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G has had no interest in drinking from a “real” cup, and I never cared enough to really push it. He’s got cups with straws that he uses for water, and a supposedly teeth-friendly somewhat spouted cup that he uses at meals for milk. I figured with warmer weather I’d encourage him to take a real cup outside to practice.

Until last week, when on a whim I asked him if he wanted to try to drink like a big boy. A little water in a cup, and he drank it down like he’d been doing it forever. He was so proud of himself too, running around all day repeating that he’s “drinkin’ like uh BIG BOY!”

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Still no interest in using the potty like a big boy however.

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His sister is walking like an absolute pro now. She will cross the room in a flash, and is also so proud of herself. She knows she’s accomplishing something impressive! It’s cute how she still has to hold her arms out a bit for extra balance. And she’s liable to PLOP down onto her bottom suddenly if she loses that balance.

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My mother-in-law’s birthday was last week, and I prepped the boy for a birthday phone call.

“What are we going to tell Grandma?”

“HappybirthdayLoveYouSeeYouSoon!”

Amazingly, once on the phone he actually said it all! Unfortunately he wouldn’t say it when he was all that close to the phone, so it wasn’t super clear, but she claimed she understood it. It helped when he started repeating “LOVE YOU! LOVE YOU! LOVE YOU!” at length and volume.

He was also very excited to tell her his big news, already shared her in QT#1.

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G generally has really good enunciation, but he’s got one quirk that I find so adorable I don’t correct him. He’s started calling balloons and bananas “palloon” and “panana.” He used to say them both with the “b” sound, so I’m not sure where the “p” came from, but it is so cute, and I know it won’t last long so I’m just smiling at it while it lasts.

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If anyone ever asks for my children to be in a wedding again, please remind me to say no. Politely, but still. NO. It was so stressful worrying about whether or not he’d cooperate. Whether or not he’d throw a fit, or who knows what else to disrupt the ceremony. Would he even wear the clothes he was supposed to? They weren’t his usual:

Happily, he was GREAT. Walked down the aisle with the flower girl, carrying the little pillow that supposedly held the rings (the best man/maid of honor actually had them, so we weren’t worried about him losing them.) Then when he got up to the front & the stairs, he apparently set the pillow down and then put his head down on it, much to the audience’s amusement. Daddy pulled him aside for most of the ceremony (and the flower girl just about threw a fit because she wanted to go join G with his dad, instead of staying with her dad on the other side of the room), and then got both kids back into position for their reverse trek down the aisle behind the bridge & groom.

Unfortunately due to a sick baby girl, I wasn’t able to attend the ceremony or reception, which is why I say “apparently” above. I’m just going on what was reported to me.

And the clothes? I prepped him for it by talking them up as “snazzy clothes.” He was so excited to put them on, he didn’t want to take them off! He kept walking around talking about his “SNAZZY CLOTHES!”

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So the wedding was on Saturday, and baby girl was sick. Sunday G was also sick, and was much worse than his sister had been. He spent a lot of Sunday snoozing on the couch or on me, and ended up staying up with his dad fairly late. He was clearly still sick because he never wanted anything for dinner, and even with all the napping, he still slept that night (albeit a late start.)

Not that I want my children to be sick, but since I was also sick, it was a good time for G to be lower energy & willing to crash on the couch. I couldn’t have kept up with his usual requests to play outside, or go for walks or whatever else he’d want.

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I’ve been working hard on sorting pictures lately, both to get caught up on sharing them with grandparents and other family, and to make sure everything is backed up and safe. It’s been fun looking back at baby girl, because the changes from just a few months are amazing.

I’ve shared it before, but here’s one of those old pictures of baby H:

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Tomorrow will be the first Saturday we don’t have plans in awhile, and we need to appreciate it because next Saturday is the in(RL) meetup, and the next Saturday is a wedding. This is really unusual for us to have all of our Saturdays with something scheduled, and I don’t really like it.

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I still do not have anything for my son to wear to that wedding, and it’s kind of important since he’s going to be the ring bearer. Who won’t actually have the real rings of course, because I would not trust him with that. I’m really skeptical that he’ll cooperate and walk down the aisle like they want him to, but it’s not my family, so I didn’t feel like I could do more than gently discourage having him in that role. Unfortunately for me and my I-hate-shopping persona, even though it’s my husband’s family & he was the one to give the final “yes, he’ll do it,” I’m the one who has to find him something to wear. And some appropriate shoes. And I’m running out of time!

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We’ve just started “birthday season.” That’s what I now think of this time of year. Mid-April is my husband’s birthday. Mine is six weeks later. End of June is baby girl’s, and then just over two weeks later is the boy’s. So yes, that’s April, May, June & July, all covered by the four of us. Fortunately both kids are too young to have strong opinions on gifts or parties or cake, so there isn’t much pressure on me.

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Mr. SJ? He bought his own birthday present this year, because he wanted some more memory for his laptop, and a box of baseball cards. The cards I probably could have ordered, but I don’t know what brand he collects, and I definitely don’t know what sort of memory he wanted for his laptop. So instead of him telling me exactly what to order & then hoping I don’t mess it up, he just ordered it himself.

It’s really obvious sometimes that we’ve been married almost a decade, isn’t it? We are so super romantic when it comes to gifts.

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I’ve liked the crazy Spring weather we’ve had it’ll be nice and warm with one chilly day mixed in there – just enough for me to fix soup for dinner or some other cool-weather meal. I always mourn the end of soup season so I appreciate the inconsistent weather extending it for me! Something tells me that we’ve seen the last of it and it’s time to say goodbye to soup until Fall.

— 7 —

I take it back – we do possibly have plans this weekend. Unless something changes or gets delayed, we’re selling my car to one of Mr. SJ’s extended family. I am ridiculously sad about this. I’m also wondering just how long we’ll make it as a one-vehicle family, or if our timetable to get a replacement will get accelerated.

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