Sharing a Room

Since P2 is sleeping through the night, we finally put the second crib up in P1's bedroom. He was actually excited to share his room with P2. She has been sleeping in our room, but she has definitely outgrown her bassinet/play pen.

It is still a work in progress though, considering this is how nap time went down on Sunday:

They just kept each other laughing. It's too much fun to share a room I guess.

"Belly Button Hurts"

P1 can eat a lot of food if it is something he decides he likes. We had stroganoff the other night, and I'm pretty sure he had 10 helpings. But when he eats too much, he will get sad and say his belly button hurts. And he'll want me to kiss it better. One time when his "belly button" was hurting, I had him sit on the couch with his blanket and books. So, of course, now that's what we have to do whenever it hurts. Oh, and maybe watch an episode of "Jake and the Neverland Pirates".

P1 has also been harder to deal with during meal time. I think he is just sad that P2 gets more of my attention since she can't really feed herself yet. So P1 will get really sad, and say that his food is "too bigger" (no matter how small I cut it), that it is "yucky", and "mom do it". Even though he can feed himself perfectly well, he insists that it is too hard and I must do it for him. Many tears are shed, and then he'll try to climb on my lap. And he'll ask for a hug in the 3rd person: "P1 needs a hug". Which is pretty adorable. It sure is funny how independent kids are until they realize someone else is getting the attention, and then suddenly they aren't so independent.

Music

These two kiddos love music! I got asked to play the viola in March, so I have been pulling it out to practice. I was surprised by P2's reaction to it. When P1 was a baby, he hated the viola! He would scream whenever I had to practice it. But P2, she loves it! She will just sit on the floor and watch me. And then she will clap. It is seriously the most adorable thing! And it makes practicing a lot more enjoyable! P1 likes the viola better now, and will request songs when I pull it out.

P1 loves to sing songs. We sing songs all day long. And he'll ask you to sing them over and over again because he is trying to learn the words. He knows "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star", the alphabet song, "Itsy Bitsy Spider", "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam", "The Wheels on the Bus", and many more.

Here She Comes!

P2 has been fairly mobile the last couple weeks. She has been able to push herself up into a sitting position, and has been able to scoot/roll to get all over the place. She has been teasing us with crawling. She will get on her hands and knees and is all set to crawl, and then she will push herself back to sitting, and I'm sure she is saying "Ha, made you look!"

But yesterday, she officially crawled forward. Intentionally. To get her brother's brand new Cat in the Hat book. Now that she realizes what she can do, she has decided she likes to crawl. And now there is no stopping her! 

Reading

P1 loves reading books. His favorites are the Zoomer books which are written and illustrated by my uncle! P1 is good at remembering the words, and can help you read them. I'm pretty sure I have those books memorized.

P1 has also shown a lot of interest in learning the alphabet. He can sing the ABC song, and can recognize most letters. He loves to point out "M" for Mom, "D" for Dad, the letter that his name starts with, and the letter that P2's name starts with. We also use "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" for most of the other letters. "P" for Peter Pan, "J" for Jake, "H" for Hook, etc. During breakfast, P1 loves to find the letters on the cereal boxes, or the milk jugs. I have decided though that different fonts and lowercase letters make it a bit harder for kids to learn though!

Valentine's Day

 One of our friends invited us over for a Valentine's lunch play date on Friday. We were excited to go, but then our truck died on Thursday. I told my friend that we probably wouldn't be able to make it because we didn't have a vehicle. So my amazing friends worked it out so that one of them would watch all the kids while the other mom drove up the hill to pick us up for the play date. We really have been blessed with some great friends! It was a very fun play date. I think there were 8 moms and 13 kids running around. We had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches cut out into hearts, and yummy cupcakes. We ate and played outside thanks to the crazy warm February weather we've been having.

For Valentine's, P1 helped me make heart pancakes for breakfast!

PE brought home flowers and a treat for me (and for P1). He chose the orange for P1. Oh, and he fixed the truck for me! Fortunately, it was just the starter that needed to be replaced.

We had a relaxing Valentine's day. We went to the pet store, picked up the truck (which had been abandoned at Smith's), and got a treat at Arctic Circle. We got ice cream, and P1 refused to eat his. And he kept asking for chicken nuggets (even though we had already eaten lunch). So we caved and got an order of chicken nuggets. What kind of kid refuses ice cream???

My 3 Valentines:

  

For dinner, we did our traditional Stouffer's lasagna for dinner. We enjoyed our double date with the kids!

Sunday Thought

This scripture was shared in church today. I've never really paid attention to the first part about the corn of wheat before, but today it really stuck out to me.

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal."

John 12:24-25 

If we live just for ourselves, we will only be a corn of wheat. But if we give of ourselves, if we "die" by giving our life to others, we will bring forth much fruit.

What an important principle to understand, especially with respect to motherhood. As mothers, we are constantly giving our lives to our children. Some days we may feel like we are dying, like we have nothing left to give. But what wonderful, joyous fruit we have in our posterity. It is hard, but it is so worth it!