This summer feels like it's flying by! I can't stand to look at the calender every day and know that Asher will be 2 so shortly, and that Tessa will be in school a full day starting at the end of August...
I thought that Kindergarten was going to be as hard as it got. Preschool was tough, but such a short amount of time. Kindergarten was longer, and made her seem so much older! But First grade...it seems impossible that my baby will be gone all day, every day. I'm afraid we're going to have a repeat of last year and mommy's going to cry every day at drop off for the first week :(
We've had a great time so far. I'm doing my best to keep Tessa busy. She has swimming lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and since Aunt Becki takes Thursdays off that has become our pool day. We stay after lessons until 3:30ish, playing in the pool. 5+ hours a week at the pool, even wearing sunscreen, has given us all a healthy glow - Tessa, however, looks like a little indian girl! She has her daddy's skin and just browns up like a little raisin. Her tan line is so distinct she looks like her little bum is glowing white!
I try to set up a playdate every week for her. Most have been with Isabella, but we've also had Grace and Luci, from her K class, over. Both are such nice girls - I'd have them back any day!
We've been to the park lots, too. I like to pack a picnic and take the kids early, 10ish, then stay until lunch. It's cooler in the mornings, and we can usually beat the day camp kids.
I swear those day camp busses follow me around. They drive me crazy.
Anyway...
I try to stay home one or two days a week, too. One day usually gets dedicated to yard work (my garden is growing so well!) and one day is for deep cleaning - bathrooms, etc. I stocked up on kids crafts from JoAnns before the Summer started, and Tessa had had a blast making shrinky dinks, her own tote bag, etc.
She's been pretty well behaved, as is typical for Tess. She also has some attitude, though! She says "no" and talks back more than I ever thought she would! She's always been so sweet, and still is, for the most part...but she's definitely growing up, too! There will be conflict when she's a teenager! I hope not too much. I always got along with my mom, and I want my relationship with Tessa to be the same.
On to Asher...
He still naps for me, once a day. At the begining of the summer I tried to make it later, thinking how much more convenient it would be for him to nap around, say, 1pm. And then maybe he'd stay up a bit later at night, and sleep in a bit later in the morning...
After a couple of weeks of battling him, though, I gave in and let him set his own schedule.
So he continues to wake up between 6 and 6:30 in the morning, go down for his nap between 9:30 and 10 and sleep for an hour and a half or so, and go to bed about 6 at night. It's not a BAD schedule, but it does make it tough to go anywhere, and it seems like we're always out running around during the hottest part of the day. Still, I get to have my morning workout or mow the lawn while it's still coolish during his naps.
He still sucks on a pacifier - we call it a binky. I try to limit how much he has it. For instance, he takes it out and leaves it in his carseat when we get to the park. He has it quite often, though. Many people don't even know he talks as well as he does! He talks around it, of course, but in one word requests, usually. I took it away from him at swim lessons last week and Arna was shocked at how much he talks - and she sees him twice a week! He speaks in sentances now, stringing 3, 4, 5 words together. He's very good at getting his thoughts accross! And he's polite, too. He says please, thank you and you're welcome. Tessa always did, too, and I think it's just adorable.
Asher isn't nearly as agreeable as Tessa was or is. He's demanding and he's mean sometimes, clawing or hitting occasionally. He yells sometimes, too. Right now, actually, he's using his car and running over a lego house Tessa is trying to build. I've told him not to 3 or 4 times, and when he just did it again I told him next time I'm putting the car away, to which he yelled "NO!" lol
Despite all this (or maybe because of?) he's spoiled rotten. I can't help but give him anything he wants. A couple of weeks ago Becki said "I think boys learn to whine early, and their mommy's give them everything they want because they can't stand to listen to it, and then later their wives have to deal with the consequences of it"
I laughed - she's probably right!
He's my baby in a way that Tessa never was. Of course, she's my baby in a way that he'll never be, so I suppose that's normal.
He'll be two so soon...
It ties my stomach up just to think it.
I've been terribly slow getting ready for his party, which will be next Sunday. I need to go to the party store soon, and I just finished his invitations last night! I should post a picture of one...the theme this year is Curious George, becuase Ash loves him SO much!
This month my period was late. Only by one day, but since it's so often early it felt like more than that. I was excited...hoping that maybe one little swimmer snuck though and made it home...
No such luck.
I think the fact that Asher is so thouroughly NOT a baby anymore, plus the fact that Tessa is going to school all day soon is making me want another. I don't know if it's more than that yet, or not. I suppose I'll wait and see how I feel in a few weeks or months. After all, that's what I've been doing thus far...waiting and seeing.
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