Cosleeping with a babe makes news . . .but what about two? And when is somebody going to make something bigger than a king size? They can call it Gigundo Size. We need it. With Carmen’s sideways sleeping, David’s flopping, and me between the two, there’s not much room left for Matt when we’re all in the bed.

David loves to look out the window, so we bought him a Learning Tower so he can safely (relatively, anyway) stand and watch all the neighborhood goings-on on his own. When he is a little older he will be able to climb up into it himself, and we can take the tower to the kitchen table or the counter and use it as a nice booster step for making cookies or washing veggies. David very much liked standing in the Tower as soon as he got in it. He was able to reach the glass and slap it (a favorite activity), and then turned around and made a happy dance. He stayed in it a good hour, I think. Because it’s possible for him to fall out the sides (he is still a little short for the intended size and age of an average Tower user) I might rig up some guard rails or something so he is extra secure. Carmen hasn’t had a chance to get inside it, yet, but I’m sure she’ll like it, too.

Oh, one more thing. When he’s a little older remind me to tell David that I’m sorry about the “Little Cowgirl” bib. It’s not the first time, either. I just grabbed for something clean, dry, and on top of the pile.

Carmen’s been working very hard all weekend to increase her fiber intake. She knows that if she gets caught with something small and non-food in her mouth she gets it taken away, so she has gotten very fast at snatching nibbly little things up off the floor, stuffing them in her mouth, and then looking up sweetly with a “cat that ate the canary” kind of smile. Today after leaving her alone for no more than a minute, we found she had eaten a chunk off of the corrugated cardboard box she had been playing with. Matt sang this song to her:

There a big baby who swallowed a box
Stubbon as ox, she swallowed that box
She swallowed the box to hold the dirt
She swallowed the dirt to get more crumbs
She swallowed the crumbs after the leaf
I don’t know why she swallowed the leaf
She’s beyond belief.