January, 2008

No nap again for Kenny today.   That is, no nap until I'd endured an hour of "quite time" (after the half hour he ran wild during the attempted enforced nap) which involved him standing at the top of the stairs the whole time, shouting down, "Mama?   My quiet time all done yet?"   and I finally gave up, strapping him into the stroller and taking him and Dudley…

Kenny has started to turn into a little Man of Manners. Today, as I got ready for church, he looked at me and said, "You look pretty, Mama!"   A few moments later I sneezed, and he said, "Bless you, Mama!"   Then after I fixed his breakfast, he said, "Thanks, Mama!   This is good!" There is nothing but pure, uninhibited joy in his comments - joy in realizing…

For those who have been reading my blog for a long time, you may recall that Kenny did not nap from the time he was about 6 weeks old until he was 16 months old.   That was a long year.   I was  often on the verge of exhausted insanity and insanely jealous of other Mommy friends who would say things like, "Well, Junior gets up from his first…

Tonight as I kissed Kenny goodnight, I said, "Remember, if you need anything, you call me and I'll run, run, run and see you!"   It's what I've said every night for as long as he's been weaned.   He always smiles and says, "Mama will look up, and run, run, run to see me!" or something like that.   But it's only recently that he's started the traipse out…

I am 17 weeks today, and boy do I look it.   I actually spent the evening trying on a giant box full of maternity clothes that a friend loaned me and, forced to see my basketball in outfit after outfit started thinking, "Hm.   I am really pregnant." Though my belly is quite a bit bigger at this stage than it was with Kenny, the rest of me is…

Kenny and I often begin the pre-dawn hours curled up in our big chair looking over the water, sipping our chocolate milk and coffee.   Dudley will wind himself into an impossibly small ball on the ottoman and we will read books until the sun comes up.   Yesterday, Dudley was a little late coming to the Big Chair, and instead of hopping right up, he put his front paws…

We got home to Maryland on Tuesday, and though the jet-lag has been manageable, the general fatigue and unending list of things to do is drowning me.   Not only did we walk into a house that was still decorated to the nines for Christmas, but our awesome Dudley-sitter is a bachelor, and while his Dudley-love skills are beyond compare, his housekeeping skills scream, "Need Wife Now!"   (Fortunately, he…

I think that Kenny is definitely getting the hang of chilling at the pool and spending his days in the sun.   He's even found a girlfriend... For my part, if there is anyone back home who doesn't know I'm expecting, there is definitely no hiding it... the belly has popped.   Last night after dinner, Casey looked down at my belly and said, "So, um, you still have five…

One of the things we've done frequently when we're not on the beach here is go to art galleries.   There are at least 20 different galleries in Lahaina alone, and last night we drove back to that side of the island for dinner.   As we strolled through one particular gallery, Kenny looked up from his stroller and shouted, "There's a naked lady up there, Mama!!"

For our last week in Hawaii, we moved from our oceanfront bungalow in Lahaina to a fancy resort condo in Wailea, which we are sharing with both sets of our parents.   Can I  say how much easier it is watching a fearless two-year-old wave jumper with  six adults instead of two? We took our folks out to our favorite restaurant (Sarento's on the Beach) for a fancy dinner a…