“I’m hungry”

I think Lex is officially over his cold,
which has been lingering for weeks now. His appetite has been
minimal for awhile now, but today all I heard all day was “I’m
huuunnggrry.” All day! We were even playing outside for awhile
and he left a crowd of kids to go in and eat. I realized the
other day that he’s only gained about 1lb since his 2yr
checkup. He was 29.5lbs then and weights 30-30.5lbs on our
scale these days. I’m curious to see what the doc has to say at
his 3yr check up in a few months. So when he was hungry all
day, I just kept feeding him. Now if only I could get him to
eat more than 3 different foods. Ya know, something closer to
the 5 different foods I eat ;)

We went
back to the dentist this morning for x-rays. Lex behaved
exactly as I expected, squirmy and screaming. I bear hugged him
and Alan held his head/jaw, while a friendly nurse entertained
Eve in another room. The dentist said that it didn’t look
broken and would probably be ok. He recommended keeping Lex on
soft foods for another day or two (which in his diet means lots
of yogurt!) and just keep an eye on things. Lex seems fine
though and the tooth is less wobbly today. He had some baby
Motrin yesterday, but nothing today and he’s been quite happy.
I’ve also given him some less than soft foods (bagels) in small
pieces that he doesn’t need to bite with the front teeth.

We have one more day with daycare kids
tomorrow and then we’re done. We might celebrate with a trip to
the Montshire. Or we might celebrate with another day home,
alone :) We shall see.

Here is a cute
picture of the kids today. Lex was sitting on the hearth
reading and Eve sat down with him. She’s a girl on the go
though, so it didn’t last long.

Here’s a picture from
this morning. We were eating breakfast and Lex started naming
things in the kitchen. Why not, right? He got to stove, sounded
out the word, then announced that he could spell stove. Over to
the fridge and a few seconds later he was done. No help from
me. He did tell me “the silent E makes the T say t-uh!” and I
said “silent E’s only work on vowels.” He thought for a second
then said, “oh, the silent E makes the O say oh!” I jumped up
and gave him big hugs and told him that he was smart, smart,
smart. He said, “smart, I can spell smart” and did! No help
from me.

And to brag about Eve
for a second, she’s getting really good at baby signs. She
added “bird” to her growing list of signs today and used it
properly several times. She also can do a passable “spider” and
uses it when she wants me to sing “Itsy bitsy spider,” her
favorite song. Not sure she’d recognize a real spider, but
that’s ok! We also graduated her to a booster seat, so she now
sits at the table with us and uses a plate and fork. Well, she
uses them until she’s done eating, then signs “all done” and
tosses them on the floor :)

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