Belly rumblings

I was helping Will brush his teeth when my stomach let out a particularly loud grumble.

"Mommy?" Will said, "Does this mean you're growing another baby in there?"

"No," I said, "That just means Mommy had pizza for dinner and my belly isn't sure it likes it."

"Why?" I asked. "Do you think we should have another baby?"

"No. Definitely not," he said. "Not yet."

A pause and then ...

"Mommy? If we have another baby, I'm going to need three pillows on my bed. One for me, one for Charlie and one for the new baby."

"OK, we can do that."

"Mommy? My new name is "Luke Skywalker" and Daddy's new name is "Obi-Wan-Kinobe" and you're "Princess Leia" and Charlie is "Rex" so ... if we have another baby we can call it "Padawan."

Uncle Andy will be so proud ...

The Good ... The Bad

The Good News: Charlie rolled over from his back to his tummy (he'd previously just gone from tummy to back).

The Bad News: It was at 4:06 a.m. after an extended diaper change in which he tried to wash his own hair in the way only baby boys can ...

Books en Espanol

Yesterday Will brought home a pair of books from the library, as he typically does on days he attends kindergarten. We enjoy reading them to him.

However, we're going to have some trouble with the two he brought home this time:

"La gallinita roja."

and

"Jorge el Curioso."

For those of you out there who took German, French, or ahem, Latin in high school, that's "The Little Red Hen" and "Curious George." From what I can tell, in this volume of the George classics the monkey prank phone calls 911, gets thrown in jail, mauls a security guard and escapes, and rides some helium balloons to the zoo. Good times are had by all, except the security guard.

Both books we would enjoy sharing ... en Ingles! Our question was not so much why Will picked them out -- he can't possibly know written English from written Spanish yet -- but why the librarian didn't say something. Oh well, maybe we'll tackle them en Espanol -- I'm curioso to see how Will responds.

Star Wars

Will got a Star Wars: The Clone Wars book at his school's book fair last week, based on the new animated movie. He wants to read it every night, even though there's not much story there.

Tonight in bed, Will says "Daddy, you can call me Luke Skywalker. You can be Obi-Wan Kenobi. Charlie is Rex (a storm trooper, back when they were good guys)."

"Who can Mommy be?"

"Hmmm ... who's a girl who's good?"

"Princess Leia?"

"Yeah, that's perfect!"

Think Charlie's teething?

And here I thought he might just like red peppers.

Our baseball field

Every couple days Will says something that makes me really happy. Like Monday night, for instance, when we got home from watching a JV football game and he said "Daddy, let's play baseball!"

Sunday evening, we were having a fire in our backyard, using some scraps from the deck we built three years ago. Will said "Daddy, let's make a baseball field!" So we came up with this below. Will found special flat pieces to be the bases. He also suggested adding "base lines" that ran not on the perimeter of the diamond, but instead diagonally. Not sure if this is how Abner Doubleday drew it up. Notice in left field the Wood Monster, my special touch.

Charlie's baptism: The Wheelhouse

After the baptism we headed to one of our favorite Waupaca restaurants, the Wheelhouse, where we enjoyed pizza and cake -- Charlie's baptism cake and Andy's 29th birthday cake. Sara and Will also hid behind pine needles.

Baptism pictures: The church

Charlie was baptized September 14 at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Waupaca, with my cousin Erin and brother-in-law Nick as godparents. We were blessed to have much family in attendance and it was a really good time.

Business bib

Here's a cute picture of Charlie modeling a 'business bib' made by our friend Sharon Bartsch. Jana will put more up later, but this is a good start. Isn't that a cute product? Looks like he has my sense of style.

From the living room floor