My mom tried to prepare me for David being jealous when the baby came. I told her that David wasn’t that kind of kid, but she said that I’d never know. Most kids are jealous, she said. I was skeptical but I stayed quiet.



Now I can officially say she was wrong.

Here’s David putting on a puppet show for Nathaniel, just to make sure he wasn’t sad.







Nathaniel loved every minute of it.







And here’s the puppet-master.



And then when he was done putting on the show. He read to his little brother.







Yep, he’s the best brother ever. We are so blessed.

Videos from David’s birthday.The first one is really long
and has music instead of sound, except for the very end. The second one is a few clips of
voice.

And here are
the photos from the party.

Happy Birthday, my wonderful son.

David doesn’t like to take naps. He often fights on the way to bed. But,
every now and then, he takes these long, peaceful naps. Sometimes they
last three hours. After one of these, he wakes up a little disoriented
but very happy. He’s well rested. Ready to conquer the world.

It takes him a good twenty minutes to go back to his usual self. When
he’s in one of these dazes, I look at him and I can’t believe he’s my
flesh and blood. He’s so pure. So beautiful. His white skin is so
unblemished. He looks like a real-life china doll. I am filled with so
much love for him that I can hardly breathe.

I don’t know how I got lucky enough to have this extraordinary child,
but I am thankful for it every single day.

Every night, after we put David in his crib (yes, he is still in a crib
and he will be until he learns to climb out of it!), I read him a book.
Last week, we started reading the Cat in the Hat and it has quickly
become his favorite book. As soon as Jake puts him down, he starts
chanting “Cat, Hat, cat, hat!” until I show up with the book. Then we
both sit down and I read.

Tonight, I switched to another Dr. Seuss book and when we finished he
said, “More Cat in Hat” and so we read another and then he said “more”
and I said “No more tonight my love, we’ll read more tomorrow.” I so
hope he is like that for the rest of his life.



If I am able to pass on my love of reading to David, it will be one of
the best presents I could ever give him.

And here is the fake sneeze we were actually trying to capture. Isn’t he
a sweetheart?

When David stopped waking up every 35 minutes, we made a pact never to
go into his room in the middle of the night and with few exceptions
we’ve stuck to the rule. Lately, our little boy picked up two
interesting habits that make us wander what he does behind closed doors.

First of all, he randomly wakes up at all hours and shrieks like his
eyeballs are being plucked right out. The sounds are so scary that
you’re convinced he must be bleeding. However, two seconds after I walk
in, he’s in great humors and pointing to the door and making the
enthusiastic sounds of “please let me out so I can play.”

Secondly, he has managed to master zippers, pants, diapers and any
other forms of clothing such that he can go from fully dressed to stark
naked within seconds. He loves doing this during naps and in the morning
before we even know he’s awake. For all we know, he does it in the
middle of the night. What we do know is that we come in and he’s naked.
The bed holds what would usually be so well covered by the diaper. Add
to that, the fact that David loves pooping first thing in the morning
and you should have a good visual of our morning surprises.

To get a better sense of exactly what’s going on behind the dark, closed
doors, we just bought a baby video monitor. This lets me watch David all
night long and it has quickly become my favorite channel.