Banana Barf

Weston has been eating 'food' now for a couple of weeks. So far, he has liked what we have given him...applesauce, pears, carrots and squash. Last night it was time to introduce a new food so I thought, "what about bananas?" Both Tatum and Keaton loved the bananas so maybe Weston would too... WRONG. He made horrible faces as he was eating them and only ate about 1 oz. before he gave up. As soon as he stopped eating, he made another horrible face, gaged and then threw up. I thought that maybe he just choked...wrong again. Later in the night he threw up several more times, once on his little car bouncer which we found out is not that easy to clean. So needless to say, we are going to forgo the bananas from now on.



I picked Keaton up from school and when he got in the car he starting singing a song. I asked him to sing it so I could hear it and this is what it was:

"Hush little children don't say a word

we're leaving the room and shouldn't be heard

with our hands behind our backs we do not talk

we stay in line as we start to walk" (sung to "hush little baby dont say a word")

How cute is that? They sing it before they leave the room. I'm guessing Keaton just now figured out all the words cause he has sung it since I picked him up. Of course each time he sings it he uses a different 'voice'...an old lady, a pirate, a baby, an English man (don't know where he has heard this one before), a big burly man, but he has never used his own 'voice'. Weston likes it too. I guess Weston will know how to line up and walk quietly before he even knows how to crawl.

Keaton has a new infatuation with "webons" (weapons). He gathers up all his guns and swords and thinks of some game to play...cops, pirates, bear hunting. Today, he brought all his weapons to me and held up a sword and asked me what it was. When I answered he said "no, pretend you dont know". So, I played dumb as he held up each weapon, asked me what it was and then explained it to me with great pride. I really dont like that he plays with all these weapons, but he is a boy and it doesn't matter what he is playing with, it turns into some type of weapon...a doll, a car, a paper towel tube.

Tatum continues to enjoy her writing. She is constantly writing in or on something. She is also really getting excited about reading and loves to learn new words. She has a bag of words that are from her phonics books. She pulled them out today and wanted to practice them. Most of them she sounded out to read, but there were some that she just knew! When she got to the word no she very proudly said "no". She looked at me and said with her little 'smart' voice "I know that one cause I know that N-O spells No!"