Curie March 2014. Curie graduates to underwear. Prompted by the peer pressure of her friends wearing underwear at school, Curie has taken to asking for underwear and telling us when she needs to potty. We are at 4 straight public successes. Yay Curie!
Curie’s month included the visit from Suephy, Jared and Dylan who brought Curie Dylan’s Thomas collection. Talk about heaven, 20 – 30 trains, tracks and Tidmouth station on top of the Legos and things they already gave her. What an amazing gift – thank you Suephy, Ed, Jared, and Dylan! Over the years friends and family have given us their hand-me downs, toys, and books so that we have not had to buy so much for our kids, for this we are grateful, we hope some day to pay it forward.
Curie has had night terrors recently, and we have had to comfort her when she wakes. Okay, so it has been twice so far, but she is inconsolable for an hour or so. We understand that this is normal, but it is wrenching nonetheless – other parents, do you feel protective and helpless at the same time? Curie ended the month with a fever while Bernard, Agnes, Eleanor and Miranda visited and right before our trip to New Orleans. Along with Erin’s upcoming conference, and Albert’s recent return from Copenhagen, it makes for challenging time – protective and helpless.Curie’s needy time is still with Erin, no one calms the kids down faster than Erin, and when the crying starts and the comfort is needed, Erin is the one Curie goes to.
When Albert returned from his trip he and Curie sat in a hug in front of the television for almost an hour. Every day since then, Albert asks Curie “have I already told you today?” She says “yes.” Albert says, “I love you Curie,” Curie replies, “I love you too.” Albert took Curie’s spare rabbit on his trip.
As we have said, Curie loves surprise eggs and Easter has been a crazy time of opening eggs. We try to find non-candy eggs, but it is not easy. Playmobil makes a great line. We are likely going to have to buy eggs when they go on clearance for later, and it may be that Easter is Curie’s holiday.
Normally we end with a thought of the day, however, Albert has started writing again recently (for those of you who didn’t know, he fancies himself a writer). Here is an unedited excerpt that is a little autobiographical and pertains to our daughters: “upon my deathbed, when I am infirm and insensate, I will lose all track of time and all sense of reality; I will be transported once again with my infant daughter snuggled against my neck in the wee hours of the morning, and in the still and deafeningly quiet, marked with the sound of her breathing, I will think to myself that this is worth remembering when it is time to die.” Cherish the time.
From Facebook: Curie may not remember when she is older, but the best times are the simple family times, where she sings in the bed, reads us Green Eggs and Ham, and we go into the tunnel and look for “scaary lions,” where in a low two year old voice while shaking her head, she roars “rawr!”