My Favorite Two Year Old

After yesterday's blog, I realized the only stories I have been telling about Jeremiah have involved him melting down (see Motherhood Mayhem ).  For those of you who don't know him, I'm afraid that's misrepresentation.  He really is such a sweet little guy, and I could probably count on one hand the number of tantrums he's had (which tend to end up in the blog).  He voluntarily puts himself in time out when he knows he does something bad like throwing his food on the floor (and then he picks it up).  He gets so excited about everything he does.  He's compassionate, always quick to kiss any boo boo that needs kissing.  He asks to go in his crib when it's bedtime without a fuss.  He has a great sense of humor with a hilarious belly laugh. 

Perhaps best of all, he fell for my ploy that "It's time to go ni-night as soon as the plane takes off the ground," making 55 out of 57 flights in his first two years of life very easy for us by sleeping through most of them.  The two more difficult flights were because he was sick with an ear infection once and throwing up the other.  When he sees an airplane in a book, he says, "People go ni-night!" 

He also loves to help with household chores like laundry (transferring wet clothes into the dryer, separating lights and darks, and pushing buttons), vacuuming, watering the lawn (especially when he can spray Dad with the hose), cleaning bathrooms (very thorough and focused with the scrubbing), etc. I could go on and on. It's nearly impossible to be down on life when Jeremiah is such a ray of sunshine.  I just love him to pieces.

Here's Jeremiah "helping" to change the sheets on the bed today.

In Joshua news...there's not much to say tonight (YAY!).  He seems to be an early person (like his dad) since his best feeds are at 5-6 AM.  Today I was there before 6 (FYI, I am NOT an early person), and he breastfed for 25 minutes, making it look so easy.  This is after being 0 for 6 over the past two days since he was too sleepy, breathing too fast, or just not interested with feeds.  I gave him a bottle at today's 9 AM feed, and he drank 15 of the 44 mL before he got all tuckered out, and we had to hook the rest up to his NG tube.  The doctor on duty this week isn't concerned about whether or not he gains weight.  He's mainly concerned with getting him to eat more without the NG tube.  It's slow progress, but we're heading in the right direction, praying for patience. 

Tonight Joshua gained another 20 grams, now up to 2300 grams or 5 lbs 1 oz.  He just finished bottle feeding all but 8 mL of his 44 mL feed.  That's great!