This week

Here's a little taste of what's going on this week. The boys have learned some new words, like "quack" and "dunno". They're starting to make simple sentences like "Bye-bye Mama" and "More, Nana" (when they want more food or drink). They've almost mastered their first three-syllable word, "banana".

You all know by now that Ian and Brady are rarely without stuffed animals. What some of you don't know is that each animal is very specific to either Ian or Brady, and they're not interchangeable between boys. Even though we must have about 30 stuffed animals, both boys are well aware of which animal belongs to which boy. When one of the boys is crying, the other boy will bring him one of the (correct) animals to comfort him. They can be very sweet with each other when they want to! :)

Lately, Ian has become shy when he's asked to do tricks like saying new words for people. He gets embarrassed when he's put on the spot. He's started to pull the "You can't see me if I can't see you" move.

Unfortunately, he's also started doing this at the dinner table when we ask him to eat a few more bites of something he doesn't want to eat! It's funny that he thinks he can outsmart us. The other night we were eating pork tenderloin from the grill. For some strange reason, both boys don't eat much meat right now (Jeremy says these can't be his offspring!), and Ian had barely touched his pork. We told him that he had to eat another bite of pork before he could have his fruit. Finally he put a piece in his mouth and he chewed and chewed and chewed but wouldn't swallow the bite. Then all of a sudden he went "Dat!!!" and pointed out the window. I realized that he did this in an attempt to divert our attention so that he could pull the pork out of his mouth while we weren't looking! He finally swallowed the pork when we put a strawberry in his mouth at the same time.

Here are a couple pictures of Ian and Brady riding the Daddy train Wednesday night.

Today has been one of those days! We've decided to move the boys to one big afternoon nap instead of the two naps they're used to (about an hour each in the morning and the late afternoon) since they're having a lot of trouble getting to sleep for their second nap lately. It's going to take a while for all of us to adjust. They got so sleepy this morning that they really started to act up. I had a lot of laundry to do, and every time I switched the loads they decided to take their diapers off while I was out of the room. Both boys took off their diapers and pants 3 times! Unfortunately, since there are two of them, I had to rediaper and reclothe them a total of 6 times! Hopefully they'll be used to the new schedule soon!