Playing House

Teagan has been a sweet brother the last few days.  While I did the dishes he made Eloise a bed in the laundry basket.  She was acting tired so he got out the baby monitor, kissed her goodnight and went to his room to keep a close watch on her.  He thinks it's a two way walkie talkie so he was talking to her, luckily she could hear him through his door.  

Teagan: Hi Ellie, how are you?

Eloise: good

Teagan: you are sooooo cute

Eloise: giggling

She grabbed the monitor so he had to come reprimand her....

Twice.

Then he gave her the monitor and danced and played piano for her, while she watched in his room.

Days like today are pretty awesome to be a mom.  I love these little kids!

Silly goose

I put Ellie's hair in a mini pigtail...it's laughable, but gets me excited that she's at least getting hair!

She is turning into a screamy little thing, please tell me it's just a stage.  At nursery today she kept screaming anytime another child got near her and was hitting them away from her toys, then she'd run up and try to steal their toys, while screaming....oh boy.  It's comforting to know that it's normal 1 year old behavior, but doesn't make it any cuter.

She is usually really sweet, a great eater and awesome sleeper so we can't complain too much.  :)

She is talking more and understands us really well.  Her main words are mom, more and a whole bunch of blabbering that sounds really close to words, but is just gibberish for now.

Tooth #2

Teagan and Zac went on a father and Sons camp out last weekend and came home with a missing tooth.  They didn't even know it was gone until I said something. Apparently they had a pretty epic pillow fight so Zac thinks it must have been loose and gotten knocked out too.  LOL

Luckily he still has a mouthful...

What's the right size for a flower?

At least as big as her head.

First Tooth, Gone!

Teagan came running out of primary on Sunday exclaiming that he had a loose tooth.  After 3 days of wiggling and showing it off, it finally fell out.  He decided to not put it under his pillow right away so that he could show his friends.  

Then he promptly dropped it on the carpet and Zac is searching for it.  Whoops.

Summer Fun with Cousins

We had some beautiful spring weather and enjoyed it thoroughly with cousins.

 These boys are hardly competitive...except that they race EVERYWHERE.  They raced around the backyard until they were all completely "sweating hot."

 Eloise and Jax were racing too.

 Poor Ellie didn't stand much of a chance, but she is learning to be tough hanging around all these little boys.

 Then a few days later we got to watch Sasha and Lily.  It happened to be the day of Teagan's preschool field trip so we all packed up and headed to the zoo.  Luckily, Jake was there and helped me not loose anyone.  They were actually all really good!

 Have you ever seen a cuter bunch of kids?  I love that we have about 10 pictures of people in our family on this Tiger over the last 7 or 8 years.  I think I need to make a "people on the tiger" wall of pictures.

 The preschool then went to the playland and the kids loved it.  Below are Sasha and Teagan.

 All the girls went on the carousel and loved it.

 Lily

 Teagan rode the airplanes several times, they were his favorite.

 We love living close to all of these cousins, Teagan gets so excited to have them come over and play and I love watching them all interact.  It's so fun!

Poor baby

Poor little Eloise is miserable.  I thought it was teething because she's working on several, but the fever and snotty nose seem worse than normal teething.  She just wants to snuggle.  Although if Teagan tries hard enough he can get a little chuckle out of her.  The extra long naps today allowed me to clean the carpets, boo ya!  Let's keep the naps and throw out the fever.