6:30am and I’m up as Katie is up. My wife handed her off to me as she has been up since 3am with her and wanted to go back to bed. We are watching a bit of “Little Bear” on television right now. I hope to put her to bed soon…but we’ll see… Looks like another tired daddy at work today…

7:00am – I just put Katie to bed.  She was still wimpering a bit when I put her in her crib so I decided that I would tell her a story.  It went something like this…  Little bear and his friends cat and owl always had loads of fun playing together.  They would fish and hike and fly kites but today little bear was rather hungry.  When cat and owl asked him what he wanted to eat he said “Honey”, but there was a bit of a problem…bees guard their honey and will sting you.  Cat and owl said that they had a deep sea diving friend who could help them out so they borrowed his deep sea diving outfit.  Little bear put on this outfit and climbed a tree and got some honey.  This outfit was so thick that the bees could not sting through it…

As soon as I said that little bear climbed the tree and got the honey in a deep sea diving out fit little Katie’s eyes rolled back in her head and she fell backwards sound asleep.  I’m sure that she just got too tired to stay awake but it sure looked like she was saying “Oh dad…that’s the craziest story ever”…

This evening I was trying to fill out some forms for our real estate agent so that she could list our house in Cary.  Katie sensed that I was into something serious…so she wanted more than anything to bother daddy.  First she tried to run off with the forms.  Once I got them back she started crawling on my back and tried to make her way to my head.  Once I was done I chased her around the house and gave her a good tickle!

WHAT I LEARNED TODAY
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1) Katie.

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3:30am – Katie is up. I have the monitor this evening so I went and got her and made her some warm milk and we watched “Little Bear” in the LazyBoy in the living room. This show was about teaching otters and washing windows. After a quick lunch of oyster crackers and raisins I put her back to bed.

4:15am – Katie has been in bed for about 5 minutes now but I hear that she turned the waterfall soother on. Oh oh…let’s hope that she will go back to bed…

4:45am – That didn’t last long. Katie is up again. When I picked her up at her crib she said “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” so guess what we are doing now? I gave her a banana and some warm milk…hopefully that will do the trick…

5:05am – Katie is back to bed. Let’s hope it sticks this time…

I was so tired at work today. Late last night with Katie and up early with her this morning as well. In an ideal world I would have gone right to bed when I got home but this is not an ideal world. When Katie is up she makes such noise that it travels through the house like made. Might as well stay up til Katie goes to bed was the thought…but I crashed around 8pm. Wife’s turn to deal with Katie…

WHAT I LEARNED TODAY
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1) Katie.

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We got two more packages of baby safety latches for the drawers and cabinets around our house in the mail today. There never seems to be an end to the drawers and cabinets that Katie will get into so we have to secure them all. Even if we take all the dangerous items out of her reach, like knives, there is still the issue of having to bend over and put the various items back into the drawers and cabinets. If Katie can get to them she will throw them onto the ground. I’d rather take some time to put the latches on the drawers and cabinets once rather than have to bend over and pick stuff up and put it back into its proper location day…after day…after day.

For dinner tonight Katie turned around quickly and accidentally knocked a plate off the living room table. She said “I’m sorry daddy”. Such a polite little chipmunk…

9am and my wife couldn’t take it any more…she was up early this morning and was exhausted so I took over managing Katie. One of Katie’s favorite activity these days is to share a grapefruit with daddy…so we did…twice. I cut a grapefruit into eight equal squares and have one or two while Katie “sucks” on the other six. With one down she said “More grapefruit please” so daddy cut up another one. She loves the faces that daddy makes while he sucks on the sour and tasty fruit and will laugh hysterically out loud.

With only Katie and one other person up it is easier for her to realize that it is bedtime. It seems that if there are two or more up with her she views it as: “The party is still on”…

9:55pm and Katie is out…daddy too…

WHAT I LEARNED TODAY
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1) Katie.

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When I got home this evening I gave Katie a “Special Present”…a collection of pencil erasers that I got at the Dollar Store the other day. They were in various neon colors and you could stack them one inside the other. Just the type of toy that Katie loves.

While my wife and I were watching the news in the living room this evening Katie raced across the floor grabbed me by the chin and made a comment about my moustache? Well, I don’t have a moustache! Wonder what she was referring to.

We made banana smoothies this evening…one for my wife and I and one for Katie. Katie likes to drink out of the clear glass mugs. When she was done her smoothie Katie wanted a cup of ketchup. Yeech!

WHAT I LEARNED TODAY
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1) Katie.

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