Sunday, January 27, 2008

New skills!


Clayton learned how to kick a ball this week and was SO excited to demonstrate his new skill! So for this week if he's overtired or a little cranky, he perks right up when you ask him to go find his ball.
He's also finally started showing an interest in books and puzzles this week.
It's just so funny to see all the differences between Brooke and Clayton. (She couldn't kick a ball until she was over 2 but loved books from about 4 months on.)


Monday, January 21, 2008

Hide and Sneak

Brooke learned a new game tonight - "Hide and Sneak" - we tried correcting her that it was "Hide and Seek", but she kept telling us it was our turn to sneak. Her favorite place to hide was in her tent and thought it was funny when Mike would search the whole room and just couldn't seem to find her. She tried hiding in the closet at one point but I think it was too dark - she got the door almost closed and decided that the tent was a better place to hide. When one of us would hide she'd also pretend not to see us and look in random corners yelling "where are you?"

One more story...here was the conversation that I overheard with Brooke and Mike yesterday morning...
"Daddy, I got an e-mail!!" (not really, just in her imagination)
"You did?! Who sent it to you?"
"Grandma Nancy."
"What did it say?"
"She sent a picture of me and Clayton....(short pause)...because it was on sale today."

Clayton has been a good mimic recently and our big accomplishment of the week was that he learned to blow his nose...or some version of it. (At least he doesn't scream any more when you bring a kleenex near his face.) He also has a favorite spot to sit.




And here's the famous tent...(purple of course.)