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November 20, 2006
Thankful that the Thanksgiving is coming
My Mom reminded me that it has been 11 whole days since I've posted to BabyDays. Back before I had two children, I would be reminded after one or two, but she's definitely cutting me some slack right about now. Thanks, Mom. :)
It's not for lack of desire that I stay away. I have a running commentary in my head, on a daily basis, of all the things I want to be sure to capture. Oh, Gus said this... or Eli did this, but the tired. It has gotten me. Now I am fighting my way back to words, where as of recent pictures have sufficed.
We've recently battled the second coming of the double ear infections with Eli. About a month ago, he suffered terribly high fevers for about a week, and finally antibiotics seemed to turn him around. This past week, though, saw a resurgence of infection. The doctor was none too pleased, and ordered a series of antibiotic shots to get rid of this sitting abomination. After three days of shots, he seems to be on the mend, both physically and in spirit. Eli now is jabbering up a storm, leaving me to wonder if his hearing had been plugged up this past month. It's amazing. We swear he's saying hi, and are pretty sure he said Papa at least once. It will be amazing to listen to Gus and Eli chat...
Eli is starting to crawl on his hands and knees more and more, and there's no surface he can't pull himself up on. He's starting to cruise across the furniture, and if we hold his hands, he walks pretty well. Is this the point where I mention I'm freaking out about the movement? My head has not gotten into the baby proofing game again, so I find that he's literally telling me what I need to do to make it safe for him (like, maybe don't put Eli down when Zeppo's food is down? don't leave my barrettes lying around? tuck the extension cords away?)
Gus is one big conversation. His imagination is rich, his language even richer. The past couple of days,he has started to ask me what we're doing or where we're going, which signals to me that this is a kid who is ripe for a calendar of his very own. We'll make one of those for the fridge.
Ever since we started using the toothbrushing chart, we have been able to get into Gus' mouth with relative ease. I keep waiting for the pull of the sticker to disappear, but so far it's sticking (no pun intended, seriously). Since this has been so successful, I think we need to try the chart with potty training. I think Gus is afraid of having an accident in his underwear since he's had a couple already, so we're working on the concept of practice, and how it's okay to have accidents since it's part of the practice routine. I think we just need to get it into the routine, and he'll take to it. Right now, our routine is kind of chaotic, so we just need to make space for it.
I'm reading an amazing book, called something like "Between parent and child." I've decided to be a book club of one. I'm going to write about it here. Stay tuned.
I think I'm starting to hallucinate and am using words that don't make sense (and then erasing them, like I just did. I'll spare you my confused rambling).
Bed.
Posted by janna at November 20, 2006 11:28 PM