So Different

Our baby of the family has blond hair, blue eyes, chunky rolls, baby talks constantly (mama, dada, and baba so far), the sweetest smile and is truly the "baby" of our family loving to be held, rocked and cuddled constantly (which unfortunately still includes the middle of the night...bummer).

 Our middle child is very petite and fine-featured with brown hair, brown eyes, a stare that could stop robbers in their tracks, a go-getter personality already crawling, pulling herself up on furniture and walking beside it, and the best sleeper two parents could ever ask for.  She possesses every quality the "middle" child of the family is usually given, which makes her daddy really excited for her teenage years!  She is a mommy's girl and loves following her big brother around wherever he is going.

 Our eldest child is quickly approaching two and a half and his biggest accomplishment this past week is that he is now wearing BIG BOY UNDERWEAR!  That's right, last Thursday night he told us he didn't want to wear diapers anymore and he's been in underwear ever since, with only a couple of accidents over the past week.  He still wears diapers for nap and bedtime, but otherwise you'll find Lightning McQueen and Mater on those cute butt cheeks the rest of the day.  He is so smart and independent these days, reading books to us instead of us to him.  His memory amazes us, his humor cracks us up and his naughtiness well, lands him in time-out often (which I've been told is common for 2 1/2).  His blond hair and brown eyes complete the mixture of our family. 

 Yes, all three of these little ones are so different; yet they possess this one similar quality...

THEY ARE OURS.

Rocks

When Torin was first crawling, he was always afraid to crawl off the blanket and in the grass. 

 I thought the same would be true for our middle child.

 However being that she is the middle child, she was off the blanket within 30 seconds and over to the rocks within a minute.

 She had to see how good the grass and rocks tasted of course.

 I mean we all must have licked a rock or two in our day, right?

Or is that a middle child thing too?

First Wagon Ride

We have enjoyed this beautiful January weather outdoors recently and decided to give the twins their first wagon ride. 

 Torin decided to give them their first wagon ride that is. 

 He did get tired for a brief time and wanted to ride along.

 But that lasted a short time and soon he was pulling them all the way back home.

Double Trouble

They have their own language.  It is just baby talk of course, but I am convinced they converse with one another all the time now.  When does this happen the most?

 Why, at nap time of course!  I had to go in their room three times today and try to get them to sleep.  They lay in their room jabbering and giggling away for up to 20 minutes at a time.  Then they'll fall asleep within a minute of each other.  It is just like a conversation too; jabber, jabber, giggle, jabber, jabber, giggle some more. 

We need a bigger house with more bedrooms. (hint, hint honey!)

Monkey-See...

Monkey-Do.

She is EVERYWHERE.  She crawls very quickly throughout our house now and is pulling herself up on EVERYTHING.  She is so tiny and short though that she keeps bumping that adorable head of hers on things around the house.  I can't wait until I have three mobile kids (note sarcasm with the last sentence).  It is busy around here again, but in a good way.  A VERY GOOD WAY.

New 'Cars' Movie Tent

We bought Torin a brand new 'Cars' movie tent at Target this week and it is a hit to say the least.  Anything to do with the movie 'Cars' is the coolest thing in Torin's world lately.  He's addicted to 'Cars' movie characters, items, etc.

 He asked me to take some photos of his new tent today, so here you go!

Of course he does share the tent with his brother and sister.  And to our knowledge, only Ella has been drug out of the tent by her leg thus far to Torin telling her she couldn't be in his tent at that particular time.  :)

 

Art

Torin has been very interested in doing art projects lately.  He loves to color, paint, draw, and practice writing letters.  He can even spell his name orally now; although most of the time we still get 'T-O-R-N'.  That 'I' is a tough one to remember.