Catch up (again)

Well it has been awhile. Not even sure what to write. We had Avery's Christmas program this week. It was very cute. There are pictures (not very good sorry) and movies up on my Picasa page. Avery also woke up with another dream this week. It seems a bear, one of Georgi's old bears with a winder?, was trying to clime down some where. They were both trying to drive to the house but they could not find it. Then it turns out the bear is in the garage in a box. We have yet to make an actual search for the bear. He is also become quite the little singer. He is picking words up in lots of songs and is singing quite a bit. On the down side he has been singing the theme song the Fifi and the flower tots (there is an episode of this at the end of one of his Bob the Builder DVD's).

Eli is still on his quest to stand up. He tries to climb up just about anything he gets his hands on. He stood up once in the crib because I was changing Avery on the changing table at the end of it. He wanted in the action I guess. This morning Avery was on my lap and we were his preferred ladder. It makes him mad he can't let go when he stands up. He does not seem as patient as Avery did. He is still enjoying eating. Every time the spoon comes up his little mouth pops open. He also likes little sips of water out of a straw.

Eli has decided to be the early riser these days. Avery ended up in bed with me last night so I am a little groggy. There was whining about wanting something to eat about 3:30 this morning. I did not want him to wake up Eli so I drug him with me. So I had about 3 square inches of bed until 6:30 when Eli woke up. So I think I am just writing aimlessly now so I am am going to stop.


 

Catch Up

From November 23

Well lets see it has been a while since I posted so I am playing catch up. Lets start with today. We had a real lazy day. Avery fell asleep for his nap at about 2:00. He then proceeded to sleep for 3 hours. He thought it was the next morning when he woke up. He was very confused. We are renting a movie for us to watch with him tonight since he will never go to sleep. Besides sleeping he has been eating a lot, at least in the morning. He must be in a growth spurt.

My parents came this weekend and gave us a helping hand. Thanks Mom and Dad. Every one had fun seeing each other. We did learn (again) that the kids do NOT like to sit for pictures henceforth the above photo.

Saturday morning Eli stood himself up on the fire place! It did not last long but he did it. He now gets up in his bear crawl position and can't figure out why he is not standing up. He just starts to scream in frustration. It is kind of cute. I am thinking he might skip crawling all together and just go from army crawl to walking. He is also working on his top two teeth. One broke through today.

Eyed Brown Grill

No big surprise I have a Van Morrison CD in the truck which we listen to on the way to daycare in the morning. Avery really likes Brown eyed girl, but he calls id Eyed Brown grill. Oddly every time U2 comes on the radio he curls in the fetal position and cries, wait maybe that was me. I try and block out that kind of trauma.

I put a hat on today because I am going to be working in the field here in a few minutes. Avery though he needed a hat too. So we both wore our carhartt hats on. Halfway to daycare he decided he needed it on backwards like Uncle Mike. He walked into daycare and proudly announced he had his hat on backwards, not forwards.

From November 7

An update at last

Sorry it has been a while since I blogged something. It has been a busy and stressful week. I guess the biggest news this week is Eli's developments. I got a report when I picked him up on Thursday that he has started waving! Miss Amber said he waved at himself but waved non the less. We beat mom home, but when she got here sure enough we gave her a little wave. Then on Friday Georgia left him in the living room for a few minutes and when she came back he was sitting up. Right before I started to write this I watched him sit up again. He also learned that if he throws his toy off the highchair whichever parent is on that side will pick it up. So he tosses stuff then looks expectantly at you. If you give him a little grin then he just cracks up. Very cute.


 

Avery's Dream

Today at lunch we had the pleasure of hearing about Avery's Dream. It seems that he and Nana were on a walk and encountered chickens. These chickens had it in for Mom and Avery and they took out after then to "peck peck peck" them. It seems they were being chases by a one legged white chicken. Now if that ain't scary I don't know what is. He also had the great misfortune to fall out the stroller. You see he was not strapped in. Nana should really be more careful. They were of course out on a walk in search of Backhoes.


 

Daylight Savings Time

I hate daylight savings time :(. I read this morning why we have it. It was my previous opinion that it was to torturer people with small children who like to wake up at 5:30 4:30. Errrrrr

Halloween

Last night we made our trick-or-treat journey through the Rogue Valley Mall. It is a fun place to go because you get to see all sorts of costumes. The giraffe with the big booty is a fine example. Avery harldy said two words the whole time besides trick-or-treat and thank you. He was just soaking it all in.