# Chateau de la Tobler

## Thursday, October 11, 2007

### Re: Samuel

It's okay, I didn't mean to scold. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't talking to myself (a not-unknown event in my home, although fortunately I have children so I can pretend I'm talking to them. Useful little bugs). I'm sure sorry that your family has been sick, what a pain.
For Halloween, I was going to make Mercy be a fried egg, Ezra a piece of toast, and Gideon a glass of orange juice. But I got to thinking about it, and the ages of my children, and decided that it probably won't work. I just can't see Mercy and Ezra wandering around a Halloween party wearing a foam board shaped like an egg or bread. They'll wear it for two minutes and then want it off, for comfort's sake. So back to the drawing board (or the sewing machine). I actually have an idea, but I have to see if I can do it cheaply first.
Gideon is the funniest little boyo ever right now. He rolls and rolls and rolls everywhere. He is getting really really close to crawling--he can move backwards a bit the days, which is the precursor to crawling forward. He's getting stronger and stronger in his arms and back, which only helps. He also has a really strong gag reflex, which makes eating anything more than Stage 1 & 2 baby food an adventure usually involving vomit. Gideon's occupational therapist (whom I adore) gave us two kinds of oral massage brushes to help him get a little more desensitized. Hopefully that will work, because he really really wants to eat other things--to the point of grabbing them out my hands. He has lots and lots of sounds and will repeat "Uh-oh" if you say it first. He is also learning that the "Ma-ma-ma-ma" sound gets faster results from a doting Mama than any other sound.
So what does it say about birth order when you realize that Ezra's first word was "Amen", Mercy's first word was "No", and maybe Gideon's first word will be "Uh-oh"?

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