Little man at 4 months

- Lots of smiles and some giggles if you try really really hard

- likes looking at the cute guy in the mirror

- purposefully grabbing and hitting at toys

- He enjoys when I sing to him or when we all dance around. He's also started babbling so much- I think he is trying to sing along

- for the majority of the past 8or so nights, Kellen has slept all.night. Like 11-6 at least. His parents are loving it. 

- along those lines, we are kicking him out of our room and into his crib in his shared room with Zoe this week. Fingers crossed...

- spent his first few nights away from home this past weekend when we visited my family in PA. He enjoyed all the attention. 

- he chews or sucks on his fingers a lot though he has yet to find his thumb 

- Kellen got to meet both of his uncles this month, and gets to meet his Oma and Opa this coming week when they visit from Wisconsin. 

It's the little things

Zoe, at almost 27 months, is such a source of joy and laughter in our house. Here are some of my favorite things right now:

- Kisses her own boo boos

- Calls "yoo-hoo" for missing objects. Pretty sure she expects them to call back.

- Says "bye" as she flushes potty and watches *everything* go down. She has done really well with potty training. Still has accidents occasionally and keeping dry at naptime is not a given, but we've seen so much progress in the past few weeks. 

- Counts to 12 pretty consistently-- 1 to 3 are somehow the trickiest for her. She often says "1,3,2" and recently created "eleventeen" somewhere between 13 and 18.

- Likes to sing, which she usually does with her eyes closed, very dramatically and cracks us up. A crooner at heart.

- In a sequence of events, everything is "first"

- Such a good big sister-- she tries to make Kellen hold her finger, she loves when "he look me" and she is always telling him "you ok baby Kellen" when he's crying.

- says "I miss you" 

- most common phrase? "Help you me!" Which means she wants to help. She's pretty insistent with this one and standing and watching no longer passes as helping. Other common phrases are "no, zosie do it" and "I don't want to". Oh joy.