Ani’s behind on her schoolwork. Nothing new there. She was going to work on it when we got home after dinner (where, by the way, our little two month old sat between me and Jamie on the bench and entertained himself by looking around and “talking” practically the whole time). When we got home Ani started finding things to learn on her own so I never mentioned the unfinished lists. Those can wait. First she decided to paint. She got out a piece of paper, some watercolor, a paintbrush, and a cup of water. She then proceeded to not paint a picture but to discover what new colors can be made by mixing two colors together. She was very excited to discover orange and red with less red makes orange-red and with more red makes red-orange. Ani’s not into art and painting is not something she often does and if she does do it because Cameron is, she just does a quick picture and that’s it. After she finished her color mixing she went downstairs to watch something on the eMac (we don’t have a TV so things are watched on the computer). She came up a little later and announced she was taking a break from watching Pocahontas. There’s only one type of Pocahontas movie in our house since I despise the unhistory in the Disney version. It’s a biography that was shown on A&E at some point in the past. Ian downloaded it from iTunes recently ($1.99 is SO worth no ads!). So she learned about Pocahontas and apparently really likes Pocahontas. So there you go. Why do schoolwork when there’s so much else to learn.

Cameron had a great time with the crabs. He doesn’t like crabs, though. He tried a couple bites and told my parents he doesn’t think he likes things that swim. Isn’t it funny that it’s Ani who was born allergic to shellfish (since outgrown that allergy thank goodness) and she loves “things that swim” but Cameron has always been able to eat them and doesn’t like them. He did, however, have a great time picking the crabs. My mom said he was able to open the claws and get a big chunk out and by using a knife and the “banger” as he called it he could easily get to the crab meat. The visual-spatial learner that he is, he didn’t open the crabs the “normal” way, but the way he opened them up yielded lots of meat and worked just fine. I’m sure my dad liked having Cameron pick crabs but not eat the meat. My dad is one of those people that all-you-can-eat places lose money on (and somehow until he hit about 60 he was always very thin – why didn’t that particularly part of his genetics go to me…).

And then there’s the stuffy nose. Poor little Fritz has caught the congestion my two big kids had for the last couple days. My throat is sore a little, too. It’s mostly a post-nasal drip thing that’s more annoying than a problem for people bigger than two months. Poor Fritz is having a rough time nursing. As long as he stays semi-upright he’s okay (and of course he HATES nursing sitting up – Cameron rarely would nurse in any position but sitting up and he never got a stuffy nose until he started majorly cutting down on nursing a little past his third birthday). This is the only time I wish we used those car seat buckets. When we’re all asleep it’s hard to keep him up more than the bit of incline laying his head on one of our arms provides. Right now I’m holding him while I’m sitting up and he’s breathing through his nose and doing fine. It’s nursing and laying down that are the real problems. Of course this means we’re not going to the nurse-in at Whole Foods today. Definitely don’t want to expose other babies to this little cold.