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7 lbs 2 oz
20 1/4 in
34 3/4 cm
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
MJR Week 2!
Okay, I SWEAR I'm going to try to get her birth story up here before her first birthday. In the meantime...more photos!!!
7 lbs 2 oz
20 1/4 in
34 3/4 cm
7 lbs 2 oz
20 1/4 in
34 3/4 cm
Monday, September 5, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Three Years
38 1/4 inches (75th %ile)
34 1/2 lbs (75th %ile
My Dearest Boy,
As I write this (in July), anticipating the birth of your sister, I reflect alllllll the way back to when you were just a wiggle in my tummy. We still have our good days and bad (and I suspect we always will), but I marvel at the boy you're becoming--so smart, and funny, silly, (and sometimes a teeny bit violent, but we're working on it), and wonderful.
Some highlights:
- 96% of all sentences begin with "but." Regardless of whether or not this makes any grammatical sense or is in any way related to the previously uttered sentence.
- the "why" questions. Especially when they don't make sense.
"Dat's a FIRE station!"
"Nope, it's a POLICE station."
"But why is it a POLICE station?"
- "But, when my lil sister's born, you won't have to go potty anymore!"
- Calling the little green guy from Star Wars "Zoda," and then later telling me I was going to "Zoga class."
- Helping me water the garden by dumping eleventy billion cans of water...on the same plant.
- Asking what you want for your birthday. Your response? "A golf shirt. A blue golf shirt." Um, okaaaay.
- Playing with your Toy Story aliens on the bay windowsill. You put them in the red corvette (they travel in style) and zoom them around, and then they take turns going into the "jail" (the lantern I just can't bear to fill with a candle, since it makes such a pleasing toy).
- Watching your pretend play. All of it. Using the Candy Land guys as supplemental fire fighters in the fire house. Allowing the Toy Story characters to finally play with others. Constantly cooking things for us.
- You are trying so hard to like to draw. This usually involves an elaborate procedure of setting out paper-no-coloring-book-no-paper and crayons-no-markers-no-crayons, which takes at least ten minutes, at which point you draw for 32.5 seconds and announce that you "made DIS for you! where can we hang it?"
- A current favorite pastime involves (yay!) music. You're obsessed with playing the drums (which I totally called, like, two years ago). You use your red rhythm sticks to play the little blue drum that lives in your room, and you prefer it when I accompany you either on kazoo or penny whistle. Songs of choice are from the "Miss Mary" collection (Music Together, natch). Additionally, you're enamored with Rock Band on the Wii. It's become a favorite way for our family to end the day: usually me on vocals, Daddy on guitar, and you on--what else?--drum set.
- "Are you talking to me? Me, ____(name), in the blue shirt?"
We're alone in the house, so.....yup.
- Telling Avery (the dog) all about the characters in the Winnie the Pooh movie. "Dere's Pooh Bear and Tigger--he's a silly guy--and Owl and Christopher....I dunno....and Rabbit and Eeyore."
- "What should we call your little sister?"
"Barbie."
- During the "Pinocchio" show at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, "I wish I could have donkey ears."
- "I can't walk. I'm too crabby."
- Calling it a "smurfee." You meant "smoothie."
- Per your Mimi: Watching out the window at the 22 songbirds at our feeder, the grandbuddy began to rap on the window, because he wanted to see them all fly away.
Me: Don't hit the window too hard.
Him: Why? Because it will hurt their feelings?
- At night, you rarely fall asleep faster than 45 minutes after we've put you to bed. But tonight you decided to sing "This Old Man"--all ten verses. Except when you get to the rhyming part ("He played nine, he played knick knack on my pline"), you just make it up. Hilarious.
- Naked in the bathtub: "I'm wearing my body!"
I love you, my little man, my original baby.
Mom
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
MJR Hospital Photos
Wow. I had completely forgotten how difficult it is to get stuff done with a newborn. Since it took me a solid week to compile, edit, and caption this first set of photos, you'll have to wait a while longer for the story of MJR's birth. (Hey! New blog nicknames....please remember to use them if you're commenting below. Otherwise your comment will be removed. The boy is now SIR. The girl is MJR.)
Check this link again in a few days for some photos I'll be adding of our little peanut in her "going home" outfit.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Summer.
The Rose family's attendants have been horrible documentarians of this beautiful summer. Yes, we've been exceptionally busy preparing for baby, but we have done a LOT of fun stuff--and then Mimi crammed in a lot of fun stuff into her week with The Boy, too, but took photos, which we will now steal. (Grin.)
Our summer:
1. Parks, parks, parks. The park down the street, the park down the street the other direction, the park at the elementary school, the park near the grocery store, the park in the next town over with the AWESOME slides, the park by the pool, the parks at Mimi's.
(Photo credits: Mimi, Auntie Omi)
2. Pools. Somehow, our little family of three never made it to the pool all at the same time this entire summer (?!), but we have spent many a morning there separately and with some friends. And The Boy visited Mimi's pool, too. His swimming hallmarks this summer include an increased amount of bravery with water slides and putting his face in the water. If only we could convince him to keep his giant fish mouth closed...
(Photo credit: Mimi)
3. Playdates! We've hosted and been hosted. A lot. Thanks, friends!
4. 4th of July Parade and Picnic. We participated, once again, in the parade our town sponsors and marched with our theatre group. The little boys had a great time "driving" the truck and strolling with their pregnant mommies. Post parade, we returned to our abode for yummy cookout food, squirt gunning, and wading pools.
(Photo credits: Auntie G and Mimi (I think))
4. Outdoor concerts. Er, concert. On Wednesday nights, you can picnic on the Esplanade at the Chicago Botanic Garden, while enjoying a fun concert for kids. Wednesday nights have been yoga nights for mommy, but The Boy and I took advantage of this when Daddy was out of town. Sadly, our one and only photo was taken by me on my inferior iPhone 3GS, which does not "flip" the image for you so you can adequately photograph yourself. Oh well.
5. "Pinocchio" at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre . A beautiful venue with an impressive set and costume design. The music left something to be desired, IMO, but it was a great experience.
(Boarding the train heading to downtown, first train ride, sitting on the stage before the show, at our seats, proudly collecting autographs, and posing against our beautiful skyline.)
6. Lake House. Our friends hosted us for the day at their beautiful lake house, a few hours west of us. Mister Bravery rode a speedboat for the first time, swam in a deep lake with a life jacket, went on the water raft alone (only a mild heart attack for the mom), cavorted with seaweed, and had a great playing with the kids. We had two delicious meals, cooked S'Mores, chased fireflies, and on and on. It was a busy and fun filled day!
(Photo credit: Amy G.)
7. Movies! "Winnie the Pooh" with Grandma, "Kung Fu Panda 2" with us. And a Drive In movie (okay, it was really a "Chair In" movie): "Tangled," which we own and which is completely beside the point.
8. First Undernighter with Huey and his grandparents, while the moms and dads attended a dinner party.
9. Week at Mimi's. This is the second installment of this vacation (for The Boy and for his parents), which we're all hoping continues as part of an annual tradition.
10. The conclusion of Mom's Morning Away. Somehow I haven't blogged about this all year. Since January, The Boy has attended a wonderful program through the park district, wherein he attends "school" for three hours, one time a week. During that time, he painted, crafted, played with toys/kids, read stories, played in the park and the indoor "jungle," made a good friend, etc. During that time, I ran errands like a chicken with its head cut off. Okay, I also enjoyed a pedicure or two, a Starbucks/McDonald's iced coffee or two, and a teeny bit of time doing things around the house. Here is a photo of my boy on his first day of pre-pre-school:
(January 2011)
As our summer draws to a close, he looks forward to heading off to real pre-school when he "turns three." I look forward to finding the right time to potty train. And, of course, we're all eagerly awaiting the birth of The Boy's baby sister. Any minute now. (Tick tock...)
Our summer:
1. Parks, parks, parks. The park down the street, the park down the street the other direction, the park at the elementary school, the park near the grocery store, the park in the next town over with the AWESOME slides, the park by the pool, the parks at Mimi's.
(Photo credits: Mimi, Auntie Omi)
2. Pools. Somehow, our little family of three never made it to the pool all at the same time this entire summer (?!), but we have spent many a morning there separately and with some friends. And The Boy visited Mimi's pool, too. His swimming hallmarks this summer include an increased amount of bravery with water slides and putting his face in the water. If only we could convince him to keep his giant fish mouth closed...
(Photo credit: Mimi)
3. Playdates! We've hosted and been hosted. A lot. Thanks, friends!
4. 4th of July Parade and Picnic. We participated, once again, in the parade our town sponsors and marched with our theatre group. The little boys had a great time "driving" the truck and strolling with their pregnant mommies. Post parade, we returned to our abode for yummy cookout food, squirt gunning, and wading pools.
(Photo credits: Auntie G and Mimi (I think))4. Outdoor concerts. Er, concert. On Wednesday nights, you can picnic on the Esplanade at the Chicago Botanic Garden, while enjoying a fun concert for kids. Wednesday nights have been yoga nights for mommy, but The Boy and I took advantage of this when Daddy was out of town. Sadly, our one and only photo was taken by me on my inferior iPhone 3GS, which does not "flip" the image for you so you can adequately photograph yourself. Oh well.
5. "Pinocchio" at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre . A beautiful venue with an impressive set and costume design. The music left something to be desired, IMO, but it was a great experience.
(Boarding the train heading to downtown, first train ride, sitting on the stage before the show, at our seats, proudly collecting autographs, and posing against our beautiful skyline.)
6. Lake House. Our friends hosted us for the day at their beautiful lake house, a few hours west of us. Mister Bravery rode a speedboat for the first time, swam in a deep lake with a life jacket, went on the water raft alone (only a mild heart attack for the mom), cavorted with seaweed, and had a great playing with the kids. We had two delicious meals, cooked S'Mores, chased fireflies, and on and on. It was a busy and fun filled day!
(Photo credit: Amy G.)
7. Movies! "Winnie the Pooh" with Grandma, "Kung Fu Panda 2" with us. And a Drive In movie (okay, it was really a "Chair In" movie): "Tangled," which we own and which is completely beside the point.
8. First Undernighter with Huey and his grandparents, while the moms and dads attended a dinner party.
9. Week at Mimi's. This is the second installment of this vacation (for The Boy and for his parents), which we're all hoping continues as part of an annual tradition.
10. The conclusion of Mom's Morning Away. Somehow I haven't blogged about this all year. Since January, The Boy has attended a wonderful program through the park district, wherein he attends "school" for three hours, one time a week. During that time, he painted, crafted, played with toys/kids, read stories, played in the park and the indoor "jungle," made a good friend, etc. During that time, I ran errands like a chicken with its head cut off. Okay, I also enjoyed a pedicure or two, a Starbucks/McDonald's iced coffee or two, and a teeny bit of time doing things around the house. Here is a photo of my boy on his first day of pre-pre-school:
(January 2011)
As our summer draws to a close, he looks forward to heading off to real pre-school when he "turns three." I look forward to finding the right time to potty train. And, of course, we're all eagerly awaiting the birth of The Boy's baby sister. Any minute now. (Tick tock...)
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Oh, Dear Deer.
This is a familiar sight in our town. We used to see this same mini-herd of deer in our yard all the time, before we put up a fence. It was not uncommon to let the dog out at night and see the deer freeze in the glow of the porchlights, turn, and dart away.
Here they are in front of The Boy's soon-to-be-preschool, aka his "Blue School."
Here they are in front of The Boy's soon-to-be-preschool, aka his "Blue School."
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