Hello Again

I know I just posted a few days ago but school starts again on Monday and who knows how consistent I will be when I am immersed in my sixteen credit schedule. Also, my kids are so darn cute and the majority of my recent posts have been focused on our family summer activities and not on their individual oddities and accomplishments. So....here we go.

Adam: Adam amazes me every day. He is so smart. We have to be really careful what we do and say at home because he picks everything up in two seconds flat. He also has an amazing memory. He wanted to wear Eric’s belt yesterday morning but Eric had already gone to work. I told him he would need to wait until daddy got home to wear it. As soon as Eric stepped in the door last night Adam asked him for his belt. As I hadn’t heard anything from Adam since that morning about the belt, I had assumed that he had forgotten about it. I am so silly. Adam has also realized that he can climb out of his crib. I think it was about time for this realization. He is three after all. I have to admit that it is weird and slightly disconcerting to have to talk to Adam in the wee hours of the morning when he decides he needs me but it had to happen sometime. I am proud of his accomplishment. Adam also has his own recent oddity. He likes to dress much as one would during the snowy winters of our current state. His father and I find this odd because it is ninety degrees outside and generally around eighty in our house due to a incompetent swamp cooler. He particularly likes to wear his snow jacket and snow boots. He sleeps in them too. He only lets us take them off when he wants us to “make him a boy.” I’m not quite sure what he is while he is wearing his costume but given his vivid imagination it could be anything. What a crack-up.

Caleb: It feels like Caleb has always been with us. He is entertining, darling, and physically draining. I am so grateful for him.aHe is developing just as a four-month-old should. He rolls over, jabbers, and tries to grab whatever is in his reach. Generally that means my hair. He eats all the time and won’t take a bottle. He is going to have a little bit of a shock next week when I go back to school. Thankfully I am only gone for a few hours every day so if he chooses not to eat while I’m gone he will still get what he needs. He also has turned into a scooter. He dragged his chubby body forward a whole foot just to reach a pile of toys that Adam had left earlier. It was so cute to watch him reach his little arms out in victory and pull the whole mass towards him and start to slobber on it (something else he is pretty good at). He is such a person already.

My kids are indeed cuter than your kids and I am so glad to be their mother. And such a humble mother at that.