Chuck D & Mr. T

I really want to do special things with Teddy and Charlie each alone before the babies come but I can’t get anywhere with them because of these crutches.

I think Teddy really believes that a hat a day keeps the doctor away.

Teddy wants me to hold him all day in my lap, or what is left of it, while he says “Mama, Mommy,” over and over again. I love it.

Charlie is very sensitive to being able to pronounce words correctly and today was upset about the word theater, which is a hard word to pronounce. He kept saying it over and over and claiming that “I don’t know how to say it.” I appreciate his desire for precision and excellence but don’t want him to be too hard on himself.

Charlie asked for a lunch date with his friend Annie and requested Cactus Cantina.

T&C are not going to sleep in a timely fashion since they have been sharing a room and both are exhausted. A major problem is that Charlie will get clothes out of the closet for him and Teddy when they are supposed to be sleeping and then we come in to find them both dressed or totally undressed as the case may be. So today we installed a lock on the closet door. We also have invited the bedtime fairy to come and leave little gifts outside their door if they go to bed without problems.

Teddy, the bibliophile, brings me the Richard Scarry book a couple times a day demanding “Read it,” but now also points out all which characters everyone in our family is. Like today he said I was a rabbit father wearing a suit and fedora and pushing a baby carriage; Charlie was a pig firefighter with a colander on his head; MJ was a mouse raking in a field; and Teddy was a boy rabbit holding a red balloon.

Teddy, the bibliophile, brings me the Richard Scarry book a couple times a day demanding “Read it,” but now also points out all which characters everyone in our family is. Like today he said I was a rabbit father wearing a suit and fedora and pushing a baby carriage; Charlie was a pig firefighter with a colander on his head; MJ was a mouse raking in a field; and Teddy was a boy rabbit holding a red balloon.

Teddy is in love with fire trucks. He looks for them all the time and he wants me to read only the two pages in a Richard Scary book that are about fire trucks. He points to the mom cat on one page and points to me telling me that I am the mommy cat and then points to the boy cat Huckle and says that is him.

Teddy and Charlie went to see their father’s lacrosse game the other night. Teddy cried each time he saw MJ and wanted him to pick him up. Charlie stood on the sidelines and using his deep voice said things like “MJ pass it,” and “MJ, score,” regardless of where MJ was on the field or whether he had the ball. MJ’s team lost–probably because they were playing against college players. They were particularly excited to play with him on the field after the game.

Teddy is in love with fire trucks. He looks for them all the time and he wants me to read only the two pages in a Richard Scary book that are about fire trucks. He points to the mom cat on one page and points to me telling me that I am the mommy cat and then points to the boy cat Huckle and says that is him.