The New Arrivals

The two new arrivals in our household have been keeping us up late nights and generally trying every last ounce of our patience. For some reason, they are unexpectedly difficult, maybe because they came just at the same time. I suppose we should just be thankful that they have come at all, but sometimes in the middle of the night when Henry is screaming we all mumble bad words under our breath (or occasionally out loud). So, here are the new arrivals as they make their first appearance:

Quote of the Day

Me: I'm going to brush your hair now. [This is always a chore around here!]
Eleanor: I want some piggy tails in it.
Me: You want piggy tails?
Eleanor: And I want baa sheeps in it.

Spring is Busting Out All Over

Spring is definitely here. Our house is entirely surrounded by yellow. Daffodils on the east side, forsythia on the west side. (Forsythia is Eleanor's new favorite word, "forsifea" she calls it.) The past couple of days have been just lovely -- clear, sunny, windy and very spring-like. Birds are chirping away and we even saw a bunny rabbit today.



We have been taking lots of adventure walks down to "the valley" and generally enjoying the outdoors. I'll have to take some pictures next time we are down in the valley, Eleanor thoroughly enjoys running around in the open space and throwing rocks in the stream. She managed to bring home a couple of rocks from our walk today, which made it into her bathtub and one of which made it into her mouth. Crunchy brown rocks. Yum.

Quote of the Day

Eleanor: What I did see outside, Momma?
Me: What did you see, Eleanor?
Eleanor: I saw flaMINgos [high pitch on the MIN]

[Me: Searching my brain to remember when we had talked about flamingos. Nothing. Eleanor runs out of the room and then back in.]

Eleanor: What I did see outside, Momma?
Me: What did you see, Eleanor?
Eleanor: I saw birds.
Me: What color were they?
Eleanor: Yellow and brown.

[This continued a few more times but I didn't write down the other things she said. And, now I have completely forgotten what else was on the list. Somehow I think she may have mentioned "baa sheeps" but that may be because she always mentions "baa sheeps".]

Chompers

Henry's first two teeth cut through his bottom gum this morning. Poor little thing has been grumpy as all get out lately. We suspected that it was his teeth but now we have proof. As soon as there is anything to be seen, I'll get the camera in his mouth and get some pictures up.