Big Boys

Why are my children growing up so fast? They amaze me every day. I think people must be getting annoyed at all my, "Can you believe they did this?" stories. 

Connor doing the big reveal.

Connor has been eating restaurant food! So far, it's just cheese pizza, broccoli, and pretzels, but he's getting warmed up to the whole thing. I'm proud of how he has been interacting with food. It's so hard when you want more immediate results, but I just keep reminding myself that he's not even three and we haven't been working on it that long. He still doesn't really understand his own bodily needs, but he's making progress there too. Sometimes he will collapse his little body in a heap and moan, "Connor's so hungry!" I'm almost completely sure the few times he's done this it's been when he was tired, but close enough, right? He's been better about drinking when he's thirsty too, and not just asking to nurse.

Here Paige, you need this in your mouth.

Eamon is such a flirt and just loves people. He seems a little nervous around some men sometimes, but will always have an exchange with a lady. He really loves people that he is familiar with. Some of his favorites are my friends Jessica, Sarah, my mom, and our friend Zandra.

So cute!

Connor's so happy he gets to spend
time outside playing with water.

Connor's favorite thing to do is throw. He likes to throw balls and rocks the best. I'm pretty sure he could throw rocks into water for hours. I've watched him do it for a half an hour before Eamon got bored. When he's outside, he throws sand at the side of our house, and puts rocks and chalk chunks into buckets of water and then dumps them into other buckets, ad nauseam.

Connor selfie.

Eamon pulling up for (maybe?)
the first time.

Eamon started pulling up on different things, which is fun, but sometimes he will lose his balance, or get tired, or try to get down and just tumble. That makes him mad, sad, and sometimes hurt. He has big feelings about it.

He loves playing music. Crawled over to it, pulled it
onto his lap and strummed.

He's super fly.

Connor likes to go on trips with me, most of the time. He often talks about playgrounds, going to see Sani and Sassy, seeing the balloons outside of various car dealerships, going to see Parker-Porter-Jerod, going to get sweet tea, iced green tea, Aldi, and Target.

Discovering the fun of couch forts.

So much chub!

I've started Eamon sleeping on his own for naps. Connor was just too distracting for him out in the living room. Right now he's sleeping in our bed, but hopefully soon he will sleep in the pack and play in our room for naps. We have a little before nap routine that includes books, and he is VERY opinionated on what we read. I put the books in front of him and he picks on he wants to read. If he decides he didn't want that book after all, he will close it in the middle of reading. He really likes "Busy Baby," a Disney book that has pictures of babies "interacting" with Mickey and his crew, doing daily baby activities. He also likes "Baby Faces," which is a simple book of babies' faces and one word descriptions. But his real favorite is the classic, "Good Night Moon."

Enjoying some food.

Toast!

Connor woke up today with a sudden ability to tell me what his body is telling him. He's never told me he was hungry or thirsty before today, and he told me several times! [Note from Patrick: I was in the middle of editing this sentence when Connor ran into the room, yelling, "I'm hungry! I'm not hungry! Mama, do you want some M&M's?"] It was amazing. He also took off his diaper while I was putting Eamon down for his nap and refused to put it back on.  I was worried I would be cleaning up pee all morning, but he went to the bathroom all by himself many times.  He only had one little accident because he was distracted reading a book.  I have no idea what this means long term, but it was totally amazing watching him stop watching TV to go pee.

Eamon's new high chair!  We both love it.

Eamon is not sad he ate dirt,
he's sad I took the dirt away.

Eamon really likes food! I'm not sure what I expected him to do, since Connor was so ambivalent. But Eamon likes doing what we are doing, and he likes getting whatever Connor and I have, so he ends up sampling a lot of different things throughout the day.