Now THAT was a long nap.

Naomi has developed the habit of coming out of her nap/quiet time to ask if her quiet time is over. Sometimes it's after she's slept for an hour and a half. Sometimes it's after she's been in there 90 seconds.

Now she's taken to coming out in the morning and asking if her quiet time is over. After 12-13 hours...well, I suppose.

Misunderstanding

Michael: We need to find a time for me to go see Bond with the guys.

Hannah: I want to go see Bond!

Michael and I look at each other in surprise.

Michael: This is an outing for grown-ups.

Hannah: I'd like to see Bond.

Monica: It's a movie for grown-ups, Hannah, I don't think you'd like it.

Hannah: Oh. Well I want to see Bonn, where Beethoven was born.

2 Months Ago Today

Simeon was born.



He's come a long way.

Sacked out!

Simeon is serious about sleeping...

Plans for the future

Hannah is forming an opinion of how her future life will be. Here are some excerpts from her plans:

She will dress her children as princes and princesses every day. If they fight over their clothes, they will be taken away.

She and her husband will be dressed like a queen and king every day.

She will name her daughter Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle so that there will be a real person named Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.

She will have 100 children and three houses. Her children will need to share beds. [No surprise there, since she's going to have 100!]

It will be interesting to see her discussing these plans with future suitors.

Imaginary Friends

H: Naomi, is your imaginary friend Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle a woman or a dog?

N: A dog!

H: My imaginary friend Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is a woman.

Naomi's thankful

for the gift of tact:

"That's a beautiful shirt, Grandma. I don't like it. But Tigey likes it."

Sim's thankful

for all the fun faces he can make now:

Hannah's thankful

for our friend Pat, who came to her birthday party and changed a quarter into a ring for her.

She lost a hair clip at the park the other day, and was MOST upset about it -- how was her hairstyle supposed to work if it was missing a hair clip? After her initial sorrow wore off, she was sharing her woes with Grandma Ellie. Then she came up with a solution to the problem:

"I'll ask Mr. Pat to make me a new clip from a penny. He made a ring from a penny at my birthday party. He can make anything from a penny. He's a GENIUS!"

Reading enlarges the mind

Hannah's reading gets better and better all the time. Which makes for some interesting conversations:

H: Tropical Tan. What do they do there?
Me: [Short explanation of tanning.]
H: Is that good for them?!? [said with a great deal of incredulity]
Me: Not really.
H: Why would people do something that's bad for them?
Me: Well, if they just do a little, it's not too bad, but often people overdo it.
H: What does "overdo" mean?
Me: Well, for instance,...
H: Like if I ate all my Halloween candy at once and didn't have any for another day?
Me: Yes, and not only would you have no more candy, but you'd probably also have a stomachache and feel pretty rotten.

Here's another one:

H: [Looking at the instructions on the placemat, which tell us to use eraseable market, then wipe with a wet cloth] Why do they tell us what to do with this placemat? It's our placemat.
Me: Who made the placemat?
H: They did.
Me: So who probably knows best how to use it?
H: They do.
Me: So they include instructions so that we'll be able to use the product properly.

Babies

Naomi's maternal instincts have been manifesting themselves a lot lately, what with the new baby and all. She loves holding him, singing to him, trying to get him to turn his head her way, helping with diaper changes, whatever. She also has Tigey, who gets to be her baby when Simeon isn't available. Sometimes he's what she calls her Simeon, which means that developmentally, he's the age of Simeon -- he can't walk, talk, or eat solid foods. When she wants a baby who CAN do those things, Tigey becomes her Lincoln, since she's heard that Lincoln can do those things.

You know you live in Seattle when...

your husband, 5-year-old, and 2 1/2-year-old are all outside, raking leaves...in the rain.

**UPDATE**

Of course, after that, it will clear up and be a lovely, sunny day for the rest of the day.

Not usually listed as nocturnal creatures

This morning, Hannah decided to check for packages on the front porch. It was only 8:40, but no matter, Hannah told me, "I'm checking for boxes, because sometimes mailmen and box deliverers are nocturnal, you know."

He's a smiley little guy

especially when one of his big sisters is singing songs to him.

Halloween costumes

I wasn't present for most of the trick-or-treating, so there aren't as many pictures as I would have taken, but here are some of them. Simeon isn't featured because I didn't get a picture of him in his outfit before he pooped on it 10 minutes after I put it on him.

Napping in the sun

I thought it might annoy Simeon to have the sun shining through the window onto his changing table. On the contrary, he decided that he'd take a nice little nap. If he hadn't been hungry, he'd probably have continued his nap for a while.