Life as a Wife

This post is about a few cute things Robert has been saying and doing lately.  There is always something for he is one pretty cute little kid.  Yesterday I asked Robert if he wanted to go outside and he started saying “bubbles, bubbles” over and over.  His grandparents bought him some bubbles and introduced him to that magic when they were here a few weekends ago, and Robert loved it.  I was finally able to teach Robert how to blow on the bubble wand to make bubbles instead of putting the wand in his mouth.  Yuck.

Every day this week I have heard Robert in his room fussing and whining.  When I’ve gone to check on him, he’s been busy trying to pull his Teddy Bear through the bars on his crib.  So I’ve gotten the bear out and handed it to him and This is what he wants:

He then insists that I carry the seat outside, and I have to explain that Alex is sleeping and we can’t leave him at the house by himself.

There is a wonderful tradition in the Meredith family of reading “Goodnight Moon” to the little ones.  Robert’s Grandmother bought him this book and taught him to say “hush” at the part where it reads, “And a quiet old lady whispering ‘hush’”.  Robert loves this word and whenever we put our fingers to our lips and tell Robert “shhh” he says back “hush.”  The problem with this, sometimes, is that he likes to say it really loud in church, but at home is a different story.  At home, Robert says, “hush, baby” because when we tell him to “shhh” at home it is because he is in Alex’s room making a racket and we don’t want Alex to wake up.  Now, even if Alex is wide awake, whenever Robert sees him he says, “hush, baby.”