Today was fun. I was up by 4:45 am to feed Miller, got him back to sleep, and then couldn’t go back to sleep myself. Most of the time he wakes up around 5:00 am, but by the time I feed him and get him back down it isn’t worth going back to sleep because I know that Wilson will be up between 5:45 – 6:15. Wilson has always been an early bird. I used to go to the Super Walmart with him at 6:30 am when he was about a year old. We were up and everyone else was asleep. Why not?
Wilson and I still get up early together. We make a bowl of cereal, get him some juice and watch TV. He eats his cereal while sitting in my lap on the couch. In the morning he doesn’t want to leave my side. He helps me make my coffee and we even go to the bathroom together. It is very sweet. We get in at least two TV shows before one of the other kids wakes up. Then we all cuddle on the couch and watch TV until about 8:00. By then each kid has picked out a show and I am tired of the TV.
This morning we were out walking the neighborhood by 8:00 am. Faith rode her bike, Wilson ran and Miller sat in the stroller. It was fun. We took the long way around the neighborhood which is probably at least half a mile. We even saw a giant caterpillar that I was later informed may have been a grub. I have never seen a grub so I really don’t know what it was. All I know is that it was big and fat and had little caterpillar-like feet in the front. Grub? Maybe.
School came next, only I can’t call it “school” anymore because Faith is beginning not to like it. She tells me that “school is boring”. (Great! I have ruined her already.) Today I just made a bunch of cards with sight words on them and hid them around the living room. We played the hot/cold game to help her find some of them, which she loved. We had never played that before either. When she found the card she had to read the word. We played four or five times and she begged for more. Tip: you want to end the learning game while the child is still having fun so that she will want to play again tomorrow.
Then off to the playground. We took Faith’s friend, Emily, with us. Faith was going to spend the night at her house tonight. Faith tried, again, to have asleep over. I got a phone call around 8:45 saying that she wanted to come home. I was expecting the call. She loves the build up of the sleep over – playing, eating dinner, brushing teeth – but not the actual sleeping part. This is the third time that she has tried, but has come home. It is sweet to know that she misses us and wants to be near us. I will take that any day!
Here are a few pictures of Miller and Wilson at the playground. Since my surgery I have been able to spend some quality time with Miller and have really enjoyed it. He is so sweet! He smiles constantly and is so good natured. I can’t imagine our lives without him.
Wilson was so tired he was asleep about a two miles from the playground. Oh, did I mention that we painted our nails today too.