The haps...

I taught Henry how to fold towels yesterday.

This morning I would not let Henry watch his hour of TV because he woke up too early. I think he's been waking up earlier and earlier (today 5:50) in anticipation of TV watching. After I made him lay in bed with me till 6:45 he asked if he could play his video game and I said no, but you can get dressed. He yelled, "I don't get to do anything special!". Sometimes I think my parenting decisions in the early morning are made more out of anger (revenge?) then out of good sense. I didn't get to sleep, you don't get TV. So there.

I'm not proud.

I taught Eleanor a body part. I say, "Where's your nose?" and she points to it. I am going to teach her the rest this week. That took 2 days of asking a few times a day.

Eleanor can repeat words, which is like a little window into the future. For instance, yesterday we were outside and a grackle was right next to us squawking, and I said, "Bird" and she repeated it exactly. She says, "book", "Kitty", and "Yes" too but she mainly is sticking to daily usage of "this" and "that" "mama" and "dada" and "key" (for kitty) and "dog". She is signing "more" and "milk" and yesterday I began teaching her the sign for "chicken" b/c when Henry did that sign it made Justin and I burst into huge smiles. It's the cutest sign ever.

Eleanor is a picky eater. She eats good portions but not a terribly wide variety. Definitely a sweet tooth and she goes for junk (health food junk, I guess). Her dream meal would be veggie booty, cheddar bunnies, squirtable fruit/veg, mac and cheese and yogurt bites. Add some raisins and frozen blueberries and that would be her ideal. She'll eat eggs, yogurt, tomatoes, oranges, grapes, kiwis, strawberries, melon, avocados, olives, cheese and crackers, sometimes rice, and lots and lots of oatmeal. She'll eat cod. That's about it.

We're no longer vegetarians. I call us meat-avoiders. We eat it about once a week. Fish and grass fed-beef only. There's been occasional exceptions for halal lamb, but only because the place down the street makes a slammin gyro. Henry ate it like candy yesterday. The real reason for our meat back-sliding is Franklins-which we get about 2x's a month and Quality seafood's fish N Chips. And because Henry loves sardines. We're not really preparing any meat at our house, except for the occasional organic, nitrate-free grass-fed all beef hotdog. I don't feel good about the hotdogs but it's only about 2X per month and they're just so easy to prepare.