Daniel helps with laundry

Daniel found a pretty awesome way to spice up doing the laundry...

Daniel advice

Daniel has been developing the habit of giving us "advice" before we leave for work. Some of his "advice" has recently turned foreboding. For example, he's literally said,

"Bye Mommy...be a good girl."

"Have a good day at work Daddy...(pause)...don't fall down..."

"Bye Mommy, have a good day at work...(pause)...make good choices..."

Just Matthew

We know, we know, most of our posts seem to be about Daniel. So here's one of just Matthew. Matthew is now 8 months old (!) and on the verge of lots of things. He isn't "crawling" per se, but pivots and rolls and can basically get to where he wants to be. He's been found a few times standing in his crib...

He has 5 teeth and LOVES to eat. We've found only a few things so far that he doesn't really like, but for the most part, he'll eat till there physically isn't room left in his belly (which isn't pretty...). He also likes to whistle, and if we're lucky, we'll get it on on video and post it. In the meantime, here are some of our favorite recent photos of Matthew:

A fuzzy picture of Matthew performing his tongue trick.

New toys from Grammy and Grampy!

Just sitting here. Everything's fine.

On the move.

If you look closely, you'll see the tip of Matthew's head and his feet. Photo courtesy of Daniel.

Cold outside, but warm in my bunting and hat!

"Surprise!"

Bathtime. (Ok, so Daniel snuck his way into the post, but the picture was too cute to leave out. Plus, Matthew is really starting to enjoy bathtime--especially splashing.)

Trying on a hat from Grandma. (There's that tongue again!)

Post-bath snuggles with Auntie Laura. (This kid clearly doesn't eat enough...)

Spelling

Tonight, Daniel spontaneously started spelling "America" off of one of Michele's cookbooks. He did it perfectly.

We congratulated him, naturally, then this...

Daniel: " 'America' has two 'As' in it."

Chris: "That's right Daniel, good job!"

Daniel: "Ya, it also has a lot of 'Ks'."

Ooooo, so close. Good thing the Spelling Bee is about 5 years away.

Daniel's Take on Groundhog Day

We have a magnetic calendar where there are magnets specific to differenet holidays throughout the year. Today being Groundhog Day, Daniel had lots of questions about the groundhog magnet and what we "celebrate" today. After a few times of telling the shadow/no shadow story, Daniel created his own version of the story.

According to Daniel, on Groundhog Day the groundhog "pops up out of his hole, waves a flag and says 'ten more days of Easter, one more week of men, and one more week of fall!' "

I like the flag part (it's festive!), but I'm a little concerned about the one more week of men...