Deck the Moon
Our babysitter was watching India today so that I could run errands, and this gave me a little time with LD. He’d gone to bed late last night (two and a half hours later than normal), so when he got up this morning, he was still tied – he thought I was going to spend the whole day with him. When he realized that that wasn’t the plan, he burst into tears. I’d been trying to sleep in a little, so I let him crawl into bed with me while he cried. My heart broke a little, but we worked it out. He got up, got ready for school, and I walked him up. H was in a much better moon and we joked around the entire way.
LD & I spent a good half an hour after school playing chase on the playground. This is his favorite game – any time you ask him what he wants to do, this is the first thing out of LD’s mouth. The game would up involving half the kids on the playground – LD would run and climb up the rope climbing structure they call “The Spider”
, and I would try to follow. All the other kids would jump and shake the ropes until I fell off; it was a lot of fun, and I think he enjoyed it, too, seeing how upset he got when it was time to go.
LD & I spent a good half an hour after school playing chase on the playground. This is his favorite game – any time you ask him what he wants to do, this is the first thing out of LD’s mouth. The game would up involving half the kids on the playground – LD would run and climb up the rope climbing structure they call “The Spider”
, and I would try to follow. All the other kids would jump and shake the ropes until I fell off; it was a lot of fun, and I think he enjoyed it, too, seeing how upset he got when it was time to go. Still, he brightened at the prospect at putting up the Christmas lights. Ever since Thanksgiving, he’d been wanting to get the lights up; he was seeing them go up all around the neighborhood. We pulled them out of the attic a few days ago, and decided to start as soon as we got home.
We spent fifteen minutes detangling the LED Christmas tree from the net lights and strings, then tripped over one another trying to find the extension cords from out ultra-musty shack out back. As a surprise, I’d gotten a light-up reindeer and set of LED candy canes, so of course he went for these first. LD’s little fingers were better at the detangling than mine, and he was able to figure out how to stake them into the ground all on his own… it seems like I blink and he’s grwun up a bit more.
LG spent the day with our Taiwanese nanny – we hired her so that she’d speak Mandarin (and only Mandarin) to both the kids. She’s great, and the kids always seem happy and giggling every time we see them all together.
Every time I came home form another errand, LG was there to meet me at the door, waiting for her hug. LG is a hugging monster – she can’t seem to get enough. She’ll todwaddle over to strangers and hug their legs; as soon as she’s picked up, she’ll wrap her little arms as far around you as she can, then bury her head in your chest. If anyone was a natural at comforting people, she is.
LG was also a bottomless pit, eating anything she could get her hands on. For lunch, she had two and a half bananas, a sandwich, a granola bar, a bottle of milk and a carrot, and that was just lunch. I hate to think about how much is gonna come out the other end…
We spent fifteen minutes detangling the LED Christmas tree from the net lights and strings, then tripped over one another trying to find the extension cords from out ultra-musty shack out back. As a surprise, I’d gotten a light-up reindeer and set of LED candy canes, so of course he went for these first. LD’s little fingers were better at the detangling than mine, and he was able to figure out how to stake them into the ground all on his own… it seems like I blink and he’s grwun up a bit more.
LG spent the day with our Taiwanese nanny – we hired her so that she’d speak Mandarin (and only Mandarin) to both the kids. She’s great, and the kids always seem happy and giggling every time we see them all together.
Every time I came home form another errand, LG was there to meet me at the door, waiting for her hug. LG is a hugging monster – she can’t seem to get enough. She’ll todwaddle over to strangers and hug their legs; as soon as she’s picked up, she’ll wrap her little arms as far around you as she can, then bury her head in your chest. If anyone was a natural at comforting people, she is.
LG was also a bottomless pit, eating anything she could get her hands on. For lunch, she had two and a half bananas, a sandwich, a granola bar, a bottle of milk and a carrot, and that was just lunch. I hate to think about how much is gonna come out the other end…
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