She's the sweetest baby! I am so in love with her. Her legs are so chubby. The rolls and creases in her thighs just make me laugh. She's a tubby little thing. I know I've forgotten so much, but she just may be my fattest baby.
She smiles all the time. If you put your face up to hers, give it a second, and her face will explode in a smile. She smiles with her WHOLE face. Her eyes crinkle up and they truly do twinkle.
She loves to chew on her hands and she sucks her thumb a lot. It sometimes seems like she's attempting to get her entire hand in her mouth. If she gets a hold of my finger (my just been scrubbed finger thank you very much) - it hurts! She goes to town on it. I can't imagine she's getting teeth yet? Her little fingers will have red marks on them from her chewing on them.
She laughed for the first time a few weeks ago. I was doing squat jumps in our bedroom while she lounged on the bed. After 2, exhausting squat jumps - she just started cracking up! I couldn't believe after all the attempts to make her laugh - she thinks my exercising is hilarious!
The second time she laughed was just this past weekend. On Saturday, Tim was working on the new house (now that's another blog posting!), I was doing solo bedtime, fighting a nasty cold, and trying to read the kids a book with a failing voice. Rowan had a tummy ache and was moaning, groaning, and crying in her bed with her head in a puke bucket (just in case). I gave a little cough and Autumn cracks up! So, for the next 10 minutes the boys kept "coughing" and "coughing". She kept it up quite awhile. The kids thought it was the best thing ever. And they are right. Even Rowan cracked a smile.
Tonight she laughed again while I moved my face back and forth - waiting for her to track me - and then got my face front and center and away she goes! It's awesome.
Autumn is so stinkin' calm! She only cries when she is overtired at night and I missed the "window"; when I'm attempting to get her to nap without nursing her; or when she is in the car - although that has just started getting better within the last 2 weeks. When you change her diaper she lays there and looks around. When she sits with you, she looks around and smiles. When I'm making dinner, she watches from her "swing" that doesn't swing (she was completely unfazed when the batteries died). It's amazing to me how content she is.
Meanwhile, I am drowning in laundry- done and undone. It's the putting away that always gets me. Even when I get in a groove and get it washed, dried and folded - it will sit in a laundry basket in the hallway or my closet for days even weeks. There are 5 of those baskets upstairs as I type.
Wally is sleeping on his crib mattress tonight on the big kid's bedroom floor. He's pretty excited to be there. Next to his bed is a tiny stuffed polar bear. Tim and I said goodnight to him. He says "say goodnight to him too!" So we do. Then Wally says, "An in the morning I can just go downstairs! Yeah! An I can bring him (bear) too" Us: Yup that's right buddy! Tim gets him in the middle of his bed and we say we don't want him to fall out. "If I fall out I'll land on him(bear) and poke his eye out and he'll say -hey you poked my eye out."
Rowan and Oscar have the week off. We have no plans - I feel bad about how little we have planned. Today we just hung out. All. Day. They played outside with Jack for a long time. Rowan did a 500 square hopscotch! I think it was fun for them to just do whatever they wanted. If the district really does cut all specialists next year - I think homeschooling could have some wonderful benefits.
We visited Tim at the yellow house. For the first time I felt really excited about the new place. I've been excited - but today I felt kind of thrilled by our plans and the slightly bigger space. It will be good. Tim has his work cut out for him though. It's going to be a LOT of work. We closed on Valentine's Day and he's been there every night since and all day today and Saturday. Today/tonight he is re-plumbing the whole house.
Tonight was karate night. Or so we thought. It was closed because of mid-winter break. Oscar loves karate and tonight Rowan and Wally were going to watch. They came home bummed that it was closed! So we had our own karate class in the living room. Such a good time in our life.
This post on Autumn being 4 months has turned into a mass catch- up for the family. I don't think I know how to do it any other way.
Oscar is READING reading - so cool. Rowan is having a great time singing and talking about being a singer - fun to see. We've all been belting out Taylor Swift's song "Mean". Until Wally covers his ears and yells "STOP!"
I need to get to bed. Oh - a thought I had today. I like Autumn's name. I know that sounds funny because I should probably already know that by now. But I didn't. My kid's names have to grow on me a little. Even if I go into their birth day liking it - it still takes me a while after the fact. So here was the thought: Autumn is my favorite season. Tim's too. ( I knew that before - and we met in the fall blah blah blah) But this mothering young children is also a season in my life - so far my favorite and one that I will miss terribly. Autumn is my last baby. She is the LAST baby - the one that will bring this season to a close. I am so incredibly grateful for her and what an joyous finale she is!
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