Children's Museum + Parade Crashing

Our original plan to see the elephants at the zoo was modified after some Oregon rain showers. The second and equally engaging (more actually) option was to explore the Children's Museum.

Ironically, the water room was your favorite part, hands down. The sound of running water makes you giddy and you both had a blast splashing, squealing and dashing around...

 -Will-

-Alex-

You two enjoyed sweeping the shelves and dominating the checkout line in the grocery store as well...

Daddy showed you the ropes in the wood shop and home building area before you moved on to conquer the rest of the museum...

We are 'calling' the day a success...

-Alex-


-Will-

On Sunday the Subaru took a trip via tow truck to Hillsboro for some major repairs. The boys enjoyed watching the tow truck in action...

After treats at Starbuck's we crashed the Latino Cultural Festival parade (literally, we jumped in and waved like we belonged), test drove a fire truck and wandered across town to investigate some new playground equipment...

-Will-

-Alex-

March 2013

I love, love, love that you both are all about getting outside, getting dirty and exploring new things. In fact, we make sure to do all of those things every day which is why I am talking about what you were up to in March in a post dated mid-April.

Right now you are into making bubble waffles and pancakes in the tub. Of course I pretend to eat them when you serve them up and I always ask for more.

Thanks to the 'Birthday Bug' incident, toast has been a favorite food lately. Whenever you are hungry you run over to the pantry, pull the toaster out and head to the refrigerator to grab the bread.

You use regular silverware (only spoons) and your fingers to eat almost everything.

 -Alex-

-Will-

You love playing with your trains and Duplos. The train and tractor ride toys make countless laps around the kitchen island. We don't appreciate that you like to ram each other, walls, furniture and us with them. Your bikes are slowly becoming more interesting and our rides are getting longer.

-Will-

-Alex-

Forget licking batter off of spatulas, you two fight over the spoon from the noodle pan. At our house eating noodles is serious business. After I carefully divide the cooked noodles, you both insist on inspecting the pan for ANY remaining noodles. The pan and spoon are literally picked clean before you both are satisfied with the news that there are no more noodles.

Alexander...

You love the color yellow and harvesting dandelions at our neighborhood park. One day when you were home recovering from the latest bug, we took advantage of the sunshine and visited our three favorite parks. It was just you and me, which made you grin and throw bark chips into the wind with wild abandon.

You are constantly playing with your food. Milk is always being sputtered, spattered or squirted from your mouth. Tomatoes and grapes are smashed, crackers are crumbled and the cats circle under your chair like sharks in a feeding frenzy.

The other day, I asked you what your favorite thing was and you said 'babies'. Then you ran into your room and came back with a baby doll stuffed inside your shirt. You take great joy in doing sweet and silly things for a response in others.


William...

You love ladybugs and elephants (eldapents) which, you make sure to remind me daily, live in the jungle. I am impressed with how gently you handle insects and how at ease you are with them crawling all over you.

Laundry, dishes, sweeping...no matter what the task, you are always interested in helping me. You rush to wipe up spills and throw away crumbs. 

The other morning you woke up, wandered into our room and whispered bananas in my ear. You insisted that we had banana bread and pulled me into the garage to show me the mixer. Clearly you were on a mission to help bake up some tasty breakfast. 

                                                                 We think that you both are scrumptious...

                                                                                           xoxo

                                                                                   Mama & Daddy

Ladybug Love

Gentle hands in ladybug land...

Will is smitten...

2.5 Stats

You two were absolute gems at the doctor's during your check-up.  Luckily, we have a book in our collection that is all about Big Bird going to the doctor so we had a chance to talk about how going to the doctor isn't scary.

In fact, you two were quite comfortable with the doctor scene and examined each other thoroughly using all of the latest equipment...

We all laughed pretty hard when the doctor whistled like a bird while taking a peek into your ears. She easily tricked you into thinking that you each had a bird living in there. I loved that you took turns peering into each others ears while the other one was being examined. 

Daddy apparently was due for a check up as well...

Your stats...

-William-

33 pounds

37 inches

-Alexander-

34.9 pounds

37 3/4 inches

2.5

A few things about your midway day between 2 and 3...

Will, you were up at 5:15 am imitating a Mourning Dove call. You followed your call with "Who's awake, me too." (That is how I describe the Great Horned Owl call).

You both had pancakes for breakfast.

-Alex-

Alex, you traded your blue cup for a red cup and dissolved into complete hysterics when you didn't get a green plate.

You both had garbanzo beans, snap peas, carrots and hummus for a snack. There were requests for more carrots and a heaping spoonful of hummus.

-Will-

When I asked you (Will) what you wanted to do after a rousing adventure outside, you said you wanted to "Relax on the couch."

You both ate Annie's Mac N Cheese and strawberries for dinner.

After building a Duplo village, I proposed that we start tubby time. Your (Alex) sassy reply was "Not today Mama, too busy."

Once I talked you into the tub you both mixed up batches of bubble water pancakes, oranges, rice and eggs in your buckets.

We whisked you out of the tub and finished the day with stories. As usual, you wanted to read multiple books and requested water with ice when it was time to lay down and listen to Daddy's final lights out tale.

Look out 3, here we come...