Cousin L was over today. Apparently she had never had a taco before, so we made her try one. We think she cheated, as she didn’t put anything runny in it, so she was pretty tidy. She also tried advocado for ther first time, but she wasn’t thrilled with that.
In the afternoon daddy and R built a snowman outside. The temperature was above zero today, the first time in a L-O-N-G time. J went out for a short time too. Here are the pics.

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Small boy enjoying advocado during supper.

R dressing up her brother.

Man I have cute kids!

Man are my kids cute!

R got a hair cut today. It was high time. She wasn’t too thrilled about it, but perked up after when she realized that she could still put her hair in ponies. After we got to celebrate my birthday with the Enns’. Here is a picture of my cute niece winking!

J had fun today playing with a doorstop. I remember that phase with R too…sigh.

Small boy, or J as you know him, is learning new things. A few days ago he learned to shake his head ‘no’. I’m not sure how I feel about that development. I mean getting a waving arm in my face when he didn’t want something was not nice, but now he is applying “no” to more things than just what is on the spoon coming towards him…

Today he was in front of me so I reached out with my hands, and he pulled himself to stand just holding 2 fingers! Wow, usually he’s been so hesitant that he has to lean on me to do it. He did it several times today. And during R’s kindermusik class (sharing time for the last 10 minutes) he was trouble for the first time… meaning he didn’t want to just sit, he was wiggly, and he kept trying to crawl away. I just have to keep telling myself all this is good development….not just a pain in my behind. 🙂

Kids make messes. This is the mess below J’s chair after dinner. It makes me grit my teeth. Today was especially bad because he was taking bites of things, chews for a while, then spits everything out and starts with a new bite. I wouldn’t normally let this go, but I think the little man is still recovering from the flu. Anyways. Between the mess on the floor, and the mess on the table I felt my blood pressure rising. As I was cleaning up I looked back at the table and saw the sweetest thing, R and J playing a game.

J would hold his cup over the floor (he knows this gets our attention), and R would grab it and sort of sing “Nooooooo..” and she’d put it back on the table. J thought this was just the funniest thing. It just melted my heart. Makes the mess so totally worth it…

The little man is doing better. He is keeping food down, has been since Friday around 3. The other end however, is still not back to normal. 🙁 His happy personality is coming back though. He sits at the table (in his Kinderseat) points to things he wants with his super cute pointer and thumb point, and does his little whole body bob for “yes” “more” or in this case “I want that”…
What a sweetie.