I just thought I’d post some random facts about our lives around here.
#1. Charlie is working hard on his grammar. “Let I take picture!” 
The reason I’ve noticed is because of all the exceptions he’s not aware of yet. i.e. “That mine’s cookie?” or “Please I may get down?”
#2. I have successfully completed my first pool outing with the kids by myself. Success=no one drowned! 
Here’s how it went: Wendy put a bathing suit on for the first time and dipped her toes in. Wendy cried. Mom put Wendy to sleep while watching Charlie in wading pool. Wendy took a nap while Mom and Charlie practiced swimming in the big pool. Wendy woke up. Mom put Wendy back to sleep while Charlie ate his snack. Mom and Charlie practiced jumping into the big pool. Wendy woke up. Wendy cried. Mom, Charlie and Wendy went home. Wendy cried. Wendy refused to nurse until Mom no longer smelled like chlorine—sheesh! 
BUT it was totally worth it and so fun to be in the pool with Charlie!
#3. I just got the bill for my broken toe. 
It turns out my orthopedic specialist, who was in the exam room all of 2 minutes to confirm that my pinkie toe was indeed broken, thinks this roll of tape is worth $265.00. He also had the audacity to call his use of the tape (around my pinkie toe and across my foot) “surgery” to the tune of another $357.00.
Which makes me think the x-ray I got for $102.00 must be a screaming deal!
#4. It was 99 degrees today with 55% humidity. I believe them when they said it felt like 108. Our air conditioning was on all day and we barely maintained 79 degrees. TOO hot!
#5. Wendy had her 2mo checkup today (a little late). It turns out we are growing a giant.
She weighed 16.5lbs! Her head and length were solidly in the 95th percentile, but the doctor just kept laughing when she was showing me the weight gain curve chart. She said Wendy was 99.9 percentile for weight. It made the first-born, success driven, achiever part of me wonder for a second if there was a chance of us attaining the 100th percentile….and since we were so close, if we should just go for it as a mother-daughter team … waaaaait a minute!?!?…
…and that’s all the news from St. Louis, where all the grown-ups are sweating, the toddlers are thriving, and the babies are above averagely fat!
4 comments:
Guess I need to move to St. Louis?? X is still just a touch over 20 lbs, which means your 2 month old will pass up my 2 year old way too soon!!
Such a cute one--I really hope my next baby has chubs like that, because I love 'em! Can't take my eyes (or hands) off of some good baby chubs!!
I laughed and laughed over your description of the trip to the pool! And your instinctual reaction to the weight curves! The doctor's bill reminds me of Jon needing a $5 prescription of Amoxicillin but the Dr requiring him to be monitored overnight in the hospital while they took gallons of blood for tests. He HATED shots after that, and we had a $900 bill for the hospital in addition to the antibiotic which was all he really needed!
What an adorable picture of Charlie and Wendy. Love your descriptions of swimming, toe, and doc appointment for Wendy. Life is Good!
She is a huge baby! :) Too cute. Go for 100! I'm impressed about the pool. I only did 2 kids at the pool for swim lessons and play thereafter. I'm still terrified one of them is going to get swept into the ocean at the beach. Sorry about the dr bills. That's insane. Peter also is working on his grammer. We have moved from those issues to issues of conjugating verbs. I never realized there were so many exceptions to common conjugation until I had a three year old following the rules. He still "et" his food at dinner. (past tense of eat)
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