Natesy won’t eat. Honestly. He weighs 20 pounds and he’s still on an almost pure liquid diet. We started with the requisite rice cereal. Glue. Pears? Yawn. Bananas? Uh, uh. Mangoes? No go. Sweet potatoes! Yucky. We’re on week 2 of butternut squash. They’ve had some luck getting a few…
We are deep into the realm of real and pretend. We drink pretend hot tea. We hide from pretend T-Rexes. We catch fish in the living room and the doll stroller is a lawn mower. Jake frequently exclaims, “I have an idea!” And then runs from the room. Lately he…
Before going to Nate’s 6 month doctor’s appointment, I made a bet. I bet that only ten pounds separated Nate from his older brother. I guessed he would be twenty pounds and that Jake was about thirty. I was half right… Nate was 20.03 pounds and according to our bathroom…
Jacob and Daddy don’t spend a lot of time in the car, but the time they do spend seems to be quite the bonding experience. When asked, “What kind of musica do you like?” Jake frequently answers, “Reggae!” Just like his mama. Not only does he rule the roost, he…
As Jake cozies up to me in the morning, “Hi Mama. I want to talk to you six minutes.” Referring to the Toureg, “I want to drive my new car six minutes.” Since this seems to be the magic number, I’ve tried it with varying degrees of success over the…
This is what Baby Nake looks like when Mama sings “I’ve got the moves like Jagger.” Yes, I’m that good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRsxpoAc5w
I spend a lot of time making sure Baby Nate is not in harm’s way. Harm being another name for his enthusiastic and sometimes spastic, loving and roaring older sibling. “Jakey, are you being careful?” “I just rubbing him. I just rubbing Baby Nake.” “Gentle. Gentle. Jacob, no jumping around…
Every morning Jakey plays with me while I drink one cup of hot tea. It’s one of the best parts of my day. The other day I had my laptop out and he points to the keypad. “There’s a mouse in der Mama. A mouse in the computer.” “Ahhh, yes.…
Yesterday was Baby Nate’s very first half birthday! I can hardly believe that I’ve been blogging since Jake’s first half birthday… almost exactly two years ago. I owe Natesy a longing look at a Kara’s cupcake this weekend to celebrate… I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t like it anyway. Over the…
Yesterday as we were driving, Jakey pointed out a “taxi car.” “Look, a taxi car right there!” “Oh yeah. Looks like there’s a cowboy driving it. Two out of three taxi cabs are gross Jacob. GroW-Os!” James says this as he is reminded of a taxi ride in the city…