Saving the World, One Baby at a Time.
I know this site is supposed to be all about the kids, but I just want to brag quickly about Chris before I go on to talk about Connor's newfound entrepreneurial skills. So, we have to write treatment plans for the boys in our care, and they have to be approved by a CMO before they'll pay to have the boys stay with us. The CMO is pretty big, so they don't just cover our company. Chris writes all of the treatment plans for our home; they're called JCR (joint care review) and include everything from treatment recommendations to current presenting behaviors. They're pretty long. So anyway, the CMO called our boss and our boss called us, to give us their message-- that our house has the best, most well-written JCR's they've ever seen. WOW! I'm so proud Chris! Okay, back to my usual droning about the kids.
We gave Connor a little bank in the shape of a 'C', and he is just a madman about finding loose change. He's only had the bank for about two weeks and he already has over eight dollars in coins! He's undecided on how he'll spend his riches and is thinking about investing. He's been asking me to explain more about how people will pay him for keeping his money in their banks.
Aside from banking matters, Connor's been spending the remainder of his time with Mr. Fantastic, his new doll (referred to as an action buddy when talking to Dad). Mr. Fantastic stretches and apparently can use this power to save the universe in any number of ways. I'm not clear on exactly what he does, and I don't think Connor is either, given that he's never seen the movie (Fantasic Four). But that doesn't stop him from utilizing Mr. Fantastic to save babies. Connor and Ror usually have their superheroes saving babies when they play; I'm not sure if this is indicative of their respect for human life in its smallest form, or if they just think there are too many irresponsible parents in this world whose children need to be saved from their carelessness. Either way, I guess it's a noble cause, but you'd be shocked at how many babies they pull from burning buildings in a day's work.
Ror's superhero action buddy that he got to complement Connor's Mr. Fantastic is none other than The Thing. He's orange and really menacing looking, but Chris assures me that he's a good guy. Rory has been playing with Thing nonstop and has saved much of the world's infant population just in the past two days. In other Ror-related news... He's napping right now IN A BED! He asked if he could take his nap in Connor's bed today, so we decided to give it a try, and he just lay there till he fell asleep! Bunk beds, here we come!
Riley Katie is also already conked out for her nap; she had a tiring morning of "cleaning up." She likes to help when Mommy's doing housework; helping consists of singing the cleanup song over and over and randomly throwing household objects into baskets and bags, or handing them to me and demanding that I "puh-way." Her newest word is "WATCH!" She learned this from her big brothers, who like to say "Mom, WATCH!" before jumping off the bed and performing death defying stunts (I know what you're thinking: "She lets them jump off the bed? No wonder they question the safety of the world's children when their own irresponsible parents watch and applaud as they could be falling to their doom!" Seriously, it's a really low bed). So her version of this is to stand on the Thomas Trundle Table, which is all of four inches high, and sort of stumble off. It's really funny to watch, because from the triumphant and relieved look on her face after each jump, you'd think she had just leapt off the roof. Chris has been calling her Baby Knieval since before her first birthday because of her hair-raising stunts in shopping carts and restaurant high chairs; it's really hard to contain her.
Guess who just marched into the office? Our newly uncontained napper! Ta-ta for now!
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