This is for my reference more than
anyone’s interest, but we turned Eve’s car seat around
yesterday for our trip to MA. The past few days the scale has
said 22lbs, so I thought she was probably ok. I always think
the babies are going to love facing forward, but with each of
them they’ve been fairly indifferent :) Alan loved being able
to put the seat back to a comfortable position though, and I
love reaching into the backseat and saying “hi five” and
feeling a little Eve hand reach back. So all is good
:)

Eve is getting pretty good at baby signs
lately and yesterday even put together a phrase! We were
visiting with Jim & Julie and eating Kimball’s ice
cream (yummy!!). Eve, my little beggar, was standing next to
me, sharing my ice cream. She would point at the ice cream and
grunt, but when I said “do you want more?” she’d do the sign
for more. Then she started doing the sign without the grunting
:) Then she did the signs for “eat” and “more” then pointed at
the ice cream. I think that counts as a 3 “word” communication!
Good baby girl!

As an aside, I was a
very bad mommy. I was eating chocolate peanut butter ice cream
and we were talking about how Julie doesn’t eat chocolate now
because it make Molly fussy. We were laughing and eating and
after several minutes I realized that I was feeding Eve
chocolate PEANUT BUTTER ice cream! Bad mommy!!! Of course I
realized this just after she did her impressive 3-sign request
:/ I had to make her go beg daddy for ice cream. Luckily she
was really only licking my spoon, not getting much ice cream in
her, and either didn’t get any or at least not enough of the
peanut butter to cause a problem. It reconfirms my thoughts
that if she does have an allergy to peanuts it isn’t too severe
of one. I am still very eager to get the testing done so we
know for sure! And I’ll try hard to remember that peanut butter
is peanut butter, even if it’s in super delicious ice
cream!

Lex has suddenly become very good with
“thank you’s.” Almost every time you give him something or do
something or whatever, he says “thank you” in his sweet little
voice. He also says, “Oooh, I love milk! Thank you Mommy!” It’s
very cute. And polite!

A few days ago, as I was trying to get us all
out the door to go somewhere, Lex found some stickers in our
art drawer. I told him that I bought them awhile ago to
encourage him to use the potty, but they didn’t work (just
being honest with the kid). He thought for a moment then said
“I wanna pee on the potty now and get a sticker!” This wasn’t
terribly helpful to my get-out-the-door plans, but you can’t
really say no to a kid who wants to use the potty. So we did.
While he was sitting there I asked if he thought it would be a
good idea to have a sticker chart and when he gets five
stickers he can watch a show (I was making this all up on the
fly). He loved the idea, so I hurriedly made a chart and he put
his sticker on it. He was very excited! After he got the first
five stickers I asked him to get me a marker so I could write
five more numbers on the chart. While I was cleaning the potty,
he got a marker and wrote on the next five squares. He didn’t
exactly write numbers, but he marked the squares and was very
proud of himself, so now he’s pretty much managing the chart on
his own :) When I went to the pharmacy Sunday I bought a few
new sets of stickers for the effort and he loved the puffy Pooh
ones (puffy stickers don’t actually stick very well though!)
Now he’s asking to pee on the potty frequently. Still wants
diapers instead of underwear, but that’s ok. Baby steps for the
little guy :)