Robbie is reading!!

Yesterday I was putting Alex into his car seat and Robbie was standing next to his door waiting to get into his seat (I can't wait until he can do it himself!!).  He found "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" and started reading it!  At first I wasn't sure what he was saying, and then I heard him say "Blue horse, blue horse what do you see?  Green frog, green frog."  He's still not a great page turner, so he did miss pages and he never actually said what the animals saw, but I think it's a good first start! :)

It's obvious that Robbie is still getting used to his molars because at meals I see him digging food out of his teeth.  It's not a pretty sight, but it's understandable.  I just can't believe that we didn't know he was teething because he hasn't complained about his mouth hurting.  Alex still doesn't have any teeth, but he flicks his tongue in and out of his mouth and it seems like he is feeling something in his top gums while he is doing it.  I'm going to miss my toothless baby when he does get teeth.

We decided to take the boys to the park this afternoon.  Robbie does so good climbing up and going down the slides.  We definitely need to take them to the park more often, but we are also looking forward to getting the swing set for Robbie's birthday.  (Notice I didn't say that we are looking forward to putting the swing set together, because we aren't, but we'll have some grandparents in town to help put it together.)  I was sitting on the ground cross legged with Alex sitting in front of me.  He turned around and pulled up on my legs so he was standing on his feet!  He was still holding on to me, but he has been pulling up on things for a few days, so I knew it was coming.  I was just excited that I saw it and was his equipment of choice.

Thomas and Teething

Thursday afternoon I took the kids to a consignment sale.  It is a semi-annual sale and I thought it was going to be much bigger than it actually was.  I was hoping to get Halloween costumes for the boys, but they all seemed so heavy and I don't want them sweating to death while wearing the costume.  We did find this great Thomas chair for Robbie.  He was not going to let us leave the store without it and was even a little upset when I had them set it aside so we could keep looking around.  Robbie loves his Thomas chair and likes to name the trains and say what colors they are.  It was a great find!

The chair folded up

 The chair unfolded

Now that I have seen 3 of Robbie's 2 year molars coming through I've been looking for the last one (top right).  It turns out that I have been looking too late, it's almost all of the way through!  I was looking in Robbie's mouth yesterday and noticed that he has 2 molars on the right side and realized that would only be possible if the 2 year molar already came through.  Now the other 3 molars have to catch up to the first one instead of the other way around!

Robbie is 23 months old!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, in just 1 month Robbie is going to be 2 years old.  That means in 1 month I can't say that I have 2 kids under 2.  I don't really say that very often, though, so it really won't change things. 

I can't believe how much Robbie is talking.  Most of the time what he says is pretty clear but there are also times when Matthew and I look at each other hoping the other one can translate!  The other day we were getting the boys ready to run errands.  Robbie had his shoes on and the garage door was unlocked so he headed outside and then came back in when we weren't right behind him and said "come on guys!"  Matthew plays Sesame Street games with Robbie on the computer and when he wants to play he says "play Big Bird us."  When he wants to watch Bubble Guppies (or as he says, Buggle Guppies) on tv he looks for the momote because he knows we need it to turn on the show.

I'm looking forward to the cooler weather so we can play outside more and not sweat to death.  Robbie's grandparents want to buy him a swing set for his birthday and I think it's a great idea.  Robbie has pretty much outgrown the little one we bought him.

I know I said in a previous post that we saw Robbie's 2 bottom molars coming in a few days ago.  I just saw his top left molar coming in yesterday.  I knew he was advanced: he's getting his 2 year molars and he isn't 2 yet! :)  Luckily teething never really bothered Robbie.  Alex's gums are swollen so I'm sure he'll start getting his first tooth soon and I'm just hoping it will be as easy for him as it is/was for Robbie.

We just found Donald Duck had been brought home from my parents' house when we were down a couple of weeks ago.  I told my mom we were holding him hostage.  Surprisingly she didn't seem too concerned about paying any ransom.  Hopefully I'm never held hostage and my keepers call my mom!

When we came home from the gym yesterday I could tell I needed to change Robbie's diaper.  When I put him up on the changing table I noticed something down his shirt (onesie).  I couldn't believe that he walked out of Kid Zone and I strapped him into his car seat and never saw it until we got home!  I'd feel worse about it if we didn't go to the gym a lot and are able to return it.  If he had taken it from a store it would be a different story!  And I actually blame the Kid Zone workers.  If they had changed Robbie before we left this wouldn't have happened.  I wish I could have gotten a better picture, but Robbie just wants to look at pictures on the camera whenever he sees it, not be still and have his picture taken.

Alex is 7 months old!!!!!!!

Alex is 7 months old already!  More than half a year has passed.  It seems like he has been with us forever and maybe it's because he's crawling and sitting up earlier than Robbie.  That's right, Alex is getting into the sitting up position all by himself!  He did it for the first time Friday.  I had him sitting in front of the couch and then I got up to do some stuff.  I saw him later sitting up in front of the fireplace playing with his toys.  It took a couple of seconds for me to process that he got into the sitting position by himself.  He did it 2 more times Friday so Matthew and I could see him do it and has done it multiple times since then.  I told the nursery workers at church a couple of weeks ago that Alex is ready to move up to the next room (the crawlers room) but they must not have believed me because he was back in the nursery this week.  We'll see if they are ready to let him move up next week. :)

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Such a happy baby!

I love Alex's laugh!



We are cleaning out the boys closets (their dressers, really) and moving them up to the next size.  I think Robbie will be a little harder because he is still in between 18 months and 24 months clothes.  The clothes that Alex is now wearing are clothes that I really remember Robbie wearing.

It was getting a little late tonight, so we decided to bathe Robbie and Alex at the same time.  It didn't go great, but that was because Robbie didn't want a bath tonight.  He pretty much cried the whole time, but that meant I got a good look in his mouth and saw that his two bottom 2 year molars are coming in!  I have been trying to look in his mouth these last couple of weeks, but it's hard to get him to open his mouth wide enough to get a good look.  I'll have to try and check for top molars soon.