting. Nothing's going on. I'm home with my lovely children, and we do not very exciting things. We play outside a lot, unless it rains for 5 days straight like it did last weekend (I wasn't sure we were going to survive that one, seriously), we go for bike rides and we get the mail and say hi to "the ladies" who have home daycares in my neighbourhood who are out walking their kids around. The little girl still (usually) has 2 pretty good naps a day, one mid morning and one mid afternoon. She's on to semi-real food, baby cereal, purees and whatnot. I get to start yogurt and more real food soon, so that should be fun. More fun than pureed squash and peas, I'll tell you that much. It's hard to feign enthusiasm for that kind of stuff, because it's disgusting. I've even made my own pureed veggies and beef, which the girl is *not* a fan of. The beef. She likes the veg, and I've discovered I can mix just about anything with sweet potato and it'll be ok. She's funny, if she doesn't like something she spits most of it out and makes a terrible face, but then looks at me like, come on, that's gross, what are you trying to do here? If she really does like something, she gets really excited and wiggles and her feet start going. Babies are so easy.

The little boy is doing well. Despite my best efforts to fatten him up (ok, not really, but I do wish he'd hit the 40lb mark soon) he is still like 36lbs and thus in a giant car seat. He's tall enough, but not heavy enough. This means that I have both giant car seats in my car, as the little girl is now too big for her infant seat. This isn't so bad, except that any time we have to go somewhere all together, we take my car. And if the man wants to go somewhere with just the boy, like skating on Sunday afternoons, then he either takes my car and I'm stuck home, or we (I) have to switch the seat to his car and then remember to switch it back before Monday morning when he leaves for work or I'm stuck home for the day. It's just not worth buying another car seat for the few months left until the boy is big enough for a booster, but it sure would be handy. Anyway. Other than that, he's mostly delightful, in his 3.5 year old way. He still loves to snuggle, loves to play and run around, watch movies, and dress up as Spiderman, Indy, Woody, or Superman. He'd be Batman too, but we don't have that costume yet, so he has to pretend a little harder for that one. He loves to love the little girl, and so wants her to just sit with him, watch a movie or whatever. She'll sit with him for a bit, cause she finds him entertaining for some reason, but she's not into tv (which isn't a bad thing, but the little boy has been from about birth, so it's different) and he doesn't understand why she doesn't want to watch Blues Clues or whatever with him. He cries way more than she does, she can go for days without crying at all. He is at that super fun age where he knows what he wants, and he wants it now, whether it be Halloween candy for breakfast or 11 stories at bedtime or to go see his friend next door at 6:30am or at bedtime. There is no logic or reasoning with a 3 year old, so it's largely frustrating for everyone involved at times.

I'm doing pretty well too, thanks for asking. I do enjoy being home, but I think I have to start getting out of the house by myself on more than a monthly basis. The man is still a bit wary of staying home with the 2 when they're awake, so that puts a crimp in my plans. I have one friend who's on leave, but we both have 2 kids, so we don't actually manage to cross paths very often. She's going back to work after Christmas, so I'll be on my own until summer when the rest of my teacher friends will be around. I've given very brief thought to going back early (if there were a job), but I think it would stress me out too much to be away from the 2 of them when the little girl is still so little. If a really good job came my way, I'd give it more serious thought, but for now there's nothing that tempting.

I've clearly been typing long enough, because I can hear the little girl on the monitor, muttering and rolling around. It's nice to not wake up crying, don't you think? She'll just babble and talk to herself for a while, and get gradually louder until someone goes up to get her.