Just hanging around!

Here are a couple of pictures of just them hanging around the house lately. Since it's gotten cold, we've stayed close to home. There's not many places to go in the cold and rain.

Not a lot of huge news to tell this week. It's been an OK week, some highs and lows. A good "high" is that Xander has started pooping in the potty (some of the time). He did it for the first time last week. He actually said "I need to poop" and then he did. He does things slowly (as you probably have heard me complain about before) so sometimes he sits there for 30 minutes, but he has had success, so we won't complain! Will had some setbacks with pooping when he was sick two weeks ago, and sometimes I think we're back on track and other times I want to scream. Some days, he'll just poop in his underwear without a second thought and have 3 wet accidents. Other days (like today) he does brilliantly, with no accidents. I wish I could figure him out. Still no brilliant ideas on our parts.

Xander has become the master of song. Here are a couple of his new ones:

#1 Tune Farmer in the Dell

The Beauty and the beast, the beauty and the beast.
Hi Ho the Derrio, the beauty and the beast.

The beauty takes a wife.....

The beauty takes a child...

(you get the idea). That one cracks us up.

#2 Variations on the ABC's

1st. ABCDEFHHHHHHHHHH......

2nd. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD........

They are all getting pretty good at singing a tune now. When they sing something, it actually has melodic movement and pretty close to the right notes. So, when Xander sings "DDDDDD" it has the ABC tune, so I know that's what it is.

In the bath the other night, Xander had the washcloth and he said "I'm going to wash my pee-pee and my toes." Well, Will heard "pee-pee" and "toes" and said "pee pee toes?" and started laughing uncontrollably. So, now their new big joke is "pee pee toes" and they laugh like immature teenagers at it. Uncle Chad informed me that this won't be the last time they laugh at a bodily function joke. Thanks Chad! Their other new made up word is "giggle dog". We have no idea where it came from. They talked about giggle dog all day today. Who knows?!?!? We still have sleeping giants in our upstairs. Sometimes they have "put the giants down for a nap" and I'm not allowed to go into their rooms if the door is shut because I might "wake him up". They do pay him a lot of attention, though. "I'm going to go check on the giant" they say. It's nice they take such good care of their giants.

This weekend, Daddy will be a single father, as I am going to Grand Island for a scrapbooking weekend with Lisa and some of her friends from work. Daddy will be fine, it may be a long weekend for him, though. Although it will be a nice, relaxing weekend for me! :-) That's all for now. Thanks for checking up on us!