Every day I sit back and am amazed at how grown up the boys are getting to be. Ben was helping make cookie dough and stopped mixing and dumping to... wash the dishes! Well, he mostly just poured water back and forth and rubbed the sponge here and there so we have a lot of work to do on his technique. But it makes a mama very happy :)
Chris, at almost 2 years old, is doing incredible things. He cut his second to last 2 year molar this week and we are thankful that misery is almost over. He has also taught himself to do a forward roll.
He can also count to two. As in, seeing trucks on the street and announcing "2 trucks mommy." And his favorite thing in the whole world are dump trucks. Of course being nearly 2 he can't say dump truck - in typical toddler fashion he substitutes a "b" for the "p" and "f" for the "tr" making it just lovely when yelled out while we're walking. Oh well, this too shall pass.
Ben's favorite song right now goes a little something like this:
"we all live in a yellow sub-a-rene
yellow sub-a-rene
yellow sub-a-rene."
In addition to starting in the wonderful world of dishes, he is also the chief sock turner-right-side-outer and matcher-upper on laundry days.
We have also discovered that we are leaving every parent's favorite age where we can order one burger for the boys to split when we are eating out. Ben has taken to finishing his half, whatever Mom will give up, whatever Chris doesn't finish, and sometimes this still isn't enough. We're a little sad. And will probably not be eating burgers nearly as often as we did (which was only occasionally anyway.)
We're also working on teaching the boys that when asked "who's stinky?" it is never appropriate to answer with a smirk and say "mommy."
