Up To Speed

So I mentioned that Eli is in the question stage of his life. Every day, every minute. Who is that? Where is this? Name this is? We go here? So on and so on. In the last two days he's honed in his focus to the growth of food. For a while now he's been saying, "Less talk 'bout it, Mommy. Talk 'bout..." and then he'd fill in the blank with 'muffler', 'baseball', 'fruit', or something equally as random. When he started talking about fruit, he wanted to know where it grew. Now he ONLY wants to talk about where things grow. Today he asked me where sandwiches, water, nectarine pitts and WINE grew. Lehr opened a bottle of wine last night, so that's the only reason I can come up with to explain that one. (Hey, I did leave him to feed, bathe, and sleep-induce both kids on his own...can you blame him?) My favorite is Eli's response to my answers: "Ohhhh, yeah. Das right."

The kids and I met Tyler and his mom for a walk and playground 'date' today. Ty brought along a birthday gift for Eli, and the boys couldn't wait to play with it. Even without a bat, glove or ball, the two of them were able to have a mini baseball game with the new bases!

Maddux has come into a new phase as well. The temper phase. Goody. She screams when you take things from her (like knives and lighters), and she totally knows when she's doing something wrong. We were hanging pictures in the living room the other day and she kept going over to the timer on the lamp. As soon as one of us would notice her over there, we'd say "Maddux, NO!" We'd barely have her name out of our mouth before she'd hunch her shoulders up, turn and run away from the lamp, laughing the whole way. Buckle up, kids: this is gonna be gooood!!