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Tiernan's newest trick is raspberries. It's especially funny since he will repeat them to you if you do some for him!

Kenton randomly counted to five the other day! It just surprised Jon and I since we knew he knows his numbers (well, to 10, let's be reasonable here), just not really how to count. Does that make sense? But, he just up and counted off the fingers on one hand one day when we were sitting on the couch. Just goes to show you once again how much they learn even when you aren't teaching!

Another new game we've invented is Body Parts. Apparently this is great to do while waiting for some family members to finish a meal. Kenton loves to point out body parts ("CHIM!" - chin, "Eboos" - Elbows, etc) to show off what he knows! Of course this only works with what he can show above the table, but he's getting really good at things like the difference between lips and mouth.

And I took Kenton to his first movie today! We went and saw Planet 51. I hope he appreciates in later years how much time I spent choosing his first movie at the theater! Probably not, but one can dream. The choices were: Alvin and the Chipmunks (Uh, no), Princess and the Frog (which I enjoyed, but figured Kenton might not appreciate that factoid in a few years, like at cootie age when girl stuff isn't cool), or Planet 51. It was pretty funny, for older kids and adults, but I don't think he really enjoyed himself as much as I'd hoped. Oh well. It was worth it just to watch him get folded in half trying to sit in the theater seats! And we ate popcorn, drank pop and juice and I even snuck in a small container of mini M&M's in my "purse".

Finally, some more reading we've been doing. We borrowed Dog's Colorful Day from the library, as well as Dogabet. Then there's Canada 123 and a couple others we haven't gotten to yet. I really would like to do something fun with Dog's colorful day, but I need to tape it back together first! Kenton got a hold of it when I wasn't looking and ripped a page into three pieces! I'm sure it's not the first library book to have such a fate, especially in the kids section, and it won't be the last!

Day Ten - setting up the crib

This isn't exactly a project for today, but it's very important anyways. We've had the crib for T set up in K's room for ages, but T's still been sleeping in the bassinet in our room. So enough's enough, we need T to sleep in the boys' room now, especially since he's just getting too darn big for the bassinet.

So we put the mattress lower (and turned it around, darling husband had the front at the back when we moved it), set it up and I worked on getting clothes organized. Since T was in our room, he was using a couple of our drawers for his clothes, much easier than running back and forth all the time. But it means putting the clothes back in the boys' room. And organizing them. So we've been working on that all morning, the boys are down for naps, and then hopefully tonight, both of them will be sleeping in their room! Yay!

Lately, K has picked up on the fact that I call his Dad "Jono" (a family nickname I started using as well). It's pretty funny cause when he can't get his Dad's attention by saying "Dad! Dad? Daddeee!!", he now goes "Jono!"!! Sounds like "Ja-o", but pretty funny nonetheless. So it was funny today to hear him, when his Dad picked him up to go to his room for naptime and he's going "Jono! Jono!?"! He also asks a lot lately "Daddy at work?", which is just cute to hear.

I love making T giggle and laugh. His laughs are so brief it prompts me to do it over and over just to hear it again! One of his favourites is when I "eat" him. No, really, I pretend to nibble at his tummy, sides or the sides of his neck and it makes him howl! It's so much fun!

One that's good to play with both the kiddos is helicopter tickles. I don't know if that's a real game I picked up somewhere, but since I can't remember, I'm taking the credit! It's best when they're both with me, usually on the couch and I twirl my hand, starting way up in the air and coming down, pointer finger out. I make "helicopter" noises and then quickly dive in and tickle one of them with my hand. They think it's great cause they never know who is going to get tickled next! It gets the best squeals out of them too! And since it's best with both of them there, it's something we can play together, paying attention to both of them at the same time.

Day Eight - haven't decided

Well, we made the banana bread yesterday and all K stuck around for was to "squish" the bananas. It's a favourite game of his, we pretend to squish him all the time. We'll half sit on him on the couch, or with shopping carts and make squishing noises while he squeals "Again! Squish!". So I got him to help out yesterday by telling him to "Moosh moosh, squish" the bananas. He grabbed the potato masher and was going "Squish, squish" while pretty much just playing with the mushed up bananas.

But, the banana bread is done and it made the house smell lovely and it tastes awesome, especially with the chocolate chips in it.

Yesterdays adventure out and about proved exciting. We got picked up by Baby Beastie and her mom (on her school bus! We were waiting for the regular bus and they passed us, so stopped and picked us up) and had some lunch, then walked around WalMart doing some shopping. We found some glitter, finger paint paper (cause the paper roll from Ikea is too absorbent, doesn't allow for lots of playtime with the paints), and I found a cute bath poof with a stuffy seal head on it. K wanted that one cause it was blue.

A little funny, I was writing out the shopping list on Tuesday for what to get yesterday. During the day I had had to toss a couple of T's bottle nipples cause they had been chewed on so bad they had cracked. So my list started like this...

Nipples
Glitter
Heart stickers

Made Jon and me laugh anyways.

So Beastie and her mom had to go and they left us at WalMart. We finished up there, had a snack (while K climbed on the half wall by our table, laughing and smiling at everyone in the restaurant) and continued on our journey.

Which brought us to Michael's craft store. K was actually really good this whole time. I had to strap him into the stroller so I could concentrate on just getting what we needed done, and so he'd been sitting in it for ages. But, I remember now one reason we haven't been going out lots, it's that lots of slushy snow, no plowing of sidewalks and a stroller with two kids in it don't go well together. The only upside is I got lots of exercise pushing that thing around! And of course businesses don't think of leaving walkways for people using transit, so there's no paths from the sidewalks to the business, just from the parking lot into the store.

While pushing our way along a footpath from the sidewalk along the store to the front of the store, I was getting worried I might break a wheel or two off the stroller! We finally made it in and found the place in clearance mode. Lucky! So, we tracked down some heart stickers (finally), and I found stuff to work on next week's project too.

After Michael's, we were done what we needed to do for the day so we headed off to find our bus home. When we got to the transit center nearby, K wanted so badly to go on the LRT (light rail transit) trains. So we changed course and went to ride on the trains. K had a blast going "Trains! Track! Trains Fast!" the whole time! The best part was when we got off at our stop and he goes "Thank you Thomas! See you later Thomas!"! That's actually the direct translation, it actually came out more like "Ake-U Toe-Mas! Slee-lu la-er Toe-Mas!"!

Well, T is down after being up this morning for a bit, and K is playing with his tracks, having just finished breakfast. I don't know what we're going to make today yet, but I do know dinner is pork tenderloin since it's defrosting in the fridge. With what, I have no idea. Oh, maybe baked potatoes! K can help me poke and wrap them. It's not much, but gotta start somewhere.

And it's glitter day! Wish us luck!