James is getting so much bigger and more alert which oddly makes me realize how quickly NATHAN is changing these days. Nathan has discovered the word "too" and uses it with abandon. He won't wear certain pairs of shorts because they are "too big." (He does, however, love to wear shirts that go down to his knees.) "Too hot, Mama? Not too hot?" he asks before we go outside. If I hold James up in the air he shouts, panicked, "Mama! TOO HIGH!" and then when I bring James back down.. "Mo' too high?"
He's also started really playing more with his friends and other kids at the park- he will find someone and run off with them and they will start in on games, like waving sticks in the air or crawling together under the play structure. Games that make no sense to me and really hit home that he is becoming his own person- I don't know everything he thinks anymore. Now if he wakes up early, he just talks to himself (or his million stuffed animals? who knows?) instead of calling for us. It is kind of sad but kind of wonderful as well.
Yesterday I sent a Twitter, jokingly, about not knowing when kids started following directions, but Nathan is definitely capable of doing it more, now. We went to a Y class that we had skipped since before James was born today and I was nervous- Nathan did not do great in it before and with six plus weeks off, I was not optimistic. It's a PE style class and I take him to it mainly because I hope he WILL learn to follow directions, and today he did almost 85% of the time. And the rest of the time he was at least still with the group. And then we went home and after lunch he looked at me, said, "All done" and signed for nap. But first he took his dishes to the dishwasher and demanded to "wash hands, sink!" (He also, this afternoon, at Jo-ann's, asked to go up and down the aisles looking at things instead of straight to check out. I love wandering the aisles at Jo-ann's but normally he loses patience. I think he has heard us talking about how easy James was and decided to step up his game.)
We've also cut down the TV time immensely- the fact that our DVR died out helped since I could legitimately say the TV was broken. "Mama fix tee-dee?" Yesterday we left playgroup early and I told Nathan it was so the man could come fix the tv. The guy came during his nap and afterwards I told him that he could watch a Curious George while James nursed, since the man came to fix the tv. I didn't think much of it until bedtime- we were going through the list of things we are thankful for and Nathan said, "Thank you man fix tee-dee!"
He also has finally figured out the numbers 3,4,and 5. He used to count "One... two... six..." but now he has been counting "fwee... fwee... fwee.. four... five!" He'll get there, I'm sure.
One thing we are doing consciously with James is having Jeff do more- when Nathan was a baby I was so nervous and so convinced that I had figured out the only way to do things that I didn't let Jeff handle as much, which I think made things harder on us than they had to be. Nathan, however, has other ideas. When James woke up this morning Jeff went up to get him and change his diaper. "No, Mama change diaper! NO! Mama do!" He actually dragged me upstairs and tried to get me to do it. Then he was quite upset that Jeff gave James a bottle. "No, Mama hold baby!"
When one boy is napping and the other is awake I try to give them extra one on one time- this is great for Nathan but James is not so into it. I forget he is only five weeks old and has about four minutes of cooing in him before he gets tired. Still, the moments he is awake he is delightful and I know better than to complain about a baby who's sleeping most of the day.
All in all things are pretty fun around here. Of course, as I wrote that I noticed I had some spit up in my hair leftover from this morning's game of "too high," so I don't think I'm totally on top of things. But I'm getting there.
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