The Phallic Stage...

Henry is still very much into having his hands down his pants and playing with himself and that sort of junk. We tell him constantly that if he wants to do that he should go to his room and he usually stops. A couple weeks back I was in my study/loft reading and whatnot and Henry scurries by into his room and is a little too quiet for a little too long. So I says to him, I says "Henry,what are you doing in there?" To which he replies, "I'm just in my room playin' with my penis." Yep, that's my boy...

Henry likes to put on his own lotion after his bath. When unsupervised, he tends to go a little overboard. He slobbers it all over his body in very copious amounts with gusto. We have instructed him to not put lotion on his nether region since it might irritate his pee-pee hole but he still gets carried away from time to time. So, the other night he comes barreling into Violet's room as we are putting her to bed and tells us he is all lotioned up. He had it all over his three pack so I told him he should go in the bathroom and wipe the lotion off that area. He scampers off for a few minutes and comes back with little tufts of toilet paper on his fingers and wiener and says, "ahh daddy, it not workin'... I need help." I believe that is when this picture was taken...

Random Observations

Violet said her first words tonite -- "uh oh!" -- after she dropped her sippie cup. She had teeth popping in all over the joint and is slobbering mess. She is mainly babbling and saying the baby stuff like "daa daa daa" and "baa baa baa". She had her first really good temper tantrum when we blocked her way to the stairs a couple days back. The two kids regularly take baths together now. Henry can properly pronounce Violet now. Instead of "Vahditt" he can pretty clearly say Violet. Violet is cultivating the beginnings of a nice and wispy mullet!