I have that tingly feeling in the back of throat and a cold, runny nose. I told the boys that Bubbe would read their books tonight because I feel like I’m getting sick and need to rest. (I also just enjoy listening to my mom read to them once in a while. But I really was tired and too crabby to read joyfully for sure.)

After bringing the boys bedtime snacks, grabbing crying Bailey again and coming into the boys’ room to sing Lewis a lullaby Art said to me, “Momma, I think I know why you’re getting sick. Because you have to do everything!”

Jessica hasn’t been getting her usual daily nap lately, and the poor girl has been tired! Netta and Bailey have barely been napping lately either. As Cynthia called it when she was in town, they take tiny “naplets”.

Lewis joins the party.

This may be news to most who read it, but Helen Gordon, a friend (and a good friend of my father and stepmother’s in North Carolina), teaches a maternity class at the Duke School of Nursing in Durham. For a few years she’s been using our blog as part of her teaching material for class. It’s fun to think about, Netta and Bailey, required reading!

Helen just sent me a photo of her office door:

from Helen:

tuesday’s are wrestling night, and for an extra special wrestling night we brought the mattress up from downstairs for maximum fun.

–sent from my handheld device–

Netta.

Though a bit delayed, I am finally getting around to posting a picture of baby hands grabbing things. The girls are both fervently practicing grabbing, grasping and batting at things with their hands, including the hands themselves. They are starting to show a preference for fingers and thumbs over pacifiers and today Bailey even got mad when I moved her away from a toy she was working on grabbing. Some toys have been grabbed and moved to the mouths. That is real baby progress.