One Week Left! (day7)

Today we had a pretty easy day… we all woke up about 6:30 with Anthony! He woke up and I heard him moving around so I sort of opened my eyes to watch him… he saw his Octopus toy hanging from the side… he tried grabbing at it for a little bit, and then I think he realized her was not where he normally is… He got a surprised look on his face and then started looking around the room… trying to figure out what was going on! It was pretty cute… I figured he had seen me, but thought I was sleeping… I don’t know… so I whispered “Anthony” and he jumped and started screaming!!!! Oh boy!!! What a mess… that woke Alex up and he started calling for us! We gave Anthony a bottle of juice, here they this really thick juice especially for babies… it has a lot of the fiber in it still I guess! Which is a nice thing… they feel like they ate something… Then we played for a while and about eight, Anthony went down for his first nap of the day! He didn’t cry too long… just a few cries and he was sleeping away! We were amazed! Jerry took a nap too, and I tried to doze a little with Alex on the couch next to me watching Queen Esther… the veggie-tale! Not very restful I must say! Jerry got up and went out for more water… somehow we used up our water and didn’t have any more… so we needed to make milk for Anthony when we woke up… Anthony woke up… but didn’t fuss too much… I laid down on the bed and pretended to be asleep so I could see what he would do… He just rolled around and looked at stuff… he would grab at the octopus for a minute and then roll over, then roll back over and grab at the octopus again! Pretty soon I put my hand in the crib so he could touch me… he was hilarious… he was afraid to touch my hand! When I would touch him, he would jump away like I was scary or something…then he would reach one little finger toward my hand and just barely touch one of my fingers… then pull away quickly! So funny! Soon he started getting bored… so I pulled him out and we played on our bed a while until Jerry got back. He was smiling and happy to see us! We feed him a bottle of weak milk with some cereal in it… to make it a little thicker. That worked pretty good. Then we played until about 11:15 when jerry said Anthony was so tired he couldn’t even keep his head up anymore… they had watched a baby Einstein together… the boys. So jerry put him back in bed… he hollered for a couple minutes and then went right to sleep! He is so cute… he turns on his side sticks that thumb in his mouth, grabs that hand with the other hand, kind of curls up… and that is how he likes to go to sleep! It’s so cute!!! Alex went for his nap at the same time. So I took a shower and jerry worked on something…

Assiya was supposed to come over between 1 and 2, so I think she came about 1:15… Anthony had just woken up, but was throwing a fit… so he was back in his bed when she came… he soon calmed down so I brought him out… she adored him!!! She couldn’t help but pinch his cheeks and stuff! We chatted a while I gave Anthony another bottle and then we went to the park. It was about a 20 minute walk from here but it was so nice outside that the walk was not bad… Alex actually rode in the stroller, and Alex was in the Bjorn on Jerry.

The park was beautiful again today… we walked around and took Alex to the bounce house thing… he went in and played for quite a while… then he pushed a little girl I guess… in play… and she started crying… so we had to get him to calm down… he was fine for a while and then the attendant told us, we better check on him again… he had apparently “bonked” the same girl in the head… “with his hand”… is what he told me… she was screaming and the lady was yelling at Alex… I don’t know what happen… but he apparently got a little carried away and wild… who knows… but of course we couldn’t understand what she was saying, but Assiya said she was asking him why he did that and telling him he was a bad boy and on and on… Alex was un-phased by her of course, since he had no idea what he was saying… but he did get in trouble from us… how embarrassing… we walked away and Alex was crying… so sad… we all got some ice cream and kept walking… Anthony of course fell asleep… it was about nap time… He always seems to fall asleep at nap time… no matter where he is! I hope he stays that way!!! So he slept for probably an hour… we walked slowly home so he could really sleep and we were talking anyways. It was a nice afternoon. We came home… Anthony woke up… I gave him a bottle of milk and cereal again… Jerry showed Assiya all about WeedFreeGardenBed.com, she said she wished they had that when she was a kid… they always were pulling weeds! We met her younger sister at Kamelot for dinner… Savilya. She is adorable too! She has darker hair, but looks very much like her two sisters. We had a nice dinner and laughed and chatted. Then we needed to rush home because Luba and Helen were going to come tonight too… well apparently we missed them… I feel bad about that… but they are never on time and the one day they never even came, so we figured it would be at least 8 before they came… so we got home about 8… bummer, I hope they aren’t mad at us!

We got Anthony ready for bed, Jerry read him a story and we prayed and put him in and left… he squawked a couple time and then stopped… then we put Alex to bed… he fussed more than Anthony! I checked on Anthony a few minutes later and what was he doing? He had a hold of his octopus guy and was banging it around! I let him for a few minutes and then if he was playing too long I was going to take it out… but when I came back he was on his little side, thumb in mouth sleeping away! So Precious!!!

I am still exhausted today so I am trying to go to sleep earlier… :)