Combat Crawl

It's been a bit rough for us these past few weeks. We all got colds, we lost Ochi, we've been crazy busy. In a way, it's been good. It's nice to know we're liked enough to get invited places, but I could use a break. Of course, the last time I said that I ended up bringing a cold home. Nevermind, I'll take the craziness.

What's been new? Kieran is getting curious about his body and starting to talk about things that are "girl things" versus "boy things". Like colors. He used to say that pink and purple were his favorite colors. He wanted to decorate his room in sparkly pink and purple anything. We resisted this because we knew what was coming. We diverted him to let him put sparkly things on Amelia's walls that were pink and purple (I just didn't want to make more work for us having to take down anything we put up). Sure enough, he's declared these colors "girl colors". I asked him if he still liked the colors. He said yes, but reiterated the 'girl colors' comment. Kids.

For his body questions, we got him a book from the library that talks about the body and how it's changing. That certain parts are private and what they do. He's also very into building muscles. Ken once explained that he rips his muscles to build them up. Now every night Kieran tells me he's ripping up his muscles to grow big and strong.

Amelia has begun eating solid food (and by solid, I refer to the pureed baby food). So far she's liked everything, fruit is, of course, preferred. She has also begun the 'combat crawl'. She moves along the floor using her arms and legs but instead of picking her belly up, she leaves it down. Slithering more like a snake. It's very funny. It also means we have to vacuum more often. And sweep. And clean. Which we haven't.*sigh*

She's still not sleeping through the night. She gets up about once and goes right back down, so I'm not complaining. Next week we'll do a weight check update and Kieran will have his yearly exam. At that appointment I'll find out if we can move Kieran to a booster seat (I think the answer will be yes). That'll be pretty cool.

This weekend we are holding our first 'big boy birthday' party. Most of Kieran's previous parties have been at daycare, at a relative's house or a bowling alley with family. We're going to Chuck E Cheese on Sunday and have 11 kids and 15 adults. I'm prepping my ears for the noise.

Finally, Ken opened the door and now we have to go through it. The day that Ochi passed away, a friend of ours was reaching out trying to find a new home for her cat. It seems her newborn has allergies and the current home the cats were not getting along. Ken told Kieran we'd get a new cat. Well, now the cats are getting along and we have to go searching for another cat. Because Kieran is very set on having two. Hopefully Reggie will forgive us.


OK, better get back to it. Love to all, blog again soon.