Busy Busy Busy

Tillie Rose is so busy, always moving and climbing and watching. We can never lapse in watching her because she is so fast to put things into her mouth (and she's pretty upset if you pull things back out.) I have maybe a 50% success rate at getting her back to sleep when she fusses at night while Francesca is working, which is my best yet with any of the kids. She's a very happy girl, loves her brothers. They were playing Yahtzee and when she finally managed to get her hands on the dice she threw them just like they did, and the tried to put them in the little cup. Sometimes when she's falling back asleep she shushes herself. She is a big thumb sucker, any time she is tired her thumb is in her mouth. We are probably going to set up a toddler bed soon, because we have come in and found her sitting up like a little meerkat on our bed when she's supposed to be asleep. Last few nights she has woken up at 4am and thought that's a great time to get up and play for an hour. She claps her hands to mean more, says Hi pretty clearly, is still pretty fascinated by the cats, struggles mightily to get into a bath, and is pulling up to standing on everything. She's super fascinated by wall sockets, so we've hidden them, out of sight out of mind. She's super cute and fun. Again cutting teeth, jutting her jaw forwards and being annoyed about it. All strangers comment how much the kids look alike, now that she's not a tiny baby wrapped up anymore. If she see's me reading to the boys, she crawls right over, pulls up to the couch and wants to be part of things, but of course she starts trying to grab the book once she's in my lap. (Finn is nonplussed, he's still having a conflicted relattionship with her, he loves her and sometimes is really sweet, but often is frustrated and jealous that she gets so much attention) She's loving playing in the sandbox, she always gets happy when we go outside. Lately she has been big on putting things on top of things; dirt onto lettuce leaves, sand onto a soccer ball, sand onto her brothers leg. Very carefully and deliberately. Francesca was noting how much happier we all are now that Rose is part of our family. We are about to drive down to San Diego, dreading that drive, we'll see how she does.