Gray is slowly learning how to sleep like a normal kid. He consistently takes a nap in the morning, but in the afternoon it is a struggle. At night I can lay him down at 7:00 and he'll cry for a few minutes before giving up and going to sleep. Then he eats around midnight and 4:00 and gets up for good around 6:30-7:00. That's a helluva (don't worry, when it's spelled like that it doesn't count as a swear) lot better than it used to be. And when Kate sleeps all night too then Mama is happy. I'm amazed that Colin can sleep through all the nonsense that goes on at night, but he does. I'm glad at least one of my children likes me.
Colin and Kate are now sharing the bunkbed. Colin is so happy to be sleeping in the top bunk. They do pretty well at just going to bed and not keeping each other up, even at nap time. I like having Gray and his junk in his own room. It makes my life easier. Someday I'll get my furniture projects finished and post pictures of the bedrooms, but don't get your hopes up. Those projects are way down on the list.
Kate is potty training right now, and she's doing a great job. We started last Saturday, and she's only had a handful of accidents. She's still learning that she needs to tell me every time she needs to go, but I think she'll get it before too long. I really hope she'll get it before too long.
I pulled out some flashcards this week only to discover that Colin knows a bunch of sight words. What the what?! I bought these flashcards when Colin was little because they have fun pictures on one side, and when he was learning to talk I would show him the pictures and he learned words like wagon and butterfly and cow and stuff. Then they were put away until now. I was so surprised and impressed with that boy. I think all kids are a lot smarter than we give them credit for. They could probably do a lot more if given the opportunity. I just struggle with finding the balance between pushing too hard and just exposing them to new experiences.
And now for the pictures.
It makes me happy to see my kids doing things that I used to do as a kid, all without any prompting from me. I used to love to find random places to curl up with a book, and I always had to have a pillow and blanket too, to make sort of a comfy bed/house to read in. I like to turn my closet into my reading space, but the kids prefer their bins. (Probably because the closets are full of junk.)
What an outfit.
These storage bins are their favorite place to play.
I believe the pants on their heads were supposed to be elephant ears. Colin was singing some sort of elephant ears song while they ran around the kitchen.
Reaching for the camera.
Yikes.
Aww, asleep in his crib. It makes me laugh how Gray sleeps with his arms tucked under himself and his bum up in the air.
Kate's first braid. Her hair is getting pretty long, but it is still so thin. Her braid looked more like a rat tail.
Colin always wants a picture when I take one of someone else.
Kate and boots. (And rat.) (Which is what they call the zhu-zhu pets.)
Gray being fat and fabulous.
Colin and boots.
Joy School and I have a love/hate relationship. I love that Colin gets to go, but I hate doing it at my house. On science day we made some healthy oatmeal cookies (which we pretty dang good, considering there wasn't much sugar and only 2 tbs of butter) and elephant toothpaste (thanks DeAnna for that tip). The kids love our science experiment. They were all so excited. For an English major I think I do a pretty great job in the science experiment department. So far the kids have been thrilled with everything we've done.
The lighting wasn't great, but Kate looked so cute when she was all ready for church on Sunday. I love her striped tights, and I put a little tulle ribbon on her pigtails just for fun. She was very pleased with herself. I was too.
I have video of Gray crawling, but Nate has to help me with that. Here are a couple of pictures I snapped when he reached me.
Gray got himself stuck under the kids bed. He didn't seem to mind it though. He lay under there, cooing and playing for quite a while. I didn't see any need to rescue him as long as he was happy.
I wish we had snow to play in, but the kids have enjoyed the warmer weather too. Our neighbors gave us this car when they moved. Thanks Kendrick!
Fun with Instagram! Here are some cute pics I snapped of the kids on my phone this morning. I like the Instagram app.
Aww, brother and sister reading books together. If only they could play nicely together all the time. They are shouting at each other while I type this.
Sweet crawling baby. He is growing up too fast.
You should all be jealous of this Bejeweled score (and a little sad for me that I spent so much time playing this game). I played the same game for like 2 weeks to get this score.
