Who wore it better #5

Another one

 

Many faces of Leo

He is determined to learn to buckle. Of course once he does get it clicked, he realizes he is stuck and begin to howl.

But not this time!

The difficulties of gowing up in the modern world

After facetime-ing each morning while I was away, Leo now expects all photos on my computer to and wave back to him.

What's happening?

Leo is awesome
◊ Leo climbs everything he can get his hands on and feet on : the stairs, the slide outside, chairs, and consequently, tables and the stove.
◊ He wants to do everything the big kids do. He has a keen sense of "not fair" when it comes to his sibs.
◊ He says "Hi" and waves with a great big smile.
◊ He makes vroomish noises when playing with cars or the dust buster, or anything with a hose.
◊ If I say Leo, wanna dance? He starts dancing.
◊ He knows what "no" means.
◊ Today he stopped me reading a book and grabbed the one he wanted me to read. Then he turned back to a favorite page and started pointing at things and babbling about them.
◊  He just started signing "more", but he uses it a lot!


Felix is awesome, most of the time. Whoever coined the term "terrible twos" must have done so before their child hit 3.
◊ Doing the potty training thing, it is going okay. He is enjoying all of the naked time immensely.
◊ He's been playing at being a baby with a family. "I'm a baby backhoe, Relia is the girl backhoe, daddy is the daddy backhoe, and you are my momma backhoe, and you scoop me up with your scoop. or "I'm a baby backhoe sleeping in a egg. I'm gonna crack out when I'm ready."My other favorite is we are a family of "sea crawlers".
◊ The other day Felix told me when he was a baby he was sleeping in my tummy.
◊  This time last year, Felix was pretty much terrified of the water. This year he can't get enough of the deep end of the wading pool. I have to remind him constantly not to jump in.


Aurelia is awesome as usual.
◊  She is a social butterfly.  That is hampered by her early bird habits. She gets up before any of her friends and then goes to bed almost right after supper so she isn't a complete bear the next day. However, she finds a friend from school just about everywhere we go: the zoo, the pool, the library.
◊  She can't hep but read. Sometimes I get irritated as she stops to try to figure out a sign, while I'm in a hurry to get somewhere. But I really can't complain about that, right?
◊  I love watching her work with numbers. She is getting better at reasoning with numbers and I cannot wait to see what she does in first grade.
◊  She is constantly coming up with new schemes and plans that usually involve a lot of help from me. What will happen when she can do more on her own?

While we have moments of complete crying screaming whining chaos, when the kids aren't tired or hungry, they are great together. It is fun to watch them help each other and play together.

I'm feeling my summer days already slipping away. I can't believe it is almost July already. I've pretty much convinced myself that summer is done when August starts since I have classes that start August 9th. Ugh. I'm feeling like there is not enough time, even though I have a whole month left.

Leo!

Seven Months

Oh goodness, can you resist that smile? We've got some pretty good lookin' kids. Unfortunately cloudy November days make for super blurry photos. We may have to take a second crack at it if the sun comes out again any time this week.

Five Months

In fact, this week, he turned 5 months. It is so much harder to get him to smile for pictures now that he is interested in everything. However, he is very generous with smiles when people are pointed at him.

Relia offered to help (begged, actually) and this time she really was helpful. So much so that we even took a halfway decent family picture or two. (again, I'm loving my camera remote)
She even insisted on taking a few photos herself, including this one of Leo and me.
Then Felix got in on the action

Front row seats for tummy time -They set this up, I had nothing to do with it.

Regression? He was never a big pacifier baby.





Don't Relia & Leo have the same eyes?

You may have noticed, I've been photoing it up like crazy. My poor iphoto keeps telling me it is low on space, despite the fact that I have been deleting excess shots like crazy. Hmmmm. Turns out that I need to empty out my iphoto trash specifically. So 3,500 photos later, I have some room for new Leo photos now. Good thing, because Erin dropped off the birth photos yesterday, and I had to go through and pick out the ones I love. Hard.

If you are interested in such things, here they are. It's pretty repetitive.

Inside and out

Yeah, I'm having a little fun playing with this guy.




No more pictures mom!


Leo & Felix went to the Dr. this morning.
Leo is 10 lbs even, and 21.5 inches. Head is 14 5/8 inches.

Felix is 33 lbs, 35 in. Both kids are doing well and both are in the 80s & 90s percentile-wise