Our "super sleeper"

Of course, I'm talking about Colin - the master of sleeping.

But first a little history, our "super sleeper" surprisingly does not do naps anymore. We used to say that every two weeks or so, Colin will take a nap and catch up. But recently when he does take a nap, he doesn't go to bed until late at night (like 10pm).

So Colin has been acting very spastic recently, which usually means he is sleep deprived. Putting him to bed has also been a major ordeal. Sunday night, Bob started at 7pm to put him to sleep, but Colin was being very difficult, wouldn't even let Bob put his diaper on. So Bob just left the room and went downstairs. By the time Bob got downstairs and turned on the monitor, it was quiet. A few minutes later, snoring. We go to check, and Colin doesn't have a diaper on. We decided to wait an hour to put a diaper on him. That way, Colin will be in a deeper sleep.

We go back up an hour later. Colin is asleep on his back, good sign. Bob takes his pants off, then underwear, and then puts the diaper and sweat pants on without a single movement out of Colin. He is completely out. The creepiest part about it was his eyes were slightly open. Sleeping with his eyes open. I've never seen someone in such a deep sleep.

Nathan's signing update

Nathan is really getting into his signs. Here is a list of his current signs:
milk
all done
sleep
cat
eat
dog
bath
airplane
bird

Nathan is also playing peek-a-boo and saying the word "yogurt", although it sounds a lot like "wo wo". But I had a Montessori coffee here and one of the moms clearly understood what he was saying!

"When I get bigger ...

... I will like salad."

Colin wisdom.

Eating rainbows

In our house, we have these old beveled cut glass windows everywhere. So when the sun shines through the glass, especially in the mornings, it makes rainbows everywhere. This morning I was carrying Nathan upstairs and happened to stop right where a rainbow was projecting on to Nathan. He put up his hand and was admiring the rainbows on his hand carefully, then tried to put the rainbow into his mouth!

I wonder what rainbows taste like?

Don't run over mom's foot!

A little historical funny that we keep referring to now-a-days. Back last spring, after dinner one night at Mama Fu's, I was strapping Colin in the car seat, Bob was starting my car, the PT Cruiser, which is a manual transmission. Well, Bob's car, the Lexus, is an automatic and I guess Bob forgot how to drive a stick, because when he started it, the car lurched forward! Bob says that he thought he left the car out of gear, but it was in gear -- whatever! I freaked! My foot was right in front of the back wheel and when it lurched it came really close to my foot! So I screamed, "Don't run over my foot!"

Somehow, this turned into something really funny, and even now, a year later, when Bob is driving the PT and I'm strapping Colin in, Colin will say "Dad, don't run over Mom's foot."

As a side note, after this happened, Colin took his Pooh Car and ran it over my foot, which really hurt. I got mad, but then realized why he did it (to be funny). So I had to explain to Colin that is was funny because it didn't happen. And if Dad would have run over my foot that it would have been very serious and not funny. I don't know if he fully understood, but he stopped running the Pooh Car over my foot.

My first impression of Colin

So now I have the birth story documented, I thought I would document my first impressions of Colin after he was born. Immediately following the birth, I was exhausted, relieved to be done with that part and just plain loopy from the whole experience that honestly, being moved by the sight of my first born did not happen. Sorry Colin. I remember Bob being moved to tears, and I was just, "hey, I did it, I finally had this baby". This is completely opposite to the way I react under normal circumstances. Usually I am so emotional, everytime we passed the hospital or when we took the hospital tour, I would tear-up and start crying.

So we were moved out of the labor room to the ... I can't remeber the name but next room that you stay in after the baby's born. And Colin made a little sound. I remember my heart just stopping. I think it was the first time I heard Colin's voice (he didn't protest much that I remember after he was born) and it was the sweetest little sound that I have ever heard. Sometimes when Colin is talking now (he is 3), it reminds me of that first time I heard his little voice.

Trying to finish my book

Okay, I'm reading Stephen King's Dark Tower Series, which if you are familiar with the books, started with The Gunslinger written in 1982 ... 25 years ago. Now I'm just finishing the seventh and final book in the series. I'm about 15-20 pages from the very end. Nathan is napping, I tried to get Colin to nap, no luck. So I'm bound and determined to finish this book before Nathan gets up. I read while Colin is playing, he wants me to play with him. So I read while sitting in the same room with him, pretending to play with him, but reading instead. Of course, I have to reread some paragraphs 2-3 times. We end up on the couch in the playroom. I'm reading, Colin's next to me.

"I love you, Mom", he tries the distraction method.
"I love you too, Colin", I answer, not taking my eyes off the book. (I'm such a bad mom.)

"I love Nathan", he tries a different approach.
"I love Nathan too, and Nathan loves you", still trying to read.

He leans over and kisses my arm, then my head. He is trying sooo hard and being sooo sweet. My resolve to finish this book surprises me, and I keep reading.

Then Nathan wakes up and I can hear him in the monitor. Colin continues with his loving on me and Nathan's screaming (please don't call child services on me!), and I finally finish the book. At that time I give Colin the biggest hug and go retrieve Nathan from the crib.

The End.

PS It's a very good series and I highly recommend it. If anyone has read it and would like to discuss it, I would love to hear from you!