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The All In One Afternoon Activity

Noah has started going over to our neighbors’ house pretty frequently.  There are two robust Italian brothers who live there, both older than him, and their fiesty Italian-ness and trampoline-equipped backyard have sufficiently served to entertain him and to tucker him out.  This is awesome on many levels.  One, he is two doors down, which is far enough away that I feel adequately on stand down from Two Kid Parental Duty and can focus more of my attention on Rosie, but not so far that I can’t stand in the backyard and yell YOU BETTER GET YOUR TOOKIS HOME IN FIVE MINUTES OR ELSE MISTER.  Two, he gets exercise in the fresh outdoor air while I get to stay inside and continue my happy stale-but-with-wireless-capabilities air existence.  Three, he gets to witness the older brother’s earnest attempts to impress his mom with his imitation of Jesus on the crucifix (accomplished by lying prostrate on the trampoline, legs crossed, arms out, expression appropriately burdened) and therefore gets a little bit of churching, Catholic-style.

I’m not sure what else you could ask for in an afternoon play date.

Also Worth Mentioning, But Only Briefly

Rosie is now mostly putting herself to bed in her crib with no crying (although we’re still in the phase where I stand there next to her for a good while, silently plotting my exit route on my internal map of Creakyboardtown) and she has pretty consistently woken only one or two times before the morning, which after the last month makes me feel like a million and four bucks the next day.  This is all I’m going to say about this matter because I’ve learned that speaking of sleep success outloud or even over the Interwebs can send the whole operation straight to The Shitter quicker than you can say Hey how’s about we watch a movie tonight? Also, I feel like the subject of Rosie’s non-sleep has been exhausted.

Ba dum bum – ZING!!!

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