Goodnight Nathan

Nathan really likes books.  He sometimes plays with them and makes noises like he's talking to them.  One book that we have and have read often is the classic "Goodnight Moon."  I'm sure I was read this book when I was younger, but I'm noticing details that I never have before.  For instance, did you realize the time on the clocks changes as the book goes along?  Or that the young mouse is peeking out in all the green room pictures?  The other day as we were walking Nathan in the stroller we started calling out things that we saw.  Goodnight cigarette butt, goodnight mutt.  Goodnight mutt eating the butt (or his butt).  We had fun and were laughing quite a bit on that walk.

I just put Nathan down for a nap, because he really needed it.  He woke up early from his first nap, and was crying over everything that he didn't like in his bedroom.  He didn't like how the block tasted in his mouth, or that he crawled into my knee, etc.  I read him Goodnight Moon, and he flipped through the pages of that book, and then another book.  He suddenly burst into tears again, so into the crib he went.  Maybe life will be more tolerable when he wakes up.

Here is an update on the living room, by the way!!! Yeah!  We still have the cardboard over the fireplace to keep Nathan out of it, and the bookcase isn't back up, but it looks pretty nice.  I'm not crazy about the lamp either, but it will stay for awhile.  We're building our emergency fund, and that technically isn't an emergency.  However, it almost could have been because when I was moving it when Mom and I started painting, the top part came out and the wires inside were detached.  I said to my mom at the time, " I hope I didn't break it!...sort of."  We laughed over that for awhile.

Well, since he's asleep, I probably should make good use of this time and clean or cook or something else housewifey.    :-)