mobility

Blake woke me up yesterday morning and showed me this video he'd taken.

Ethan can crawl!

Pulling up

Look at Ethan's new trick!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

Danielle and Brianne came over and took some Easter photos of the kiddos two weeks ago. Check out the video I made of those photos below.

(note: due to unsophisticated (but free) software, and/or my inability to use said software, there are a lot of captions that fly in at the beginning. I couldn't figure out how to get the shaded background w/o the movement and I needed the shaded background so that you could read the text. So sorry. It's a little much, I know.)

Ethan can sign!

Ethan is using the sign for milk! I saw it yesterday when Jackie was over, but I wasn't really sure that he wasn't just making a fist and opening his hand randomly (see the sign here, it's like a one-handed milking a cow motion... which we all know because we milk cows all the time). Then this morning Blake was with the babies and I was in the other room (pumping as usual) and Blake yells,
"he's doing it, he's doing it!"
Me: "What? What? what's he doing?"
Blake: "He's doing the sign for milk!"
Me: "well, then get him some milk fast!"
It was funny (really). but we've seen Ethan sign a few more times today and only once (right before his nap when he was getting tired) did he not want the bottle after making the sign. Yes, Ethan frequently wants a bottle, but not if he's more interested in something else, so I think it's legit.

How crazy is that? his first word!

cheater post

things are busy around here, so this is a cheater post: read a bit about my kids on jackie's blog!

I would like your hat

A funny little video from the other day. We had just returned from a stroller outing so the kiddos were both wearing hats. Other than the fact that Kaylee wanted Ethan's hat, things to note include: Kaylee is as usual slow and focused. She gets a ring on the ring stacker! Ethan just wants to make noise. He loves it when he finds two things that, when smashed/banged into each other, make noise. Having two different kids is pretty fun; I love their differences and their unique little personalities.

visit from aunt annemarie

annemarie came up to visit recently and the kiddos had a great time hanging out. on monday I went to work and they got to spend all day with annemarie, gramma, and grandpa. I left my camera in the diaper bag and said, take some pics! and here's what I saw when I returned!

 

 (lunge!)

 (kaylee's latest thing is to shake her head back and forth like she's saying no. apparently she wanted to do that while having her pic taken.)

thanks for visiting us aunt annemarie!