Day +490: Happy Labor Day!
Hope everyone is getting out and enjoying the out of doors while the weather is still nice. It looks like it's hot in the Northwest, so I hope everyone is enjoying that. It's the usual low 60s here in San Francisco and it was overcast and gloomy today. After all of our trips this summer, we're sticking pretty close to home this weekend. We're meeting Katy, Awais, Emma and Dylan at Big Basin Redwood State Park tomorrow, which is between San Jose and Santa Cruz.
We've been pretty busy otherwise. Keri's teaching a class at the University of San Francisco this fall which started last Wednesday, so she's had to farm the kids out to babysitters on several occasions to prepare for that. They love their babysitters and vice versa, so it hasn't been too traumatic for them. But they're always happy when the weekend comes and Daddy gets to stay home. We were getting ready to go out for a walk this morning, when Isaac saw me putting on my socks. He said "You going to work?" I said no, I was going with him. He immediately turned around and ran out to Mommy screeching "Daddy going with us! Daddy going with us!" It's nice to see him getting attached again -- after all the time away, he was back to being a Momma's boy. But Keri has been out late a couple of times the last week, and he went to bed with Sissy and me just fine.
He still loves playing with his Momma's hair, especially when he's tired. While we were in the Northwest, he liked to sit between Keri and Teri with one hand in the hair of each. He would grin and say "I have two hairs!" The other day Keri had put some gel in her hair, and when Isaac went to grab it he pulled his hand back again saying "It's dirty! It's dirty Momma!" We keep joking about getting him a wig to play with, but Mina got a doll with real hair as a gift recently and yesterday I showed it to Isaac. He put his hand in the doll's hair and started to giggle, and just sat there with a goofy grin on his face.
He understands so much these days, it's crazy. He's now able to communicate real information, and even talks about past events. We were talking about swimming today, and I asked him if he swam in the pool with Grandma, and he said "No. With Grandma Judy!" The other day he was telling me about the things they did at Kaaren's house, unprompted. Grandpa taught him how to say "No way Jose!" while we were in Wenatchee, and he's still saying it. The other day Mina said "No way Jose!" and Isaac said "Yes way Jose!" They went back and forth about five times before I intervened because they started getting upset. He said another funny thing today: as I was telling him it was time to change his diaper, he said "I don't THINK so!" It was such a perfect use of the phrase and his emphasis was so exactly right that I did a double take, like "Did he really say that?"
Mina's doing great these days. Her color is really good and she has so much energy. It's so fun to see her run and jump and climb and do everything she should be doing. She still loves to draw, and has spent several hours the last couple of weeks making drawings. She's still working on the theme of circles inside of circles that she started a year and a half ago in the hospital, but they've gotten much more elaborate with multiple colors and lots of circles of different shapes and sizes. It's interesting, she doesn't call them "babies" anymore either. She also likes to "write", where she makes horizontal zigzag lines across the page. The other thing she's been into since the summer is folding paper. She takes a full page, with or without a drawing, and folds it widthwise four or five times until it's about two inches wide.
One of her things lately is to talk about "forever and ever." The other day she was happy to have Daddy around, and she asked with a big grin, "Can I keep you forever and ever?" I explained to her that she could keep me for a long time, but that I would eventually get old and die. She asked "What will happen to me?" I told her she would be all grown up by then and wouldn't need me anymore, and would probably have her own family. The conversation must have made a big impression, because she's referred to it several times since then. She asked Momma if she could keep her forever and ever, and Momma said yes. Mina thought about it for a while, and then said "But you gonna get old!" She's also talked several times at how she's going to be all grown up and have her own family.
We've been pretty busy otherwise. Keri's teaching a class at the University of San Francisco this fall which started last Wednesday, so she's had to farm the kids out to babysitters on several occasions to prepare for that. They love their babysitters and vice versa, so it hasn't been too traumatic for them. But they're always happy when the weekend comes and Daddy gets to stay home. We were getting ready to go out for a walk this morning, when Isaac saw me putting on my socks. He said "You going to work?" I said no, I was going with him. He immediately turned around and ran out to Mommy screeching "Daddy going with us! Daddy going with us!" It's nice to see him getting attached again -- after all the time away, he was back to being a Momma's boy. But Keri has been out late a couple of times the last week, and he went to bed with Sissy and me just fine.
He still loves playing with his Momma's hair, especially when he's tired. While we were in the Northwest, he liked to sit between Keri and Teri with one hand in the hair of each. He would grin and say "I have two hairs!" The other day Keri had put some gel in her hair, and when Isaac went to grab it he pulled his hand back again saying "It's dirty! It's dirty Momma!" We keep joking about getting him a wig to play with, but Mina got a doll with real hair as a gift recently and yesterday I showed it to Isaac. He put his hand in the doll's hair and started to giggle, and just sat there with a goofy grin on his face.
He understands so much these days, it's crazy. He's now able to communicate real information, and even talks about past events. We were talking about swimming today, and I asked him if he swam in the pool with Grandma, and he said "No. With Grandma Judy!" The other day he was telling me about the things they did at Kaaren's house, unprompted. Grandpa taught him how to say "No way Jose!" while we were in Wenatchee, and he's still saying it. The other day Mina said "No way Jose!" and Isaac said "Yes way Jose!" They went back and forth about five times before I intervened because they started getting upset. He said another funny thing today: as I was telling him it was time to change his diaper, he said "I don't THINK so!" It was such a perfect use of the phrase and his emphasis was so exactly right that I did a double take, like "Did he really say that?"
Mina's doing great these days. Her color is really good and she has so much energy. It's so fun to see her run and jump and climb and do everything she should be doing. She still loves to draw, and has spent several hours the last couple of weeks making drawings. She's still working on the theme of circles inside of circles that she started a year and a half ago in the hospital, but they've gotten much more elaborate with multiple colors and lots of circles of different shapes and sizes. It's interesting, she doesn't call them "babies" anymore either. She also likes to "write", where she makes horizontal zigzag lines across the page. The other thing she's been into since the summer is folding paper. She takes a full page, with or without a drawing, and folds it widthwise four or five times until it's about two inches wide.
One of her things lately is to talk about "forever and ever." The other day she was happy to have Daddy around, and she asked with a big grin, "Can I keep you forever and ever?" I explained to her that she could keep me for a long time, but that I would eventually get old and die. She asked "What will happen to me?" I told her she would be all grown up by then and wouldn't need me anymore, and would probably have her own family. The conversation must have made a big impression, because she's referred to it several times since then. She asked Momma if she could keep her forever and ever, and Momma said yes. Mina thought about it for a while, and then said "But you gonna get old!" She's also talked several times at how she's going to be all grown up and have her own family.
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