I gave Lex a kiss the other night before I
went to bed and he startled and said:

LEX: “Mom the monster had a bed. The monter had a pillow.
The moster had the same pillow that I had.”
ME: “The
monster?”
LEX: “yes” (with a happy little
sigh)
ME: “What monster?”
LEX: “The bunny
monster.”
ME: “Are you having a good dream?”
LEX: “yes” (with a happy little sigh)

The next morning I asked him about the monster and he said
it was the bunny monster in the hat in Between the Lions (his
favorite show). It’s really the Announcer Bunny puppet in a top
hat at the beginning of the show. I wonder if he thinks puppets
are monsters? I was surprised that he remembered the
dream.

And speaking of remembering
things… we went into the Co-Op for the first time in ages
today. Lex looked around and said “Mommy, do you think Popcube
is still here or do you think he went home?” It took me a
minute to remember that last time we went to the Co-Op (ages
ago!) we randomly met Grandpa. Then Lex said “I didn’t say hi
to him, I just looked down.” True, true. Amazing memory on this
kid!

When Lex was about a year old he kicked a
slat on the crib and broke it in half. We thought we had a
super strong boy on our hands. Since we couldn’t really afford
a new crib we relied on some packing tapes and Alan’s
handiwork, and it’s held up well. Recently I saw a recall
notice for cribs much like ours, but not exactly the same
model, for problems with babies breaking the slats. Guess other
people have super strong kids too! Anyway, I emailed the
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to see if they were
investigating other models. They pretty quickly got back to me
and sent an investigator out. He gave me $250 in cash and took
my crib! (of course I agreed to all of this ahead of time) So
now we have a few dollars (rare for us these days) and are
debating the wisdom of switching Eve to the toddler bed now :)
Just for kicks we got it out tonight (notice the pack-n-play
right near by) and figured we’d try it for the weekend. Tonight
went rather well, says Alan. We’ll see how nap time goes
tomorrow. They were both super excited to see the toddler bed
out again and Lex was climbing up on the tall edges and jumping
off. She was using it like a trampoline. I’m not really
expecting much, but we’ll see. She’s awfully cute anyway.

I’m so far behind on the blogging, but there are
a few past thoughts I wanted to be sure to capture. These
pictures are from last week. Lex and I decided to make
blueberry muffins with the blueberries we had picked, but I
told him I had to load the dishwasher first (so we had clear
counters to work on!) Then my friend called and we got to
chatting. Lex decided to take matters into his own hands and
load the dishwasher for me. Isn’t that helpful! I don’t
normally let him help with the dishwasher (too messy), so I
think he was pretty thrilled that I wasn’t stopping him this
time. I did, however, stop him from opening up his sippy cups
to put them in. Visions of day-old milk splattered around the
kitchen got the best of me.

This may have also been the first
time he ever spoke on the phone. My friend’s 3yr old daughter,
Josie, loves the phone and always want to talk. I was talking
to her for a minute and Lex wanted to know who it was and then
decided that he wanted to talk to Josie. I put them on speaker
phone and it was pretty funny. They needed a little help
understanding each other, but overall it went well :)