Ah, our little kids playing nicely, showing affection and warming our hearts. Lily doesn't look terrified. Unfortunately, while she always smiles initially when she sees her brother, usually those smiles turn to whimpering and outright terror as he either doesn't understand how gentle he needs to be with her and/or outright just decides to be mean to her. Lately, he's been trying to tell me it's "an accident" when he bites her. Riiiiiiggggghhhhhht.
Even with those little brotherly love bites, hits and kicks, Jamisen does love Lily. She is the first person he asks for in the morning and he comes running to me ("Lily's crying! Lily's crying!") the second he hears her wake after her morning nap. He is quite protective and helpful with her, getting diapers, washcloths and crackers "for people without teeth" for her. We are so blessed to have a sweet little boy who loves his sister, even if he has a hard time managing his emotions sometimes. He even told his substitute Nanny Gabriel that the puzzle pieces on the floor were "choking hazards for Lily."
Little Lily remains ridiculously easy going. She shopped for THREE hours with me for the Salvation Army shopping trip that Bramble Berry does annually with a smile on her face the entire time. She remains petite. She is in the 20th percentile for her height, 8th for her weight and a whopping 56 percentile for head circumference. So, she's a petite little dove with a giant head. Obviously (and this clearly goes without saying) because she has a prodigious brain.
Look closely at the photo above. Do you see the white on Jamisen's fingers? Ah, yes, that's because when I was cleaning the kitchen, he started eating yogurt with his fingers. That would have been fine if he had stopped there. Which, he didn't. He started flinging the yogurt all over the floor and when I had turned around again, he had this lovely self-satisfied expression on his face and all the yogurt was out of his bowl. We cleaned it up together (of course) but it was the first time Jamisen has been so deliberately mischievous. I mean, look at his expression! That is not a remorseful child.
Jamisen has turned into the most amazing puzzle master of all time. He has his Dad's spatial analysis skills. I just got got him 4 geometry coloring books of symmetrical shapes and mandalas. Even with his pre-math skills, Jamisen is amazing with language. He loves to mimic all of our expressions. His Dad uses particularly intriguing ones. The latest one is, "We're going to take those puppies down!" I think that was said when they were playing Angry Birds together. Either way, Jamisen repeats it all the time, complete with the hand motions. It's precociously hilarious.
Lily has started rolling over with aplomb. That's fine and dandy during the day but she's started rolling over at night; in her crib and sleeping on her stomach, with her face pressed deeply into the mattress. It gives her Dad and I fits. We're constantly trying to turn her over but she just rolls back over right away. Since she started sleeping on her belly however, she has started sleeping through the night. Now, if only I could sleep through the night knowing she's on her belly!
And there's the amazing 56% percentile head ...
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