Thursday, February 28th, 2008

It's been a long day. We started off taking Jack to the eye doctor this morning. The visit confirmed my suspicions that he needs glasses. He's been turning his head to one side while reading and writing because he is far-sighted, especially in his left eye. It made me a little bit sad for him- even though he is over the moon about wearing glasses like his Daddy. We ordered them today and should get them in a week. He's already asked me when he's getting them about a thousand times.

Last night when I put the kids down for bed (an aside: Mallie has been in a big girl bed and sharing a room with Jack for over 2 months now because we put Annie in a crib when she was 6 weeks old and didn't want to have to buy another crib for only a couple of months). Jack had a VERY important and urgent question as I was trying to walk out of the room for the 50th time. I tried to blow it off and ignore him so that I could leave and go to bed myself. But he was persistant. Finally, I said "WHAT JACK!?" and he asked me his weighing question: "Mom, is Humpty Dumpty an egg?"

It takes me about 20 minutes to get the older kids to sleep now. It used to be that I could throw Mallie in her crib (she would reach for it before I was finished singing her Twinkle Twinkle!) Now, we have to read books, say prayers, sing Twinkle Twinkle to Mallie (she shouts at me if I try to rub her back) then sing Jack his Twinkle Twinkle (he shouts at me if I don't rub his back). Then I sit outside their bedroom door and do my own shouting when Mallie runs to the end of the bed to check things out or drops her pacifier on the floor on purpose, or Jack laughs at her singing along to the lullaby music. I snap, "do you want spanks?" and she runs (turning inside-out with laughter) to the head of her bed and dives onto her pillow. It is both infuriating and hysterical at the same time.

For dinner tonight, Mallie ate 2 portions of her ravioli and then ate what Jack didn't finish off of his plate.

Mallie has learned to really keep a melody. She sings "Ba Ba Bamba!" and can hum along to "Tops and Bottoms", "Peanut Butter Jelly Time", and does the 'Thumpety Thump Thump" from Frosty the Snowman by wiggling her tongue (blah blah blah).