Sunday, January 21, 2007
Suck that bottom lip
Ellis starting doing the funniest thing last night. He was in his bath, something that he is mildly OK with as long as he can look at himself in the mirror, and he started sucking on his bottom lip when I did something he did not like, for exampe, washing his hair or scrubbing his ear. All day today he was sucking on his lip. It was pretty funny. When he saw me or when he was bored, he would make these loud smacking sounds with his lips. It really was very cute.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Ellis at almost 4 months
Ellis is changing every day. He is beginning to show signs of wanting to roll over. He'll pick up his legs up high and turn to one side. For the most part, he was doing it to the right but the other day he did it to the left when he was trying to grab Clara. He accidentally grabbed her hair and you can imagine how much she liked that!
Ellis loves things that Clara did not like when she was a baby. He likes to be rough-housed a bit. It makes him giggle. The kid has a great laugh! He is so easy going and easy to read. I am grateful that I have had easy babies! He is getting better about laying on his stomach, sometimes he likes it but he still tires of it quickly. He is doing a good job. It will be nice when he can hang out like that a little bit more.
He just loves people. Clara would often coo and toys but Ellis does not do it unless it is a person. If there is someone in his face, he is pretty happy! Definitely a people person. He is not sleeping through the night yet, though with my kids, I certainly did not expect that! On a good night, I will put him down at 8, feed him at 11 when I go to bed, and he will wake up at 5 and sleep until 8. On a bad night, enter in waking up at 1 and 3 in there. It is amazing how your body gets used to no sleep. It is only when he does that a couple of nights in a row that I get super tired.
Clara is amazing at how fast she is learning and comprehending. The other day, I was writing out her name and she knew most of the letters. She knew C, thought L was a K, knew A and thought R was a K. After a few times she recognized it all. She wanted me to spell Mommy and Daddy as well.
A couple interesting Clara stories was Matt was wearing his Superman shirt and Clara thought it was a pizza. The shape and color are right!
I was at a MOMS club meeting and a women inappropriately grabbed Ellis from me when I was cleaning chalk off of Clara's hands. Clara got so upset. She started saying, "Mommy hold Ellis?" over and over again. Each time she said it she got more upset. It was interesting to see her get upset over this lady holding Ellis. Maybe she likes him after all!
Ellis loves things that Clara did not like when she was a baby. He likes to be rough-housed a bit. It makes him giggle. The kid has a great laugh! He is so easy going and easy to read. I am grateful that I have had easy babies! He is getting better about laying on his stomach, sometimes he likes it but he still tires of it quickly. He is doing a good job. It will be nice when he can hang out like that a little bit more.
He just loves people. Clara would often coo and toys but Ellis does not do it unless it is a person. If there is someone in his face, he is pretty happy! Definitely a people person. He is not sleeping through the night yet, though with my kids, I certainly did not expect that! On a good night, I will put him down at 8, feed him at 11 when I go to bed, and he will wake up at 5 and sleep until 8. On a bad night, enter in waking up at 1 and 3 in there. It is amazing how your body gets used to no sleep. It is only when he does that a couple of nights in a row that I get super tired.
Clara is amazing at how fast she is learning and comprehending. The other day, I was writing out her name and she knew most of the letters. She knew C, thought L was a K, knew A and thought R was a K. After a few times she recognized it all. She wanted me to spell Mommy and Daddy as well.
A couple interesting Clara stories was Matt was wearing his Superman shirt and Clara thought it was a pizza. The shape and color are right!
I was at a MOMS club meeting and a women inappropriately grabbed Ellis from me when I was cleaning chalk off of Clara's hands. Clara got so upset. She started saying, "Mommy hold Ellis?" over and over again. Each time she said it she got more upset. It was interesting to see her get upset over this lady holding Ellis. Maybe she likes him after all!
Thursday, January 04, 2007
My kids won't sleep
Ellis is having such a hard time learning to take naps during the day. He is very particular and likes it VERY quite so when the kids are upstairs playing, he often wakes up and won't sleep because he hears things going on.
Over the weekend, Clara did not take a nap the whole time. We would go through the motions of putting her down and she just lay awake talking to herself and listening to her fishes for about two hours! No complaining, which is good. She needs the downtime anway! She did it three days in a row and then again during the middle of the week. I don't know if this is heading down the path of no nap, I sure hope not.
Over the weekend, Clara did not take a nap the whole time. We would go through the motions of putting her down and she just lay awake talking to herself and listening to her fishes for about two hours! No complaining, which is good. She needs the downtime anway! She did it three days in a row and then again during the middle of the week. I don't know if this is heading down the path of no nap, I sure hope not.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Giggle giggle giggle
Ellis giggled for the first time in the last couple of days. This morning was his first real laugh. I can always get him in a pretty good mood right after he wakes up for the first time in the morning. When I am changing his diaper I'll say hi and touch his cheeks. That always gets BIG smiles. And when I kiss his cheek and neck, he laughs! It is so darn cute. I love it :)
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