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Friday, March 24th, 2006
4:17 pm	Hee Yesterday, I gave Clark a banana as part of his dinner. I left him in the kitchen while I was on the computer. A few minutes later, I heard, "Take it off? Mommy take it off?" and I look over and there's one of those banana strings stuck to his fingers and he's just sitting there looking extremely disturbed. Haha. He's been doing this other thing...when it's bedtime, and if I'm not working at night, then I'll get him ready for bed. When we're all ready and done with reading and it's time to turn out the light, I say, "Say..." and he says "Goodnight Daddy!" But then he sticks out his index finger. This was something he started on his own a while ago. So, Daddy puts out his index finger, and then Clark starts waving his around until daddy gets there. Then they touch index fingers. And Clark giggles. It's quite funny. Current Mood: busy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 11th, 2006
8:43 am	Hee. Clark was a good boy for most of today while we ran a bunch of errands. We took recycling, and we had the windows down, so after we dropped off the recycling we had the empty paper bags kind of blowing around in the back seat, and that caused a fit of completely adorable giggles. The child ate SO MUCH FOOD today. He must be in a growth spurt. Three years old, and he begged for food ALL DAY. Two pieces of toast, about 1 1/2 cups applesauce, animal crackers, more animal crackers, some of a mandarin orange, a cup of yogurt, milk, a jumbo hot dog, an order of regular fries (yes, all of them), a small strawberry smoothie, more yogurt, and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. And another cup of milk. He asked for more applesauce, but I said no because I wanted him to finish the sandwich, and he did. For dinner, he wanted to keep playing, so he told me he was all done with his sandwich. I figured he wasn't done eating, and then I saw him going back to the kitchen and sneaking bites, and then coming back out to play. When he saw that I noticed, he ran back into the living room, finished chewing, and said, "Yummy!" No potty accidents and much less screaming today, too. So that's good. -posted by mommy! or Susan! as Clark likes to say Current Mood: cheerful (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
9:08 am	Another milestone Last night, we took down one side of Clark's crib. The crib was a gift from ithilien and gwynn_aaron. I remember being totally freaked out when they brought it, because it made having a baby seem so much more real. Well, our baby has just turned three, and he was climbing out on occasion, so we converted it to a toddler bed last night. He still needs a new mattress (he's worn holes in the one that he has, actually), but we thought we could still get by with the old one for a while. We got him a Batman blanket and pillowcase so that he can learn what it's like to sleep with those things. So we fixed up his room, rearranged the furniture, made sure outlet covers were on all open outlets, and moved some of his toys into his bedroom. It looks like a little boy's room, now...*cries* :) It's definitely not a baby's room. Although we really do have to work on that whole potty training thing! We woke up a bunch of times, expecting him to come charging out of his room, but he didn't. I think he slept on the floor. Hopefully he'll figure out that it's warmer and softer in the bed at some point. :) -posted by mommy Current Mood: cheerful (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 14th, 2005
4:28 pm	Hee hee Yesterday, we were at McDonald's and I got a sundae, since I can have a little dairy sometimes and I've read the ingredients on the web site to be sure there's no wheat in it. So I shared it with Clark. Now, Clark's had ice cream before, but never seemed thrilled with it. Now that he's a little older, he kept saying, "Mmm!" Anyway, I was trying to space the bites apart, but he got a little too overeager. Suddenly his eyes started watering and he started making unhappy noises at me. His first brain freeze, hee hee. :D I gave him a hug and he regarded further bites very suspiciously. -posted by mama Current Mood: cute! (Comment on this)
Monday, February 28th, 2005
1:13 pm	The Adventures of Batman and Clarkin The other day Clark saw one of the framed pictures of him that we have up on the wall. He pointed at it and said "Clark!", so I pointed to another picture of him and he did the same. Then we got to a picture of Susan and me. I pointed to Susan and asked him who it was. He was quiet for a moment, before exclaiming "Clark!" At first I thought he was just thinking *everyone* was "Clark", until I pointed to me and asked him who it was and he answered with a resounding "Batman!". Oh, the hilarity. :) I got down on my knees and looked up at the picture from his point of view, and if Clark already looked like Susan (which he resoundingly does) he looks even more like her from that distance and angle. So he might have actually thought it was him. But me, well... I'M BATMAN. -d ps - Clark and I built this yesterday pps - Actually, it's more like I kept trying to build it and Clark kept destroying it as I went :) ppps - It was just about as tall as Clark is Current Mood: bouncy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
5:28 pm	Clark's newest fad: Screaming (not crying, not yelling, but SCREAMING LIKE SOMEONE IS STABBING HIM TO DEATH) all the time. It's way fun. Just ask his parents. Oh wait, they've put their heads through the walls from frustration and to save their bleeding ears. The end. I think I will go whimper in the corner now. -D Current Mood: angry (Comment on this)
Friday, December 3rd, 2004
10:37 pm	Better xpost this part from my latest journal entry... ( Cute! ) Current Mood: sleeping (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 27th, 2004
8:25 am	Clark was obsessed with figuring out how to open his sippy cup this morning after breakfast. He succeeded. So I'm doing the dishes and he's in the high chair drinking his milk, when the top comes flying off and milk goes everywhere. Much cleaning and mopping later, I refill his cup and give it back to him, figuring I must have not put the top on correctly. I turn back to the dishes... And he does it again. So I clean all of THAT up and change his clothes (again, because he was soaked both times) and give him a different sippy cup with a screw-on lid. Aha! He's foiled. Nope. This one the milk comes out of incredibly fast, and he just POURS it everywhere. So I switch to another cup with a screw-on lid (we only have so many because tons of people just kept giving us more, but I don't know why) and that one seemed to work. At least until he figures out how to unscrew the lid. :p And then we gave him pumpkin pie instead of cake for his birthday (so early because mommy has to leave for work at 1pm so there's no time for it this afternoon) and he takes one bite, says "MMM!" and then refuses to eat any more. Wheee, Happy Birthday. :p He's a monster. :) -D Current Mood: mischievous (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
8:34 am	Today, Clark got up at 5:15 and I'm pretty sure he stayed awake without falling asleep again. I got up to get him at 7. I would have been up earlier, but I was so tired and I had a bad headache before bed, and it came back the instant I opened my eyes...at 5:15. He's either being very 2, or he's sick, because he wouldn't eat breakfast and he just kept crying. I tried everything...making him something other than his usual oatmeal, talking to him, singing to him, telling him firmly to stop. Some of those things worked briefly, but then he went back to crying. I finally gave up and put him down at 8:30 for a nap. Usually he makes it until 10 or later before he needs a nap, but sheesh. I think he went to sleep right away. He doesn't seem to have a fever...I just don't know. So Jeffrey didn't get to sleep in, I still have a headache, and I have to close tonight. So the exhaustion is really not going to help. In cute Clark news, a few days ago he did his first 'pretend' thing...he grabbed one of his Sesame Street tiles with the letters on them, held it up to his face like a telephone and said, "Hello? Hi! (insert a bunch of gibberish here), Bah (which is Bye)!" We are looking for a toy phone for him. :) Whenever I call Jeffrey on my break, a lot of times I can hear Clark say, "Bah!" when I'm about to get off the phone with him. It's cute. -posted by the tired mommy (Comment on this)
Monday, November 22nd, 2004
4:56 pm	Clark is a certifiable dork in training! Here's what he knows so far: Superman - "zoopa!" Batman - "bimma!" Wonder Woman - "winnawim!" Chewbacca - "shewwie!" Darth Vader - "ader!" Darth Maul - "maul" Millenium Falcon - "minny-fot!" Brings a tear to my eye. :D In other news, boy, do we need to update his user icons. They're so old! -D (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 14th, 2004
10:58 pm	Other stuff that daddy didn't talk about... Mr. Clark is obsessed with his ABCs. He looks for letters on everything -- our t-shirts, the high chair tray, on TV -- anywhere he sees them, he points them out and says them. He knows all of them...we think. Well, he doesn't say J correctly, and he's getting better with W, which completely mystified him for a while. For some reason, his J sounds like a soft H sound, but it's definitely different from the way he says H. Daddy says that he doesn't know X, or, if he does, he makes a bizarre noise that he thinks is X. As he has been doing now and then, he's backpedaled on some things he already knew. So "big boy" sounds like "ah boy" and "mama" has become "ahma" and "ahda" for daddy, although he's never clearly said mama and dada. Well, he was saying "mamama" for a while. But suddenly everything begins with A, or something. He says "uhbuh" (bubble) and "uhbububu" which is "bumblebee" because he is completely memorizing the Dr. Seuss ABC book. He is obsessed. He sits and reads it to himself for hours. He points out the letters and occasionally repeats a few of the phrases since he's heard it so many times. It's so cute to see him sit with the book and point the letters out and turn the pages. He'll also sometimes decide to sit next to me on the couch when he's watching Sesame Street. I may die from the cuteness of him, but hey...what a way to go. :) -mommy Current Mood: sleeping (1 Comment |Comment on this)
1:18 pm	Clark listens to everything we say, of course. He's started picking up on things and using them with hilarious consequences. For example, when he gets frustrated now he says "Uhg. Clark!" because that's what I've noticed I say a lot when he's done something that annoys me, like, say, dumping his entire bowl of peas on the floor. So it's funny to hear him exclaim annoyance with himself. :) We're also working on "Please", which has resulted in many, many tears, because why the hell won't we just give him what he wants? :p He's catching on, though... but instead of saying "please" when he wants something we have, he says "Say please!" because that's what we say to him. He's a little parrot. In other words sure to please john_m_hardin, Clark knows and says "Chewie!" in relation to his small Star Wars Chewbacca action figure that came with the tons of Star Wars toys his nice Uncle John bought him last year. If you'd like to see the toys (I warn you, you may die from cuteness), there are some pictures of them here: http://www.rebelscum.com/sagaswjrmillenniumfalcon.asp Clark also knows and has tried to say "Vader". That should please Uncle John to no end. :) Current Mood: bouncy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, October 22nd, 2004
11:18 pm	Hee! Today Daddy gave Mr. Clark a piece of a Sun Chip, to his enjoyment. After that, Clark had decided those crunchy things were WAY better than finishing his ham sandwich. So Clark proceeded to dump pieces of his sandwich on the floor. "All right," I said in exasperation and started picking up the sandwich pieces. At that point, Daddy gave Clark another portion of a Sun Chip. "All right!" Clark said. -posted by mama Current Mood: sleeping (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
7:43 pm	So Clark said "Hi, mama!" today when he saw me. Wow. He's really starting to put some words together. He'll say, "Put it away!" when it's time to put his toys away, and the other day he was holding his book called "Say Boo!" about a little ghost who can't say boo and it's almost Halloween. And I pointed and said it, and he started walking around saying, "Say boo! Say boo!" It's so cute. Daddy made Clark some flash cards. He loves them. They have capital letters on them. He's pretty good with A-F and they're working on G, but Clark has a hard time saying G. He says, "no!" more often. The newest thing is picking up the wrong thing and saying no. So, when we say, "Where's the square?" he'll pick up a star, for example, and say, "No!" He'll also stand up on the couch, and then say, "No! Sit!" because that's what Daddy says. He loves turning the light switches off and on. He always says "off!" or "on!" even if I'm flipping a switch somewhere. So. Cute. -posted by mommy (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
10:45 pm	Clark is crazy. :) In other news, he's learned the letters "A" and "C". I think he knows "B" but there's not been confirmation on that yet, and we just started working on "D". Capitals only, but still. He can recognize them. He surprised me because the same day I first tried showing him the first couple of letters, he saw a grocery back from Cub foods and pointed at it and said "See!" because there was a big red "C" on it. Sometimes I think he's not paying any attention to me when I try to teach him things, but then later I am reminded that he *does* pay attention, he's just stubborn and refuses to do/say something until HE wants to. The other day he just FINALLY said "up" for the first time when Susan picked him up. I've been saying that EVERY SINGLE TIME I picked him up for about 12 months straight, and he was just finally in the mood. Clark's superpower is mega-uber-robo-stubbornness. So *yay* for his parents... ;) -d Current Mood: Sleeping (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 14th, 2004
3:46 pm	It's been a long time since we've updated here. Clark's latest joy is climbing onto and off of our bed, over and over and over again. He gets himself all sweaty and tired and it's rather amusing. :) We're having trouble getting him to bite, though. Not us, obviously, but his food. He can feed himself pretty well now; he still makes a big mess, but he gets most of the food into his mouth. Well, when he's in the mood to, anyway. When he's feeling lazy he'll just sit there and refuse to feed himself and wait for us to do it. :p Anyway, he's not grasping the concept of biting into something that's too big for him to put in his mouth all at once, mostly because he tries to shove said things all in there anyway. I've tried showing him but he doesn't seem to get it. I know he'll get it sooner or later, but we can't even hand him a cookie without breaking it into smaller pieces first. Oh well. He knows most of his body parts now. He only says a few of them, but he knows where all of the others are (well, main ones... legs, arms, hands, feet, eyes, ears, mouth, hair, tummy, belly button... he has a little trouble with "nose" sometimes, though). Gonna work on "butt" next. :) Oh, and since he asked what they were, he also knows "nipple". he loves pointing to them on his chest when I'm changing his clothes or giving him a bath and saying it repeatedly. Kids are funny. :) We have some pictures we're going to try to scan in soon, so some of them should be posted here before too long. -d Current Mood: hungry (Comment on this)
Friday, August 6th, 2004
9:07 am	Clark has suddenly become deathly afraid of falling while we're holding him for no apparent reason whatsoever. He's never fallen at all (farther than from where he's standing to the floor), yet if I bend eben slightly forward, he panics and starts clutching at me for dear life. What makes this exceptionally annoying is that he doesn't do this by squeezing with his hands or trying to wrap his arms or legs around me tigher, oh no. He grabs little folds of my shirt between his fingers and pinches, usually getting my skin along with it. And here I'd rather been enjoying him not pinching me anymore. :p It just seems amazingly odd that he'd try to hold himself up with a thumb and a forefinger grabbing at a fold of material. I know he doesn't know, but I would think instinct would make him reach out with his hands or arms or something. But no, he'd rather pinch to save himself, even though he's in no danger of falling whatsoever. Hooray. -D Current Mood: grumpy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 20th, 2004
6:27 pm	Clark has decided that 20 months is plenty old enough to enter the "terrible twos". And enter them he has. Hoo. He's becoming very independent, to the degree that when I try to help him get food on his spoon when eating, he'll instantly let go of the spoon and drop it, complaining all the while. Of course, when he tries to do it himself he just taps the spoon on the bottom of his bowl and gets no food on it, and so then he gets mad. So I try to help him, and the process begins anew. It's *loads* of fun. He's also very vocal about letting you know how displeased he is when he can't have his way, and isn't above giving you a sob story, complete with frowns and tears to try to get you to let him do whatever it is that he wants to do. He's a stinker. :) We had a stretch of about a week and a half where he was saying 1 to 3 new words a day, though that has cooled off somewhat in the past day or two. And he'd say words that we hadn't tried to teach him for a week or so, which means he's learning them as we teach them but not actually saying them until *he* feels like it. Which is very much like him and his through-the-roof stubbornness. :p He also loves Sesame Street. He doesn't pay much attention to the TV (although he loves the Conan O'Brien theme and will always stop to dance to it), but Sesame Street he'll actually stop and pay attention to. He knows and loves Big Bird, and has even pointed to him on the screen and said his best approximation of his name, which is cute. He also, sadly, loves Elmo. I know Elmo caters to the younger children watching the show (around Clark's age), but ugh, he's so very annoying. The Elmo segment they have every day makes my brain feel like it's going to melt out my ear. It doesn't help that Elmo himself is annoying, but the content is geared towards the much younger children and it's just... it's nearly too basic to stand sometimes. But the rest of the show is as great as i remember it when I was a kid, and the Cookie Monster and Grover segments still crack me up. They slip jokes in for the parents watching, which is nice. :) Anyway, hadn't posted about the boy in a while so I thought I should. That's about all I can think of right now that's worthy of mentioning. Although we're still wondering when he's going to move himself to a more normal sleep schedule. 5pm - 6am is getting really old. :p -D Current Mood: sleepy (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
5:25 pm	So Clark has been saying a ton of new words with alarming frequency, so much so that I can't keep up and keep writing them all down in here. Some he seems to be actually learning, while others is just him repeating what he's heard us say. But I will tell you one thing... the most hilarious thing he's said was the other day, when he blurted out "Boobies! Boobies! Boobies!" I shall leave it to your imaginations the circumstances upon which he learned that word. :) Current Mood: clean (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004
9:46 am	Other things I've been forgetting to mention: Clark has said blue, yellow, purple, fish and yay (the latter while clapping his hands). I think the colors he was just repeating what he heard us say, however, as he doesn't really seem to know what they are. He presently walks around the apartment calling *everything* "yellow". But hey, he never used to try to repeat what we were saying before, so that's something. :) -d Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)