The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays. For one, it's not shoved near all the other holidays (except mother and father's day, but those aren't really holidays - you don't get the day off work or anything). It has an actual celebration associated with it (unlike, say, labor day). And there are Pretty Explosions. We're spending the day with in-laws up in New Hampshire. Well, Mr. Bisous is working. Usually we have a cool party to go to on the shore, or a cool party to go to on a rooftop in Boston overlooking the big fireworks, but our shore friends were working this weekend, and our Boston friends have a new baby and aren't throwing that party this year.
Random whine - Mr. Bisous will never figure out that sprinkling comet in the toilet is NOT the same thing as cleaning the toilet. It's just not in his best interest to figure it out, and I'm not going to let the toilets get filthy to teach him that lesson, as if he wouldn't have learned it in his bachelor days if he would have learned it at all. All right. End of whine.
Child growth and development - the moose will be two months old tomorrow! I can't believe it. She seems to be twice as big as when she was born, but of course she isn't. Still, she is a third again as big, and I remember my mind being blown with how fast they grow when they are wee. She also has filled out her cheeks to proper Bisous Baby proportions, and I keep getting deja vu, because she looks almost exactly like the Bisousette did around that age - she just has less hair. It helps that she wears most of the same clothes her sister did.
Bisousette is awesome, as usual. Still tempermental, but one can call her "spirited" rather than "a pain." Sometimes she even says "yes" instead of "no no no." Which is good, because she still won't be two for another week. I'm a little flustered with how fast she learns things - I'm running out of stuff to teach her with anything remotely resembling age-appropriate books or toys. She knows all the basic colors (and has started branching out to gold, tan, etc.), can say her numbers up to 20 (though she can't reliably count things past three), knows all her uppercase and lowercase letters by sight and can fairly reliably sing the alphabet too. Parking lots are a minefield, because she wants to read all the letters and numbers on the license plates. I've started to teach her words - so far she can sight-read "car," "mom" and "monkey." She also knows that TEXAS spells Texas, but rather like a cheerleader might. She's beginning to speak more in sentences, though often gets the words in the wrong order.
She seems to have no interest in potty training, though I think she could do it once she realizes that the toilet it not punishment. She knows when she is about to to need the bathroom - she just runs off into another room so we can't whisk her to the toilet. I've tried to convince Mr. Bisous to build a tiny toilet for the small curious george doll to sit on while Bisousette sits on her baby toilet seat, but so far he hasn't made one. :)
