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January 06, 2008
December 2007
Dear Kids,
Currently you are both asleep (or in the process of) and your mom and I are laying in bed enjoying a break from you, our little busybodies. Not that we don’t love you or love being with you, it’s just nice to have some uninterrupted time together and talk about things that don’t include baby goo or strategies for discipline.
It seems as though every month it gets harder and harder to set aside the time it takes for me to write these little updates, but I feel compelled to keep it up when I read past months’ entries. It’s amazing how fast time flies and how many things we seem to forget as we’re so caught up in just getting through another day (or night even).
This past month proved to be a busy yet fulfilling time as we gathered with friends, packed away the empty calories and celebrated the birth of our Savior. Your mom thought it’d be good to celebrate Christmas in our own home and begin to build our own traditions.
Winter this year has proven to be a succession of snow storms, subfreezing temperatures and dark nights. Fortunately this gave us a beautiful white Christmas which made it seem extra Christmasy. Next year we’ll most likely be in St. George so we were careful to drink up the rarity of the whiteness all around.
RUBY-
The big occasion for you this month was the celebration of your second birthday. It’s really really really important to your mother that Christmas and your birthday are two distinct events. I think we succeeded as we had a birthday party for you where your fiends Eli and Porter showed up with gifts in hand and tummies aching for yet more empty calories.
While your mother just can’t believe that you are two, I on the other hand feel as though you’ve been two for quite some time with your ability to communicate so well. Sometimes when we talk I feel as though I’m talking to a teenager, especially when you brush me off with indifference. I’m learning to take it in stride however as it’s preparing me for when you actually become a teenager.
Lately your tantrums and pension for drama has increased steadily due in part to the mounting jealousy of your new little brother who apparently has never left like you probably thought he would. Yep, he’s here for good and the sooner you can understand that the better. It’s not that we don’t love you any less, it’s just that Henry needs our attention a little more right now.
Thankfully you don’t take your frustrations out on Henry but you do make these subtle comments to your mom and I every so often. Comments like, “Put Henry down in his buzzy chair!” and “No! Not Henry!” after one of us picks him up. You also have this desire to be a baby again as you want to be swaddled, demand a bottle and plop in one of the low-hanging binkie’s laying around the house (which is a funny sight seeing how you had abandoned the binkie by the time you were Henry’s age).
HENRY-
At times I envy your life right now. All that is required of you is to eat, sleep and look cute. So far you’ve mastered the eating and looking cute thing but I’m sad to say that the sleeping isn’t quite there yet. Only two more months until we let you cry it out all night long...I’ve got my good luck earplugs on standby all ready to go.
Your four month check up is next week and I’m predicting that you are off the charts in your weight (as witnessed by my sore back from holding you for more than five minutes). I think you are getting longer too and it’s not that your hair is falling out, but rather your head is expanding and thinning out the coverage.
Speaking of your head, your mother and I are concerned that the back of your head is getting flatter by the day. We’ve been taking measures the last couple of months by having you sleep on your side, implementing tummy-time and cushioning the your car seat. Despite our efforts however, we think it’s still getting flatter by the day.
Of course this may be a moot point as the Hurst gene pool may step up and bless you with a full head of hair, but you never know I guess. On the bright side I have one odd-shaped head, went bald and still managed to marry The Most Beautiful Woman On The Planet™. Who knows...maybe having a deformed melon is a gift. It creates character or something? I dunno, there’s probably a moral in there somewhere. It’s up to you to find it.
Time to go, kiddo’s. This month should be fun as we’re hoping to travel to St. George for a long weekend where Ruby might get potty trained (*fingers crossed*).
Love,
Dad
Posted by patatomic at January 6, 2008 11:34 PM