A shout out to all my 'peeps...

Tony was playing in his room and singing his favorite tune (a mixture of the ABC's and "Twinkle, Twinkle" he has composed for himself) while moving his Thomas trains from place to place. I decided to spy on him, and of course, get him to talk to me a little on camera. You can see him being alternately sweet and cute, then switching to ornery mode when he sees me. When we showed him the whole thing, he gave us his other catch-phrase, "Ooh! Look at that!"

Our day is typically laced with a few time outs for things like throwing trains or running off with the remote (batteries in his mouth of course so he can scare us silly). He sits in the corner and cries, "Listen to Mommy," to try to get out a little sooner. I thought this was true contrition until I let him out of time out early, and was greeted with the biggest smile and cat-that-ate-the-canary grin you've ever seen. So, now Mommy is less of a sucker.

We also lost our minds a little last night and let Tony hold his sister for a brief moment. He actually did pretty well and was very still and gentle (it helps that he was pinned in by the Boppy pillow).

Daphne is growing like crazy. She is smiling at us and has even laughed a couple of times. She loves the swing and bouncers that Tony refused to even sit in for a minute, so we are now finally getting good use out of them after having them for two years. She is much more sensitive to noise and strange places than Tony was at this age, but has not yet gone on one of the 40 minute crying jags that Tony used to put me through as an infant. She has settled easily into a good eat-play-nap routine, and sometimes even naps at the same time as Brother. Hooray!