Great memories for us to remember:

Ben counting:  One.... Two...Three.... Eight....Oh

Ben antics:  Ben asked for even more watermelon.  Scott said" If I can eat your nose, you can have more."  Ben thought for a moment, then very slowly leaned forward with a serious look on his face for Scott to take a bite out of his nose.

      Trying to night wean Ben, I tell him that the boobies are tired and need to sleep.  That has been going fairly well, and one night while we were talking about it, he looked at me and said "Do you brush their teeth too?"  (He asks every night if we have to brush his teeth..... it is not his favorite thing.)

      One morning I was able to sneak out of bed while he kept sleeping.  He woke up and was crying a little and Scott asked him where I was and he turned to my pillow and lifted it up, looking for me underneath it.

      He has had a runny nose and will come up to me and say "bugers!' and wait for me to wipe it.

      His favorite book right now is Curious George Goes to the Hospital and he plays doctor with Kala and Tank (if Tank lets him) and today he was carrying around a mask saying that it was a baby crying because she had to go to the doctor.

     
Maya antic:  She is getting a little older, so her "antics" are changing, but she is still so sweet and tender that sometimes I am so proud and overwhelmed by her.

     She wants to have a "dance party" at night where I put on classical music from Pandora and she dances around that living room.  It is even better if I record it and then she gets to watch it back.

     She is such a great big sister to Ben, she pushes his buttons in so many ways, but then I will turn around and she is comforting him when is falls backwards off his bike or can't get something to go the way he wants.  She reads him stories and plays games with him.... he thinks she is the best thing ever.

     She has such great artistic ideas and works with such amazing focus.