I googled myself tonight to see what was publicly available about myself. One interesting thing that I found was my MySpace blog and Facebook notes popped up in a search. I had forgotten that I kept the MySpace blog for a while, so tonight, I moved most of the posts from there to this website and backdated.
I wasn’t writing very much, but it was interesting to me to re-read stories that I wrote about Jacob before he was talking. It’s already hard for me to remember him like that. Several of the posts happened right about Sarah’s age today. I wonder if she can do the things that he was doing then. I’m sure my expectations were higher for Jacob since he was first and they are probably lower for Sarah since I’m just keeping my head above water on some days with three little ones. I should test her out more!
Daily scoop of the kids:
Jacob decided he likes eggs today – but only hard boiled. When he was one, I could get him to eat scrambled,but he never really liked them. I am pretty sure that the only reason he likes them now is because he knows that some dinosaurs like to eat eggs and he wishes he were a dinosaur.
I was scolded tonight when Toby got into trouble. I let a laugh slip when he disobeyed Brian in an incident involving pretzels. As Brian was discussing it with him, Toby was squirrely and smiling. Brian said, “I don’t think what you did was funny,” to which Toby replied, “Mom did.” Oops.
Sarah is a little menace under the Christmas Tree. I have now re-wrapped four presents that she has unwrapped. AARGGHH! She also insists of sticking her hands in the toilet daily and then slurping the water off of them. Such a little lady…
And finally, Jamiee had mid-terms all week and finished the first semester of her junior year today. She’s been out since after school and is seeing a late movie. I hope she’s behaving!
Paddy is a menace with the presents too. He was helping me put the presents under the tree after I wrapped them and all the sudden he didn’t come back and got REAL quiet. So I looked for him and he had unwrapped 3 of the gifts I just wrapped. Little stinker.
Mel put Paddy after lucnh today, and later found Paddy opening Brian’s gifts for Maria (which was stored in the bedroom). We hope that your first family Christmas is memorable event and that our Lord Jesus will always be with you and the family.
LOve ya,
Dad/Opa
Elias is equally intrigued by toilet water. It makes me crazy! Nathan uses the toilet, Elias follows and then Nathan comes out telling me Elias put his hands in the potty. So far, no evidence that he’s doing any “slurping.” But this is generally a daily occurrence! I tried to make it abundantly clear to Elias today that he’s not to put his hands in the potty. We’ll see if such instruction effects any change on the finger dipping!