Blue Hoodie
January 27th, 2009
[Blue Dinosaur hoodie from the Weils. We love it! Thank you!]
Things around here have been pretty great recently. Every day Maddox is more aware of the world around him. Our routine is constantly being refined. Morning nap is a given now, sometime between 10:30 am and 11:30 am. I use this time to fart around, tidy up the house, or just catch up on email and Facebook. This nap only lasts about 20 minutes, so its not a lot of time. Just enough to get things in order before he wakes up and I have no hands free. Then Maddox is generally happy until his next nap (which may or may not occur) at about 2 pm. And then the pre-evening grumpies set in. The last couple days I’ve taken to singing and dancing with him to get him through. Our current favorites are “Don’t Stop Belivin'” by Journey, and “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music. My theory on Do-Re-Mi is that he enjoys hearing the children sing. He picked out this song in particular when I played the whole soundtrack for him. He giggles and gets wide-eyed and I swoop and dance him around the living room. Its a pretty good work out for me!
Although he is happy, he requires almost constant attention these days. We read we play, we eat, we go for walks, sing, dance, talk, tummy time, mirror play etc. I think it will be fun when he can sit up on his own.
For now his big talent is reaching and grabbing. Its pretty cute. I love watching his chubby little hands. He also loves kisses all over his body. It makes him hysterical with laughter and cooing. I keep trying to video it, but everytime the camera comes out he freezes and just stares at the lens. Someday!
