Chuck D & Mr. T

We are on day 4 of potty training. I have kept Teddy home from Blue Igloo so I can work on this with him. We read all morning and use the potty. He is doing pretty well. I got him Star wars Lego under ware. He wears one pair and carries one around with him. He gets M&Ms each time he goes to the potty. I know I shouldn’t bribe him but it is the only thing that is working. He requests “Two blues, two greens” each time. I have been telling him how proud I am of him. Yesterday he said “Mommy I proud you use the potty.”

Teddy has also impressed me with his vocabulary. We were reading a book about knights this morning and he pointed out that one was “injured.”

We started a kindness jar in which we put a coin every time we see someone doing something kind to others (helping set the table, clean up the pillows, refraining from kicking a babysitter, not pinching a brother). Charlie is really good at it and does lots of helpful things, like setting the table. Teddy even clears his plate from the dinner table.

I taught the girls to wave (probably by manically waving at them all day long). Yesterday Nelly waved at me and said “haaa” for “hi”. Scottie shakes her head “no” all the time now no matter why you ask her. Marilyn went in today to get her up from her nap and said “You didn’t sleep at all, did you?” to which Scottie replied “No” with a head shake. We knew this because we watched them not sleep and play for two hours on the monitor. I looooove watching them on the monitor.

I can’t believe that two months from today the girls will be one. Time files when you are having fun with your babies. They make my days so so so happy I don’t even know how to explain it.

Mj’s bean plant had now yielded about 12 beans. That is two beans per family member, not including Huck.

Teddy loves painting (paper and himself)

Every child today (and every day) wanted me to hold just them. I love holding each of them more than anything. I wish I could hold them all all day long. I just can’t push all four out of the park at nice.

The other night Nelly was standing in her crib and I had just brought Scottie in from the bath and she was laying on the changing table. Nelly curled her tongue up over her lip and made a missing sound. Scottie looked right over and started doing the same thing back and they kept going on and on and wouldn’t take their eyes off each other. They thought they were being so funny. I loved that they have each other as friends. It was so cute. (photo 1=Nelly with her first flower arrangements; 2=Scottie on left, Nelly on right; 3=Nelly on left, Scottie on right *this is my favorite picture of them; 4=Scottie; 5=Scottie with Cols; 6=Nelly with me; 7=Scottie smelling gardenias at Dumbarton Oaks; 8=Nelly doing the same)

Scottie is really really trying to repeat what you say. She will make sounds that mimic at least the first letter of what you say to her. Today we were trying to get her to say “agua” and she kept saying “aaaa”. Here with beloved raccoon toy.

Charlie plays so well with the babies.