Be sure to say hi and happy birthday to
the big man today! He’ll be celebrating his birthday with a
energy committee kick-off event. :) Sounds like fun,
huh?

Eve went in for her 9 month check up
today. Alan took her, so he’ll have to provide the color
commentary, I just have the facts. 19lbs 12 oz (60 percentile)
and 29.25″ (90 percentile). We sure do grow them sturdy. But
the best news is… no shots!! :)

Just before I got the camera on Lex was
reading to Eve. “Look Eve, a rainbow. See the fish Eve.” So
sweet. I missed that part on camera, but the video is cute
anyway.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R5KubXaBRA]

Sweet, funny, kind, caring, smart, creative,
playful, silly, strong, energetic, excitable, quiet,
persistent, loving, wild, beautiful, intense, curious,
athletic, questioning, rough, helpful, happy.
Perfect.

Eve has recently discovered books. I’m so happy.
I’ve been trying to read to her a lot, but I feel guilty that I
don’t read to her as much as we did to Lex at that age. I catch
myself putting her to bed then reading bedtime stories to him.
I’m trying to read to her more often and it’s getting easier as
she’s recently found a few books she likes and will actually
sit through. Her current favorite, “That’s not my truck…”
about a little mouse trying to find his truck. She loves it.
She will also sit through “Puppy love,” “Pat the bunny,” and
“Busy Doggies.” :) She’s even started getting those books off
the shelf and bringing them over to Alan or I to read.
Yesterday she crawled over to the bookshelf, pulled herself up
to reach the board book shelf, and took “That’s not my
truck…” down. First try, reached right for it, didn’t even
empty the shelf in the process. Good stuff. :)

Gotta love sleeping babies!

It’s been a few days so I thought I’d say
a quick hello before baby gets here this morning. Life is going
ok these days. We’re still working on sleep training with Eve.
She doesn’t fully wake up at night, but she does fuss off and
on a lot. The past two nights I’ve been weak and brought her
into the bed to nurse. Sleep training is hard! I’m going to try
feeding her solids before bed instead of nursing being her last
meal before bed. Maybe that will help her sleep longer. The
funny thing is I’ve been nursing her in bed at 5:30 or 6:00am
lately then putting her back to bed and she’ll sleep until 9:00
usually. The other day she slept until 10:00! Lex is always up
at 6:00 and the daycare baby doesn’t get here until 9:00, so I
get some nice quiet time in the mornings with Lex. We have
breakfast, read the paper, color, etc. Stuff that used to be
part of our morning routine pre-Eve. The baby is super sweet
too, and very mellow, so we’ve been having nice days. I have a
3yr old girl who should be starting part time next week. I say
“should” because my experience so far is don’t count on it
until they are actually here. But hopefully. I’ve also been
scheduling playdates here so Lex can have some toddler company
sometimes. We had a kid named Thomas over last week and it was
great. He can really keep up with Lex and they were wrestling
and having a great time. Anyway, that’s all for now.

We got a huge Staples catalog in the mail
the other day and it has become Lex’s favorite book. He even
brings it in the car with him. In the video he’s reading it
with Alan. Just before I turned on the camera he said, “Reading
the Staples catalog with daddy!” I tried to get him to say it
again, but no such luck. Instead he called it a “catalog with
staples in it,” which makes perfect sense really.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5L5-BtNFok]

The kids are so fun these days. They have
started playing together and they both get so happy to see each
other. We’re working on “gentle” with Lex because he gets so
happy to see her he just dives on her. She crawls everywhere
now and he loves to get down on the floor and crawl with her.
“We’re crawling now! Two babies crawling,” he says. But then
he’ll turn and push her over with his head. I think he has so
much energy and excitement and he hasn’t yet figured out how to
properly let it out. But he almost always has the best of
intentions.

With our new baby here
every day Eve is seeming more and more like a kid. I carry the
baby around and Eve crawls around after me. When I sit with the
baby in my lap, Eve will crawl right over and climb in my lap
too. Then Lex, seeing what’s going on, will climb in my lap
too! Usually resulting in at least one of the girls getting
squished. :) But they are just so much fun.

I put baby in the high chair today and Eve in a
booster seat for a snack. I gave Eve a cracker to chew on (she
is teething hard lately, there must be a tooth in there
somewhere!) and she was so cute. I had to take turns feeding
them, so while I fed baby, Eve would chew on her cracker. Then,
when I started feeding Eve, she would reach over and give the
cracker to the baby. Then take it back when I went back to
feeding baby. It was so sweet! They both love the baby. Lex
gives her kisses in the morning and looks for her at night. :)
I really love the people my babies are growing into. (I know,
Eve is definitely still a baby, but you can see a little person
in there too!)