Our Singer

Azrielle loves to sing, she has started to sing when we are driving in the car, even though we are also listening to a book on CD. She will burst out into song at random times, all the time.

This is a new one in her repertoire. She popped this one out at the end of dinner tonight. I had to sit and wait with the camera until she would start singing again, she stopped when she got in the spotlight. But it is worth it.

Yummy!

Avery is an early riser, Azrielle is not. Problem is, they share a room. Lately there has been consequences for Avery when he wakes his sister up. We explained that Azrielle is not getting enough sleep, so if he wants to wake up early, then he can go upstairs and play in the toy room. He has been doing just that. We have been proud of him... until this morning. Turns out Avery found something even more fun than playing with toys. A while back I colored his milk with food coloring, and this morning he decided to re-create the concoction with the entire contents of 4 bottles of food coloring. When I came upstairs this is what I found...

 This is me telling him "look at your hand...look what you have done!"

 This is how he felt about having to clean up his own mess.

Almost done!

Silly Kids

Avery was sitting on the potty for a long time the other day, when I went in to see if he had fallen in or not, this is what I found. He loves to look at and be read stories about super heroes right now.

 Azrielle had a fifteen month checkup yesterday. She is finally on the charts for weight, but not for height, she is the average for a eight month old. She also has had a bad reaction to something and has hives all over her right side, from her chest to her knee. She is on an oral and topical medicine to see if we can get rid of them.

While waiting for the Doctor to come in she kept climbing in to the cubby hole below the table, which in other times of the year actually contain toys for the kids to play with. But it is the season to spread nasty germs around.

I love it that both of my kids love to read. Tonight Avery went with Jeremy to the store. While they were gone, Azrielle brought me a book, handed it to me and while signing "up", and saying "up, peas". After reading her that  one, I had her take it back and put it on the table with the other library books. She made a pile of the books that we had read and would get another one from the unread pile. She went through all the new books that I got at the library today, then started to bring me some of our own that were laying around.

Pay Back

Avery has been getting in Azrielle's bed VERY early in the morning and waking her up. The other day it took Avery a long time to get to sleep at quiet time. Azrielle woke up just after he went to sleep. I brought her upstairs and we were playing, she then took Avery's socks and put them on him, then my socks, then she tried to put his boots on, but I said no. She put on one of Dad's shirts and then went and found some little people. He jerked a couple of times when she was not very gentle, but never did wake up.

We found this little unicorn horn at a thrift shop the other day, we have all had it on and played with it. Avery told me that we need to get more dress up things for him, I laughed.

When we got out the Halloween box to put up some decorations, Avery got out the costumes that were inside. Even though they are too small, he still had to put them both on and play.

So Pretty

On Friday night, after the kids were in bed, I went over to a friend's house to play some games. Jeremy stayed home to study and so we would not leave the kids alone. I stayed out a little too late, I did not get to bed until after 1 am.

 Saturday morning Avery, because he can leave his bed unassisted, came in at just after 6 am. I was really not ready to get up, plus the sun was not up yet either, anyway I pulled him in to bed with me and had him cuddle up (I sure wish he would go back to sleep). After about half an hour he leans up on his elbow and puts his hand gently on my cheek and says, "Mommy, you are so pretty....pretty like a crocodile." Maybe crocodiles have bed head, bad breath, sleep filled eyes and are prone to laying around. I then was wide awake and laughing, giving him a thank you hug. What a way to start my day!

Full Day

I took the kids to the Boise Art Museum today, it is free on first Thursday. The exhibits were crazy shapes made up of things found in thrift stores and similar places. There were amazing textures that the kids would have loved to touch and play with, but Azrielle was in a front carrier and Avery did really great at holding on to my hand.

There was an inter active video area, I had the kids listen to Chinese music and poems.

 There is a Kid's Area were the kids can play and touch all they want, there are books and puzzles, huge magnet boards and different kinds of building materials.

 We then decided to use up the free dinner that the kids won from the library this last summer, we also had a gift card. There was a guy going around doing balloon animals and hats for kids in the restaurant. He made Avery a mouse (we are listening to a story about mice in the car right now) and a horse for Azrielle. When he came back around again Avery had seen some of the hats that he had made for kids on the other side and asked for a hat.

 Azrielle drank out of a straw all  by herself for the first time tonight. Yeah!

Tricks

On Sunday, Avery and Azrielle and I were hanging out at the bottom of the stairs. Avery goes up on the landing and starts doing head stands against the wall. Neither Jeremy or I have shown him or told him how to do it, he just started all on his own. 

We have been outside working on the yard again now that it has cooled off a bit. Azrielle has been rescued by Avery, when I turned my back to her for 1 minute, she took off across the road to go pet one of the neighbor hood cats. I turned back around and  Avery was carrying her out of the road, what a watchful big brother. She has also started to walk along things and balance.