I keep telling myself that I need to “catch up” on 2007 posts before I start writing new stuff for this year, but at the rate I was going (0 posts), I wasn’t ever going to get any new stuff up.

So, as a brief catch-up:  Tatiana is walking, signing (her favorite sign is “light”), talking (her only consistent word is “dog”, but we can hear “cat”, “mom” and “dad”, too), dancing (to anything), eating solid food (loves oranges),  and seems to have outgrown her MSPI (Milk Soy Protein Intolerance).  Hopefully we’ll backfill with some posts about all of that.

But tonight, I want to write a quick post about our new morning routine.

We pretty much use Tatiana as our alarm clock.  She wakes up between 6 and 6:15 everyday, which gives us about an hour together before Mindy arrives to take over.

One of us gets up, greets Tatiana with a lively “Good Morning”, or some wake-up song, pulls her out of her crib, and brings her to our bed.  We’ll sit and chit-chat with her for a couple of minutes before one of us gets up to make her bottle and two cups of tea.

Bottle made, tea made, we all sit in the bed and enjoy a morning treat.  Usually Tatiana sits between us on the bed drinking her bottle,  and we sip our tea.

Once her bottle is done (which is usually before our tea is done) we bring a couple of toys to the bed — a book and a  dog-something, and sit around and play together for about half an hour.

It’s a really nice way for the three of us to start our day.  I know that Sarah and I certainly appreciate it.

It’s especially nice for me, I think, because it reminds me a lot of home and my family.  Sheel and I have often spent time sitting at the foot of mom and dad’s bed in the morning having tea, reading horoscopes and talking…  Since Sarah’s joined the family, she’s joined the morning bed as well (when we’re in Milpitas of course), and now we’re going to have to fit Tatiana in, too!   It’s so fun!

Anyway, I’d better get to bed so I can enjoy the morning.