March

Big developments in Jacks world this week.  Yesterday, he decided to start crawling. He's been so close forever, but finally figured out how to pick up his arms and get it done. He'd been getting around the room pretty well before though. And if that wasn't enough, as I was sitting on the floor with him, he up and pulled himself up to standing on the toy shelves. Then he pulled himself up on the soap holder in the bath. Too much. Then instead of nursing him to sleep and ever so carefully putting him in bed, I put him down and walked away. He SCREAMED as if being stabbed, but before I could even get to the monitor in the kitchen, he was asleep. So, this could be huge for my mental health. I had been having a lot of mommy brain from the lack of sleep. Jack has figured out how to cluck his tongue in his mouth and he loves it. He also wipes his hand up and down across his mouth while making noise and makes the ah,ah,ah,ah,ah and cracks himself up. He is a great baby and so happy and easy going and there's not much else to say.

Put himself in there somehow

Bobby is a pretty cool kid too. He is highly temperamental and short fused, but I'm willing to overlook that for the good. We try to limit his screen time because he is obsessed with tv, so I put a screen lock on the ipad. He would punch at a it a bit and sure enough one day, I hear, "1 1 1 1, it works!!!!"  So, I change it, couple days later, "1 2 3 4, I did it!"  So don't let this kid near your ATM card if you have an easy pin. shoot.
He is really into patterns and making them and finding them.  He likes to read still, but is obsessed with the page numbers in books and always points them out.  He can almost count to 40 smoothly, the transitions cause some hiccups though ...28,29, twenty-ten... and he still doesn't like 14.  His writing interest comes and goes, he is more interested in the shapes of letters in the bathtub or with blocks, rather than writing with a pen. You can see his interest in reading though and he is associating more and more letters with the sounds they make. He will spell out letters then say "dinosaur" for example, even though it's usually not the right word exactly.

Jack and I got up at 5:15 the other morning, and a few minutes later out toddles Bobby and tells me, "You can't play now, it's the middle of the night" I was not successful in getting him back to bed though. He also told me, "Have it your way" ! We know he's a sponge and copies a lot of what we say and do, but it kills me nonetheless. Especially in the car, telling me how to drive or getting frustrated with red lights (oops) It's cute though.

I think they'll be friends (mostly)

I will say this. I regret being mean to Carolyn and understand why Elizabeth treated me like she did. All the little brother wants is what Bobby has, he gets up in his business and drives Bobby nuts. It's a little mutual as far as Bobby also has to be suddenly really into the toy that Jack will be playing with. I try to tell Bobby that everything we have is both of theirs, but there is still a lot of "your toy" "his toy" going on. Sharing will always keep me on my toes. They have some good moments though.

Even though our winter only means 50 degrees, we have been hit with the normal colds and such. Bobby woke up this morning with a nasty cough and glassy eyes, so he's had a rough day.  He's eaten nothing today, so we'll go to the doctor tomorrow. Jack is pretty hoarse and has been snotty and had a low fever on and off for about 2 weeks.