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February 15, 2006

More Ethan tidbits

So long ago! Over New Year's we went to Boston, and the Sunday we were there we went to the evening service at the Mother Church. (Like the mother ship, only slightly more labyrinthine.) I suppose there are more kids in the morning, but at 7:30 pm Ethan was the only Sunday school student, with three teachers. They were going to learn about David and Goliath. When we came back to pick him up, the teacher told us she'd read him two books about David and Goliath, and then he read one to her instead. She added that at least he'd learned how to read two new words: "Israelites" and "Philistines." Those'll come in very handy, I think.

Other reading tricks... Ethan was slightly intimidated by Linna's "glass house" in the NICU. He dealt with it by reading everything in the room, including the word "incubator" on her bed. He'd never heard the word before (that I know of), but did an admirable job of pronouncing it all the same.

Finally, a few weeks ago Ethan found my Set card game upstairs, and wanted to play it. It's a game I really like, but haven't played in some time -- basically, you make sets of three by having each characteristic of the set be either all the same, or all different. So there could be three cards that are all the same color, but three different shapes, three different shadings, and three different numbers. Or all the same color, shapes, shadings, but three different numbers. Like that. Anyway, Ethan's rather brilliant at it. We take turns making sets. Sometimes I help him by giving him two cards of a set, and then right away he can tell me the third, and sometimes he finds it all by himself. It kinda floored me that he could do it, actually, without me even explaining it, really. We just started playing and putting together sets, and he got it right away.

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Nice moments

Just shared a very nice moment with my two kids... after some rather trying moments trying to get Ethan to put something on his bottom half while Linna alternately demanded to nurse, and then spit out my nipple so milk sprayed all over her face. Once Ethan was all put together, we read books and nursed - both of them together, since Linna still wanted to. Linna got sleepy and was just lying on my chest, and I was rubbing and patting her back. Ethan was cuddled up on my other side, also patting and rubbing her back until she fell asleep.

And then Ethan fell asleep too, so that I had my two babies cuddled up, both asleep.

A little earlier I was nursing Linna (and playing Sudoku, at Ethan's insistence - a bizarre ritual that has developed), and Ethan told me he loved Linna.

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