Abigail seems to have hit the inquisitive/adventurous twos! (No, I don't approve of the term "terrible twos"! I'm not saying children are perfect, but the word terrible sounds a very negative attitude towards children. And afterall, a lot of what 2yos get up to is just normal curiosity and requires lots of patience! :-) Anyway, rant over!) She's coming up with all kids of ideas, such as going off wandering and says "Bye Mummy! Bye Daddy! I'm going on holiday", or sometimes it's "I'm going to Ullapool" (ever since the other week when Peter took his parents to the dentist in Ullapool). On Tuesday we were at Tesco and I left her with Peter to put the shopping up at the checkout while I went (w/ Benjamin in sling) to get something I'd forgotten from the next aisle over. I came back and only saw Peter. It turned out she'd gotten one of the hand baskets from beneath the till and went down the cereal aisle (immediately opposite the till Peter was at) and had put 3-4 boxes of Grape Nuts into her basket. (She'd already talked me into buying a big 750g box of corn flakes, which she walked all over the store hugging at first!) Anyway, she wasn't very impressed when I put the contents of her basket back on the shelf - she thought she was really shopping! :) So, lots of fun as she explores new things and does lots of climbing too! Still managing to get her to bed early - between 7 and 7:30pm most nights. And usually nights aren't too bad, with 1-3 wakings from then till morning. But having said that, the past 2 nights weren't quite so good, as she woke up at 4-5am and didn't go to sleep again very quickly. This morning it was nearly 5 and after I gave her a dry nappy, she immediately asked for breakfast. So we went downstairs and sat on the couch while she ate a bowl of Cheerios. She chats a lot (even in the "middle of the night"), but it was a bit hilarious when she came out with "Adiós Amigo", and then a few minutes later "Guten Tag" (German for hello, or literally "good day"). She's got this little language pal thing, electronic toy that Leah got for her when we were in Texas and it has about 6 different languages with about a half dozen or so common phrases/greetings, as well as counting. So, already learning foreign languages! She'll soon pass me up! lol
Benjamin is still teething and yet only has the 2 original teeth to show for it! Poor little guy. I think 2 more teeth have just about broke through the gums, but I'm not sure yet. He gets quite fussy at times with the sore mouth. And what makes matters worse is that he's trying to walk, but hasn't yet mastered it, and that means he has frequently falls and bumps his mouth on things. His sleeping is also rather disturbed - less naps or very difficult to get him down for naps, and also restless sleep at night, unless he's snuggled up against his mummy! :) And even then, he seems to stir a lot. I do hope the teething calms down soon. He's trying to talk too! He's had "da da" for a long time now, and when he's really desperate, he'll say "ma ma". But now he's saying "book" (well, a b sounding word that is quite close), as well as "fire" (said very close to the real word whenever he sees the fire in the wood burning stove), "fish" (well a good attempt at it whenever he sees the fish), and if you say dog to him, he replies with "woof woof"! I think there are other "words" he's working on too, but can't think of them at the moment. He's such a sweet little boy! :) I can't believe it's only 1.5 months until his first birthday.
Hmm, wonder what else has been happening! Peter's computer decided to crash this week! I think it was Windows XP that got corrupted. But as it happened, his hard drive was nearly full, so he decided to get a big 160GB hard drive and not worry about repairing the old installation. It's just a good thing our computers didn't decide to go out both at the same time! But still funny that they both "died" within about 10 days.
Guess I really better get in bed. Here are some photos, tho not of very great quality.
Abigail and Benjamin playing at the bath tub before they got in & had a bath ... oh yeah another of Benjamin's words: "baa" for bath! He gets really excited about it and starts tugging at his clothes. He likes to splash and I get really soaked! :)
Abigail sitting in Daddy's chair at his computer. She said "I'm going to do some work. I'll catalouge this book" (and grabbed one of her board books!).
A cute smile! Looking at some Pringles before eating them.
Benjamin and a little ball
Smiling at his mummy :)
Looking out the front window upstairs, into the square. The "blizzard" we had today - tho, unfortunately, it didn't stick and just melted quite quickly!
Our bare back garden, with snow blowing everywhere! I really must attempt to do some gardening whenever spring comes and get the garden in order! I'd just had Benjamin when "spring" arrived last year (and was busy with work while Peter was studying), so the garden was pretty neglected last year. Hopefully once it warms up, and Benjamin is able to walk around, we'll have lots of fun outside! But until then, there's fierce winds and snow blowing everywhere! Brrr! Just the thought of going outside makes me feel cold!
OK, goodnight!
5 comments:
Howdy there Rachel! I really liked reading about Abigail's adventures! I'll have to see you guys again before too long! Looks like Benjamin is getting biig!
TTYL!
Glad the computers didn't decide to break down at the same time, that would have been disasterous!
Sounds like Abigail is quite an advanced 2 yr old, with all the different languages. They say you learn languages most easily before you turn seven, so she may well keep going learning different phrases in different languages.
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I read recently that babies frequently don't sleep as well when they are on the verge of a big milestone, like walking. Perhaps Benjamin is just getting ready to take off?
Elijah sometimes does just what Abigail did, and wakes quite early, too hungry to go back to sleep. And once he's been downstairs to eat something, he's too wide awake to go back to sleep.
I would love to night wean him, as he wakes quite a bit more frequently than his brother, but I'm really not sure how he could make it through the night without any calories!
Sharon: That's interesting about babies not sleeping so well when they're on the verge of a milestone! Maybe that's all it is! :) The past few days he's done a repeat of days without naps, sometimes only sleeping for about 20 or 30 minutes the whole day! I keep thinking he'll walk any day now, but so far he's not totally on foot yet! He takes 2-4 steps at a time now and again, but not fulling walking yet. I thought he'd have got there weeks ago, but guess he wants to be fully skilled at it first! lol
I know what you mean about the older one waking up more freqently than the younger one! Abigail was like that for a while, but now she's settling a bit better with fewer wakings at night. Benjamin is still not eating much of solids, so he wants to be in bed with me all night so he can fill up while he sleeps! lol The other week I thought he was finally getting the hang of eating and letting me feed him quite a lot of solids (provided he was sitting in my lap and I used my finger instead of a spoon!). But so far this week, he's only eating what he will feed himself, unless it's yoghurt, which he'll let me feed him with a spoon (sweet tooth!). But of course, it might just be the teething, as he always seems to go off food when he's miserable with teeth - and he's got 2 teeth that have just come through the gums up top, so maybe that's all.
rachel tell Benjamin happy birthday
love grammie in Texas
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