I do plan on posting more about Joel’s car shopping experience at some point (he did buy the one I mentioned in my last post), and I also plan on posting about VBS at some point, but for now I have something else on my mind.
I’ve heard it said that the first child gets the nice baby book and lots of pictures (not to mention a clean binky), while subsequent children get less well kept baby books, less pictures, and a binky that’s cursorily wiped and shoved in their mouths. Well, as far as the baby book goes, I wasn’t very good at keeping Alexis’s up to date, so you can imagine how Branwen’s looks! I’m actually relying on this blog to remember some of the dates when she accomplished various things. 🙂
In light of the fact that I’m rather terrible at keeping up with baby info, I want to spend a couple of minutes remembering things from the kids’ youth and pulchritude. 🙂 Most, if not all, of this will be about Alexis since Branwen just hasn’t had as much opportunity to really do as many things. She’ll get there soon enough. 🙂
The other night I was remembering a time when Alexis was, oh, maybe 14 months old or so. We were at Aunt Jane’s house – that’s Joel’s aunt on his father’s side – and we had sat down to eat dinner. First, Alexis reminded us to pray before eating (looking around rather aghast, she said, “Pray!”). She had just picked up on that tradition, so she was pretty adament about it. 🙂 We prayed, and then as we were eating she started saying one of her favorite phrases of the time, “Azzat? Azzat?” (Read, “What’s that?”) Joel was sitting next to her at the table, and as she pointed at something repeating, “Azzat,” he started poking her under the arm and repeating back to her in a jocular tone, “Azzat? Azzat? Azzat?” Alexis started giggling really hard, and then out of the giggles came her answer to his question. “Armpit!” she cried. 🙂
I wanted to type more, but Alexis has come to me a couple of times now saying, “I’m thinking maybe we should go to the playground a little bit,” and I’m thinking maybe she’s right. We haven’t had a chance for a while, and it would be good to get out of the house while it’s nice out. Maybe I’ll be able to type more later. I’m working on a cross stitch baby announcement thingy for Wendy’s baby, Reagan, right now, too, so that’s taking some time. I’m not making it because I’m a wonderful, selfless friend… I’m making it because I got a creative urge last week and it was the first creative thing I managed to pick up. 🙂 I actually checked around for audition notices first, but there weren’t any local auditions that seemed appropriate. Anyway, off to the playground we go!