Thanks Bonnie!

Here's an old picture of Adin in a sweater that my friend Bonnie knit. You can't imagine how soft this sweater is. When Adin outgrows it, I want to make it into something for me to snuggle.

Digger

Erik got a shovel for his birthday. He's enjoyed walking down to the community garden with me and digging. It's great because there's nothing planted so he can dig as much as he wants!

Caught red handed

I fed Adin while Erik was watching Sesame Street. Then I got Erik some pizza and jello. He started eating but needed some help in the bathroom. When we were done, I came back into the dining room and found Adin had helped himself to Erik's pizza.

Taking turns

I'm not sure why I start a new post for each separate thing, but oh well.

So we were out in the backyard this afternoon, and Adin was interested in the little slide. That, of course, meant that suddenly Erik was also interested in it. So they took turns on the slide. Erik prolonged his turns by sitting at the bottom and top of the slide as long as possible. When Adin was done with his turns, I had to lift him out of the way so he didn't get hit by Erik sliding down. Adin would wriggle and fight to get back down so he could take another turn.

Finally, I hit upon the idea of having Adin walk around to the back of the slide and wait back there for his turn. He reacted by pushing Erik down the slide! Luckily, Erik found this hilarious and wanted Adin to do it over and over again.

Adin loves Erik

Today, Erik went down for a nap at 1:30, Adin at 2:00. Adin woke at 3:00, Erik at 3:45. When Adin and I heard Erik wake up and cry (his usual response to waking up from a nap), Adin's head just snapped up, he slid off my lap and crawled like lightning to Erik's room. The whole time he's calling to Erik. He crawls to Erik's bed and starts petting Erik, putting his head down on Erik, squealing with joy, just doing everything he possibly could to show Erik love.

Erik was not yet ready to receive love, so I took Adin out of the room. Oh, how he protested. If I set him down, he just crawled back. I brought him in the bathroom (one of his favorite places) and he crawled out. I brought him back in and shut the door. Adin banged on the door, cried and called out to Erik. I relented and let him crawl back to Erik's bed.

Fortunately, by this time, Erik was ready to receive the love. He laughed every time Adin patted him.

Erik's bedtime story

Here's the story Erik told me at bedtime tonight:

Once upon a time there were four little pigs and four big bad wolves. All the pigs had houses. The wolves blew them all down. They went in the houses and tried to eat the pigs. The pigs ran away. The wolves ran after them and tried to eat them again. One pig built his house of bricks. The other pigs built their houses of straw. The pig went to bed and dreamed the big bad wolf turned into a big nice wolf. And it came true! Then there were four big nice wolves. They didn't blow the houses down. The end.

Celebrating Erik's birthday at Barnehage

Laura makes the kids a crown the week we celebrate each of their birthdays.



Here's Erik during circle time, trying to decide who to throw the ball to.



Here he is bravely standing in the middle of the circle while the class walks around him and sings "Hurrah for deg".

Adin is walking

Adin has been taking a few steps the last few days. He's become much more confident in the last week. I've been trying to get video of him walking but he just sits down when he sees me with the camera!