Thursday, October 30, 2014

4 months with Talmage

Favorite Things:  Your fists.  I really wish you would take a binkie, as those are easier to get rid of than a thumb.

Special Talent:  It's fun to be with you.  You love to grab things and will take toys when I hand them to you.

Favorite Pastime: I haven't really been around too much this past month, but I know that you are absolutely chill with whatever comes your way.  Oh, you especially love those mats with a bar across them, dangling with noise-maker toys.  We don't have one, but the babysitter does and the gym does and you are content for a long time looking and trying to hit those.

NickNames:  T-Man, Talmage.  Alaska hates it if we call you anything but "Talmage" and is constantly reminding us, "His name not Cutie Pie, his name Talmage."

Sleep:  You will predictably go down at 7:30 or 8 and get up again around 7.  Take a couple two hour naps during the day and even though you still do a late cat nip around 5, you will still down early.  You are definitely on a eat, play, sleep schedule and it's nice to have a rhythm that I can count on to define when you are fussing out of hunger or out of being hungry.

Crying:  You are so quite most of the time, especially when you wake up.  You can be up for half a hour before I hear you because it takes you that long to get the momentum up to cry hard enough.

Dislikes: The binkie.  I am just about to give up.  You hate that thing with a passion.  You will tolerate it, sometimes, but always spit it out before I have held you 5 minutes.  And then if I persist, you scream.

Likes:  People laughing with you.  You aren't much into laughing, but if someone is laughing with you they are more apt to get a chuckle rather than a smile.

My favorite part:  Your endearing personality.  I love that you are so docile and easy-going.  It makes me feel like I am ready for another baby.  You are so awesome!  I just can't get enough of you.

3 months with Talmage

Favorite Things: You are pretty low-key.  Not sure if you have a favorite anything right now.

Special Talent: Losing your hair.  I am not even joking.  When I get you in the mornings it looks like a cat slept on your head and shed hair all over the place.  You have lost a lot of hair and I first thought it was your head getting bigger and the hair just spreading out all over it, but the hair you leave behind tells the real story.

Favorite Pastime:  Looking around.  You are perfectly content to sit on a lap, looking out at the world from the safety of my arms.

Sleep: Nailed it.  You sleep the whole night through and tend to take cat naps but I have noticed them becoming a little more regular and longer.  You do tend to drive me crazy by taking a late afternoon/early evening nap and then I always think you should stay up later to compensate for it, but lo and behold, you really are ready for bed around 9 pm.  You'll fall asleep on the floor and are easy to move to the bed.

Crying: Hardly ever.  You are the happiest go lucky baby there ever was.  I went back to work this past month and I was so happy to know that you were busy being awesome for someone else besides me.

Dislikes:  Really?  Nothing.  Except that swing, still.  It takes up so much room, I really should just sell it.  But there are occasional times, likes once every three days, where it comes in handy.

Likes: Being on the floor.  You just wave your arms around and kick about a little bit and take a nap if the time is right.

My Favorite Part:  Your magnetic personality.  People are absolutely drawn to you and you reward that attention with lots of smiles.

Wrapping it Up

Oh my goodness.  This past month as been the busiest ever, but the best!  We started out strong, not going to lie.  We were reading scriptures every morning before we all went our separate ways and coming home and having dinner - and then week two came and all things fell apart and stayed apart.

But it was fun.  So much fun!  I mean, hard.  But fun.  And it reminds me how much I love subbing as compared to actually teaching.  Ugh, those lesson plans get me every single time.  Because it's so ridiculous.  You can either spend two hours getting a lesson together with lots of fun things to do and all that, or you can spend 25 minutes and get nearly the same lesson together.  It's just hard to keep myself from spending all that time because it's so easy to get side-tracked at looking at other people's awesome lessons plans and all that.

I absolutely loved the kids, every single one of them.  And for whatever reason, the ones that are usually super hard for other people were some of my favorites.  Explosive drama and everything, I would definitely do it again.

Lots of things I could say about that month I spent teaching, but to wrap it up quick and fast, I am taking this week of Halloween off of everything to get re-juvenated.  And it surprises me how fast a day full of exercising at the gym and naps can go by.  Before I even know it, I have landed here at the end of the week and feel as if I have hardly anything to show for it because it was all I could do just to keep up with the slow pace a stay-at-home momma can have.

Monday - spent the day grocery shopping and then up at the Barnes'
Tuesday - went and got all the frames I need to craft up for the upcoming bazaars.
Wednesday - Exercising took extra long because I went to a hour long class and then had to catch up with everyone.
Thursday - Baked ALL day for the Spuds and Suds and Alaska has a friend over, which is the only reason I am sitting down to write, because she is entertained.
Friday - Halloween, need I say more?  I really want to get some cute pictures of Alaska this year, I wanted to do that last year, too, but it seemed like every day was rainy.  We'll see how it goes.  Talmage is being himself, poor kid.  He'll have to wait until next year for his cute 'first halloween' pictures.
Saturday - Super Saturday, which I am not super thrilled about, but the rest of the yw presidency has committed to going and they are the funnest bunch of ladies you could ever ask for - so for them I will show up.

And I have exercised every single day, which really takes up some serious time.  But I know it's healthy for me.