The concept of Two, In which Mr. Pants flies a kite, Minnie has an unexplained shoulder injury.
Actully I think Jack has the concept of 3 down as well as the concept of two, he can stand on one foot (mostly) and he can count to six starting at two… I’m not sure why he considers one irrelevant. My baby book tells me that standing on one foot and the concept of two should be learned by age 3 so I think Jack has it covered. He can watch TV and play video games until then as far as I am concerned.
Jack learned how to climb out his crib yesterday. I put him down and like 15 minutes later he ran up to me in the kitchen and I just about peed myself. He was SO PLEASED with himself. I was less pleased, “We are humped”, I thought. However, I did not react to it. i just let him have a snack and then put him back in. Then a few minutes later I heard a noise and peeked over and say him beetle across his room holding his toy mailbox. I deposited him back in his crib and he fell asleep.
So yesterday Vim took the side rail off his crib. It’s still higher than a normal bed but he can get in with a step. Of course that meant we had to baby gate his room again since it has no door. He LOVES it. Also, he can open the damn baby gate… I’m not sure what to do about that. This morning he got himself up, opened the baby gate and was hanging out downstairs when we got up. He napped himself this afternoon and he keeps screaming, “MY WROOOOM”. Just now he said he was fweepy and went and got in his bed and I can hear him in there talking to himself. SO CUTE. OMG.
Somehow the day I turned 35 I started thinking about having another kid. I had just been discussing it with a mom friend and we’ve been watching our other friends have their second ones. It sure looks hard. Now as we are house hunting I am evaluating each house for it’s potential to hold another kiddlet. Did anyone have to share a room when they were a kid? I didn’t and would have hated it if I had had to so I don’t want to make my kids do it. But at the same time I want to have a craft room and we live in the bay area where an average 2 bedroom 1 bath costs over 500k.
We looked at 3 open houses today, all very different.
First was a super cute craftsman with original details, 1200+ sq. ft., 2/1, garage and long driveway, deck, smallish yard, quiet cute street, near a huge lot that will be a park at some point fairly soon. It would need a bed/bath addition at some point. 547k
Second was 3/2, 1500+ sq ft., small rooms, ugly ass finishes, yard was weird but could end up okay with some tweaking, on a busier road, tiny horrid kitchen. 500k
Third was ultra modern house in small complex of houses. great finishes, great light, small rooms, 3/2.5, yard was cute but no privacy, was staged in a modern uncluttered way causing me and Vim to both wonder if we need so much stuff and if maybe we should magically morph ourselves in to the sort of high powered business people in power suits with no bookshelves who might own such a house. Vim really loved it. I liked it but felt distinctly uneasy as I knew the house could see through me into my cluttered, book, craft supply loving soul. 590k
I liked House One the most. Cute craftsman details are teh awesome even though it is only a 2/1. All we need to do is add a master bedroom and bath, I’m pretty sure there would be room and we could do our best not to make it janky. It would be a nice place to grow up.
My shoulder has gone mysteriously from bad to worse. I have a chiropractor appointment on Monday. OMG. Also, I have guests coming over and I totally forgot about my appointment. shit. 3 Tylenol PMs at night does the trick.
We survived our camping trip. Vim and I are still married and Jack is unscathed. It was all pretty fun except for the normal stress of traveing witha toddler. Jack was perfect on the plane ride out and only a bit of a pill due to tiredness on the way back. He handled the 4 hour car trip to the camp site like a dream. Lake Michigan was beautiful, the weather was perfect and Vim’s family took care of us with all camping eq, stuff for toddler, food etc. I would def. go back. Jack was the only baby and so he got lots of attention and he was happy and friendly the whole time except for one rough patch the first night in the tent when he cried for like an hour.
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August 13, 2009 at 9:58 am
You and Liz shared a room for the first 2 years. It was hard for Liz bec all her toys were in there and she could not understand “we don’t want to wake up the baby!!” A few years ago, she told me that she now understood that a baby’s nap is sacred