Days are long, but months and weeks are short.
This month we have continued to experience horrendous wake up times from Joseph. Lots of 4:25, 4:10, 4:50, 4:45, 4:51, and even one 3:51. There were 2 blessed sleep in-days this past month: one at 5:06 and the other at 5:21. It was like we died and went to heaven. Larry still bears the brunt of these mornings taking Joseph to the basement to endure through Curious George, Daniel Tiger, bowls of dry Cheerios, and sippy cups of warm milk. He is Super Dad.
Abigail is still an amazing big sister. She has a lot of empathy for her little brother. Today he smashed his face against a window edge and a welt and bruise appeared instantly in a creepy-scary fashion. She was so soothing and calming and loving and attentive to him. She still doesn't like that he gets the Lion's share of attention, but we are trying to do "special" things with her. It is difficult with her having karate lessons and homework and needing to go to bed every night earlier than her brother, however. But we are trying. I love playing a few rounds of Instructures or teaching her to get a "check mate" on Connect Four. (Instructures has her building or instructing someone to build with blocks according to the blueprint on a card. I just love when she says something like "get the short cylinder and place the round end in the center of the long rectangular prism and put the semi circle on top of that".)
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| When did Abigail start looking so old? (She has taken an interest in dresses. It is unexpected.) |
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| Joseph was impatient for dinner and didn't want to wait for the lasagna to cool so he pushed a chair next to the stove and started blowing on the pan!! |
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| Happy Match Day, Joseph!! (Eye scratch from a kid when Joseph cut him in line at the hand washing sink) |
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| Abigail helping Joseph celebrate his match day. If she does something, he will do it too. She is his hero. |
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| First snow day. Joseph had to wear an old pair of Abigail's shoes because the boots we bought him in the fall already don't fit! |
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| What a lucky boy to have a big sister pull you around in a sled! |
Hopefully these will get better! Avery only tends to wake up one time a night now, but she went through a period of time where she walk up all hours of the night. Hang in there!
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