Note: The mother of these children does not take responsibility for all the fashions seen in these photos - some days when I get home from work they are not wearing the same thing as when I dressed them in the morning! :)
Here is the train BBC and mommy made in his bed this weekend...BBC picked the "coach right in the middle" for his seat!
Here are some of the things he has been talking about lately:
He asks "Why?" a lot...so much, that I think I almost don't even hear it. A typical conversation goes something like this:
BBC: Mommy, are you turning around?
Me: Yes.
BBC: Why?
Me: So you can get out of the van on the curb side.
BBC: Why on the curb side?
Me: Because it is safer on the curb side. The street side has cars going by.
BBC: Why does the street side have cars?
Me: Because cars drive on the street.
BBC: Why?
Me: They are supposed to drive on the street.
BBC: Are we here now? Is this the curb side?
Me: Yes.
BBC: Why?
Me: Because we are here now, at home. It's time to get out.
BBC: Why is this called the curb side, Mommy?
Me: Because this step right here is the curb.
BBC: Why is it a step?
Me: To keep the cars in the street and the people on the sidewalk.
BBC: Why?
Me: That's just the way it is, honey.
BBC: Why, Mommy? Is this the curb right here (pointing to the curb)?
Me: Yes.
BBC: Why?
...and so it goes...
While playing with his animals - "Shhh, we're sleeping, Mommy. Don't wake up us!!"
He was playing so nicely with his otter, and wrapping him up like a baby and singing to him, etc... I told him he was really being nice to that baby otter, and maybe he would be that nice to E and A if they were really cute baby otters instead of a really cute baby brother and sister. He said, "Yeah, Mom, if they were otters then I would not say NO! at them."
Grandma had explained to BBC that the 4th of July is the birthday for the United States. So all day on the 4th of July when we reminded him to say "Happy 4th of July" he said, "Happy Birthday, July!"
Daddy took BBC up the street to with some neighbors to their deck where it was high enough to see the fireworks over Lake Union. BBC was not too sure he liked them at first, and he told everyone that he thought they were going to keep going and going in the sky and come and sting him! When he came home I asked him if he saw some fireworks that looked like stars, and some like trees, and some like planets...and he said, "Yeah! And some looked like a snowball, Mom!"
And here is a story from the blog from his teacher, J, at school when she asked each of the kids about things that were scary to them. Here are their replies:
"Ghosts...flying all around." (P)
"Kitty cats not scary to me." (I)
"Dogs." (O)
"Monster bear." (A)
"Monster bear." (O)
"Polar bears." (A)
"Polar
bears are scary to me, too. And bears, too...they bite me. Monsters,
bears and dinosaurs. they bite me. And some elephants bite me, too."
(BBC)
"A elephant." (H)
And special thanks to Nana for this summertime shorts set for BBC!
Here is E showing off his newest smile, complete with the 4 newer teeth on top.
Miss A is still holding out with her 2 on the bottom, but there is a lot of drooling and teething still going on...
Daddy does a fabulous reading of Baby Baluga, mostly sung...E especially loves it! This was BBC's favorite book for several months when he was this age, and so I think he is enjoying it again these days. At the babies' birthday party he asked our friend, M, if he could please read him a book. M agreed, and BBC brought he Baby Beluga and said, "Will you sing it, please?!"
BBC has been asking me for a very long time if he could have a real guitar. Following the babies' 1st birthday, we found one and presented it to the big brother:
Other than books, or maybe a new ball when he was younger, I cannot remember another gift he seemed to be more happy about.
"Mom, I can make a chord!"
E has been saying "Da Da!" whenever he sees his daddy for about a week or more now...I think it will have to be considered his first word :) He does love his daddy.
Tonight, after he finished his bottle, he put his head on his daddy's shoulder and said, "Nigh Nigh" as clear as a bell.
Miss A is not as darn loud as her little brother when she talks, but she seems to have longer conversations and phrases. I'm sure I'll be able to make out the words soon enough, and I can hardly wait to have another girl to talk to in this house full of boys!
We were blessed with the gift of Grandma in honor of the babies' birthday! It was a short visit, but we squeezed in lots of hugs and books and milk and love - and a very windy afternoon at the beach.
E needed a bath more than A after enjoying his 1st birthday cake, a homemade vanilla cake with honey butter cream frosting (thanks to my dear friend, S, for baking!) made especially for our cute little bears.
A is usually a *very* messy girl, but I think the crowd at the party may have had her a bit out of sorts, so she didn't really partake in her cake much. Or maybe she did not want to get her party dress gooey...
