Babies Don’t Keep
by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing, make up the bed,
Sew on a button and butter the bread.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.
Oh, I’ve grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,
Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo
The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo
But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo
Look! Aren’t his eyes the most wonderful hue?
Lullabye, rockaby lullabye loo.
The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
But children grow up as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.
My baby has added a new word to his vocabulary. This morning while I was putting a way the dishes, Iain said gram and a minute later added ma. (So for those of you that don't know my mom is Gram and Brian's mom is Grandma. So technically he has added 2 words to his list).
His list of words...
- Mama
- Dada
- Hi
- Out side
- Yeah
- Hey
- Dug (for dog)
- Gram
- Grandma
- Up
- Bye-bye
- Uh-oh
- Da (for down)
- Appa (for apple)
- Bapah (for bath)
Wow I didn't realize that he said 12 words. My regular little talker. He is so very smart. He understands so much of what we say that we really have to watch what we do and say around him. I love my little man.
Iain also points to his ears, eyes, nose, hair, mouth and toes.
When we play this game with him he wiggles his toes when asked where they are and he makes this face and you just know he is so thrilled for himself. Its so funny.
Well, we all finally got hair cuts today.
Brian and I wanted to go to the temple today. But we didn't realize that the last session started at 4pm. We left the house at 3:30pm and traffic was horrid. It took us over an hour and half to get to the temple. So, Brian and I decided to sit on the grounds and talk for a little while before we headed back to the house. After we left the temple we went to the book store because it had started to rain hard and we didn't want to be on the road in that weather.
All in all not a bad day. Kinda wish that we had been able to go to the temple.
To look outside myself for help when I'm in need of it.
My greatest joys are my husband and son.
The gospel that has/is such a big part of my life.
A roof over our heads (even if it is with my in-laws)
To look for adventure/new beginnings every day.
Teaching our son about who he is and where he came from.
Teaching our son about the world around him.
To always count my blessings.
Okay that's not all true. Iain does sleep through the night once in a blue moon. But most of the time he screams at us till someone comes and gets him. Still there are days that he will just stare at the ceiling for hours and than stare out the window till he gets bored (no screaming when he does this). But it's not every time.
Brian and I are not getting the sleep we need because of this (one of many reasons).
We have read Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child ( I've read so many books on this subject I think I could scream); we have decided that we are going to do the cry it out method. What did you guys do?
Well things have been pretty rocky lately for us but we started to actually talk to one another. Things that have been bothering us and we just didn't hold back. Brian and I started to spend time together again (instead of just sitting in the same room watching TV on different couches). We get out of the house and talk (we even hold hands...gasp). Its so nice to be on the same page again. I don't know why or even when things started to derail for us. But that's all behind us now.
