This weekend (March 3rd) was the first weekend we started work in the greenhouses for this season. Autumn was super excited to get to spend the weekend with both grandmas. Saturday morning when we got up she came downstairs and got out her own cereal and started eating without waiting for mom and dad. She insisted she get dressed immediately and started putting on her coat and shoes before we had woken Henry or even ate our own breakfast.
We dressed autumn in her ugliest clothes for “work gear” before we went. She kept asking “why” we were in those clothes. We told her we were working… “Why”… to make money! That got her excited. Autumn has been in love with money for a while now and just loves to put change in her piggy bank and watch me count it out to take to the bank. She has her own savings account and she loves when she gets to go to the bank with me because the ladies in town give her suckers.
Autumn kept declaring during the weekend that she was working for “big money”. She helped fill dirt pots and carried pots back and forth for us in the greenhouse. At the end of the weekend grandma paid her with a small bucket of loose change. We took autumn to the store to buy one treat with her money. The rest came home with her and was stashed in her piggy bank!
Monday, March 5, 2012
Henry Update:
Henry is now 2 months old. He is growing like a weed and I can’t wait to see how much he weighs at his next appointment on Friday. I’m not looking forward to the shots he has to get though. Henry has really settled down at night and is sleeping for 7-8 hours for the first stretch, getting up and eating a bottle, and then going back down for 4-5 more hours. He has started smiling more but he is still such a serious little boy. He has also started making some noises other that crying. He is oohing and aahing, and just within the last few days he has started making a throaty gurgling noise. He still likes to be carried around much of the day but as long as you’re interacting with him he’s happy at least. The evenings are still his cranky time and he won’t let mike hold him most of the time. Let’s hope some of these things start to settle down soon too.
Autumn’s 3rd Birthday Party:
We celebrated autumn’s 3rd birthday party at the end of the month this year. It gave us time to settle in with Henry in the house and also spaced out autumn’s gifts between Christmas and her birthday a bit more. We had a Diego cake for her party that mom and grandma hapeman made. She wore a really cute handmade Diego dress that I found and purchased on ebay. Autumn made out like a little bandit with all her presents. She got 2 sets of pajamas, bath paints, crayons, and color tabs, a new bedding set, a bunch of Clifford books, some Melissa and Doug cooking items, a Dora bike and v-tech reader cartridges. Mom and dad got autumn a bunch of Diego toys since they seem to be the ‘best toy ever” around here and we are constantly breaking up fights over them.
Henry Update:
At our one month check up Henry weighed in at 9 pounds 7 ounces. He is really growing lately. He has gone up to the 27th percentile for weight now. Henry has developed a bit of colic and we spend most of the day and night trying to figure out what will calm the little man down. Evenings are a bit hectic between dinner, house clean up, baths, and Henry! Lately we find ourselves wishing the days away until the little man calms down a bit. At the same time we want to enjoy this time since it’s the last babu we plan to have. The doctor recommended swaddling Henry during the day as well as the night. So far, it has worked when nothing else seems to keep him quiet. We’ll see…
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Self Incrimination
Autumn: “I did what you didn’t tell me to do”
Dad: “What?”
Autumn: “What you didn’t tell me to do!”
Dad: (confused) “What?”
Autumn walks into her bedroom and points to the closet door “What you didn’t tell me to do”
It then became clear she was referring to the Strawberry Shortcake poster that she had asked me several weeks ago to put on her door. I had refused to let her do so.
About a week after that, while I was at work she asked her mother. Jill gave her some tape and sent her off to hang it herself.
Apparently not until this morning did it occur to her to make it clear to me that she had “done what i didn’t tell her to”
I said “You mean you did what I told you not to do”
Autmn: “Yes!”
Dad: “What?”
Autumn: “What you didn’t tell me to do!”
Dad: (confused) “What?”
Autumn walks into her bedroom and points to the closet door “What you didn’t tell me to do”
It then became clear she was referring to the Strawberry Shortcake poster that she had asked me several weeks ago to put on her door. I had refused to let her do so.
About a week after that, while I was at work she asked her mother. Jill gave her some tape and sent her off to hang it herself.
Apparently not until this morning did it occur to her to make it clear to me that she had “done what i didn’t tell her to”
I said “You mean you did what I told you not to do”
Autmn: “Yes!”
Milk Burns
During breakfast Autumn stares intently at the milk jug for a while and declares:
“It says, Cow Milk”
Me: “It says Byrne Dairy 2% Milk”
Autumn: (looking confused for a moment) “Milk doesn’t burn!”
Me: “That’s just the name of the farm where the cows live. A dairy is a farm where Milk Cows live”
Autumn: “oh”
“It says, Cow Milk”
Me: “It says Byrne Dairy 2% Milk”
Autumn: (looking confused for a moment) “Milk doesn’t burn!”
Me: “That’s just the name of the farm where the cows live. A dairy is a farm where Milk Cows live”
Autumn: “oh”
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