Quick note here, it’s daddy week again. Mrs. Lessinges is in Vegas for a trade show. I’m home with our adorable little curl girl who looks all grown up these days. She’s got curls sprouting from her head, teeth mushrooming in her mouth, she’s ever so close to walking, she can nearly spell oatmeal, she’s off the bottle, and she finally faces forward in the cars.
I don’t make this stuff up, she’s growing. All of our efforts to curb her growth have failed. We tried excessive amounts of tv, not talking to her, swaddling her until she could crawl, and Gobstoppers for breakfast. Oh well, it’s fun right now since she’s a little parrot. She will attempt to repeat almost anything we say. Which does include such bad offerings as “oh shit” and “butt”. This doesn’t mean we love her any less. Heck, she tries to pucker her lips like I do when making stupid animal noises.
Sunday we visited our friend’s house across town. The weather in Seattle was nearly perfect as the kids played outside. Our friends have a four year old daughter and their neighbors have four playful kids, I think. Baby Singe loves to watch the other kids. She’s full on giggling these days. The best part is we figured out how to illicit her giggles. If I run or play tag with her in my arms, she has giggles relentlessly.
Yeah, this is one of those doting dad posts. This could be a tough week since Baby Singe is now in the habit of saying “mommy” whenever we begin the nighttime routines. She’s also kind of switched her focus to mom right now. I don’t take it personally seeing as it’s so darn cute to watch the girls snuggle. By posting this, I guarantee this will provide ample good parenting karma for the week.
Her hair is getting so long and I love that her wisps are beginning to show around her ears. Before you know it, she will be participating in triathlons and making videos for youtube. Kids sure do grow up fast!
Awww. There is nothing like the sound of those little giggles.
aww, id love to hear some little giggles right about now. there’s no way to not smile when you hear those.
enjoy the oatmeal together, and the gobstoppers.
cookies?
She sounds ADORABLE!
I wish I could stop my kids from growing up, that is for sure! I would go back to the baby days and redo it all again if I could!
Have fun with your alone time with her.
Enjoy your week!
And watch out for the swearing, or you may very well find yourself in a J. Crew dressing room one weekend listening to your five year old scream at you that all her clothes are “ass!” and she therefore needs that $32.00 raggedy shirt J.Crew is trying to pawn off as kid fashion.
Not that I’m speaking from experience or anything.
They grow up so fast – just think by her 2nd b-day she’ll have ALL the four letter words down…lol
how long did you swaddle? I feel like I’m going to be sending my son off to college with his swaddle. Good luck this week.
Gobstoppers, cool. They aren’t the same as when I was a kid, they were formidable, now they are tiny. Of course Baby Singe is far tinier than I was during my gobstopper years so the tiny ones to me are rather large for her.
Essentially Me – I think I’ve got some time until she starts producing YouTube videos. She already stars in some, but thankfully she’s not making them.
Justrun – the sound of laughter, whether it be a child or an adult, is one of life’s great sounds. It puts the mind at ease and allows us to retreat a bit.
Brookem – cookies have been consumed. She pretty much eats anything we eat these days. I’ll say she’s quite the eater too and starting to put on some weight. Walking is on the horizon.
Diane Mandy – yes, and she looks adorable. I love when she attempts to mimic stuff we say or do. Good thing she doesn’t look to me for dancing tips.
Tori – I hear you. Although I do think each stage of their life is good and I don’t know that I want to go back. I don’t miss those nights of rocking her to sleep in the middle of the night. They’re great for bonding, but not so great for my mental well-being.
Gwen – is $32 a lot of money? I think I’ve lost all track of what’s normal these days. Our neighbor just bought Baby Singe $45 shoes. I must say they’re pretty great shoes. My own shoes usually don’t cost more than $80-100. Great story by the way.
Princess Extraordinaire – yep, won’t that be charming. I’m good at watching my tongue so I’m curious where she got the “oh shit” one. Must be her daycare teachers.
Tim – we swaddled her until about 3-4 months, I think. Once she got strong enough to bust her arms out of the swaddle. I do think we may have done it a bit too long as she was a bit late on the crawling. Thanks for the luck. I’m optimistic it won’t be too bad. I have to get past the “mommy, mommy” while bathing her is all.
Chris – I love Gobstoppers as a kid, but I’m sure my teeth didn’t. I used to bite into those suckers after only a few minutes of sucking.. yikes, that sounds really wrong.
For some reason, mushrooming teeth .. that is a very interesting use of mushrooming..
Anna.. Curls.. Giggles…Puckered Lips….and Swearing!!!! Ahh..
Yeah.. well.. spelling words you don’t want them to ‘hear’ can backfire too. Not to get into any details or anything..but when my son was 3 and in preschool, he was spelling out S–E–X all day. He’s now 14 (as of yesterday) and probably *thinking* about S–E–X all day.
Here’s wishing you good parenting karma. I hear smoking stunts your growth, you could try that with her.
baby singe sounds about the same age as my nephew’s little girl…personally, i like it when they get up and start walking and all..they beome these little ‘people’ then…not just babies…
‘course i’m not living with them… i just get to spend enough time with them to teach them things their parents will regret…
Good luck this week Sir. Though, I don’t think you NEED any luck this week, I will be wishing you an easy time filled with lots of napping and many giggles.
Golden – you could be right about the mushrooming teeth. For some reason it sounded right as I revised the post this morning. Granted I was tired and just finished witnessing something bizarre at the airport. I’m fairly certain a man had a heart attack before going through security. I didn’t see him move at all. I hope he recovered. Oh, your son definitely has his mind on sex at that age.
Churlita – I forgot about the smoking thing. It’s not too late though to stunt her growth permanently. Have you seen pictures of kids that are roughly five years old smoking up? I saw it on the net somewhere last year. It was so startling and they weren’t smoking cigarettes either.
Thistle – that’s a good point. She looked so big yesterday when our friend’s daughter was escorting her around their backyard. Walking means less carrying by dad I think? Perhaps I have less back pain in my future.
Brandy – giggles, that’ what I’m counting on each night. I’m off to go get her now. I get all sorts of excited to see her.
Love the strike out.
Oh and my favourite fruit is black berries. Thought you should know.
Baby giggles make my day. I love when they throw back their heads and those little pearly stubby teeth show and their eyes sparkle, nothing else matters.
Essentially Me – I didn’t catch the mistake when I wrote the post originally last night. I did Monday morning and opted for the strike out as a reminder of how fatigued I was.
Sari – baby giggles are the best. Our country could use some baby giggles about now. Hold that thought…
Aw, I think we need some more video of the lil puddin. Watch out, next thing you know she’ll be in college! ha
I can barely spell oatmeal, so I’m pretty impressed with Anna.
1 week. I keep peeing my pants. Eeek!
I am quickly learning to watch my language, thanks to the mimic in the back seat.
You know its bad when your 2-year-old drops her milk on the floor and goes, “Aw shit!”
Uh, that would be “it’s” bad…grammar check people!