Violet & Henry: The Cuteness Continues...

Violet is doing super. She basically always sleeps through the night. She is becoming extremely agile in the Johnny Jump Up. She is also able to sit upright for a short time if we prop her up. She is starting to do the body movements that are gearing up towards inchworm movements. She will do pelvic thrusts and leg kicks and she loves to grab her feet lately. I think she may be over her cold and infection stuff finally.

Henry is a firecracker. Have I mentioned that sometimes he will say "Whatever" now? It also cracks me up when he says "sure" when we ask him if he can do something. How accomodating.

It has been increasingly difficult to get him to stay in his bed and go to sleep at seven o'clock. He is learning that he can get out of bed, turn his light on and goof around. Sometimes we can hear him reading books or playing by himself. Other times he will sneak out of his room and spy on me and mama. He thinks he is pretty sneaky. We have been giving him big boy status and leaving his bedroom door open and letting him fall asleep while listening to his favorite jams. Now we have to threaten him with closing the door to get him to stay in bed.

We recently got carpet in our bedroom and moved our bed into our actual bedroom. Woo hoo. We had just flopped our mattress on the floor on the loft level next to the kids bedrooms. Before, when Henry woke up, our bed was right outside his bedroom door and he would just hop into bed and start jumping on our heads and poking our eyelids. Now, if he wakes up early in the morning or in the middle of the night, we were worried he would wonder downstairs in the dark and fall. So we had to figure out a way to enable him to turn on lights when he woke up. That is where "light stick" comes in. I invented "light stick" since he is just a whisker too short to reach the light switch. Now when he wakes up we can hear him scamper around upstairs, grab his light stick and start flipping switches.

Henry is still generally uninterested in the whole potty training situation. He likes to pee on the potty mainly as a novelty act and he realizes that it is a gimmick that allows him to prolong the 'going to bed' routine. The other day we were letting him fly commando in his sweat pants and he dropped a duece. It amazes me that a person can poop and not realize it is happening.

Henry is a creative genius. He excels at many mediums, but seems to prefer finger painting. Let's just say he is awesome and leave it at that.

Too bad our Christmas photo shoot at Babys 'R' Us didn't go this well.

One of Henry's favorite games is where he will hop in a box or something and tell me to carry him around. I put him in a clothes basket and threw him up on the fridge. He was confused. I think the sepia tone really captures the moment...

Henry had his buddy Luke over last Saturday. They are really close in age and both a new big brothers. It was fun to watch the two boys get rambunctious. They would look at each other and just start laughing and jumping up and down. At one point one of them said "C'MON, let's laugh and run!!". And that is exactly what they did for about three hours.

Henry had Grandma Judy over the other day to partake in Christmas Cookie Madness. I am not sure what Henry is thinking in this one...

This is the first ever multi-child bath experiment at our household.

We are an EXTREMELY festive family.

RIP Ike Turner.