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6, I mean 7, weeks post-partum

I went in for my 6 week post-partum exam today, a week late because of the holiday last week. Everything looked good, and I shouldn't have to go back for a year.

When I got home I gave Lexi a bath. This was the first time I'd given her a proper bath (as opposed to a sponge bath) without Gary around, so I was a little nervous. We both survived the experience.

Elliot has been expanding his vocabulary and improving his sentences. Last week he was still saying things like "No reach it" or "No find it." Now he frequently adds a noun to the end of that: "No reach it blanket." And this morning he said, "Mommy no reach it banana."

I frequently nurse Lexi at the table while Elliot is eating. He tells me she is "drinking milk," so I know he knows what's going on. I've been telling him that Lexi is too young to do much, in order to help him feel good about being the older brother and understand what she can and can't do ("You can run, but Lexi can't, she's too young," etc.) "Too young" is a popular phrase now. When I asked if Lexi lived in our house he shook his head and said, "Too young!"

I often ask him to give me lists of people, like who will be at daycare that day, or who we saw when we went to someone's house. The other night at dinner I asked Elliot who lived in our house, and he went through all the people and cats ("Mama house, Daddy house, etc). Then he started saying things like "Blinds house" and "Table house."

His favorite (and pretty much only) color is still purple. Invariably that is his answer when asked what color something is. Except when that something is purple. Then his answer is usually blue. I read somewhere a long time ago that purple is frequently a child's first color word, but I don't remember why this was.

Posted by Jen at July 11, 2007 02:00 PM