Bailey - Week 8

Well, I know I've missed a few weeks here. Things have been rather hectic since John got home from being out of town for 25 days. Please forgive me.

On the sleeping front, we are doing well. Sunday night she actually slept for over 8 hours! Woo hoo! However, she fell victim to the stuffy nose that had plagued Nat the week prior and struck Julsie on Saturday evening/Sunday morning. Monday was a rough night, but we have been getting back on track now. She has cleared up some and the cool mist humidifier is helping too. Poor thing, she makes little snorting piggy sounds while trying to breathe sometimes. =(

Developmentally she is looking around at things more and I've really noticed her being interested in things with patterns (stripes, dots, etc) She seems to be focusing better and looking at faces more. Her days are still dominated by sleep but we've had some more waking time including some screaming time the last couple days (don't bother calling between 8 and 10.) I hope it is due to the stuffiness and goes away quickly.

Here is the little stinker posing with some peonies from our garden. (They are my favorite flower and are in full bloom here so they had to make an appearance.)

Lil Tidbits from Jules

Like Nat says, I think we all wish we could fall asleep like Julsie. She can fall asleep anywhere in a matter of moments. She can fall asleep at 6:00pm and sleep until morning. Her dad and I think she may have his narcolepsy. Take these pics for example. We had a long couple days last weekend and 2 nights in a row she didn't even make it to her bed. Someone would notice Jules was missing and say "where's Julsie?" This is what we found.

John and I were outside bringing the baby and bags, etc. into the house. The girls were already inside. I thought I may have heard the phone ring, but then nothing. When John opened the front door, he pointed to Julsie who was on the steps with the phone to her ear. We looked at each other, puzzled. It took me a minute to realize she really was talking to someone. Apparently she knows how to answer the phone and take messages too. "Yeah. No. Outside. Uh-huh. Ok, bye bye."
"Julsie, who was that?" "I don't know. A girl."
"Was it Nana?" "No"
"Was it Gramma?" "No"
"Who was it?" "I don't know. Her said her call back later."

Everytime Julsie gets on the phone: "Hi. This is Julsie-Baby." It's just about the cutest thing ever.

Jules rarely says "her." For example, as she did before Bailey's birth and the revelation of her sex, Jules refers to Bailey as "him."
ie. "awe, him so cute." or "did him lose him sock?"

Jules is a great story teller. I first realized this when she was trying to go potty a few months ago. She asked me to tell her a story while we were waiting for her system to oblige. I asked her to tell one instead, not actually thinking she would. Immediately she said, "Oooonce pona tiiiiime..." She continued to tell me a story about 2 "nakes," 2 mouses, and a wolf. These characters remain among her favorite heroes and villians in tales she weaves. Typically, there is a lot of "getting" accompanied by clawing motions, someone being eaten, the villian becoming nice, and everyone eventually becoming friends.

Julsie is officially potty-trained! I now feel confident in saying that and thank the Lord. She still wears a diaper at night for safety, but rarely needs it. It has been a struggle but we have prevailed. As a reward, she had a special shopping trip with Nana to pick out her very own big girl undies. (It was supposed to be Julsie and Nana only, but she graciously allowed Nat to come too.) Then they went to DQ for a treat. Way to go big girl!

Yeah, she's now becoming a big girl - like Nat says, "we have a big girl, a toddler and a baby" - but we still call her Baby Jules. She still loves it and wouldn't have it any other way. I think she may be Baby Jules (or Julsie Baby) her whole life and I'm ok with that =)

Lil' Tidbits from Nat

Nat (frustrated): Mom, sometimes I really don't want to have a little sist... I mean, I wish I didn't have to have a, I mean, not a little sister, but a...
Jules: Meeeeeeee?!!!
We all just burst out laughing. I said, "I know, sometimes she just drives you" and in unison, we say, "crazy." "But you love her." "Yeah," said Nat, "who would do my plans" (read schemes) "with me?"
Oh, the mystery and intricacies of sisterhood.


Nat to Bailey: Who's the cutest baby on the planet?


Nat: "Where's Pop-pop?" Nana: "I don't know, he should be here soon." Nat: "He's probably eatin' chocolate somewhere."


You know how Jules was using an Italian accent? Well, around January Nat started saying her "r"s differently. It wasn't the "w" sound children typically say instead of "r." I just couldn't figure it out. Then it hit me. It was FRENCH! She is totally using the back of her tongue. The "r" is the only letter with the accent, but we love it and frequently ask her to say words containing "r" over again just to hear it.


Nat: "I wish I could fall asleep like Julsie."

Daddy had a bag of cough drops on his bed.
Nat: "What are these?"
Dad: "They are cough drops. You take them when you are sick and they help you not to cough."
Nat: "Well that's silly, they shouldn't be called cough drops, they should be called Not Coughs."

Nat to Mommy: "Can we go to Nana's house?"
Mom: "Are you missing her?"
Nat: "Well YOU haven't seen her in weeks and weeks!"
In actuality, we had all seen her just a few days before. Glad to know Nat is looking out for me, though. ;)

We stopped over to her cousins' house to drop off some plants before we went in town to visit Gramma and Grandpa. Her cousins were swimming in the pool.
Nat: "Are the boys swimming?"
Mom: "Yep"
Nat: "Why didn't we come over to swim today?"
Mom: "Well, we're on our way to Gramma's right now."
Nat: "But I wanted to go swimming today."
Mom: "We will one day. They just opened their pool this week. We'll go soon. The boys just got home from school today and jumped in."
Nat: "What? They just got home from school?"
Mom: "Yes."
Nat, now almost frantic as I start the truck: "Well why are they swimming? because they're hot?"
Mom: "Yes, I guess, because they're hot."
Nat at a fever pitch: "Well I'm hot!!"