new pics and news...

Here is one picture of Jim and his new grill that we got as a combination Mom's and Dad's day gift from his mom! Thank you, Mumsy!




This one is of Logan from his school picnic. It was a lot of fun; lots of people, but L had a great time running around, investigating the water fountains, stepping in puddles, eating his weight in watermelon, and seeing friends from school.


In other news, L is now sleeping in his "big boy" bed (a mattress on the floor). We had a few rough nights where he was pretty upset at the transition, we had lots of cuddling, singing songs, and kisses to help him through it. But now, two nights in a row, L is happy to cuddle and sing a few songs, including his own variations "Twinkle Twinkle Little Banana" and he enjoys making up lyrics to a nigh nigh song. We then give lots of kisses and then he waves good night. Big boy!

where's the baby bean?

Here's a cute little video. Jim happened upon a great way to help L finish dinner if he gets too distracted; it works especially well with small food items, such as the beans.

whoah!

L also is "mimicking" our excitement at his accomplishments, "Whoa" covers a lot of ground with respect to pee in the potty, boogies, huge lego towers, or trucks on the road. Pretty cute!

Logan, who eats bugs?

Logan and Jim have developed a cute little "joke" game...

J: Who eats bugs?
L: Dadie.
J. Who else eats bugs?
L: Blub blubs.
J: Who else eats bugs?
L: Dada.
J: Dada?! Dada doesn't eat bugs, you big turkey. Who else eats bugs?
L: Mama.
J: Mama? Mama might eat some bugs. Okay, who else eats bugs? Does baby eat bugs?
L: Noo-ah

Here's one version caught on film...

All wrapped up...

A close friend told me over her "struggle" whether to sell her Moby wrap at a mom-to-mom's sale; and it got me thinking that it had been a really long time since L had been in the moby. Usually when he wants a "hugging wrap" as we call them here, we opt for a more easy-on easy-off carrier because he usually just wants a little 5-10 minute pick-me-up and not much more. But today, L was sick, throwing up and diarrehea, so I asked him if he wanted to go in the hugging wrap and put him in the moby. We cuddled for a really long time. I made sure Jim snapped off a few pictures because I thought it would be neat to see how much he has grown since he was a little peanut in the wrap so long ago!

Here he is about 3 months old...with C in the other wrap, and B & I loving our moby's.




And here are two from today...

Mom's day weekend...

Here's the chalk art of L and J; lots of fish, but a firetruck, a duck and some other stuff. Super fun!


L has been very interested in babies lately, so I picked up a small "baby" doll at the store, which he adores. Here he is giving it a kiss and then laying it "nigh nigh" in his toy plane. Ridiculous adorable. To only be outdone when the plane tipped a little during one of the many trips nigh night that the baby took, and he said "uh-oh baby uh-oh" ;)



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Jim took L to the firehouse while I tried to cram as much work in as possible so that I could take the day off for Mom's day. L was very impressed by the firetrucks. If you ask him about it here is what he says: "Whoa. Wow. Tuck [Truck]. Whoa. Tuck. Dada." Hilarious. Presumably for a 20 month old it is a pretty great time! He came back with a coloring book and a great plastic fire chief hat, which wore around the house up until the camera came out with his rain boots and underwear!

Reading with L...

Now that L has a bit more words under his belt, he is really enjoying reading with us! This is a "long" video (about 3 minutes long) of Jim reading How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food. L kind of knew that he was being expected to perform a little for the camera, but he still complied somewhat. Except rather than our typical reading a book slowly where he finds the cat or the dog, everything that is out of place, and the food, he wanted to speedread it this time. Still cute; sometimes he fills in with words/sounds and others with signs, usually please and more; but this time I don't think he signed please since he skipped past that page fairly quickly. His favorite pages are the one where the spaghetti is all tossed up in the air and when the dinosaur sticks beans up his nose; thankfully, the beans up the nose is less interesting to him than the fact that the chairs and table are toppled over.



Other fun news and notes...L now sings E-I-E-I-O or some version of that, then signs that Old McDonald has a "cow"; if left to him, the poor farmer would only have a cow! He also appropriately provides a "POP" when "monkey thought it was all in fun...POP...goes the weasel". The other night, I overheard him in bed: "nigh nigh...mamma dada ooooh...e-i-e-i-e-i-ooo...mama dada oooh...nigh nigh oooh" very cute singing himself to sleep with his own song.

And today during a moment of frustration, we made up lyrics to "Shake the Sillies Out" to something about moving our mad out, clapping our crankyness out, shaking our frustration out, jumping our grumpies out, shouting our anger out (AAAH!) -- that was his favorite part; soon he was laughing and asking for more of the AAAH! part.