I wish i could remember the age that Stewart started sitting up - I think it was in November when i took those cute pictures of him sticking his tongue out.  So he would have been about 6 months old.  I know when he started pushing up (when he was laying on his tummy.)  I have lots of pictures and I can kinda gage what he was doing based on the pictures.

Parker is already pushing up when you lay him on his tummy.  He pushes up really well.  he likes to spend time lying on his tummy, propped up on a pillow.  He just looks around at everythng - if you catch him in the right mood.  And i can tell that he is fedup with lying down because he is always trying to sit up.  Sometimes i see him in his car seat, and he's leaning forward.  I took a picture of him tonight, he had fallen asleep but you can see that he is leaning forward.  Sometimes - and i stress SOMETIMES - when he is fussy, he just wants to sit up.  So i'll sit him up in my lap and he'll stop crying. 

You know how babies have that hair swirlie on their heads?  I think it's most obvious with boy babies cause their hair is so short - but that is that little swirlie - usually on the back of the head.  Parker has two - right next to each other.  He has this figure eight looking hair swirlie.  Bill and I are facinated by his "double swirlie."  

I was filling out the copious amounts of paperwork for the daycare and they had some pretty ridiculous questions.  One of them was, if you could compare your child to an animal, which animal would he be.  I left it blank.  For both Parker and Stewart.  If asked, i will say the question is stupid.  There is another question that wants you to decribe your child in three words.  This was much easier for Stewart than it was for Parker.  For Stewart i said he was energetic, happy, and creative/imaginative.  Bill agreed.  When i asked Bill which three words he would pick for Parker, he said, "super fussy mofo."  I wish i could have put that on the form!!!  I can't remember what i put down, but I know i put down fussy and alert.  Can't remember the third word.

Some people say that the binky is a lifesaver - we haven't quite got there yet - but i can say that the swing is our life saver.  And not just any swing.  The monster swing that we have in our bedroom, the fisher price one that goes both side to side and front to back.  He really likes swinging side to side.  It's just not a portable swing.  soon after we brought him home, i went out and bought a smaller portable swing for downstairs - and it only goes front to back.  He doesn't like it as much unless you sit there and swing him much harder than the little swing motor will make it go. But holy crap these things (the swings and the bouncer) SUCK batteries.  I've started buying them at costco because it's sooo much cheaper.  The big swing upstairs takes FOUR D batteries!!!!  FOUR!  I wish someone would make a damn AC adapter for this swing.  I have this fear of it being 3am, and out of sheer desperation, i go to put him in the swing to get him to go back to sleep - and the batteries are dead and we have no new batteries.  :)  When you buy the pack at costco, it comes with 12 (i think, or 10) and i have spares.  I have this weird fear or running out of formula, batteries, and mylecon.  

Last night - at midnight, i awoke from a dream of parker crying to find out that he was crying, very hard.  What woke me up was Bill getting out of the bed.  It wasn't the crying!  That scares me.  I was dreaming that he was crying, so his REAL crying didn't wake me up.  And I know how long it takes for him to get that worked up to crying that hard.  And then i started to feel guilty - like I didn't want Bill to think that I was just lying there waiting for Bill to get up (which he would have if I asked) and i didn't want him to think that i was ignoring the crying.  I dunno - it just freaked me out that the crying didn't wake me up.  How long would he have cried had Bill not gotten up?  maybe thats a sign of how tired I am.  Which brings me to my next random thought

Parker is a catnapper. Lately (= at least 2 weeks) he doesn't take long naps.  He takes 15-30 min naps.  I use his naptime to spend time with Stewart.  And when he only naps for 15 minutes, we can't even get started doing anything together and then he wakes up and wants to be held, fed, blah blah blah.  I should/wish i could use the naptime to take a nap myself but his naps are sooo short and insignificant that i wouldn't even get comfortable in bed before he woke me up.  And let me tell you, you don't want to take me up.  I'm cranky. So i find that it's best if I don't even try to take a nap - than to get 15 minutes into a nap when he wakes me up.