Kiddo Update

This is mostly for the grandparents and other folks that want to know all the details of our crazy lives. I decided to just start posting excerpts from emails thinking that will help me post more often, so sorry if you run across things you've read before.

Here's what each kid did last weekend:

The Girl
Friday was too much of a "regular day" and R had a meltdown. We are not supposed to have regular days when I am at home. So come Saturday, it was time for weekend fun! There was a brief window on Saturday morning in which both boys were asleep, so she and I used that time to make apple pies using a recipe from her High Five magazine. The recipe was very kid-friendly, and it simply involved putting apple pie filling and cinnamon on tortillas and rolling them up to create McDonalds's-style apple pies. While R enjoyed eating them, she wanted to put "more ingredients" in the pie. This girl is not ready for Sandra Lee's Semi-Homemade. She is all about cooking from scratch.

On Sunday, we had girl time. She and I went shopping yesterday for big girl undies for her, and then she got her first professional hair cut. Not knowing what to do with her rat's nest, they ended up giving her a shag cut. It's really cute but it looks kinda odd on a little one. She looks like a cross between Joan Jett and Carol Brady. Each night at bed time, she and I share our favorite parts of the day. I thought she had a great time on our outing, but when it came time to share, it turns out her favorite part of the day was playing outside with the whole family in the afternoon. She is a simple kinda girl.

M Man
Over the weekend, M discovered kicking in the bathtub. He is a big fan. When he gets in the tub he kick, kick, kick, kick, kicks! It is much fun to watch. Poor M spent a great deal of the weekend screaming. I know he was hurting, but we never figured out exactly why he was hurting. We are thinking something disagreed with his belly, but he may have just been tired. Or, like his sis, he wanted more Mommy Fun Time since he seemed to be perfectly content any time I was touching him. Who knows. He definitely established himself as our morning child. He was up at 6:30 every day, and completely happy to just play on the floor til everyone else woke up. As a result, he was also the first to bed each night. On either Friday or Saturday night, after not really napping all day, he went to bed at 6:30 p.m. The boy likes his sleep.

Little L
L mastered sitting over the weekend! Despite refusing to do anything other than lay on his back and play with his toes for so long, he actually mastered sitting before his bro. He is now very happy to sit and play. It is great. He also wanted to learn how to crawl over the weekend. He figured out how to get up on all fours, rock back and forth, and lurch forward with his hands. He's not quite ready to move, but he wants to be. He has also given up on sleep. He is now the last kid to bed every night. He won't even try to nurse until he knows his sis is tucked in. (M is not even a factor.) Once the girl is tucked in, L is fairly happy to go to bed, so we are just working on getting her to bed earlier so that we can all get to bed earlier.