For awhile, Max was always putting this little red bucket on Sarah’s head. Now she often puts it on herself. She probably assumes that’s what it’s for… Oh, this is a head bucket!
“Hi there. My name is Sarah. I’m learning how to pick up pieces of banana and eat them on my own. I just had one in my hand, but somehow it didn’t make it to my mouth. Have you seen it?”
I love my little troublemaker, Pixie, so much. And her sidekick Stella. They don’t get as much attention as they used to, but I think they’ve adapted pretty well to 2 new babies in the house. They have a different routine, a different place to sleep and eat, and did I mention, much less attention?
Which is possibly why, lately, they keep waking me up in the middle of the night. It’s mostly troublemaker Pixie. She comes and sits next to my bed and whines and talks to me until I pick her up and put her in bed with me to sleep. And there is no ignoring that whine. I’ve shown you before how she goes on and on. The nights Pixie does that, then Stella wills sometimes crawls under the bed to sleep! Why? Why would she leave her comfy dog bed to sleep there? If only I could speak dog and know the answer.
I also wonder if this new nighttime routine might be partially my fault. Not only because I let Pixie get her way when she whines, but because I’ve been known to talk in my sleep. Maybe my talking and laughing in my sleep wakes them up first. Hmm… Maybe I should set up a video camera at night and see what happens. Or learn to speak dog.
Happy Easter to everyone! I have two stoic kids here. No smiles, but no crying either while sitting with the giant bunny.
I sent Max and Joe off to an egg hunt Saturday morning. I stayed home with Sarah while she napped, and Joe brought home video and pics for me to see Max in action. AND Max won a basket of toys!
It will be even more fun next year when they’re both on just one nap a day – and we can all go!
I told you about our front yard tree that went down in the last big wind storm. It’s the city’s property since it was between the curb and the sidewalk so they planned to replace it for us.
When I saw the city doing work in the neighborhood last fall – both sidewalk repair and tree planting, I called. I wondered if we had a choice as to what tree could be planted. They said I could choose between three different types.
We chose oak. And it was finally planted this month. It will take a long time to grow to the size of our lost tree and it won’t smell as pretty. But we’ll get to watch it change grow over the years… along with Max and Sarah.
