Jamie and Liam Chew's Blog: 2007-01-18

2007-01-18 20:30 (Kristen) John and I were up around 6:20, so that I could go to yoga for the first time in a long time. Mom came along to look after Liam, who slept through my lifting him up and putting him into the stroller, and Jamie kept on sleeping peacefully. Both John and I were feeling a little punchy after having the first complete REM cycles we've managed in what feels like forever. Yay! I had a wonderful yoga class, ditching a good deal of tension and stiffness in my back and legs, while Mom kept Liam happy. He only needed me to come and see him once, but the adoring "oh, you're *here*!' look that he gave me through his tears will stay with me for the rest of my ilfe. He's such a sweet, loving boy. We visited with Jean and Jack afterwards, and then went back to Casa Azul to find John and Jamie. Jamie had woken up at 8:00, and was watching (you guessed it) Doraemon, and eating mango yoghurt and roast chicken. (John: I was a bit stressed out because Jamie managed to get bitten by a mosquito on his calf last night, and the bite swelled up to the usual 4 cm diameter. I put Lyderm and Fusidin on it and we gave him Benadryl, and it seemed to be doing better later.)

John needed to take his mother into Cancun to do some shopping (and some for us as well), so they left around 11:30. Mom and I took the boys to the beach, where Jamie played happily and Liam lay on the beach towel, also happily. We stayed out until lunchtime, and I dipped Jamie in the ocean to cool off before we headed back in (he didn't like it any more than yesterday, but he didn't at this point in last year's trip either). I made scrambled eggs with onion, garlic, tomato, Oahaxa cheese (it's like mozzarella), and leftover fish. It was excellent with tortillas, and we ate it all. Then we took the boys out for a walk, and made with the boring at the grocery store so that Jamie would fall asleep. He did and so Mom and I sat at Cafe Amancia and talked while enjoying the breeze and keeping Liam amused. We came back home, and Jamie woke around 4:00 when John and his mom came back from a frazzling day in Cancun. They had bought a Megablox dump truck for Jamie, which had to be tried out on the beach, after John and his mom cooled off with a swim in the ocean.

We had a lovely pick-up dinner of crackers, cheese, guacamole, and leftover fish. John also fried up some bananas and refried beans. Liam has been fussy on and off today, with what appears to be gas pains, although I'm not eating anything that should bother him. (John: Jamie enjoyed the food, but seemed to enjoy the local radio station I put on while I was cooking, and couldn't stop dancing with anyone willing to hold onto his hands while he ran circles around them.) Jamie is happy, and did some cutting practice with his new scissors. He's settling in, and Liam is happy too. I have said that babies who can't crawl are luggage, but Liam is now rolling luggage. He can roll onto his back and back onto his front with relative ease, and is now working on crawling. Mom and I watched him get his bum high in the air, and if he had been on a surface with more traction at the time, he would have been crawling. I'd say that if I continue to let him play on a blanket on the floor that he'll be crawling in a few weeks. All he's missing are strong deltoids. and he's working away at those. He can't even sit up on his own. Remarkable.