Clayton’s new sayings: “I did it” with a huge exclamation and smile. Clayton now refers to himself as “the boy”… he says “kiss the boy” or “the boy do it”. My favorite saying has to be “don’t you do it”. Hmmmm, I wonder where he picked that one up?!
Clayton has decided that it is more comfortable to wear his socks inside out-and demands it, he has found the long-lost art of making shadow puppets, and cannot get enough of Christmas songs (We found him singing “O Christmas Tree” to everything… example). He’d say “O Snowman, O Snowman”. Pretty creative.
Clayton is learning anatomy: This month in the bath tub, Clayton has discovered the “girl hiney” verses the “boy hiney”. He is a little concerned that girls have 2 hineys. How does that work?
Clayton is learning to share (obvious by all the pictures with ‘stuff’ ON Laney). We are slowly growing out of the hitting stage and into other stages, but Clayton is doing really well with the sharing concept.
Picture: I asked Clayton to go in his room and find his shoes. Distracted (as a 2 year old should be)he came back riding his fire truck, wearing the appropriate hat and having his shoes on his hands.
-One day Clayton’s stuffed animals, that he sleeps with, smelled awful. I told Clayton that they needed a bath and proceeded to throw them in the washing machine. I’d forgotten about this incident until the other day when I hear Clayton running down the call with his bed mates saying, “Rosco, Blue, Patch take a bath”. Then I had to take a picture and document the ‘cleanest’ child’s stuffed animals ever.
Here she is... slowing growin her own personality (just as long as you don't set her down).
But she hides it pretty well. Most of the times that I have changed her infront of innocent bystanders, they have made a comment. It goes something like, "Man, Laney, you sure do have some thighs". I love those 'butter thighs' -as we call them (that is until she hits puberty and gets really self aware and all that girly stuff, right?).
This is Laney's first biter-biscuit. At 4 months, Clayton was loving some baby food but Laney doesn't show much interest. This picture is a 'forced' food picture. I opened her little fingers, put the treat in, and guided it to her mouth.
This is what she really looks like. She's trying, but not for very long.
Her toy is stationary and is much easier to get into the mouth. Looks like she is staying on a strickly bottle diet for awhile longer.
Put somethin' in Mama!
"Snow does a body good"! The snow really was pretty here and the icicles were breath-taking. This baby was hanging from our gutters. It might wrip down the side of our house but its a beaut.
