Mace is 4 months old. I love him so much!
- He's a super-huge flirt who loves to talk. He loves attention, and I love looking into his eyes. He looks back at me, as if searching for some kind of reassurance, and when I smile, he beams at me.
- He loves it when people sing to him - one of the ladies at the gym day care even told me about it. :)
- He loves sucking on his Binky, and when it's not around, he sticks his entire hand into his mouth and sucks on it madly. It's hilarious. And for a kid who loves his Binky so much, he sure stinks at keeping it in his mouth!
- He loves to grab and pull at his toys.
- He understands when I'm promising him milk. If he's fussing and I say, "Wait just a minute, I'll get you some milk, let me sit down..." he stops and looks at me for a while. And if I get distracted and do something other than start nursing him, he furrows his brow and starts crying at me again. ;)
- He started rolling over about a week ago, and now he can roll from front to back and back to front! But I think he only rolls over in one direction - when he's on his back, he'll roll over his left arm onto his stomach, then he'll roll over again and be farther away from where he started.
- He loves his big sister. She is very good at comforting him, and when she got him to stop crying at the end of her swimming lessons a few weeks ago, one of the other parents was like, "Wow, she is the baby whisperer!!"
- Carmen loves him to death, too. She helps stick his Binky in, she plays with him, she helps him roll over, she brings him toys, she talks to him in the high-pitched loving Mommy voice adults use with babies (apparently it's a natural thing for parents to do - babies are better at picking up the high-pitched sounds and we recognize that they respond to it. We're not just being super-annoying with our baby talk.) I love walking into a room and hearing her singing to him, or going, "Baby Mace, you're a cutie, you're a cutie! Let's keep you forever! I love you! You are the cutest and sweetest baby!" And when he's crying, she caresses his face and goes, "Shh, shh, shh, oh, sweetheart, you're okay, shh~"
- For some reason, I like to call Mace "Stinkerfish." Sometimes Carmen gets upset when I call him that, and she goes, "He's not a stinkerfish! He's a sweetheart!"
Carmen Dewey: Dinosaur Hunter
- For some reason, she is obsessed with death. I've probably been watching too much Burn Notice with her. ;) I hear her playing in her room, and she's like, "Hey, everypony, Pinkie Pie is dead." And a few weeks ago in Nursery, she told her Nursery leaders that one of her friends died, and they were a bit worried about that ... I asked her about it in the hall, and she told me that it was one of her pretend friends that died. "Yeah, she went out into the street without looking and got hit by a car and she DIED." O.o; I don't teach her that she'll die if she gets hit by a car. I say she needs to be careful because the car might not see her, and if it hit her she'd get "big ouchies". Apparently big ouchies = death.
- The best part of my day is when Carmen comes up to me and gives me a big hug and says, "Mommy, I just love you!"
- Sometimes, she says, "Ugh, Mommy, if you [do thing I don't like], I will not love you any more!" (What?! I don't threaten her with taking away love! Where does she get this from?!) and other times, when we get frustrated with each other, she glares at me and goes, "But Mommy, I still love you!!" Hehehe.
- I haven't quite figured out what this means, but sometimes she says, "I am the MADDEST Carmen!" Usually this is when she's going to go out and kill dinosaurs or something. I think she also says it when she's recently been scared by a bug (usually a spider/ant/fly).
- We're kind of working on our fear of bugs. When bugs are inside, it's okay to freak out and get Mommy and Daddy to kill them. When we're outside, I try to tell her, "This is their home; they're not scary and I won't kill them for you."
- Carmen is very thoughtful and obedient. While we were on vacation in Utah, my dad and I were both taking naps downstairs on the couch. I heard Carmen come down the stairs, calling out, "Mommy? Grandpa Brad??" and when she saw both of us asleep, she sighed exasperatedly (it sounded a bit like Napoleon Dynamite) ... then turned around and went back upstairs, instead of waking us up and bothering us. Seriously? Seriously!! I was so happy!!!!
- My favorite made-up word by Carmen? "Yestertime."
- She is super-upbeat and optimistic and sweet. "That sounds super-delicious!" "That is WONDERFUL, mommy!" "Mom, everything in this grocery store is SO PERFECT!" and our favorite descriptor for tasty fruit is, "It's super-juicy!" Super-juicy strawberries, super-juicy apples, super-juicy pears ... Also, whenever we go to a place that will have kids there she can play with, she calls them, "All of my very best friends!" (I think she gets it from the My Little Pony theme song?)
- Everything exciting that she is looking forward to doing is happening TOMORROW. I can't wait to go to my swim lessons TOMORROW. I can't wait to start my dance lessons TOMORROW and wear my tap-tap-tap shoes. I want to move into our new big house RIGHT NOW. (or tomorrow. ;) )
- Carmen reminds me of the little girl from Toy Story 3. She runs around with her toys and everything that happens to them is SO DRAMATIC. I love it!!
I want to write more in here about family happenings. I've been distracting myself too much for the past year or so to write, but I really need to do it!! (Facebook status updates are enough, right? Right???)
In other news ... we are moving into a house next Saturday (yaaaaayyyyyy!!!!) so this week should be crazy full of packing and whatnot. Being OCD and all, I started packing boxes last week to take downstairs to the garage (I don't want to ask my friends to carry all of our stuff down two flights of stairs) ... then Carmen decided she wanted to help and she put all of her ponies and other favorite toys into her backpack. Ahahaha. I love her.
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