Shhh! -all the boys are napping. They can't do it in the same place lately, though. Burl cannot resist the draw of Ivo. Ivo is a reason to stay awake as far as Burl's concerned!
I'm pretty pleased, proud and excited about what I got Ryan for xmas. It's excellent and didn't cost me any money! Drumroll... After only being out together once since Ivo was born, I've arranged to trade child care with Alison. One evening a week, Alison will take care of the boys and I will take care of sweet little Tessa 2-ish times per week so Alison can work. I am sooo excited about this. Ryan said, "But I'll miss the boys..." - he must have been in shock. We'll be able to finish a meal, finish a sentence. Together! Yay! I really like him a lot:)
As cool as it is that I've gotten a barter gift for Ryan, I told him I don't want such kind from him. I want an iPod. He laughed. I also told him if I get an envelope of money, I'll be a little bit disappointed BUT nowhere near as sad as he'd be if I got nothing...
I ran into this awesome unbelievable version of Fairytale of NY through this other blog I like. Scroll down at Cynical Dad and you can see the Pogues/Kirsty MacColl video. Today's visit was my first at the aptly named Sweet Juniper blog - it's GOOD! They use a media player called Wimpy Player where they've got a few modern day mixed tapes you can listen to. Their Fall 2006 mix has songs by D+, Mirah. the Blow, Great Lake Swimmers.... ooh very exciting!
One day I will put up something like that. But that'll have to wait til I figure out my excellent long-desired super shiney new Xma$ present -- an iPod Classic 160GB!!!! Yay!!!! Yippee!!! Yahoo!!!!!
Talk about your full-moon birthdays!!!! Do people talk about full-moon birthdays? How could they not? I cannot say how wonderful this Ivo birthday/Xmas has been. And I can't believe how generous everyone's been and how lucky we are. Wow. OVERWHELMED in a great great way!
I'm going to gradually post pics from yesterday and today. And maybe never catch up... PICS WON'T UPLOAD - WILL ADD SOON
This morning Ryan had to work so Ivo, Burl and I went to co$tco to exchange Ryan's bday camera. It all went well, but it takes a LOOOONG time to get in, through and out of there. I bribed (positively reinforced?) Ivo with a stop at *bucks if he could manage to not run away while I waited in line(s). Oh, he managed. But on the way back to the car, he got mad about something and threw his toy plane (from Henry:)) down and muttered, "bastard."
I don't know. Not really very Sweet Juniper!
Burl has started to eat bread - he likes it a lot. He's also been asking for and asking for again fried rice, ro bo gao and potatoes. He ate some of Ivo's waffle today. I guess he's not gonna wait til he's a year old for wheat. He also likes plain noodles. That's ok. Whenever we sit down to a meal, Burl enjoys having his own bowl and spoon. He whacks the heck out of the bowl with the spoon. He throws both of them around. He giggles and laughs and has a great time. 
Also Burl can point! And Burl can stand up for several minutes all by himself. He can walk anywhere he wants as long as he has something to hold on to.
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