Grins and Giggles

Hungry? Help Yourself, Dear

Big Sister, Big Helper

Soothing baby's chapped lips with some chapstick.

(= rubbing the closed tube all over baby's face)

Helping her sister with her nuk.

(= jamming the pacifier down Jaz's throat)

So Confused

My daughter confuses me sometimes. Lately, she has been having trouble with nap time. After several hours of being awake, playing, eating, crawling around and getting into ev-ery-thing in the house, she enters the comatose mode. She sits and stares. She rubs her eyes. She gets cranky if we don't take action right away to get her to bed. It is quite obvious when she is ready for a nap.

We give her a bottle of warm milk, lay her in the crib and all is quite... for about 10 minutes.

Then she starts talking. And giggling. And playing. For an hour. Or more. Then sometimes she falls asleep. Sometimes she doesn't.

What is happening here? Has this happened to any of you other moms? Am I doing something wrong?

Sophie of the Hood

Duddy

Sophia calls her Duddy (duh-dee) by name now. It is the one of the sweetest things I have ever seen to watch how Jared's face lights up every time she calls for her Duddy.

Whenever Jared walks into the room and she sees him, a huge smile spreads across her face, she throws her arm out towards him and says excitedly, "Duddy!!!"

When it is nap time, and I'm giving her a bottle, she constantly breaks from drinking, looks towards the door to the other room where she knows Jared is, and asks, "Duddy?" It's all he can do to keep from running in to his little girl.

Even in the morning, right when she wakes up, we hear her sweet little voice over the monitor saying, "Duddy? Duddy! Dada! Da! Duddy!?"

Jared's joy culminated yesterday when we were on a walk, and I said, "Sophia, say Ma-ma. Maaa-maaa." She looked up at me, smiled, and boldly said, "Daaah-deeee."

Bundle Me!

It was COLD outside yesterday, so I brought out the big guns.

Ahhhh, the joys of a hat that straps on.

She looks pretty darn cute too. Thanks Hannah!