ABCs

We got Nicholas an alphabet toy on Amazon because he wan't showing any interest in the letters. He loves them now, and will randomly pick one that he points out everywhere. The first letter he learned to recognize was Q, I thought that was funny!

Anyway, he loves to sing the ABC song too, it's one of his favorites. He pushes the button and says "Mommy sing!" "Daddy sing!" This was one of the first times I caught him actually singing with it, I don't know how well you can hear him, but he got close on a few parts! :)

Here are some other pictures of our goings on lately, on MLK day. I just haven't been updating very often because I'm a bit distracted with other things.

This is a little cream cheese mustache!

Twin progress

Here are the ultrasound pictures from my doctor visit today. 

This one is cute, this little guy is doing a faceplant. His head is on the right side, and he is face down so if you look closely you can see where his little mouth and nose are, and then down on the other end his legs are bent all cute. 

This little guy is facing the other way. His head is on the left side, and then you can see his ribs some, and then his feet are tucked up under him, so you can see his thigh there.

Everything is looking good and they are doing well, so now we just wait until next month. On Valentine's day we'll find out what sexes they are!

Week 13

Christmas Day

On Christmas morning we woke Nicholas up at about 6:15 because Tyler couldn't wait any longer and because we figured we needed to get started if we were going to make it on time to 9am church. Nicholas usually needs a little bit of time before he is willing to socialize, but we figured the excitement of presents would override any grumpiness. He got distracted by a gift he had opened the night before though, on his way to the tree and so since we were trying to usher him to the new presents he thought we weren't going to let him play with Thomas train. You'll see his reaction. Eventually though we got the reaction we were hoping to see, it just took about 3 presents to get there!





Here are some other pictures from the day as well.

This is the face he made when I said "Smile!!"

After church both boys were so tired that they fell asleep on the couch! It's normal for Tyler, but Nicholas never does that! :)

Christmas Eve

This year Christmas Eve was chore day. I did more chores than I had done in the last month. That's not saying I did a lot... my contribution was pathetic really. But I did stuff. :) Nicholas and Tyler cleaned up the back yard. Nicholas had so much fun "helping" Daddy rake and shovel. You can tell how hard he's working by how much his tongue sticks out!

Tractor!!

We stopped by Tyler's work today and Nicholas "helped." He was in 2 year old heaven!

Terrible Twos

I recognize and appreciate the fact that I have one of the best behaved two year olds in the world. I know we are so lucky. Every once in a while though we are reminded that he is a pretty normal two year old. Sometimes he gets an attitude, i know he sometimes pushes in nursery, and goes into all out war mode when someone tries to take his toy away. Today we sort of bonded over one of the worst tantrums I have ever seen him throw. Definitely in the top two.
For this kind of meltdown there are a lot of factors that come together and create little baby chaos, and today had a lot of those factors. But they were masked by the fact that he was with his best friend and his mom, so I was taken a bit off my guard. And of course the melt down came when I tried to pry him away from his best friend and his mom so that we could go home and take our respective naps. It started with the normal protests and turned to screams and hitting. I tried to talk him through it but he was having none of that. So, I dragged him out to the car kicking and screaming, without shoes on, and let him calm down in the car while I went back for my purse and both our shoes.
When I got back to the car though, he was still crying! This totally surprised me, he should have calmed down by then but instead he was crying out for "Lyndsey! Jakey! No night night! Lyndsey! Jakey!..." So I gave him kisses and explained again that we were going home so he could sleep and rest his little body, and when he woke up everything would be better." he sniffled an "ok" and we drove home. During the drive though, he would randomly start to cry again and kept sniffling, so I thought maybe talking to Daddy would help. We called Tyler and I handed Nicholas the phone so they could talk man to man-cub. Tyler asked him why he was sad and he said "Lyndsey... Jakey... Mommy... Night night..." there you go, the whole explanation in 5 words. It calmed him down though and helped enough to keep the sniffles at bay so I could get him home and into bed. Whew!
But before he went to bed we had some snuggles and some kisses, and I think he had forgiven me. Which shouldn't really be my main concern but I love my little boy and am glad that he was willing to forgive and forget after such apparent trauma. <3