Ussins

We got him a small rocking-horse for Christmas - we brought him to Toys-R-Us a few weeks ago to look for toys and came across it. Among toys he liked, that especially he didn’t want put back on the shelf - he didn’t even want it out of reach of his arms. I’m now wondering how we got it out of his sight when we came home to hide it until Christmas. On first seeing it again Christmas morning, he remembered that you can squeeze the ears and it says things or sings a song, with its jaws mechanically moving, and he went straight to do that while rocking on it. Tia tells me that today he looked closely at its nose, asking “Boogers?” - looking for the boogers that he knows there are on real horses such as at the pasture adjoining my work building. He also fed it some chips, and when he squeezed its ears and it talked and sang, crumbling chips fell out of its mouth.

He understands the most important thing about Santa. I talked to him about Santa on Christmas Eve (don’t worry, stalwart Christians, we’ve been talking to him about baby Jesus the whole season), and he said “Brings presents.” He also pointed to the Christmas tree and said “Puts them, under there.”

With many visitors and folks I haven’t been in contact with wandering to this entry, likely, because of a link sent out, it’s a good time to say.. Tia is pregnant
The baby will be born sometime in early summer. That’s as specific as I’ll get - “due dates” are seldom accurate; and Tia doesn’t want folks asking her when it will be born because it makes the wait seem longer.

Apart from the lesser question of what the new baby’s alias will be here alongside Mago Elf Liam, niether of us have much idea what we’d like for his/her real name. Back to the lists..

We played Hide and Seek. After a few rounds, when we told him to close his eyes and count, he covered his eyes and said: “Heven-y Fa-ver..”

When he hid with mom, me counting, there wasn’t any chance not finding him because he’d giggle when I said “Where’s the baby? ..”

When I hid one round, telling him to count to ten, he counted: “One, Two, here I come!”

Today I confessed to Tia for the umpteenth time that my sleep habits are insane. She replied: “I think it goes back to my theory that for anything really out of balance in your life, you start with scripture study and prayer.” As soon as she had said this, Mago, sleeping in his crib and heard through the baby monitor, emitted a sudden, brief, intense gale of laughter, joyful almost to crying, over as soon as it started.

I think he likes that theory. And his laughter in sleep has recommended prayer and the like before. It’s like that. As a biased parent I’ll say that If the kid won’t sell that, no one and nothing will.

My wife is very good. This is of course always a contrasting statement, if you are a Mormon, meaning that I am very bad. But seriously, that she should recommend this while I.. need to go to bed this second! I will! Anyway, that she should recommend this to I, who am supposed to Lead (TM) puts me to shame. But this is good. She has a good idea there.

I know there are some things I’m forgetting. But I took down some notes to expand on and I do here.
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