Baby #2

You know that there will be another baby soon. You will come up to my belly and blow raspberries on it, and say "HI BABY". If I say the baby is kicking me, you will point to your belly and tell me you have a baby kicking you.

You have a big wheel nonna got you at a garage sale. It does not have tread left on the tires, so it would slide around when you first started to pedal, until dad put duct tape on the tires. now you are cruizin' on it. you seems so big to us all the sudden that you can ride - you call it "my bicycle".

you want popsicles all the time. you have given up a bottle after dad told you we have to give the baba's back to the babies. that seemed to be a good enough reason for you. will the same line work for diapers? oh- i wish it would!

today in the bath you pointed to yourself and said "my penis". i don't really talk to you about it much, so i was surprised. then you said "dad as penis, jude has penis, mama has penis" i had to correct you and tell you I have a vagina, and you asked "where?". this was interesting to me because this is one of the few times you have really tried to have a conversation with me to figure something out, or discuss something you didn't understand. usually you just tell me what you want, where you want to go, etc. after i explained it you you you told it all back to me that "jude had penis, dad has penis, mama has gina". pretty funny.

right now you notice "towers" anything tall an pointy is a tower or a castle. we went to the bahai temple and you were excited to see a "TOWER". you were running up and down the marble stairs and nick price said "jude is the kind of kid that will just jump off stairs, without worrying about landing on stone." hmmm- how could he have predicted what you would do next. you gave your dad a heart attack by jumping down 3 steps, and landing on a 4th on your shins. You jumped one other time and almost landed on your back. you are a man's man, that is for sure. You are fearless, except for spiders, and will rough house and throw your body around like you are never going to get hurt. usually you don't get hurt. you still have a baby fat layer.

you know all your letters, except w and B and D hat confuse you a little. you like to draw letters, trace them, on a pad we have on the floor that you can trace letters on. numbers too, you are very interested to learn. the other day we were reading a book on letters and we came to the page "G for goldfish". and you said "F for fish". You must remember that there is an F for fish at daycare. You're smart- you remembered.

a lot of times you fall asleep with me in bed because i am too tired to stay up any later. if we try to move you when dad comes to bed, you kick and scream, and usually one of us goes to your bed. i don't mind sleeping in there., the change in the bed firmness halfway through the night eases the stress on my belly.