We have been slowly getting used to the fact that Jim has to work at our house. His work schedule changed this week and he had to work seven days in a row – yuck. Fortunately, I have great kids and that makes the transition a little easier. This also means I’ve been home a bunch and now have LOTS to write about. (Length alert!)
For instance, JT is starting to be funny. His vocabulary is big enough that he can say things that make us crack up laughing. Yesterday I was changing his diaper and he said, “Hey Mom, smooch my feet.” Totally seriously. He also stood at the top of the stairs (after I called him down for dinner) and said “What having dinner?” Apparently he wasn’t coming down if the answer wasn’t a good one.
One of JT’s favorite things is banana bread. He calls is “manana bread.” He asks for it all the time. He’ll even point to the bananas in the fruit bowl and say, “Mom make manana bread?” if I explain that we are all out. I love the Martha Stewart banana bread recipe and I don’t mind making it at all, so we’ve been enjoying it at breakfast or snacks.
One of his other favorite things is sour cream. It has been that way for a long time. The other night we had chicken enchiladas and he pointed out that he wanted “ice cream on my enchi-ada.” I said, “Do you mean sour cream?” And he laughed – “Oh, yeah!”
Haley only gets tummy time on the floor while JT is at nap or eating, because who knows what she would get run over with while he’s playing. Even though he’s careful and very good at steering his Harley bike around the house, it’s not worth the risk. So here she is enjoying some tummy time during lunch…
…well protected by Slider. People have asked if Slider is good with our kids since JT was born, especially because she is pretty excitable and dominant and loud. The good news is that she seems to understand her place in our home, and she is a female German Sheperd, so she likes her little pack to be safe. She is not allowed on the blanket but remains close at hand just in case. We didn’t have to remind her of that rule when Haley came along… her memory is apparently in working order.
Haley is really enjoying her binky from time to time, especially between eight and ten at night. I couldn’t help taking this picture because I have one almost exactly like it of JT!
JT is becoming quite a ham for the camera. I can tell him to pose or smile and he will – which is helpful.
He is suddenly enraptured with parking things and careful placement of objects. (Conversations include: “Mom, my sandwich right there” and “I park truck right there.”) Recently he has started pulling out everything with wheels and lining them up in different configurations on the coffee table. They are also lined up parallel to each other and right in a row. JT was destined for a Type-A personality with Jim and I for parents. Sorry, kid.
JT took a little hiatus from reading but he is back in full swing. This week his two favorite things are “read baby sister” and “ABCD book.” Poor Haley puts up with his long stories as long as she can.
Haley is working on having more awake time. Sometimes she makes it ten minutes before caving to sleep… as I type this she is snoring loudly in her swing next to me in the office.
JT suddenly announced to me a couple of weeks ago, “I draw circle.” And he did. I’m not sure who’s been working on that with him, but now he’s crazy about circles. Here he told me he was driving his train in a circle.
He really needed a hair cut, so this week we managed to work that in. I think I did an okay job. We are slowly perfecting what I have in my head. JT is very patient and lets me take half an hour to cut his hair while he sits in the bathroom and plays with the combs and squirt bottle. Afterward he was rewarded with chocolate milk and Bob the Builder before bed. 🙂
And finally (did you think this would ever end?) there are two flip clips. One is JT’s excellent jumping skills. Okay, I’m a little sarcastic there. He loves to jump but doesn’t land on his feet. He is a riot on a trampoline!
And last, a clip of Haley doing what she does best (other than eat, because that would be really awkward to post…).
The Keene Family 