Daily Log #4: Week 8, 10/20/2010

Andrew's two months old today!

9:20 am Nurse Andrew 20 minutes while reading my Bible, then leave Andrew dozing on our bed while I run for a quick shower. Grace is waking up.


10:00 am - Get Grace up, and finally get her to wear one of my favorite shirts she has - a red and white plaid peasant blouse with Winnie the Pooh on it. I think it might be the first time I've gotten it on her actually... Caleb helps me carry her downstairs while I get Andrew, and change their poopy diapers. Start boiling water for Grace's breakfast, but when she sees the soggy Raisin Bran Caleb made for me, she wants that too. (I've never been a big fan of Raisin Bran, but when Caleb inadvertently discovered it forms a brown, sweet mush when left too long in milk, I found my new favorite breakfast cereal. Grace agrees, it's yummy!) Andrew's getting awfully sleepy, so after Grace is settled in her high chair with her mushy Raisin Bran, I take him upstairs for an outfit change (he needed it), a quick feeding, and lay him in his crib. He's out within minutes.

10:40 am - Update my blog while waiting for more Raisin Bran to get soggy. Grace finishes playing with her cereal, so I clean her up while singing made-up versions of the Heigh-Ho song from Snow White. Grace likes it anyways. Then I get out my broom and sweep up the kitchen, and Grace runs to find her little broom and dust pan set to help Mommy. Grace asks for a drink, and given the choice between apple juice and "bunny milk", wants the "bunny milk". (Thanks to my mom, who thought a funny name for plain milk would make it more palatable. It worked!) I reheat the water from Grace's oatmeal, and use it to mop half the kitchen floor, while Grace sweeps up the other end. (Yes, I was very careful!)

11:15 am - I ask Grace if she wants to play with her pom-poms (one of our favorite dollar store finds!), and she's all for it. Only she has to spend 15 minutes carefully setting up all her dolls in chairs around the coffee table first. She needed my help carrying her little rocking chair (thanks, Mimi & Pappy!), but she showed me precisely where she wanted it. Each doll then got their own cup of pom-poms, sitting on its own coaster. When Amy dropped one, she even taught her to help clean it up!

11:30 am - I hear Grace calling "Oh, music!" and then "where's Hum-Bear?", which are two lines from one of her favorite Wee-Sing movies. We then had to go outside and walk around knocking on trees, just like Hum-Bear does in the movie, until we heard a plane going overhead - "there it is!". Once we were outside, of course we had to swing too. Once I pointed out to Grace that her shadow was also swinging, she spent the rest of the time peering over the side of her swing watching her shadow. And making sure he was buckled up too.

[Daddy note: my office window faces the front of the house, so I heard Grace and Laura calling for the music and took a quick break to open the window and look out. Once Grace saw me, she got a big grin on her face and she asked "Daddy all done?". No, Daddy was just taking a break. Back to work... ]

12:00 pm - Back inside for a quick snack at her little table. She's gotten better at staying put while eating, as I've gotten better at taking her food away if she doesn't. Imagine that. She was disappointed I didn't let her help take Daddy's leftover pizza back to him, so I had to make him a second (slightly healthier) plate so she could help carry it once she was done. She was very careful to carry it with two hands, and only lost one carrot that rolled off. After she gave Daddy his plate, she went back to look for the carrot, which I'd already picked up. She's a good little helper though!

7:35 pm - I do our reading flashcards with Grace while we wait for Caleb to take cookies to our neighbors.

7:38 pm - Grace uses our flashcards as food for her doggy.