Best Buddies

I have really enjoyed seeing my kids be such good buddies.

Addie loves Will (most of the time) and most of the time acts like a mother to him. She loves to hold him and take care of him for me. She is such a good big sister and is so loving and sweet with him. She loves to have him sit with her on the couch or the bed and often gets mad if I don't let him.

Will absolutely adores Addie. He LOVES to watch her. I think he gets bored when it's just me and him- I guess I'm not as entertaining as Addie. Whenever they are sitting next to each other, he just turns his head and looks at her! It's so cute. He gets a big smile on his face as soon as he sees her.

(Yes, they are binkie buddies too. Not for long- the binkie fairy is coming for Addie's binkies VERY soon.)

Poop Fish

The other morning, Will had a really bad diaper blow-out. I laid him on the change table to take his clothes off and change him.

When Addie woke up, I told her about it and she wanted to see what a mess it had made since I hadn't cleaned it up yet. She took one look at it and said, "It's a poop fish!"



It really does look like a fish!

More Tumbling Pictures

Here are more pictures from the last couple weeks at tumbling. It went much better last week.

Headstands


Cartwheel


Forward Rolls (Somersaults)


Start of Back Walkovers

Tumbling!

We enrolled Addie in a tumbling class at the local rec center. We thought it would be a good way to get some energy out and maybe she'd learn something.

Last week was her first week and she did really well- it's a little chaotic with one teacher and seven 3-5 year olds. She learned how to do a sit up and started learning how to do arches, back bends and head stands. They also practiced somersaults (or forward rolls).

Here is a video we put together from her class.

Addie's First Tumbling Class from Clayton Blackham on Vimeo.

This week did not go as well- I think she's a little afraid of the teacher. It took a lot of coaxing from both Clay and I and help from me before she finally started participating on her own. Hopefully next week will be better!

Will laughing

One of the first laughs we caught on video!

Once there was a Snowman

After a recent snowstorm, Grandma came over to play out in the snow with Addie. She brought her cute snowman accessories with her so they could build a snowman. Unfortunately, the snow wouldn't stay packed so they had to build a small snowman! It turned out cute though.

The temperature wasn't too bad so I bundled Will up and took him out for a few minutes. He didn't enjoy the colder air!

He was all smiles once we came back in!