Mom's birthday week

Mom made some biscuits for dinner and as she brought them out of the
oven, one dropped back in. With quick reaction and without much
thought, Mom said, "Aw shoot, I'm probably going to burn myself when I
try to quickly get it out." So Mom quickly reached in bare-handed and
took it out with little fanfare and luckily no burns. Unbeknownst to
Mom, Logan was standing on the kitchen stool beside her and monitored
the proceedings. When he saw Mom reach in and pull the biscuit out, he
exclaimed, "NO Mommy, you could BURN yourself and then you could DIE and
I WOULD NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN!" Logan was visibly shaken and upset by the
episode, so while Mom felt foolish for what she had done, especially in
front of Logan, it was great to see that Logan understood the serious
nature of heat. Incidentally, he puts on equal serious weight when
talking about electical plugs and/or outlet sockets. Whenever Daddy
holds a plug, he gets very concerned that "Daddy might get shocked" and
for him NOT to touch the electrical sockets by any means. In fact, at
the "Sign and Sing" class, Logan made oratory attempts to keep one of
his fellow students away from the electrical outlet she was approaching.

If ever Logan needs to go wees or poos on the potty and he is watching a
'movie', he will go over and hit the pause button, saying "I have to
pause the movie because I have to go pees." Then afterwards he'll come
back and restart the show on his own. A simple thing to us, but fun to
watch a 2 3/4 year old do.

Mom took the kids to the library and didn't realize she'd gotten there
during the scheduled storybook reading time for kids. Logan sat down
with the other kids (primarily all older than he) and with friend Linda
and Mom Le who also happened to be there. Mom then went off with Delenn
to look for more kids books. In the background, Mom could hear that the
librarian must've been reading a book involving numbers because all the
children were counting aloud. Only thing is, Logan was clearly heard
and was the loudest, practically yelling out the numbers in proper
order. We don't know if that's because he knew the numbers, or because
he was simply being too loud :-)

Also at the library, Mom asked Logan (after she got a bunch of books),
are there any other books you want. Logan said, "I want... I want... I
want... let me think about what I want... I want a motorcycle book"
They went down an aisle and Logan asked, "What's this, what's this,
what's this for each book" Mom said "That's a book about plastic".
Logan then asked, pointing at things, if that was plastic.. Finally
they got to the motorcycle books and chose one. But Logan then spotted
a racing car book (very thick) and wanted that as well. Luckily Mom
managed to draw his attention elsewhere and avoid lugging that book.

Logan is practically there in terms of sleeping through the night
without needing a diaper. In the morning for the past 3-4 days his
diaper has been dry. Oops, well, the fifth morning it was pretty
loaded. Never mind.

Delenn drinks milk somewhat well from a 'sippy' type cup, but water and
any sort of food goes hurricane style all around. Hmm, although tonight
she seemed to finally keep the water from spewing out. She is getting
better and better at actually eating the food, but you wouldn't think so
to look at the table, chair, and floor in a 4 foot diameter surrounding
her. Dad just wants to know how she manages to get the back of the
chair and the chair next to her encrusted with food as well!? She can't
even get her arms and hands barely high enough to be above the height of
the chair back so how does she do it! Logan was never remotely this
messy. With Delenn, we are averaging two wash cloths per meal
(breakfast, lunch, dinner), 4 spoons, 2-3 bowls, one baby chair tray,
one bib, one bath, one filthy chair and table and ground mat. Ugh!
Amazing! She is fun to watch though and she really enjoys it, giving
everyone big smiles throughout.

Tonight Mom found that Delenn will giggle up a storm whenever she takes
a bath and has water flowing down from a cup into the bath tub in front
of her.

Tonight after Delenn's mandatory bath (mandatory because of her extra
layer of skin, er, I mean food), Delenn made deliberate and overt
gestures indicating her desire for a good breastfeed. Mom was going to
appease her but decided to first say outloud 'It's time to read books',
not really expecting any different reaction. Instead, Delenn
immediately calmed down and sat quietly as Mom read her some of her
favorite stories. And when Mom says things like 'touch the chick',
Delenn does so. We are trying to pay close attention to find out if it
is really a fluke, but we'd like to think that she's actually getting it!

For Mom's Birthday this week, Mom's big gift was a new digital SLR
camera (Canon D30) so that we can hopefully get the twinkle in the kids
eyes we so often see in real life :-) We had a grand time getting to
put the camera into use by going out to feed the wallabies at dusk.
Delenn seemed to enjoy seeing the furry critters and Logan, who has
never previously shown fear on previous feedings, actually was skittish
and kept a cautious and restrained approach to feeding them (primarily
dropping them on the ground in front of him rather than hand-feeding).
Mom also got some new books in the mail, mostly kid books, with which
she could share with Logan and Delenn. Yay!