2 Months already

 Adrian

I can't get enough of my little happy man sometimes, I didn't know how much I've missed the cute sounds that babies make and earning their smiles. Of course, we still get some days where he cries way too much and fights going to sleep, but the happy moments are wonderful. I feel like he hasn't been as cuddly recently because every time I hold him he wants to look around, but yesterday he cuddled and slept on me again which made me happy. He is growing like a weed! He eats so much more than I remember Claire and Shay and will have fun when he starts eating real food because I think he will be excited. We go for walks in the evening when he gets restless and Chris is home playing with the girls and sometimes he falls asleep. Most of the time he is still staying up way too late in my opinion and doesn't go down for the night until almost 9pm, but he has started to sleep longer. We need to get family pictures soon since I haven't done baby pictures with him yet...I need to get some while he's still so cute!

Claire

There was a picture day this week for getting a class picture and make-up pictures for people who need it so we made her extra cute. She also had a glow party on Friday that the class had earned that Claire loved and brought home stuff from it to share with Shay. There was a picture sent from her teacher but Claire was hiding behind someone so I couldn't see her except the top of her head. This week I've been trying to teach them how to be responsible without having me nag them to clean up and eat their food all the time so we've been trying a chart. They earn check marks for completing the responsibility and frowny faces if they don't because they didn't really care there wasn't a check mark I added the frowns. This week wasn't great to begin with, but they got better and I didn't have to nag or threaten to hide toys as much. I hope we can keep it up and they will start taking care of their stuff. She is very happy she can carry Adrian now, and she likes to pretend she is able to play chess because she is getting older.

Shay

When Claire had a picture day, Shay was a little jealous and I had the bright idea to have a picture day here at home with our camera and her toys. We played school by collecting everyone upstairs on the couch, I was the teacher and she had computer time playing ABC Mouse, she practiced the homework writing her name and the alphabet from memory, and then she had recess. When my camera was charged enough it was picture time and she went first, then because Adrian woke up, I let her take pictures of her toys. She had a small stomach bug for a day just like Claire had last week and luckily it didn't last long, but she isn't as good as the responsibilities without being reminded. She is helpful in other ways though! Shay officially loves cats more than dogs and has expressed wanting a cat instead...I guess it makes sense because they were playing cats, but I think it's true. Shay always likes to join in on pictures if I'm getting on of Claire she has to get one with her or copy her.