Hitting

So it seems that hitting is the newest issue in our household....Anya has been in a TERRIFIC mood lately (if by terrific you mean miserable)...she's been fighting bedtime tooth and nail and we're all paying the price with a cranky toddler. Anyway, she's spending a lot of time in her TO chair for hitting since that's her first response to being told NO to anything. Well, guess who has learned from his big sister? Our happy, laid-back little guy has been watching his sister intently and when she got a little too close to him today, he reached out and smacked her in the face. Of course, it was pretty comical, so I held back my giggles and sternly told him that hitting is a no-no and tried so hard to keep Anya from hitting him back. Of course, that wasn't the end of it and she had to have the last word, so back into TO land went Anya.

Baz appears to be cutting a few new teeth, so he's been uber-clingy and fussy. This, coupled with the overtired kid makes for a pretty unsettled household. George and I had to practically sneak out for dinner tonight since both kids want to be attached to me at the waist now.

On the flip side, Anya was all about dressing up today and putting on shows for me and Baz... she wore her ballet outfit with tights and Cinderella shoes and danced with the Little Einsteins for me. When she began singing, Baz joined in the dancing, too. The glitter is dwindling a bit, so it's kinda cute now.....there are still patches of it, but the bigger spots are cleaned up.

Not sure if I've mentioned it before, but Baz does a cute "tubby time" dance....as soon as we mention bathtime or the tub, he starts dancing and saying "tub time" I'm sorta confused lately, though, since he only wants to be in momentarily and then he starts climbing out.

He's also shown us how fast he can be today.....Pap Pap and I were outside with both kids today and turned our backs on Baz for about 10 seconds at one point (3 guesses where this is going!)....when we turned around, there was Sebastian standing on the top step in the pool!!!! I was only a few feet away, but I just didn't see or hear him going for it. He tried to pull the same trick later, but we were all over him then. It does worry me that he has no fear and can get to the pool so quickly- guess it's his turn for Saf-T_swim soon!

Catching up....

Well, another long Sunday is over....I think that Sunday is becoming my least favorite day of the week....sleep in? Yeah, right....Baz doesn't care what day it is.....the LATEST he gets up is 6:30. Today, he tried to get up at 5am, but I let him run around his room for a few minutes, take a few sips of milk, and put him back down- thank GOD!! When both kids got up around 6:30, I at least felt halfway rested for once. Of course, the rest of the day was spend moving from one task to another as I cleaned up behind them over and over and over.....it's even worse now that Baz insists on feeding himself. It's great because I can feed myself now, but the mess he makes is crazy. And his signal that he's done? To smear everything across his tray and then toss it all to the floor. I think I swept our kitchen about 5 times today and it STILL looks dirty! Oh well- there will come a time that I'll miss this!

There are a lot of great things, too....we spent a lot of time in the pool this weekend. Anya has become quite a fish and really enjoys swimming. She asks us to go further and further away from her so she can show us how far she can swim. If only she'd use her arms and take breaths...then she'd own the pool! She and George have been playing "challenge" where her comes up with some task for her to perform. She loves when he holds up the pole for the vacuum and she has to touch it as she jumps in. SHe also dives for her toys or flowers and swims for certain lengths. She also has lost her fear of jumping in. She'll jump in by herself and swim to the side. This makes me feel a lot more secure about her pool safety. Now for Baz!

He, on the other hand, has opened a whole new door for mommy angst. He climbs everything! He's been getting up and down from the couches a lot lately, as well as getting up on the kitchen chairs. He sprung a new one on me the other day....Anya and I were cutting up apples at the counter, using her stepstool. I didn't think twice about leaving it where it was because he's shown no interest at all in it. We all went back to Baz's room to play and eventually, he ran out to the kitchen. We do let him run around the house a bit since we thought it was pretty babyproofed, but thankfully I didn't leave him for too long. When I got into the kitchen, that monkey had climbed up the stepstool and onto the stove!!!! Holy cow- did I have a heart attack! He just looked at me a laughed...yeah, right...very funny! Luckily, he didn't get hurt, but there were so many perils there....needless to say, he'll be very closely watched from now on!

The kids had a nice sibling moment today....Anya picked up the Wiggles book we have with buttons you push to play short clips of their songs. Baz is in love with the Wiggles, so he came over and sat next to her and giggled as she read and pushed the buttons. He's such a dancer...the slightest bit of any tune and he's bopping away! He joined me in my exercise routine today....he'd come into the kitchen to see what was happening on my DVD player, then put his hands in the air and bounce up and down! As if he needs to lose weight!

We have a lot of birthdays this week...Grandma Helen tomorrow, Nana on Wed, Isabella on Thursday, and Dominic's party on Thurs (not sure if that's his actual bday or not)....August seems to be a big bday month...I feel bad for all those mothers who spent the final days of their pregnancies in the heat of the summer! I was lucky that neither of mine ended in the summer...with Anya, I was preggo during the summer, but I wasn't big yet and I don't think that summer was particularly hot.....