Friday, June 19th, 2009

This was a long week. We got the interior of our house painted in hopes that it helps sell it sooner. So I was really juggling 3 kids, living out of bags and trying to jump from house to house in the process. It's over now though and it looks good. Just some loose ends to tie up and get back together!


On Wednesday, CLaire and I took all the kids to breakfast at Joe's Deli. While we were there, Mallie was playing with the creamers in the plastic tubs and bit one and it exploded. Mallie has become very sensitive and anytime something like this happens, she is reduced to tears. Sometimes, she gives me a look from across the room, pulls it together until she can get to me and then her little lip starts quivering and the sobbing begins. THis is EXACTLY how Claire and I were as kids.

As we were driving home from Joe's, Jack called out, "Thank you for my breakfast Sloppy Joes'!!!!"


Mallie is sitting on the stairs as I type this. Tommy just put them to bed and she came down on her own, declaring, "Mama!!! I wake up!!"

Mallie goes to swim lessons now. She seems to really like it and she is definately not fearful of the water- blowing bubbles with her mouth on the first lesson!!! When we got home I told her to tell Jack about her lessons. She said "Jot! I go swimming!! I have dut-tee!!! (ducky- they gave them rubber duckies to play with)

Mallie is also repeating every word out of Jack's mouth. It is truly comical. When I say every word- I mean it. He will say, 'Mom! What kind of truck is that?" And for the rest of the trip to wherever we're going, she is pointing out trucks, saying, "mom! What truck is that!?" Last night Jimmy was over and she was eating ice cream. Every question he asked her, she replied with a really quick, "yea." She says it so fast and closes her mouth really tight after she says it. "Mallie, do you like ice cream? "yea" "Mallie, is it pretty cold?" "Yea." Etc.


We continue to have a hard time with Annie's schedule. She is getting up in the middle of the night 2-3 times. At 8 months, we really should be stopping this. She's having 12- 14 oz of formula every night!!! On top of everything she eats all day! Tommy keeps switching her scheulde, putting her to bed at 7 without a bottle, putting her to bed at 7:30 with a bottle, etc....and nothing is working. She was up at 5:30 this a.m. I switched her to eating 3 full meals a day of baby food and two bottles, this week... so hopefully this helps. But, so far, not so good.

We were driving around the Target parking lot the other day and Jack told me that there weren't any parking spaces in this 'area'. His other new word is actually.

We went out to dinner tonight and it didn't go too well. The kids ate first and by the time our food came, we had to take it to go. Annie doesn't like the hour of 6-7 pm and Jack hadn't napped and was going a little crazy. I stayed to pay the check and Tommy was going to take the kids. But ANnie started crying loudly, so he sprinted away with her without Jack and Mallie. I had to send them after him and as I shooed them away from the table, I looked up and they were walking through the restaurant with their arms around each other's waists. It was the cutest thing!!

I read Baby Sister to Jack and Mallie today by Tomie De Paola. It's his own memoriy about when his sister, and future bestfriend, Maureen was born. He described how he prayed for a sister, missing his mom in the hospital, not getting along and then becoming friends with his grandma as she watched them, etc. By the middle of this book, I was sitting on the couch, sobbing in between words. It took me about 1/2 hour to read the stupid thing because I kept having to stop and pretend to look at the pictures because I couldn't talk!!! It just brought back all the memories of when I had Mallie.... WHen my mom had Ali and then just the thought of this successful writer, dedicating one of his books to this life-altering experience for himself. It was so sweet and will be my gift to any big brother who is lucky enough to get a baby sister.