Over The River and Through The Woods

To Grandma's house we go...

Well, we already went and now we're back - but Scott is staying by himself for a week. Scott was so excited to go. We left early Saturday morning and when we put him to bed on Friday night he explained quite enthusiastically that we would wake him up "in the middle of the night" (translation - 6am), that we could ride in the car and watch movies, and then he would stay at Grandma's house by himself. Who ever heard of a 3 year old getting so excited about a 7 hour drive. That was a lot of car riding for one weekend though. Fortunately everyone did well. Michael, as expected, slept quietly for the first stretch. After stopping to eat and stretch our legs though, he was not at all interested in getting immediately back into his carseat. Therefore, we had a louder 2nd half of the trip, since he cried on and off (thankfully, he did not cry consistently.) We had a nice visit. Enjoyed the cool weather. Introduced Michael to Nana and Granddaddy Keen. Then we turned around and came home.

Here we are, enjoying the week with Blaise and Michael, and they are enjoying having us more to themselves... but we're all missing Scott. Blaise points out, probably twice every hour that Scott's not here, he's at Grandma's and the rest of us should go back to Grandma's. We're pretty sure though that Scott is having a blast... I've heard he's already watched plenty of movies and examined the contents of his nose in his grandma's magnifying mirror for make-up. Boys :)

In other news... Michael had his 2 month check-up this morning. He is doing well. As of today, he wieghs 12 lbs 5 oz and is in the 65% for weight, but he's already 24 and a half inches, which is the 95% for height. He's also in the 60% for head circumference... that's different, the rest of us have tiny heads :) Here's the most recent Sunday picture, actually taken yesterday (on a Monday), because we were out of town.

He's gotten very interested in his hands and feet and is focused on figuring them out and controlling the movement. It's fun to watch him concentrate!

This is late, but it was really cool... a picture of the boys watching the Clemson vs GA Tech game on the computer the day after it was played- Scott watched the entire 2nd half (there wasn't time to watch the whole game and we played better in the 2nd half.)

And here's one last video of Scott... he was pretending the stick was an umbrella, but wouldn't say so for the video, oh well.

Singing!!!!!

Scott's singing in the other living room... how cool is that?! This is the child that usually tells other people to stop singing. He just randomly started singing Deep and Wide and Blaise joined in.

Oh, and earlier today they found the new baby card that Grandma Jill had sent. She always sends musical cards and this one played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Blaise was playing with the card and came into the kitchen singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I was so impressed. We rarely sing that song and somehow he knew it- from the music?! Why wasn't he singing the ABC song- we actually sing that ocassionally :)

They make me smile... even the one who doesn't sing yet- he just smiles and it's contagious.

Sleeeeep

Ah, 10 hours of uninterrupted sleep... at least for my 7 week old. Michael slept from 7-5. Too bad I was too busy watching that game last night to go to bed before 11:30 myself. Here's hoping we keep seeing more and more of these long nights for Michael. It really doesn't surprise me that he sleeps so well at night... during the day the boy is constant motion and very alert. He takes a few short naps and maybe 1 longish nap (maybe 2 hours, somedays.) He's also cooing a ton already, it's how he manages to completely capture my attention for long periods of time during the day when I have other things on my mind that need to be done. Cuteness.

Where The Wild Things Are

We enjoyed a great visit with my sister, Jessica, over the Holiday weekend. It might be obvious from the picture... but Scott absolutely loves his Aunt Jesse. He was very excited that she was coming for a visit and even got very upset the few hours she wasn't with us, while she was here. For example, he knew she was coming on Thursday night after he was in bed, so Friday he woke up looking for her. Literally, he got dressed and said, "Where's Aunt Jesse." Then we saw a plane go by our house and he thought she must be on that plane. I said she wasn't and he ran down the hall crying before I could explain that her plane had already landed and she was with Uncle Mike. Funny boy.

While Jessica was here we went to Riverbanks Zoo for a day trip. One of my favorite day trips, because it's so easy and everyone has fun. The first picture is of the boys with their Nana and Papa (my parents) checking out the baboons as soon as we got there. Hey, they were on the way to the tigers :) Notice the Clemson hats... I always feel weird even just being in Columbia, so we wear our orange.

After seeing the tigers, Scott was set on giraffes, for some reason (could be he remembers them from the pictures from the last time we went). Of course, Scott and Blaise don't say giraffe, they say "raffes." One of the funny mis-pronounciations they share. Anyway, we headed toward the raffes and of course, grandparents love to spoil, so they got to feed the raffes. Fun times... I'm sure we'll be expected to buy lettuce for the giraffes every time we go. Hopefully, we'll be back there often. We had a big enough group that we went ahead and got a membership.

Let us not forget, the other major event of the weekend was Clemson's first home game. What a way to start a season. We couldn't watch the game... well actually, we could have, but we didn't know it, so we just listened. Remarkable the attention span of a 3 yr old for football on the radio. Scott at least listened quite intently and asked a million questions. I actually got out the little people to stage the game for him. I'm very excited to take him to a game live and we are even planning on going to some local pee-wee games. That's partly inspired by my dad who officiates, mostly high school, but some pee-wee too. Anyway, here's the picture of our 3 little Tigers from last weekend. They look about the same today, except one has grown plenty since Saturday. We'll be watching the game tonight on the computer. Too bad for Scott, it doesn't start til bedtime... I told him he could watch it on the computer tomorrow, we'll see if he remembers and how much of it I get to watch twice. GA Tech is always a close game, so hopefully it will be a good one and hopefully it will be a W.

Finally... here's the little man up close. Finally got a relatively good picture of his smile. It's still best in person of course. Actually, giving credit where credit is due, Scott took this picture.

I absolutely love this picture that Jessica took. Michael found his thumb while hanging out at my parents one evening. Evening isn't his favorite time of day, so it was very nice for everyone. Now if he could just learn to find his thumb consistently and when he needs it.

Blaise is in fact cutting his bottom 2-yr old molars. We'd been wondering, since he's been stuffing things into the back of his mouth lately. It was when he stuffed his finger back there at bedtime that I caught a glimpse of them. The top molars are still not in sight at all, so he's still not finished with the whole teething thing.

Scott's latest phrase is, "I'll eat you up." Can you guess where he picked that one up? I'm just wondering if he's wanting us to send him to bed without eating anything?

Go Tigers!

-Isms

Scott and Blaise both still say the funniest things. Here are a few quick phrases from the past few days...

Blaise in response to whatever it is you ask him to do mostly, well, he still says no a lot too, but it's cute when he says- "OK." (And you have to read it in his man-voice.)

Blaise when you answer a question or tell him something that he understands- "Oh" (Again, it has to be read in his man-voice.)

Blaise when he's getting into something... for example, yesterday he had pushed a chair from the table to the counter where he had picked up a bag of cookies and was about to open the bag and eat one (nevermind that the bag was the cookies we had set aside for Scott and Blaise, so we wouldn't, um, accidentally? eat them all.) I saw him and asked what he was doing and he replied, complete with his notorious grin- "I'm just getting a cookie from the bag. That is all." Major emphasis on the last 3 words there. He has used this phrase probably 20 times in the past 3 days, to downplay whatever it is he is getting into.

Scott for the past few months has been telling me, "Nothing," when I ask what he's doing and it's something he shouldn't be doing. Today it got better... as he and Blaise were both going through the CD's, which naturally they aren't allowed to play with, while I was nursing Michael, I asekd what they were doing... his response, "We're not doing anything anymore." I asked what he had been doing, "Nothing."

"That is all."