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Paisley 8 months

Griffin 3 years old

Funny story about Griffin. We walked up to the grocery store yesterday with my mom. I actually had P in the sling so my mom was pushing the stroller. G wanted to get out once we were there which is fine. First he wanted to smell the sunflowers. I told him, “smell them but don’t touch them.” Then he got ahead of my mom a bit and went to “smell” the broccoli (or at least that was what she thought he was going to do), instead, he took a huge bite out of it. A lady nearby saw this and said to my mom, “well, that was a kodak moment :)” My kid is craz-ay!

Last night P ate dinner with us. She is so not into baby mush food. She wants the real stuff man. She had three pieces of steak, two pieces of yellow squash, a nilla wafer, and two pieces of watermelon. Guess what! She slept soooooo well. I am hoping to incorporate more food soon so she will sleep better. It was glorious. She was hysterical with the steak. My little carnivore LOVED it.

This list of 20 Creepy Baby Products made me laugh pretty good today so I thought I’d share. Fun stuff for kids — Paisley better be ready for me to use the manual snot sucker!

20 Creepy Baby Products

So, Griffin refused shoes last night while playing outside.  I should have known better but alas I let him be piggie free!  He, of course, tripped and stubbed his toe.  He was hollering about it and when Lee went to investigate he screamed more.  He didn’t even want us to look at him, let alone the toe.  I couldn’t really tell what was going on with the nail so I dumped some hydrogen peroxide on it while Lee held him a bit.  It seemed from what I could tell just to be around the nail and not actually the nail.  So, I calmed him down a bit and then he asked for his shoe.  No bandaid, No looking, no nothing, just his shoe.  He even slept with just that shoe on and wouldn’t take it off this morning.  Bath should be interesting tonight

My kid is such a goof….

LOL.  We have a small flip lid trashcan that belongs in our bedroom.  I say belongs because it is never there but that’s where it should be.  Griffin uses it as a drum, space ship, and yesterday for holding his pee.  YIKES!  Lee went to get him up from his nap and congratulated him for waking up with a dry bed (we are working on positive reinforcement for this behavior).  Anyhow, Griffin told Lee something along the lines of, “I dry.  I pee in the trashcan.”  Lee wasn’t sure what he was talking about but since Griffin kept repeating it Lee figured he should investigate.  Sure enough, G had gone into the other room and peeed in the flip lid trash can.  Jesus, child, a trash can is NOT a toilet!

Today was a rough parenting day.  Griffin woke crying.  I guess he had a great morning but I was at work so I didn’t witness that part.  Then he fought a nap, destroying his room in the process and at times saying things like, “you are making me very sad”, as tears rolled down his cheek.  Then bedtime….the tears, the screaming, the kicking….he said he was “too sad to potty”.  Wow!  That is pretty sad.  Finally Lee laid down with him so I could tend to Paisley.  She fell asleep easily while eating.  Now SHE is crying because she didn’t want me to put her down.  I’m so tired, otherwise I might cry too.  boo hoo.

Griffin is either getting clumsier or getting more active than before. He has obtained soooo many boo boos over the last month. The kid is starting to look like I harm him (and I decidedly do NOT). Tonight one said boo boo (from the bike running over his foot) broke open and he came downstairs, naked might I add, to tell us about it. We figured it was his foot but he wouldn’t even let us look at it so we weren’t quite sure. Then I doubted anything was wrong and took him back to bed. That is where I found blood on his wall and window (and also his clothes in a pile on the floor). The kid is going to freeze his butt off with the AC going. Boo boos apparently feel better naked

So, Griffin loves his Uncle John.  He loves him a lot.  He just might love him too much after my experience yesterday

The man working on my grandmother’s condo came by to pick up some money.  We were outside to meet him and I said to Griffin, “this man’s name is John, just like your Uncle John.”  Well, immediately this made this John “good people” in Griffin’s book.  He asked him to come inside with him, into his house, his friend John.  Although John has a child (his is around Paisley’s age) he didn’t understand Griffin and told him, “it’s ok.  I’m leaving in a second and then you can go back inside your house.”

So, a few moments later Griffin heads for the door, John walks to his car, and I proceed to follow Griffin into the house. THIS is where it gets ugly.  He runs screaming after John, “my friend, my John. no go.  come with me now, in my house.”  Full on tantrum on the front lawn as JOhn looks back at me unsure whether to run or come try to help me (he drove away :))  15 minutes and the tears were still flowing for John.

Guess there is just something in the name for him???  hahahha

The Norris Clan is adapting to a new schedule and one that I hope we can stick to for awhile.  I am now working M/W/F and am home with the chillins T/TH.  So far it is working out pretty well.  Also, on M/W Lee picks them up and is with them alone (shudder-haha) for an hour or so before I get home from work.  I really feel we are getting in the groove of this and so far our weekends have been a lot more “play” and less “work” since I can do a few things during the week to keep us on track.

Griffin is now 3 years old and as fiesty as ever.  He is adjusting to his new daycare situation and only bringing home a few bad habits.   (She has older kids so he is talking a lot about dragons, aliens, fighting, etc. but it’s all pretend I think).

Paisley is now 7 months old and growing as big as ever.  Haha.  She is a robust child but even her buddha belly is slowly starting to slim down.  She started solids hardcare this past week and is moving ahead with that with gusto.  So far she loves apricots, sweet potato, watermelon, and anything breadlike (just like her brother).  She also is tolerant of bananas and likes avacados.  I’m enjoying this part so much more this time because we are being very casual with it and just reading her cues.

Hope to be more active on here and hope other Norris family members will be as well (hello Lee?)

A special preview of one of our Holiday Cards for 2007/Paisley Birth Announcement