No trip to the library today because daddy takes JA for their weekly trip together to the mall where they enjoy bagels and the play area. JA has special friends he sees every week.
Later grandma volunteers to entertain JA outside. He loves to paint! The good news is that we paint with water. After a bit we get the idea to rake... His backyard mainly slopes upward, as do many here in the center of Omaha, but there is a small play area surrounding a massive oak tree. We rake up the last of the fallen leaves and all the sticks that come with oaks. It doesn't take long to fill a huge WalMart lawn and leaf bag. We need to buy more! JA likes the raking part, and especially the lifting of the shovel filled with debris into the big brown bag. Before filling, Grandma turns the bag upside down atop JA to "make sure" it is big enough. Everything is fun when you are almost 2 years.
JA has a DVD about trashy man--a garbage man--so as he continues to strew the aforementioned raked leaves onto the wooden steps so that Grandma has to sweep them clean, I begin calling him trashy man. He giggles with delight.
We break for lunch and wash up. JA has always liked his vegetables, especially broccoli. His mommy tries to figure out what he's saying, but grandma knows immediately he is saying broccoli stew because that is what the bunny eats in his new library book. We exclaim, "Ew-w-w, not for you!" many times before the tray is clean.
Baby LE is quite content, slept in four-hour shifts overnight. Will it last? Her mommy and daddy have been concerned about her jaundice, but the numbers are only slightly more elevated than when she left the hospital and this morning her color seems to be improving. If newborns sleep too much and are hard to rouse, it is an indication that the billirubin is at a dangerous level. She has been poked in the foot for a blood test every day since her birth, but not today.
Later grandma volunteers to entertain JA outside. He loves to paint! The good news is that we paint with water. After a bit we get the idea to rake... His backyard mainly slopes upward, as do many here in the center of Omaha, but there is a small play area surrounding a massive oak tree. We rake up the last of the fallen leaves and all the sticks that come with oaks. It doesn't take long to fill a huge WalMart lawn and leaf bag. We need to buy more! JA likes the raking part, and especially the lifting of the shovel filled with debris into the big brown bag. Before filling, Grandma turns the bag upside down atop JA to "make sure" it is big enough. Everything is fun when you are almost 2 years.
JA has a DVD about trashy man--a garbage man--so as he continues to strew the aforementioned raked leaves onto the wooden steps so that Grandma has to sweep them clean, I begin calling him trashy man. He giggles with delight.
We break for lunch and wash up. JA has always liked his vegetables, especially broccoli. His mommy tries to figure out what he's saying, but grandma knows immediately he is saying broccoli stew because that is what the bunny eats in his new library book. We exclaim, "Ew-w-w, not for you!" many times before the tray is clean.
Baby LE is quite content, slept in four-hour shifts overnight. Will it last? Her mommy and daddy have been concerned about her jaundice, but the numbers are only slightly more elevated than when she left the hospital and this morning her color seems to be improving. If newborns sleep too much and are hard to rouse, it is an indication that the billirubin is at a dangerous level. She has been poked in the foot for a blood test every day since her birth, but not today.
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