Sophia is on the move! She's not crawling, but she is doing a sort of creeping, stretching, bouncing, rolling, inchworm action. I put her down on her blanket, and when I look back, she's moved a couple of feet! She's also trying to pull up on things, and she's also saying "mamama" and a silent gaping of the mouth like bubbles popping "pah pah." So cute! No teeth yet, but I can feel things under her gums, and for the past few nights, she has been waking up in the middle of the night complaining (loudly). Sophia has also been transitioning to only two naps a day. If her morning and early afternoon naps are long enough, she doesn't take a nap at dinner-prep time and goes to bed a little early. This is a big "if" these days because we usually go do something in the morning, so often her first nap of the day is only a half-hour nap in the car on the way to our activity. She's a trooper though, rarely grumpy and smiling often at everyone. She seems to be developing a little separation anxiety, manifesting itself as crying once we are reunited. No tears when I say bye-bye, though. We are rarely apart so I guess she hasn't really had practice saying bye-bye to Mommy!
Thomas is still talking up a storm. Here's a sample monologue while he was drawing pictures last week: "Tommy draw Chloe. Tommy draw Katie. Katie so big! Tommy draw Diesel 10. So big, Mommy! Draw Thomas. Thomas draw eyes. Here's wheels. Tommy draw ... excuse me, Mommy. Tommy need box! Box! Box! [Where] are you, box? This one box? No. This one bucket, Mommy. Oh, bye-bye, Thomas. Bye-bye, wheels ..." [rubbing out picture]. He's pretty mild-mannered in public, but at home he's starting with the whole "no!" thing, and we've started doing time-outs in his room with the gate up. On the other hand, he is still expanding socially. Today, when Matthew took the kids to the park, Thomas watched two older girls slide (one in the others lap) together down one of the three parallel slides. He smiled happily, watched them a bit more, then ran up to the top of the third slide, waited until they climbed the ladder, and then slid down side by side with the girls!
Matthew's back from his trip at last. We were only going to have him for a few days before his next trip, but thankfully things have changed around and I think he's going to be here for the usual two weeks. I was going a bit loopy there, thank goodness Rose and Pam and my Mom's group were keeping us distracted! The first day Matthew came back, I went to the store for 45 minutes all by myself for the first time in two weeks, and it was heaven. Must do more of that in the coming weeks.
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