Ugh! 2 nights in a row of multiple wake ups by screaming (teething?) baby. Luckily, Max is not affected at all, and he is happily going to the ‘Safety Town’ day camp in Santa Barbara.

Right now, Max wants to do everything that I do (except work, go figure). It is especially
funny when he wants to wear the type of clothes that I am wearing. If I am wearing
flip flops he will wear flip flops. If I have pants on, he will take off his shorts
to put on long pants.

He has a new pair of pants from YaYa that he really loves (they have lots of pockets
and zippers). Unfortunately, they are a little big in the waist, still. So Toby bought
him a nifty belt with a military theme. He is jazzed. I had to punch an extra hole
in the belt so that it would have some effect. He is spends a lot of time now making
sure his shirt is tucked in so everyone can see his belt. Luckily, he has a pair of
shorts that have belt loops so he has 2 clothing items he can use his new belt on.

This morning, Max woke up early, and since I was going for a short run (~1.5 miles)
I invited him to join me on his bike. I thought he would be faster on his bike, and
I found myself running in place at most of the street crossings while he pedaled to
keep up. He wasn’t going as fast as he could (he wasn’t even sweating or breathing
hard at the end), so we might have a more consistent speed if I can get him to pedal
faster.

It seems Lucy has returned to sleeping through the night. Even though, she has had
a fever for 3 days now, she is sleeping until 6-ish and then I can put her binky back
in and she will go back to sleep until 7-ish. Whew! Her multiple night wake ups were
making our house a bit cranky (except Max who would sleep right through her screaming
just a few feet from his ears).

After 1 week of walking, Lucy (aka Lou, aka Weezy) is getting tired of falling down.
If you watched the previously posted videos, you saw that she was so excited about
just being able to walk, that even stumbling, falling down was fun.

Now, however, she is over the ‘falling down’ part of walking. It seems to frustrate
her a great deal that she cannot keep up with her brother. But she keeps trying. She
can stop, start and change direction without needing any supporting appliance or pant
leg.

In other news, Lucy has taken the first few, tentative sucks from a sippy cup. We
have been trying (off and on) for months to get her to use one of these. She would
put it in her mouth and then spit it out with a frown. Over the weekend, I put apple
juice in the sippy (something she has never had) in the hopes of providing incentive
for the sippy cup. It sort of works. Now she will take 2 or three very small sucks
before frowning. I know she is getting the juice, I can see it running down her chin.
Maybe she doesn’t like apple juice.

Max did very well in his swimming lessons, and is attending VBS in the mornings this
week. We parents get to have a show at the end of the week!

Well – in the last 3 days, Lou has become quite the walker! She now gets up in the middle of a room, walks 8 or 9 steps, then falls down, or decides crawling is faster. There are 2 movies below – one of ‘Drunk Girl’ and one where she’s a ‘Pro.’ 🙂

• Drunken Walker
• Long Walker