This past week

Oh as a note to my last post, the rotovirus vacine is given orally, which is why I wondered if it was the culprit.

I've been trying to make this post all week. Everyone is asleep (for now), so I'm typing fast.

After having both sets of g'parents around all last weekend, Eddie asked several times for them, inquiring about where they were. It was cute. Sure wish they lived closer...

Dennis and I thought we'd call Josephine by the name Josie. Eddie calls her baby Josephine, which is what we often wind up calling her. We've both also almost called her JJ, then there is Jo, and everyone's favorite, J-Lo. I'm glad she'll have lots of options from which to chose when she is old enough to voice an opinion.

We were out shopping for strollers today. We are in that weird stage where Eddie will run off in stores (and everywhere really) and it would be nice to have him buckled in somewhere. Problem is, soon enough he'll outgrow this stage and do we want to be stuck with a double stroller, or even a new stroller? There are now a lot more choices than there used to be, but it's a bit overwhelming.

Couple of our new things over the last couple weeks:

Ed is now tall enough to hold the handrail at home going down the stairs---I need to see just how tall that is.

J seems to be getting on a schedule of sorts. Her brother frequently wakes her up first thing in the morning even though she seems to want to sleep in until 8/8:30am. She has almost developed an early morning (when Ed wakes her), then late morning nap and then a long afternoon nap (fortunately when her brother is napping), then she takes a 6pm catnap before her long stretch awake from 5/6ish till 9:30/9:45pm. No matter what I do, I can not get her to stay asleep much before the 9:30 timeframe. No biggie tho' becuase she will then sleep until 3/3:30am, and depending on the night, make it till her brother wakes her, or wake at 5ish. Such a change from Eddie. Any exhaustion (and there is a lot), is us staying up too late.

J seems to be really trying to roll on her side. Doctor was very impressed with how well she supported her weight on her arms and how well she could lift her head (he said similar things for Eddie too).

Last Sunday at dinner, Eddie cracked us up---he buttered his dinner roll (using the back of a fork).

Have a good week.