These pictures are old, but the art is still good! These are the Boo’s first pictures that were hung up in that traditional place of honor, the fridge. First some paintings..

He’s getting quite good at stamping..

And here’s a (failed) paper mache balloon project. But the painting is still good!

 Nathan is such a sweet big brother. He tells Levi on a daily basis that he “likes baby brother” and that his “little hands are so cute”. Nathan loves holding Levi’s hands and giving him kisses.

I am looking forward to Levi being more mobile and interested in playing because I think they will have fun playing together. Nathan tries to show him things but the baby just isn’t interested right now! He’s getting there though.. in the last few days Levi has been leaning forward eagerly when watching something that catches his interest.

Soon the boys will be playing and Nathan can push Levi in a big swing at the park!

The other day, Boo found his old photo album which has pictures of him and various family mambers when he was a baby, just a few months old. He took out one of the pictures (I think it was him with Uncle Doug and Aunt Ashley) and told me it was a picture of baby brother!

I’m not the only one who thinks they look alike! I told Nathan that was actually him, not baby brother, and he was very pleased that baby brother looked like him. How sweet!

We were spontaneously gifted a fort the other day, and it’s really fun to put together:

The Boo’s little couch fits in it perfectly. The first time we put it together, we had it facing the television so he sat in his little “house” on his little couch watching a movie. Very cute.

Unfortunately we don’t have a whole lot of room for it, but fortunately it packs away into a bag which we can stash somewhere, so that’s good. It attaches with magnets so it’s very easy to put together.. I fully expect the Boo could put it together himself if he was so inclined (although he’s still requesting help at this point).

It was generously given to us completely free after a friend’s children had outgrown it, and I hope to have quite a few years fun with it! Of course I still have plans to make a canvas cover for our table that can be decorated as a space ship, but until that happens, the fort will definitely do. Yay!

The lad collapsed asleep yesterday at 5:30pm. This is usually not a good thing — he’s really hard to wake up, is super grumpy, and when he IS ready to wake up he won’t go to bed for ages!

However once in a blue moon he’ll fall asleep in the afternoon — and stay that way. He slept until we got him ready for bed when we went to bed, was awake for the brushing of teeth and the reading of books, then went back to sleep. Until 7:30 this morning. That’s 14 hours! The child slept for 14 hours!

Either he’s growing, he’s just been lacking sleep lately (due to waking up earlier and going to bed too late probably), or he’s sick. I hope he’s not sick! That would be bad timing.

Lately the Boo has been into playing with dinosaurs. He didn’t used to like it when I tried to make critters with playdough, but now apparently it’s an acceptable pasttime. So make dinosaurs we did!

He requests his dinosaurs by the names used in the Land Before Time series. There are Longnecks, Three Horns, and occasionally a Sharp Teeth.  He’s particularly a fan of the itsy bitsy baby three horns. We make food for them out of playdough as well, and they eat, play chase, and also ride skateboards. Don’t ask.

Dinosaurs are surprisingly hard to make out of playdough. It’s too pliable and at the same time dries out too fast. The necks break and the feet get squished. We need to explore the world of modelling clay next, I believe.

We went to a three year old’s birthday party recently that took place at a bouncy castle gym!! Much fun was had, especially by the boys:

Daddy was SO MUCH FUN! It took the lure of cake to get him to leave. We’re looking forward to more opportunities for the boys to go play.

Wait, no Christmas post? We’ll have to upload some photos this weekend and post them!

But first, some great news! The Boo had his first dentist appointment. He wasn’t too sure about the whole procedure and sat in his Daddy’s lap the whole time, but in general he was very cooperative and thought the dentist’s spinning toothbrush was really cool. (He says that now.. “really cool”!)

His teeth appear fine. He’s got space around most of his teeth, which is desirable for preventing cavaties, although we need to pay special attention to the molars where they are touching. They gave us a very cool little flosser which so far the Boo is agreeing to use. He loved the bubblegum flavored toothpaste. Mostly the news was keep up the good work! We’re doing well and his teeth look good.

Yay!

According to the Boo:

No Mario Kart after sun goes down!

Who knew?

This morning the child told us the clock says 8 and it was time to get up. He pointed to the clock and everything.

I was stunned! Since when does he know how to tell time?

Then H tells me that the Boo says a lot of things are 8, so we ask which number was 8. He points at the 0. Oops. But then he pointed to the 8 after that.

Ah well. It’s a start!