Change of Seasons

We had quite the conversation about summer blankets and winter blankets at bedtime today. Poor Cole had quite the time with it, but finally decided to cuddle with his old worn green blankie in lew of actually being tucked in with a bigger blanket. Andrew chose a sheet and small lighter baby blanket. Tomorrow, maybe I'll have them chose a special summer blanket for their beds. Hopefully, we'll avoid the chaos of change in the future.

Ben loves the mimicking-growl game. It's very fun to watch. He'll grunt or growl or roar, and then you answer back in echo, he laughs uproar-ously, and he starts it all over again. He loves to explore all over the house, but will answer when I call out for him (it almost sounds like a 'yah?' to me... yes, he's that brillant). He also loves to tickle toes and climb on his brothers (Andrew is not sure how he feels about this). He gets right into their space and messes with their toy-set ups; He's pretty strong and withstands their pushing away pretty well, but I've yet to convince his older brothers that he really is more fragile than he looks.

Cole had his last day of gym-nastics last Friday. We start swim lessons in the next couple weeks. He's still unholy-attached to his hat, which is not helping him stay cool in the least. He loves to come into our bedroom between 1100 and midnight, hunker down in his 'special' bed (the floor on mom's side) and promptly fall asleep. This is how we've discovered he both snores and talks in his sleep.

Adam will be done with Kindergarten in a couple weeks here! He is sounding out words and writing really well. One of the games he likes to play is adding and subtracting numbers, and he's getting pretty good at it! I'm looking forward to Mike being off work for a bit, and practicing all these cool new skills with him over the summer. Everyone, just know you'll be getting some mail this summer! Adam's favorite song right now is 'Since You Been Gone' by Kelly Clarkson. He thinks she has such a beautiful voice.

Andrew is fully toilet trained, and sleeps well once he is asleep, but is currently in the phase of getting up several times after being put to bed to ask for 'one more thing'. He will copy anything the other boys do, which is mostly good, but sometimes frustrating. If the older boys are struggling, he's usually right behind them. Like a row of dominoes. He loves to read, but mostly, he wants to tell us all about the books, not so much have us read them to him. He counted 40 waterfalls with his brothers on our drive up to white pass today.

Guess that's it for the update. We're all still happy and healthy for the most part. I'll be posting some pictures as soon as our main computer decides to stop being difficult.