As I am catching up on emails, thank you notes, etc., Rebekah is meticulously peeling all her Crayons- at first, I wasn’t a fan, but then i thought- well, they’re her Crayons, she can peel ‘em if she wants to. She is really proud of herself- and she only broke one! I also just came in finishing chewing some M&M’s- her nose is so good- she immediately said- want some M&M’s!
Yesterday, R thought when I put Luke’s carrier down that I was forgetting to bring him with us- she furrowed her brow and said “Bring Baby Luke with us?!” Very sweet- as if I would forget my own son…ha ha- I say that because more often than not right now, I am getting my children in the car, but forgetting essential items, such as diapers, milk, snacks, etc…
This week, I was trying to get Luke down for a nap- i.e. nursing him to sleep at the same time R would be going down- don’t judge me, we’re in survival mode right now! Anyway, Rebekah was reminding herself to be quiet- she was walking away from me and telling herself, “Quiiiieeet” very quietly- unfortunately, she was looking at me instead fo where she was going and thus tripped over her baby doll, making her faceplant on the wood floor while simultaneously dropping her Halloween basket of plastic toys as loud as humanly possible- I dubbed this episode- “Ironic”
Update on Luke- I am taking back my description of him as mellow. 
He’s a little fussy when awake and the past week or so the evenings have been interesting…by interesting, I mean lots of crying for 1-3 hours. Tuesday was the worst- I held him the whole time and tried to feed him and he just cried until he nursed to sleep at 9:30 and slept until 3am. Weds night looked to be the same, so we put him in his crib for a break he cried less in his crib and then slept for a little while, then nursed to sleep. Last night, we did get him to eat when he was fussing, then we put him down awake, but swaddled, expecting the same…he crashed with hardly a peep! I had to wake him for a feeding- granted each evening that is progressively better, the night is shorter, but it’s way better than sobbing baby! This morning, when he started fussing again, I swaddled him, put him down, and he fussed for less than a minute, then slept great…so ironic, once again- I was planning on holding my baby and rocking him to sleep and not putting him down for naps, but he seems (right now anyway) to do a lot better in his bed asleep…
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Cracks me up that Becka had to make her crayons her own. You are such a sweet, and patient mommy to let her peel the wrappers off.
At least Luke is doing some sleeping at night. Sounds like Becka is very attached to him already.
Reading the end of your post reminded me of my two girls. My firstborn always liked to be rocked to sleep, but the second one would rather just be put down. Interesting.
Good seeing you last Wed!
as a former art teacher and current artist, i applaude you for letting R peel that crayons and i would even encourage you to not stop her from breaking them- i love using the sides of broken crayons!!
also great job adjusting to luke’s needs! you were willing to do the “hard” thing and rock/nurse to sleep but he told you he didn’t need it- way to sense his needs and meet them. you’re doing awesome! and none of us were judging. I think it is precious to nurse a baby to sleep. when else can you just sit there and soak them in like that? but a sweet babe that likes to be swaddled and put down awake is a real treasure too!
you’re doing great, Em!!