Project Xerxes: Second Annual Report
Professor X turned 2 today.
Sunday we had two birthday parties in the morning for his peers and the evening for our friends. A few folks came from his daycare (which is impressive because he goes to an Eastside daycare and we live in West Seattle!?!?!). The split let us fit everyone in our house, make sure the baby got a nap, and gave us a chance to make some dinner for the evening party. The theme was a "Chasy Choo-choo Warty" as he put it. Ideas flew in our funnels. Then there was trouble. Luckily, no one was hurt.
Things have been so busy that I don't really get to blog much about the little things. By the time I actually sit down to the computer, I'm too wiped to write. Still, here are a few little things that come to mind that I would have written about had I about had the gumption at the time...
Sunday we had two birthday parties in the morning for his peers and the evening for our friends. A few folks came from his daycare (which is impressive because he goes to an Eastside daycare and we live in West Seattle!?!?!). The split let us fit everyone in our house, make sure the baby got a nap, and gave us a chance to make some dinner for the evening party. The theme was a "Chasy Choo-choo Warty" as he put it. Ideas flew in our funnels. Then there was trouble. Luckily, no one was hurt.
Things have been so busy that I don't really get to blog much about the little things. By the time I actually sit down to the computer, I'm too wiped to write. Still, here are a few little things that come to mind that I would have written about had I about had the gumption at the time...
- We are increasingly sure he's a lefty. My dad is a lefty, so hopefully he can help us with the little details like teaching him to hold a pencil correctly.
- Sweet potatoes are baby food so no longer his favorite--he's big so he's left behind baby things... except when it suits him. His favorite food these days seems to be miso soup with lots of tofu squares, a side of rice, and some edamame.
- He still goes to sleep watching Mr. Colbert many nights. "Steven! Steven! Steven!"
- The boy can use Windows 8 like a rockstar. Based on teh Internets, I think he's the only one who acutally uses the [Windows] key on a keyboard.
- Lately he's taken to crossing his arms while he eats. Alas, the image is a bit like Schrodinger's Cat... every time we try to take a picture of it he reaches out for the camera.
- He's not much of a stuffy fan. He wrestles with the life-sized stuffed Emperor penguin. He things his stuffed cat should live under the furniture where an actual cat would stay. He does however have much love for his little R2D2.
- When driving about, he is thrilled to point out every bus ("BooBah!") and plane ("Plane!") he sees. One day DrB got him to point and say "House!"... which he then tried to do for every single house in our neighborhood on the way home.
- For most of his two years, I've been the one to get him when he's crying in the middle of the night--DrB has a really hard time going back to sleep if she gets up in the middle of the night, so I usually go get him, maybe change him, and then bring him back to bed and I have no particular problem going to back to sleep most of the time. Anyhow, for most of that time it's been a baby's cry on the monitor. These days, I'm hearing the plaintive cry of "Dah-Dee!". It's both sweet and heartbreaking to hear. Thankfully he's mostly sleeping through the night these days.
- The boy is a huge ham like his brother. They both followed the photographer's instructions very well. See Exhibit A below.
- And Exhibit B