Surfacing, at least on one front...
Calliope had a mysterious illness over the weekend. She had quite a fever, and then slept for an entire day. In true baby-kharma, that respite was short-lived and we paid it back with interest with 3 solids days of fussing. Constant fussing. Smile-free, giggle-free, fussiness. Bleh. Finally today she cracked a smile for me, so hopefully tomorrow we'll see our old girl back.
Clementine is having sleep problems too, as she's not nappy at school. So Wednesday she skips her nap, falls asleep in the car, then is a fussy mess for dinner, and won't go to sleep until 9:30 or so. Thursday she's grumpy and fit-prone all day, and then Friday she skips another nap and freaks out at bedtime, so by Saturday morning she's at least 4 hours short for the week. Saturday is constant fits and battles, Sundays we spend recovering, and then Monday and Tuesday she's back to normal, just in time for Wednesday. It's bad enough that I'd consider pulling her out of preschool, if it makes most of the rest of our time with her this bad. We're trying bringing her in earlier in the day to try to help her make the adjustment, but if that doesn't work I don't know what we'll do.
When she's on, Clementine is delightful. She's full of imagination now and much of the time she's baby kitty and I'm mommy kitty or some such. She makes up words a lot. "Maygrial" comes up all the time. It appears to be a person but we're really not sure. She can stream-of-consciousness tell a "story" which is a combination of real words and made up words, without breaking stride throughout the story.
Calliope is really an amazing baby physically. It's not just crawling early and pulling herself to standing, but also eating (which now that I think about it is physical too). Seemed like Clementine was choking constantly from 6 months to 9 months, but Calliope is a whiz at it.
We did manage to go on the Trout Unlimited clean-up of the Animas weekend before last, andn the weekend before that we hiked up to Silver Lake (then and now), which was our most successful hike ever. Much of it was zig-zagging up a mountain that was essentially a huge scree pile, so Clementine had to stay in the backpack the whole time. She did a great job. Calliope went up in the Bjorn, thanks to GUR-Pop-pop who had fun hiking without seeing his feet, and then we split a well-earned funnel cake in Silverton.
Good thing we got some outdoors in because it is fall now. It's cold, leaves are falling, and we're covering the tomatoes to protect them from freezing (and also from the deer, which I had to chase off with a dishtowel, but that's another story) and the light has changed. Amazing how fast that happened. So I am in squirrel mode, and everything is ready to be canned. So between now and the end of October, I just need to:
1. complete our 2nd-biggest deliverable ever by the end of the first week of October
2. plan for and celebrate Ryan's birthday!
3. plan for and go on a trip to San Francisco the second week of October (alone, so lots of planning)
4. can pickles, tomatoes and bushels of apples (cider, butter, jelly, etc etc)
5. make two Halloween costumes by the 31st
I think November will be lovely. :)
Clementine is having sleep problems too, as she's not nappy at school. So Wednesday she skips her nap, falls asleep in the car, then is a fussy mess for dinner, and won't go to sleep until 9:30 or so. Thursday she's grumpy and fit-prone all day, and then Friday she skips another nap and freaks out at bedtime, so by Saturday morning she's at least 4 hours short for the week. Saturday is constant fits and battles, Sundays we spend recovering, and then Monday and Tuesday she's back to normal, just in time for Wednesday. It's bad enough that I'd consider pulling her out of preschool, if it makes most of the rest of our time with her this bad. We're trying bringing her in earlier in the day to try to help her make the adjustment, but if that doesn't work I don't know what we'll do.
When she's on, Clementine is delightful. She's full of imagination now and much of the time she's baby kitty and I'm mommy kitty or some such. She makes up words a lot. "Maygrial" comes up all the time. It appears to be a person but we're really not sure. She can stream-of-consciousness tell a "story" which is a combination of real words and made up words, without breaking stride throughout the story.
Calliope is really an amazing baby physically. It's not just crawling early and pulling herself to standing, but also eating (which now that I think about it is physical too). Seemed like Clementine was choking constantly from 6 months to 9 months, but Calliope is a whiz at it.
We did manage to go on the Trout Unlimited clean-up of the Animas weekend before last, andn the weekend before that we hiked up to Silver Lake (then and now), which was our most successful hike ever. Much of it was zig-zagging up a mountain that was essentially a huge scree pile, so Clementine had to stay in the backpack the whole time. She did a great job. Calliope went up in the Bjorn, thanks to GUR-Pop-pop who had fun hiking without seeing his feet, and then we split a well-earned funnel cake in Silverton.
Good thing we got some outdoors in because it is fall now. It's cold, leaves are falling, and we're covering the tomatoes to protect them from freezing (and also from the deer, which I had to chase off with a dishtowel, but that's another story) and the light has changed. Amazing how fast that happened. So I am in squirrel mode, and everything is ready to be canned. So between now and the end of October, I just need to:
1. complete our 2nd-biggest deliverable ever by the end of the first week of October
2. plan for and celebrate Ryan's birthday!
3. plan for and go on a trip to San Francisco the second week of October (alone, so lots of planning)
4. can pickles, tomatoes and bushels of apples (cider, butter, jelly, etc etc)
5. make two Halloween costumes by the 31st
I think November will be lovely. :)
