This is just about our lives - four cats, two kids, a musician and a preacher.
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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Musical Beds
It's hard to keep track of who is sleeping in which bed lately. Everyone starts off in their own bed, and sometime in the night we all switch.
For the first eight months of her life, Lila slept in a co-sleeper right next to our bed. I loved having her right beside my head. But it was a bit crowded, and rolling over or sneezing sometimes woke her up. So when she started scooting, we moved her to her crib in the adjoining room. And she liked that just fine. It's a sturdy crib, and I can lie down next to her when we feel like nursing and sleeping.
But lately, Lila wants to sleep next to me all night. She'll go back to sleep with our usual nursing and rocking routine, but then she wakes up every 30 minutes needing me. So after Nathan comes to our bed in the middle of the night, Lila and I go to his double bed.
Nathan goes to sleep in our bed, then Randy carries him to his own room. But those pesky closet monsters disturb his sleep. Today I was wondering if it might be easier to just leave Nathan in our bed, and I could just sleep with Lila in Nathan's bed.
If Nathan's bed was as comfortable as ours, I would just do that!
We asked Nathan the other day why he didn't want to sleep in his own bed, and he said "There are CRUMBS in that bed!" Well, yeah. When you eat Ritz crackers in bed, you wind up with crumbs.
7:38 PM
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
I came tonight to write about Nathan, since he just cracks me up. When we leave our house to go anywhere, we have to follow a certain route. Our road makes a big circle, and it only connects to the one road leading out of the subdivision. Shouldn't be that difficult, right? Right. We have to turn right out of the driveway and go the long way around the circle. Every time.
We've asked *why* we have to go this particular route, and Nathan says "I just love it. It's so beautiful." Now imagine that statement with the L's pronounced as W's!
Lila is still Wiwa to us. And now she's Wi part of the time. Or she's Felicia to Nathan's Spiderman and my Mary Jane. If we're the Wild Thornberries, Nathan is Darwin (the chimpanzee) I'm Eliza, and Lila is Donny, the Wild Boy from Borneo.
Today Nathan got up at 6:45. Wide awake. Usually we're struggling to get him out of bed to leave the house at 8:40. I really wasn't thrilled with 6:45. Because I knew that by 2:00 PM, he would be at the end of his rope. Yup. He screamed and cried and raged from 1:40 to 2:10. Nothing was going his way. But as he was having his melt down, I thought "I know my boy!"
That is one of the trickiest things about raising a "spirited" child. You have to think ahead and predict what might set him off. I have to plan ahead and have some sort of strategy ready, since things are rarely ever easy.
8:48 PM
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Monday, August 29, 2005
I was going through my Favorite Places list, and I came across my old Blog link. Maybe I'll try again! We've moved, and although we're far from settled I do have a little bit of computer time every day.
Reading my old posts about toddler Nathan makes me realize that I need to keep writing about my kids. They change so much every week! Nathan is four years old now, and very much a big boy. Lila is 13 months old, and on the verge of walking. She is also making her opinions known! She'll shake her head "no" and truly mean it now.
Lila is also my nature girl. She would stay outside all day every day if we would just cooperate. Rain doesn't bother her. Crawling on dead, crunchy grass doesn't bother her.
We have a full acre at our new parsonage, and Lila loves to explore. The apple trees are her current favorite spot. I would rather not play with rotting, bee infested apples, so we don't spend much time there. Today she was bear crawling towards the apples and realized that she had a considerable distance to cover. So she held her little arms up to me, waited to be picked up, then pointed to her apple trees and firmly stated "DAH!"
10:59 PM
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