my babies

Ben is definitely standing now, pulling himself up. He's tucking his little knees under him and starting to push with his knees too. He gets into everything. I've recruited his brothers into helping keep things out of his mouth that shouldn't be there. He started on graham crackers and scrambled eggs and even tried some apple juice. Adam loves to make him laugh and will break every rule to get that giggle out of him. He'll spit his food all over the table just to get him to smile. funny boys... :)

Adam has been working towards getting his stars every day in his kindergarten class, and he's done it two weeks in a row, but last week, he got a warning on friday. He didn't get his pokemon mac and cheese for dinner that night, but before our little incentive idea, he was only getting stars maybe every other day. I've really been proud of him actually. He's been working really hard.

Cole is insisting on sleeping with four to five pillows a night, and won't take off his hat unless we're sitting down to eat. Makes me wonder what this summer is going to look like, cause it's a crocheted yarn winter hat that covers the ears. I've tried trading with a baseball cap, but Cole is yet to be convinced. He likes that the weather is getting warm enough to go barefoot outside. He runs straight to the dirt, and at least one plant is missing, or at least, not in the same place I had seen it before. He's introduced his dinosaurs to the dirt and learned to blow bubbles recently. When he's not doing those two things, he's most likely drawing with chalk on the driveway. His favorites to draw are dragons with wings.

Andrew has successfully pooped and peed on the toilet. He refused to wear his diaper last night, and had his first dry night. We got to use his birthday present (a sprinkler ball) yesterday. He liked that! He loves to help me with dishes and dusting and pulling weeds. Big helper right now. He wants to see everything I'm doing and why I'm doing it. Our conversations pretty much consist of him saying 'what' and 'why', followed by yet more 'what' and 'why'sssssss. I usually give up before he does. Had to tell him a couple times today to rest his mouth. He seemed to understand that for a little bit, but then he scrunched up his little forehead and said, 'why?'