Daily Joys - Thursday, Oct 28

• During breakfast today, Grace made a little hole in her oatmeal & applesauce mixture, and told me it was a bed; now she just needed a baby. She then proceeded to put a piece of banana peel across the top of her bowl, as the roof (which sounded more like "woof"). At my suggestion, she then ate her banana down to size, and stuck it in the bowl as the baby. Later, when I tried to get her to eat her banana, she just gave me this quizzical look and said "it's the baby!"
• Andrew actually slept in three-hour increments again last night! Even though he's still nursing twice a night, it's amazing the difference when I get those longer sleep periods in between. (Though when I mean slept in three-hour increments, that actually means three hours from the beginning of one nursing session to the next; but in between feeds and diaper changes, it still leaves a good two hours of solid sleeping for Mama.)
• It was pretty chilly this morning, so I put him in his little pumpkin outfit - it's warm and soft, and quite adorable! He has no idea how cute he looks. :-D
• I changed Andrew's diaper while Grace was eating breakfast, and as soon as I got that poopy diaper off, he was just gave me the biggest grin! Talk about pay-back for all the work of Mommy-ing. :-D
  
• While changing his diaper, I heard Grace saying "shoo bug, shoo bug!" I settled Andrew, got a tissue and went to take care of the bug (sure enough, a little gnat walking around her high-chair tray), at which she exclaimed "No Mommy! I shoo him, with my hand!"
• This afternoon, I was going through our mail and turned around to realize Grace had scooped a handful of dirt, baby basil plants and all, from our little herb garden. I explained to her that she hurt the baby plants, and she told them "I'm sorry!". Later, we were playing out front, and while Grace was playing in the flower beds, I pulled a couple weeds to her great consternation - "No Mama! Plants!" - and she picked up one of the weeds and tried to stick it back in the dirt. Oh, I love her! :-)
• While Grace napped this afternoon, I stuck Andrew in my sling and vaccuum the downstairs, then we took a little walk. I realized I haven't often taken the time to do that with just him like I did with Grace, and it made for a really restful afternoon.