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Jan. 4th, 2011 12:16 pm
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Man, I love watching learning happening.

I was sitting with Paxton on my lap and we were playing with this toy he got for Christmas. There's a button you push down on the top and balls spin around inside. He really likes the spinning. I was tapping the button, hoping to get his attention so he'd see that I had to press the button for it to work, but he wasn't interested. After about 5 minutes of him watching it spin, he started watching my hand pushing the button and he *got* it. Once it stopped spinning he would hit my hand, so I'd push the button. Not sure if he gets how it works exactly, but he figured out how to make it spin, just make momma move. :D

I also love that when we read this one book, Fuzzy Bee, he touches things like I've shown him. The first few times I read the book I'd take his hand and touch all the different fabrics and now when I turn the pages he does it. Smart little bubby.

It's so cool to see his little brain developing.
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I love Reagan's sense of humour, and the way she just says the sweetest things sometimes.

Today at lunch

me: how's your sandwiches guys? (her and Amelia)
Reagan: really good!
me: excellent!
Reagan: AS ALWAYS!!

dawwww

Then the other week she was putting her new boots on and asked if they were on the right feet. I looked over and said her zippers were on the outside, and shouldn't they be on the inside?

Reagan: No, these ones zip on the outside
me: weird, all my boots when I was a kid had an inside zip
Reagan: Welcome to the future Melanie. Welcome. To. The. Future.

cheeky

~

I still feel pretty craptastic today, but better than yesterday. Sweating like mad, but no fever. Amelia came over this morning and they've been playing all day. It's so nice that I can leave the baby with them while I shower, they kept him entertained.

Tim is side-railing the crib right now, which is excellent. Will make for a lot more room in the bed, since I tend to sleep in the middle now to make room for baby and then have room to make sure he isn't at the edge of the bed. Means Tim gets the other edge of the bed. He's been so good about it, but I think he is liking the roominess of the futon downstairs way too much the last couple nights. I miss my husband when he isn't in bed with me.

I just wrote out all the books I've read so far, and my reading really stopped in July when the baby was born. A few times I've climbed into the bath with a book, in the last couple weeks, but then once I'm in there I just want to close my eyes and rest. I probably need some new books, the problem might be that I'm attempting to read the only book I haven't read in the house, one Tim's mom gave me that is about a puppy.. just not my kind of book. I'm tempted to read it just to see if it's appropriate for Reagan, and give it to her if it is.

Chicken soup for dinner. Hopefully on the mend. I was pretty sad to miss the big baby wearing fun in DC today! Thanksgiving in Canada, I don't think I'll do a turkey, think I'll do what I did last year and roast some Cornish Game Hens. We are invited to a few Thanksgiving things in the area, but I don't think I want to pass my sickness to a bunch of Canadian strangers.

ahhhhh nice

Nov. 7th, 2009 08:46 pm
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We really honestly did luck out in the neighbour department. Reagan, Tim and I were picking up leaves and sweeping the back patio, after Tim mowed the front yard, and Billy passed two more rakes over the fence for us. Awesome.

Then I was talking to our other neighbour, on the other side, and she told us that these two dead bushes in the back yard were originally in the front yard, and she knew they wouldn't make it. I said that we'd be taking them down, and her son (13) said he wanted to chop them with an ax. Hell yeah! Hahah, well, next thing I see, her husband is on the ground sawing them, and the son is chopping branches. Awesome.


I just read Reagan the first two chapters of Little House in the Big Woods. She was so interested and asked a ton of questions. Lots of hunting talk, a whole world that we just can't imagine. It makes me feel all warm and squishy to read them to her, my dad read the entire series to us four kids a few times. He always cried when Jack the dog died.

I love this stuff. I love yard work with my family. I love reading together, snuggled under a warm blanket. I love dinners together and a clean kitchen. These are the things that I appreciate and the things that make the not so great stuff easier to deal with.

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