No Dad, No Sleep

Goodness, goodness, goodness!  We miss Dad a lot.  And Dad misses us too.  It appears that other than Sandy, no one else is getting a full decent night's sleep because we are apart.  Although Bubeaner did sleep a little longer today.  It's funny how 5a sounds so much more decent recently.  He did manage to take a little nap and not really start the day until 730a. 

Silly Bubeaner looking like a little man.

We have completely given up on attending daily mass this week.  Bubeaner has been behaving a lot better; we have not had a repeat major tantrum, but we've decided to take it a little easier.  And since we were running around so much this morning, we thought it best to not take Bubeaner to the church group for a visit.  Of course, we may have cleared that by the group grandmothers first.  They were not pleased not to have a Bubeaner visit.  Bubeaner will most definitely be stopping by next week.  You don't mess with grandmothers... or any type.

Bubeaner out for an afternoon stroll 

around the neighborhood.

A reason for Bubeaner's better mood might be that three of his molars have cut through.  YAY!  The fourth one looks about to cut through at any moment.  But now it his incisors are also almost ready to come out too!  In a couple of weeks, Bubeaner may truly have a mouth full of teeth!  And hopefully, he will also feel a lot better by then too.

Petting (or smacking the heck out of) Sandy saying night-night.

Notice her thrilled expression.

Today during his afternoon stroll we visited with Mr. Jimmy.  He was thrilled to see Bubeaner out and about.  Bubeaner showed him how well he could use his little toy walker.  He then proceeded to visit with a little neighbor girl.  She was thrilled to be playing with "her baby".  Bubeaner spent the rest of this stroll picking (destroying) little yellow flowers (weeds), torturing a little unfortunate flying bug that landed near us, and trying to pick up a lady bug (Momma intervened on the last one). 

Bubeaner and Momma cuddling before bedtime.

Thanks to aunt Pau today we deciphered another one of Bubeaner's favorite words.  He goes around saying "NaNa NaNa" throughout the day.  We just assumed it was a sound he liked.  But it turns out it means "naranja" (orange)!  And he loves oranges.  Actually he likes anything in the citrus family specially if it happens to be orange: oranges, clementines, mandarins, grapefruits.  He loves them all and can't get enough of them.  He eats about a 5lb bag of clementines in 10 days.  Bubeaner also said "Meme" today which thrilled Meme'Licia.  He didn't repeat it, but it was pretty clearly anunciated.  We'll be paying even closer attention to all the babbling he does trying to decipher more words.  It turns out we are learning a language too, not just Bubeaner.