The Shoe!

Me: Freya, get your shoe. There it is. Get your shoe.

Freya walks over to her shoe, picks it up, brings it to me. She is such a smart baby.

Me: Yay! Good job, Freya! Good job! Get your other shoe! Over there. Your other shoe.

She brings me a book called Jessie, The Lonely Puppy.

Me: No, Freya, no! Not a book. A shoe. Get your shoe. It's over there!

She brings me a backpack, then a life jacket, then a teddy bear.
Meanwhile, I'm pointing till my arm is nearly out of joint trying to get her closer to the target.
No can do.
Sophia walks over, picks up the shoe, and puts it in baby Freya's hand.

Me: Yay, Freya! Yay! You brought Daddy the shoe! The shoe! The shoe!...

(We celebrate success whatever it looks like : )

Toddler Bed

Thalia's toddler bed is a success. Glad she's not in a bunk bed.

The real problem is Freya repeatedly crawling into the bedroom to bounce on Thalia's bed while she's sleeping. It's the cutest thing to hear a 10 month-old baby giggling to herself as she bounces her sister off the bed. Thalia doesn't find it funny...

Little Scavenger

Me: Thalia, please pick up any food on the floor under the table before the baby finds it and eats it.
3yr: There isn't any food under the table.
Me: Good. Check to see if the baby is eating anything.
3yr: She's eating a person.

We have to be thorough about cleaning the carpet after meals or else Baby Freya turns into a little scavenger (LEGO people beware).

*New Diet Plan

Freya tried and enjoyed two new foods tonight: peas and sand.

--LR

Trumpet Wanted

Tips for reversing baby sleep schedule? 

Anyone play the trumpet?

--LR

Three Lovely Sisters

Welcome Freya Hope!

At 7 lb 11 oz we are glad she came a week early. She is very verbal, feisty, and voracious in appetite; she will fit in just fine.