Well, once again there’s not too much to blog about in terms of fun activities or sightseeing adventures so I’ll just take a few minutes to share a few of the latest developments with the kids.
Tyler is growing up into quiet a young boy. He’s talking so well and is able to understand and respond appropriately. So, for example, he was repeating Thesha word-for-word as she was trying to ask him to do something and she said, “Are you just going to repeat everything I say or what?” and his appropriate response was “Yes.” Well, ok then.
The best part about him understanding and responding accordingly is that I now have someone who can start to do those menial tasks that aren’t real difficult but are just a hassle. For example, we were getting ready to go out and I needed to change Tyler’s diaper. So I just asked him to run get me a diaper. Amazingly he ran and not only got a diaper but grabbed the tub of wipes as well. Sweet. “Ok,” I thought, “let’s see how well he REALLY understands.” So I asked him to go to the fridge and get me a soda. AWESOME – he totally just brought me a Mt. Dew and I didn’t even have to leave my indentation in the couch. I felt bad that I had reached a new level of laziness, but I figure I’ve earned it and sooner or later he’s going to figure out that the whole “Hurry, I’ll time you.” bit is just a hoax to get him to do stuff he really doesn’t want to do. I have to be careful with my new-found powers, however. The other day we were at the grocery store and as we were checking out I almost tossed him the keys and asked him to pull the car up to the door. Yeah, I really need to save that one for later when I can really use it to my advantage.
Another fun thing that Tyler’s been doing is stretching his imagination. I don’t know where he picked this up, but lately he’s been “hopping” around on his hands and knees and referring to himself as “little froggy”. “C’mon, little froggy.” “It’s time for lunch, little froggy.” “Stop kicking your sister, little froggy.” I would worry about this but every once in a while he still comes up to me and says “Hi Dad it’s me Tyler.” so I guess it’s all normal. Plus as long as that little froggy can bring me some chocolate donuts from the pantry he can hop all he wants.
Here’s our little froggy… ready to serve.
The other really fun thing lately has been Reagan’s furniture surfing. She learned how to pull herself up on the furniture a couple weeks ago and there was no stopping her. You can’t sit anywhere without a scene like this…
I know you’re sitting there thinking, “Ahhh, how cute.” and Thesha and I would agree with you. Our pants that have puke stains all over them, however, would probably disagree. Sigh… I’m sure some day she’ll stop puking all over. I never thought I would want something more than a kid that was pottie trained until we had Reagan and found out what it was like to have a puker. I haven’t walked through this many wet spots on the carpet since I had a puppy in the house as a kid. But like the puppy, Reagan is too freakin’ cute to be too upset at.
The latest, however, is that Reagan took her surfing to a new level yesterday. We have a couple of the little walker toys and yesterday Thesha stood her up to one of them and like a rocket Reagan took off across the room. As if the speed crawling didn’t make her mobile enough, now she’s moving around upright.
Thankfully she hasn’t learned how to go backwards or turn around yet.
As for us, it’s been pretty much life as usual. Thesha’s been having fun learning all the in’s and out’s of our camera lately and stumbled on a neat trick. She was able to make it look like Tyler is disappearing.
Now you see him…
Now you don’t…
I don’t know whether to be creeped out by that picture or not. I mean, I know it’s just a weird effect with the shutter speed and aperture setting and stuff but that’s just creepy. I mean, what if he really disappeared. I might have to get off my lazy butt and actually walk five feet across the room to get the TV remote. AHHHHHHH! Frightening.
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