The Hillian Collection

This really should be titled "Last Month"...oops.

Samuel:
Our 21-month-old is a kid now. Unbelievable! He still doesn't say much, but he's probably adding a spoken word every other day (who knows how many unspoken words he's learning?!). We recently caught him hiding under the sheets and starting calling, "Where's Sammy?" to which he replied by popping his head out and crying, "(something incoherent with the same intonation we use to cry out 'there he is!')."And he's repeating us now too. When I handed him a necklace, he said "necklace" (again, it was pretty incoherent but an obvious attempt to form the word). He's also got the letters B, C, D, O, P, R and S down. He says them like: "bee," "a-dee," "dee," "oh," "pee," "erh," and "ed." My undergraduate linguistics training (see? I knew that major would come in handy one day) tells me that he has a difficult time forming fricatives as he's replaced the alveolar fricative /s/ with the alveolar stop /d/ in the pronunciation of C and S. His naps range from anywhere between two and three hours, which is a god-send to me in order to get something down or relax during the day.

Jedidiah:
Oh what a smiley boy we have! He just started giggling at 13.5 weeks old. He's a little later than Sammy, who started laughing at 11 weeks, but we'll take it! He's excellent at holding his head up and rolling from front to back. He still loves a good swaddle, a rock, and his paci. Those three put him right to sleep. Speaking of sleep, his longest nap of the day (three or more hours) has aligned with Sammy's nap, so I am so, so productive (or so, so lazy, depending on the day) during the afternoons. At night, he starts out in his bedside bassinet, wakes up consistently around 2:30am to nurse, and then spends the rest of the night in our bed (oops! I'm too sleepy to care).

Me + Sean:
Sundays really have become our family day, while the busyness of the rest of week keeps us pretty well apart. This past week, I even traveled up to Tallahassee to give Sean a break from juggling the house reno, his job and his family. We had a blast up there, so I'd say our first traveling foray with Jed was a success. Sean and I are also trying to mostly cut gluten out of our diet. I never notice a difference on my wellbeing based on my diet; but Sean does, and I'm following his lead on this one. It's a bit easier to do since we've bought in with Graham Farms who frequents the Alachua County farmer's market on 441. Sean stops by every Saturday to pick up his bag of produce and pork products, and I make a soup out of it for the week. I'm not sure we'll keep this up the weekly soup once the weather warms up, but it's keeping us eating healthy for now.