Awaaaay we go.
Austin
Austin's got 2 adult teeth breaking the gum now. The left bottom (well, i guess that'd be right bottom for him...it's left bottom to me) incisor is about halfway up, and the right bottom incisor has just broken through in the past few days. Strangely, no baby teeth have fallen out! Though his left bottom one is really loose (not to mention badly displaced now...it's been pushed out and over so it's really crooked compared to before) and I could probably yank it out if I tried hard. No need to traumatize the poor boy, though, so I'll just let it do its own thing.
He is really into drawing now, loves to do it every day and seems to improve all the time. I continue to be amazed at how detailed his pictures are. He declared the other night that "I'm an artist". I had to suppress a chuckle. But I'm also irrationally worried now that I've been praising him too much about it and leading him to believe he's unusually talented. Hard to say. I like that he believes in himself but I don't want to give him a false sense of pride, y'know? And I really have no baseline to go by, since I don't really know what level of talent/detail a 5-year old should be drawing at. But to me it really does look like he's got an eye for art and detail. Has a great memory for it, too. So I continue to encourage him.
Austin's reading skills continue to improve. He can read whole sentences at times now, recognizes many words (I've lost count of how many), and can sound out many more. He's beginning to get concepts like silent "e" and digraphs (sh, ch, th) which increases his word recognition. And he can also write entire sentences from memory--often they're sentences they learned by rote in class, but sometimes he gets creative too. He's written sentences such as "We can go to your cat" and "you can look at the dog". I'm so impressed!
Jonas
Whoo. Jonas is still a force of nature. He has the terrible twos like nothing we've ever seen. He's stubborn, headstrong, and has a hair-trigger temper. He doesn't understand the relationship betweeen bad behavior and punishment yet, either, so disciplining him is incredibly difficult (and not particularly effective). But when he's in a good mood he's just as joyful and happy as any child I've ever seen. He's going to be the source of many sleepless nights when he's a teen, I suspect. :) Of course, he's the source of many sleepless nights as a 2-year old--still. We continue to have issues with him getting up too early, as well as getting to bed on time. Last Friday night/Saturday morning, for instance, he went to bed around 7:45 but was awake at 1am, 1:30, 2am, 2:45, and 3:30. Wasn't crying or upset, just coming to our door and repeating "mama! mama!" until someone got up and rocked him back to sleep. At 3:30, after Amy unsuccessfully tried to get him to sleep in the bed between us, I finally gave up and took him to the couch to sleep next to me. He (and I) both slept fitfully, though he did finally stay asleep...until 5:40, that is, when he was up for good. I was probably awake 80% of the time between 1am and 6:30 that morning. Not fun at all.
To help counter the sleep problems, we're weaning Jonas off naps for good. It's been kind of a rough transition, especially at night when he gets so grumpy...but he doesn't fight us about bedtime anymore, and he does sleep through the night more. And though he still gets up on or before 6am most mornings, it's a lot closer to 6am than it used to be.
Devon
Devon is crawling like a champ now. He picks up speed every day, and has learned that he can follow us from room to room--so we have to be careful/mindful of his location at all times. Of course with crawling comes the inevitable "pick up everything on the floor and put it in my mouth phase" so we're constantly fishing stuff out of his mouth...hard to keep the floor clean with 2 other younguns running around constantly with play-doh, chips, toys, etc.
In addition to crawling, he wants to stand up and walk so bad. He is pulling up on everything/everyone, all the time. Yesterday I noticed he was standing fully erect now too, and putting more weight on his feet and less on his arms. I've even seen him let go several times. Of course he doesn't quite have the balance, and has landed on his butt a lot; but he's very eager to figure out how to center his weight above himself. And he's getting it much more rapidly than I was expecting. Of course, Austin was taking steps by his 1st birthday (Jonas was a few months later), so I guess Devon's also on course to be taking steps by March if not before.
UPDATE: Devon stood up by himself yesterday! He was pulling up on my leg, then all of a sudden got a concentrated/inspired look on his face and just...pushed up and off. He stood free for a 3-count before losing his balance! Go Devon!
Devon's also started making complex facial expressions, which is just to-die-for cute. He has this one face where he wrinkles up his nose and smiles/snorts...it's only a momentary look so we haven't caught it on camera yet, but it's adorable to the point of overload.
He's very interested in sounds now...he'll stare at your mouth for as long as you're making sounds he wants to imitate (ma-ma, ba-ba, da-da, clicks, etc). Sometimes he'll try to copy, but not very often. His favorite sound is, well, impossible to describe in English but it's roughly "ghhhhhhheee!" (think of a sound roughly halfway between Ernie's laugh and Roscoe P. Coltrane). It's his primary sound of communication and he makes it all the time (especially to express happiness)--to us, to himself, and to the cat! His other major sound is growling, which is absolutely hilarious. And he gets tickled when we growl back too. He growls most often when he's eating or around food, which I haven't quite figured out yet.
Still no upper teeth, though I can kind of see his gums swelling out so I suspect it won't be long now before we start seeing white pressure spots appear.
OH - I should mention that the constant spitting up is no more! He hardly ever throws up now. There are days when we still have exceptions, but by and large he is barf-free. He also loves to try new foods now and will eat anything you put in front of him....bananas, meatballs, pasta, etc. We give him whatever he can mash up with his gums (he's only got 2 teeth, after all) and/or isn't overly processed.
Overall Devon's a great baby and is in his super-sweet, super-adorable phase. He's a lot of fun and gets along great with both big brothers now (and vice-versa).
That's all for now!
Monday, December 7, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
November 2009 photos are up! Featuring our trip to the fair, Devon crawling and pulling up on stuff, the kids being generally cute/wacky, and our first Thanksgiving at home. Enjoy!
Monday, November 16, 2009
Kids update, November
OK, i figured as long as I'm here, I may as well post some progress updates. Will try to keep this short, though, cause my brain is pretty foggy this morning.
Austin
Austin's flourishing in school. As mentioned last month, his creativity is just exploding. He loves to color and is really good at making pictures of just about anything. He has a talent for translating images from his mind to paper. He's also really into reading and writing now; he learns new words every day, and has developed the skills to begin figuring out words by sounding them out. He can pick out several words instantaneously now. I love it. LOVE IT.
Austin got what we think was a sinus infection 2 weekends ago which was making him miserable. He spiked nighttime fevers for several nights, but would feel fine during the day; this continued until last Monday when he got a really bad headache and slight fever at school. I signed him out and took him to the doctor. They gave a flu/H1N1 test at my request, and that came back negative; so it looks like a sinus infection was the culprit. He's on antibiotics and they seem to have done the trick.
Austin's got 2 loose teeth on the bottom (1 about halfway loose, the other somewhat less so) and an adult tooth growing in behind them. I'm hoping the loose teeth are ready to come out soon, I'm very excited!
Jonas
Jonas is Jonas...still a one-man wrecking crew. :) He seems to be calming down a little bit recently, though. He talks more and more clearly every day and picks up lots of words. He can make coherent sentences, sometimes 6 to 10 words long; and can even have fairly extended conversations. He gets complex ideas as well, which is nice.
2 weekends ago Jonas moved from a crib to a toddler bed and is doing very well in it. He still gets up out of it sometimes, but no more often than he did with the crib. I think he's getting used to putting himself to sleep again, though it's hard to tell for sure--usually we have to sneak him into the bed already asleep, but sometimes he'll be awake and will lie there till he falls asleep. Other times, not so much. But i'm working to break him of the habit of getting out of bed repeatedly until Mom and Dad's nerves are shot.
Jonas developed a fever last night, a pretty significant one; it woke him up several times in the middle of the night, but oddly he doesn't act sick. More tired and quiet than usual, maybe, but he's still in a good mood. The only other symptom he displays is hoarseness, i.e. sinus drainage, so we're wondering if he doesn't have sinusitis too. If the fever doesn't break by tomorrow I guess we'll be taking him to the doctor too.
Devon
Devon's doing great. He also has been sick recently; on Halloween he was positively miserable, crying and whining and being generally pathetic all day. Thankfully that was over quickly. He hasn't sported a fever in a while but continues to be congested and snotty, so we think he's got a cold. Other than lots of snot, though, it doesn't seem to bother him.
Devon can now sit himself up--i guess he's been doing this for a couple of weeks--and crawls functionally. It's not a perfect crawl and he can't sustain it very long, but it's more than the army arm-crawl he was exhibiting until recently. It's certainly enough to make him mobile (see the most recent video as an example). He hasn't quite figured out how to keep his knees under him all the time, though, so sometimes he'll get his feet under him and push up until he's in a full bear-walk stance. I haven't seen him try to move in this position yet, and he probably can't, but it's pretty funny to see him do it. And impressive that he can balance himself that way for several seconds. I wonder how long before it'll be before he's pulling up.
Let's see, what else. Oh, he babbles a lot more now, and it sounds like he's trying to talk. I tried to capture this on video (including one that I haven't gotten uploaded yet--hopefully tonight). It's extremely cute. He still has 2 teeth, both lower teeth; we thought for a while he was cutting upper teeth, but I think that was a false alarm.
I think that's it for this edition. More next month...
Austin
Austin's flourishing in school. As mentioned last month, his creativity is just exploding. He loves to color and is really good at making pictures of just about anything. He has a talent for translating images from his mind to paper. He's also really into reading and writing now; he learns new words every day, and has developed the skills to begin figuring out words by sounding them out. He can pick out several words instantaneously now. I love it. LOVE IT.
Austin got what we think was a sinus infection 2 weekends ago which was making him miserable. He spiked nighttime fevers for several nights, but would feel fine during the day; this continued until last Monday when he got a really bad headache and slight fever at school. I signed him out and took him to the doctor. They gave a flu/H1N1 test at my request, and that came back negative; so it looks like a sinus infection was the culprit. He's on antibiotics and they seem to have done the trick.
Austin's got 2 loose teeth on the bottom (1 about halfway loose, the other somewhat less so) and an adult tooth growing in behind them. I'm hoping the loose teeth are ready to come out soon, I'm very excited!
Jonas
Jonas is Jonas...still a one-man wrecking crew. :) He seems to be calming down a little bit recently, though. He talks more and more clearly every day and picks up lots of words. He can make coherent sentences, sometimes 6 to 10 words long; and can even have fairly extended conversations. He gets complex ideas as well, which is nice.
2 weekends ago Jonas moved from a crib to a toddler bed and is doing very well in it. He still gets up out of it sometimes, but no more often than he did with the crib. I think he's getting used to putting himself to sleep again, though it's hard to tell for sure--usually we have to sneak him into the bed already asleep, but sometimes he'll be awake and will lie there till he falls asleep. Other times, not so much. But i'm working to break him of the habit of getting out of bed repeatedly until Mom and Dad's nerves are shot.
Jonas developed a fever last night, a pretty significant one; it woke him up several times in the middle of the night, but oddly he doesn't act sick. More tired and quiet than usual, maybe, but he's still in a good mood. The only other symptom he displays is hoarseness, i.e. sinus drainage, so we're wondering if he doesn't have sinusitis too. If the fever doesn't break by tomorrow I guess we'll be taking him to the doctor too.
Devon
Devon's doing great. He also has been sick recently; on Halloween he was positively miserable, crying and whining and being generally pathetic all day. Thankfully that was over quickly. He hasn't sported a fever in a while but continues to be congested and snotty, so we think he's got a cold. Other than lots of snot, though, it doesn't seem to bother him.
Devon can now sit himself up--i guess he's been doing this for a couple of weeks--and crawls functionally. It's not a perfect crawl and he can't sustain it very long, but it's more than the army arm-crawl he was exhibiting until recently. It's certainly enough to make him mobile (see the most recent video as an example). He hasn't quite figured out how to keep his knees under him all the time, though, so sometimes he'll get his feet under him and push up until he's in a full bear-walk stance. I haven't seen him try to move in this position yet, and he probably can't, but it's pretty funny to see him do it. And impressive that he can balance himself that way for several seconds. I wonder how long before it'll be before he's pulling up.
Let's see, what else. Oh, he babbles a lot more now, and it sounds like he's trying to talk. I tried to capture this on video (including one that I haven't gotten uploaded yet--hopefully tonight). It's extremely cute. He still has 2 teeth, both lower teeth; we thought for a while he was cutting upper teeth, but I think that was a false alarm.
I think that's it for this edition. More next month...
Videos!
I finally got around to publishing home videos. There are about a dozen (give or take) on YouTube now, starting here: http://www.youtube.com/grover173#p/u . They go from July through last weekend. Most of them are pretty boring and don't show much, but every once in a while there's some entertaining moments. The longest and most recent video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7mFBajd7Dw) is about 7 minutes long...it's a pretty decent watch.
Videos are a huge pain in the behind to upload, I've found out (that 7-minute one took upwards of an hour to upload), so as I record them I'll try to put them up one by one. We don't pull out the video camera very much but maybe we'll try to change that, especially with the holidays coming up.
Enjoy...
Videos are a huge pain in the behind to upload, I've found out (that 7-minute one took upwards of an hour to upload), so as I record them I'll try to put them up one by one. We don't pull out the video camera very much but maybe we'll try to change that, especially with the holidays coming up.
Enjoy...
Saturday, November 14, 2009
October 2009 photos up!
I know it's 2 weeks late, but it's been a crazy month. Anyway, family photos from October 2009 are up and ready on the photobucket site. The album includes candid shots, going to the pumpkin patch, a trip to Cypress Gardens in Moncks Corner to visit the butterfly house, and of course Halloween. Enjoy!
Also, I meant to put up several short video clips tonight, spanning several months' worth of time; but it took me almost 2 hours to get the stupid photographs downloaded, processed, uploaded (this was especially painful, thanks to the piece of s*** that is photobucket), commented, and tagged. It's currently 11:20pm and I'm writing this in the dark as Amy attempts to sleep behind me. So maybe later this month video clips will go up, but not tonight.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend.
Also, I meant to put up several short video clips tonight, spanning several months' worth of time; but it took me almost 2 hours to get the stupid photographs downloaded, processed, uploaded (this was especially painful, thanks to the piece of s*** that is photobucket), commented, and tagged. It's currently 11:20pm and I'm writing this in the dark as Amy attempts to sleep behind me. So maybe later this month video clips will go up, but not tonight.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
October update
AUSTIN
Austin's creativity has fairly exploded recently. I can't quite put my finger on why, but I really think kindergarten has a lot to do with it. He does art every day (or nearly so), practices his letters every day, and has some sort of "special" activity (music, art, P.E.) every day. His brain is just bursting with creativity. In just the last few weeks he's begun to draw at home almost every day. Detailed, complex drawings too, like cats and trees and clouds and people. There is amazing attention to detail. He also loves to build things whether with blocks, tinkertoys, legos, or what have you. He can look at a schematic and build it. (He still needs help with lego instructions, but is improving.) His imagination is incredible, and he thinks in 3-D. This is something I've always had trouble with, which is ironic because lefties are supposed to be spatially-oriented. I am, and very much so, in my head; but I can't usually translate it to a physical object. Austin can, though (and he's a leftie too). My youngest brother Travis (also a leftie) has this gift too, it's something I've always envied. When I play with legos or tinkertoys, everything I build from scratch comes out very flat and two-dimensional.
Austin is also learning to recognize and write sight words. He wrote "like", "my", and "the" last night with absolutely no prompting or assistance from anyone...shocked the heck out of me. He's also getting better at sounding out words.
Truly, Austin is blossoming. It is so rewarding to watch it happen. This really is what I've been waiting for, this awakening of his mind and talents. It fills me with immense joy. Kindergarten is really helping to move him forward and I am so thankful. I think he's going to be a really good student.
Austin also has his first loose tooth and the adult tooth coming in behind it. Should only be a few weeks before it really starts to get wiggly. Exciting!
JONAS
Jonas....*sigh* Jonas is brilliant, but he uses his intelligence for evil. :) He is full of life and energy. His spirit burns brightly, I like to say. But he's also full on into the Terrible Twos and boy, are they terrible. He has quite a temper and a hair trigger on it. He will scream for an hour if he doesn't get his way. He has learned how to defeat much of the childproofing in the house--only the locks that are physically too strong for him to unlock are still working. He knows how to reach things in high places (he moves a chair) so nothing is safe. He resists punishment and doesn't really understand it yet, so timeouts and other diversionary discipline are largely ineffective. He doesn't like to eat dinner most days, so if it's something he doesn't immediately recognize/like he will pick at it at best, maybe eating 2 bites if we're lucky. Going to restaurants with him is pure misery...he wants to stand up, play under the table, wander, scream, switch seats, etc. Oh, it's awful. We don't go out nearly as much as we used to.
He still gets up around 5:30 to 6:00 every morning, and now he doesn't even come to get one of us. The other morning Amy found him awake at 5:45, chair pulled up to the counter in front of the coffeemaker, calmly mixing together coffee grinds and sugar from the sugar bowl. With the biggest smile on his face.
And he's Mr. Destructo. He will knock over, color, step on, vandalize, shred, bite, or rip apart anything in his path. Ripping up books seems to be a favorite lately, as does coloring over pictures Austin's already drawn (Cory used to do this to me--drove me crazy).
And (yes, there's more) he likes to hit, and occasionally he'll bite. He hits Austin for the tiniest perceived infratction...he'll also try to hit Amy and me. He'll hurt Devon if you give him half a chance. I don't think he's intentionally trying to hurt the baby--he just plays really, really rough. But we can't convince him what he's doing is harmful. Yesterday he slammed the door while Devon was bouncing from a bouncy seat hanging in the opening, and almost smashed Devon's face.
Jonas knows how to push our limits and push our buttons, and does so with reckless abandon. He is learning independence and his place in the family, though, so we try not to lose it with him. There are times, though, when I want to smack the everloving mess out of him.
Despite all that, he is still such a sweet boy. He's very outgoing, loves to flirt, loves to play games. He has a great sense of humor and loves to cuddle. His emotions are turbocharged, basically....like I said, his spirit burns brightly. I'm just hoping once he starts to talk more that he starts to *understand* more too, and all this misbehavior starts to mellow.
DEVON
Devon's still pretty immobile...but not for long. The floor is one of his favorite places to be. He can roll himself pretty much anywhere, and is starting to figure out he can propel himself forward. It's not quite crawling, more like a one-shot lunge. But he's getting the mechanics down. He gets up on all fours and rocks quite frequently. He's also sitting up more and more...sometimes he'll go a couple minutes. He grabs at *everything* and is insatiably curious. He's starting to make babbly noises and is very interested in watching your mouth when you make sounds at him.
Devon has one tooth already through the gum (lower right) and another one is just days, if not less, from rupturing too. It makes him a little bit miserable sometimes, but overall he's dealing exceptionally well with teething. He might even be a better teether than Austin...I didn't even know his first tooth was coming through, he was so nonchalant about it.
He still spits up a lot, but it's just something we have to deal with. It doesn't seem to bother him (just us, because he always seems to miss the burp cloth...and it smells terrible). He is eating "people food" more now and likes it a lot, especially fruits.
He still sleeps great--normally goes down between 5 and 6:30, sleeps till Amy wakes him up the next morning (or 7:30, whichever comes first). Almost never wakes up at night and when he does, usually some pats on the back is all he needs. Usually takes one nap a day, sometimes for an hour, sometimes for three.
Overall Devon is a VERY happy baby and is almost always in a good mood. He loves both his brothers tremendously, especially Austin. He likes Jonas better and better each day, especially when Jonas lies down next to him, and puts up with Jonas's wrestling with great patience. Usually he just waits patiently for Mommy or Daddy to rescue him. :) Austin can make him laugh at any time, and Jonas is getting better at it.
I think that's it for this time! The kids are excited about Halloween coming up...will be sure to post pictures. Hope everyone's having a great October.
Austin's creativity has fairly exploded recently. I can't quite put my finger on why, but I really think kindergarten has a lot to do with it. He does art every day (or nearly so), practices his letters every day, and has some sort of "special" activity (music, art, P.E.) every day. His brain is just bursting with creativity. In just the last few weeks he's begun to draw at home almost every day. Detailed, complex drawings too, like cats and trees and clouds and people. There is amazing attention to detail. He also loves to build things whether with blocks, tinkertoys, legos, or what have you. He can look at a schematic and build it. (He still needs help with lego instructions, but is improving.) His imagination is incredible, and he thinks in 3-D. This is something I've always had trouble with, which is ironic because lefties are supposed to be spatially-oriented. I am, and very much so, in my head; but I can't usually translate it to a physical object. Austin can, though (and he's a leftie too). My youngest brother Travis (also a leftie) has this gift too, it's something I've always envied. When I play with legos or tinkertoys, everything I build from scratch comes out very flat and two-dimensional.
Austin is also learning to recognize and write sight words. He wrote "like", "my", and "the" last night with absolutely no prompting or assistance from anyone...shocked the heck out of me. He's also getting better at sounding out words.
Truly, Austin is blossoming. It is so rewarding to watch it happen. This really is what I've been waiting for, this awakening of his mind and talents. It fills me with immense joy. Kindergarten is really helping to move him forward and I am so thankful. I think he's going to be a really good student.
Austin also has his first loose tooth and the adult tooth coming in behind it. Should only be a few weeks before it really starts to get wiggly. Exciting!
JONAS
Jonas....*sigh* Jonas is brilliant, but he uses his intelligence for evil. :) He is full of life and energy. His spirit burns brightly, I like to say. But he's also full on into the Terrible Twos and boy, are they terrible. He has quite a temper and a hair trigger on it. He will scream for an hour if he doesn't get his way. He has learned how to defeat much of the childproofing in the house--only the locks that are physically too strong for him to unlock are still working. He knows how to reach things in high places (he moves a chair) so nothing is safe. He resists punishment and doesn't really understand it yet, so timeouts and other diversionary discipline are largely ineffective. He doesn't like to eat dinner most days, so if it's something he doesn't immediately recognize/like he will pick at it at best, maybe eating 2 bites if we're lucky. Going to restaurants with him is pure misery...he wants to stand up, play under the table, wander, scream, switch seats, etc. Oh, it's awful. We don't go out nearly as much as we used to.
He still gets up around 5:30 to 6:00 every morning, and now he doesn't even come to get one of us. The other morning Amy found him awake at 5:45, chair pulled up to the counter in front of the coffeemaker, calmly mixing together coffee grinds and sugar from the sugar bowl. With the biggest smile on his face.
And he's Mr. Destructo. He will knock over, color, step on, vandalize, shred, bite, or rip apart anything in his path. Ripping up books seems to be a favorite lately, as does coloring over pictures Austin's already drawn (Cory used to do this to me--drove me crazy).
And (yes, there's more) he likes to hit, and occasionally he'll bite. He hits Austin for the tiniest perceived infratction...he'll also try to hit Amy and me. He'll hurt Devon if you give him half a chance. I don't think he's intentionally trying to hurt the baby--he just plays really, really rough. But we can't convince him what he's doing is harmful. Yesterday he slammed the door while Devon was bouncing from a bouncy seat hanging in the opening, and almost smashed Devon's face.
Jonas knows how to push our limits and push our buttons, and does so with reckless abandon. He is learning independence and his place in the family, though, so we try not to lose it with him. There are times, though, when I want to smack the everloving mess out of him.
Despite all that, he is still such a sweet boy. He's very outgoing, loves to flirt, loves to play games. He has a great sense of humor and loves to cuddle. His emotions are turbocharged, basically....like I said, his spirit burns brightly. I'm just hoping once he starts to talk more that he starts to *understand* more too, and all this misbehavior starts to mellow.
DEVON
Devon's still pretty immobile...but not for long. The floor is one of his favorite places to be. He can roll himself pretty much anywhere, and is starting to figure out he can propel himself forward. It's not quite crawling, more like a one-shot lunge. But he's getting the mechanics down. He gets up on all fours and rocks quite frequently. He's also sitting up more and more...sometimes he'll go a couple minutes. He grabs at *everything* and is insatiably curious. He's starting to make babbly noises and is very interested in watching your mouth when you make sounds at him.
Devon has one tooth already through the gum (lower right) and another one is just days, if not less, from rupturing too. It makes him a little bit miserable sometimes, but overall he's dealing exceptionally well with teething. He might even be a better teether than Austin...I didn't even know his first tooth was coming through, he was so nonchalant about it.
He still spits up a lot, but it's just something we have to deal with. It doesn't seem to bother him (just us, because he always seems to miss the burp cloth...and it smells terrible). He is eating "people food" more now and likes it a lot, especially fruits.
He still sleeps great--normally goes down between 5 and 6:30, sleeps till Amy wakes him up the next morning (or 7:30, whichever comes first). Almost never wakes up at night and when he does, usually some pats on the back is all he needs. Usually takes one nap a day, sometimes for an hour, sometimes for three.
Overall Devon is a VERY happy baby and is almost always in a good mood. He loves both his brothers tremendously, especially Austin. He likes Jonas better and better each day, especially when Jonas lies down next to him, and puts up with Jonas's wrestling with great patience. Usually he just waits patiently for Mommy or Daddy to rescue him. :) Austin can make him laugh at any time, and Jonas is getting better at it.
I think that's it for this time! The kids are excited about Halloween coming up...will be sure to post pictures. Hope everyone's having a great October.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
September 2009 photos up
New photos for September 2009 are up! Strangely, Austin's in hardly any of them. Part of that's because he takes some of the photos, and part of it is because he won't pose anymore - he's always got to make obnoxious faces or move around so much that none of the photos come out well. It's annoying, but hopefully it'll pass. Anyway...some favorites:
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