At long last

A new post. The boys are cutting their second year molars. This round hasn't been so bad except that it has really messed up their sleep patterns. For the last couple of weeks Jack has been wide awake for at least an hour each early morning (like around 2 or 3 AM.) So instead of posting new stuff I've been napping during their naps which have also been a bit hit or miss.

There are lots of new things happening. The boys are dancing up a storm. Charlie spins, shakes out his hair and does this little side to side step. Jack bounces up and down, spins some and marches in place. They are working on and can partly do several animal sounds. Jack is so close to full on speech that I dream about him really talking almost every night now. He babbles a lot of things that sound oh so close to real sentences and has added several new words. Charlie knows everything you say to him but doesn't say as much as Jack does.

They are spending lots of time working on their puzzles and I'm sure they'll have them figured out any day now. Yesterday we got out the shape sorter for the first time in quit a while and they really got the hang of it. Books continue to be big favorites and sometimes we have to hide certain ones since they will try to make you read the same one 4 or more times in a row.

With the warm weather we've been going out to the park some. Charlie, true to form, loves the big kid slide and does not want you to go down with him. (In the picture above he really prefered to go down the yellow slide in the background without daddy holding on but I had to catch him at the bottom and couldn't get any pictures. Jack also prefers to swing by himself but this park didn't have toddler swings so he was stuck with me.) Jack will do the slide but really prefers to swing the whole time. They also continue to love the water and have already been playing in the hose some.

By far the most popular two things right now at our house are playing patty-cake (you'll catch Jack doing it dozens of times a day) and pointing to something accompanied by "that?" or "that!". Sometimes Jack gives up on the patting part and just rolls it up and throws it in the pan. Charlie will do it too but he is far less enamoured with the game than Jack is. Charlie is more into pointing to his belly or ear or belly-button.