Beatboxing----hysterical!!!

Crawling is the new rolling.

Lucas comes to me with a plastic pool toy, so proud that he has written on it with a marker. I looked at him disapprovingly and said that we aren't supposed to use this markers on toys.

He looked me straight in the eyes and said, "don't be bossy about this, mom. It's actually quite wonderful. I wrote my own name and I did a really good job."

Pause ( because I could not speak)

He says "you know that? So really don't be bossy, ok?" Exits room.

Wow.

Merry Christmas!!!

Hello my darlings!

I have so many fun things to fill you in on with my littles.  Elliott really has a tooth.  A bona fide tooth.  A sure sign he is growing up.  Sigh. 

Elliott is also so very close to crawling.  I mean it, so very close.  Lucas thinks he is teaching his brother to crawl and to talk, and it is hysterical to watch him get on all fours and really try to coach him.  So funny.

We had a marvelous Christmas.  Lucas really 'got' Christmas this year, and feels pretty confident that Santa is watching him ALL THE TIME, but not in a creepy way. 

Photos coming up!!

Photos to brighten a very ugly day.

And Elliott sleeps....peacefully!

I haven't been posting because I have been tired.  Really, really tired.  Elliott had decided that we were so fun, he wanted to play with us every 45 minutes every night.  It was awesome......for him.  So we did the dreaded Cry It Out, which we swore we would never ever ever do.  But we were just so desperate.  The good news is that he is happily going to bed each night and puts himself to sleep without a tear.  No kidding, just like 'they' say.  It really only took 3 or 4 nights, and he sleeps through with only one feeding.  Supreeeeeme!!

He has also started waving, and it is the cutest ever.  Still no teeth, but don't tell his next meal that.  He is eating like a boss. 

Lucas is doing great!  He is getting taller every day, and pants that I thought I needed to hem last month are just right now.  It looks like his shirts are shrinking in the night.  His favorite thing to say is that he can do something by his own self, and he isn't kidding.  He can do so much these days.  Like pick out the letters in his name out in the world, make his brother smile, set the table, he hates to leave a job undone.  We are reading the Little House books, just finished Little House in the Big Woods and are now on Little House on the Prairie.  He loves it!  What a nut.

Blah, blah, blah.....photos up next!!!

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