I've been writing my sister who is in the MTC (headed soon to the Philippines) and keeping her updated on our life. So this time I am going to post part of my letters to her on here because I have been telling her what the boys have been doing lately. And I will be doing a picture overload as well. These are pics of both boys over the past year. Well Benson's are more like over the past 6 months.
Casen has started saying really funny things. I mean he
always says funny things but lately he’s said a few good ones. A couple weeks
ago he woke up and we had this convo:
C: my dream made me feel sick
Me: what kind of sick do you feel?
C: Um, roast beef
Me: ?
He got dressed before preschool and I was helping him zip
up his jacket
C: I look genus (said like genius but without the yuh
sound)
Me: you look genius?
C: yeah. I look genus.
And this last one is a convo between Aaron and casen one
morning when Aaron was trying to teach Casen something about grammar. See how
that went:
C: is me going to preschool today?
A: no, am i going to preschool today
C: no
A: no, you're supposed to say
"Am I" going to preschool today, not "is me"
C: is me going to preschool today?
A: no say am i
C: is me going to preschool...
A: no, it's am i, not is me
C: but i can't say that.
A: yes you can. say am i
C: am i
A: going to preschool today
C: going to preschool today
A: now say it all together: am i
going to preschool today
C: is me going to preschool today
Here are some random photos of casen over the past...year or so.
Benson had his first haircut a few weeks ago. His hair was
just SO long and would hang down over his ears and look awkward in front so we
gave him a shave! It was nearly as short as Casen’s. I was a little worried at
first, wondering what it would look like but I love it now. He is so cute (of
course) and you can see his face really well now and all of his hair is the
same length and because he’s still got the baby face it doesn’t look so weird
for him to have a buzzed head. It’s only crazy different for us because we know
he had hair before. So that was fun.
Before:
After:
OMGOSH he is SO cute. I
am SO in love with this little guy! He has crawled a few times. Like twice
he has done 2 crawls and then he gets down on his tummy and scoots, well more
like swims around. He LOVES cords and is drawn to them wherever they are. I can
never keep all of them away from him. He’s starting to understand when I tell
him no and sometimes he listens. He also has started this thing where he will
scream, like really loud…very loud, whenever he wants something and he isn’t
getting it right away. This usually happens with food. I’m trying to teach him
to sign “more” but I have a feeling that he will be screaming until he learns
to talk and tell us that he needs more. Ugh.
He also likes to pull himself up on
our coffee table. He’s still not strong enough to do this so he usually pulls
himself up enough that his mouth is even with the edge of the table and then he
loses his balance and smashes his face into the table. This happens daily. A
lot daily. Poor kid. And he’s very offended when this happens and looks at me
like, how could you do that to me? I know it’s super sad but it’s one of my
most favorite things because it’s so hilarious that he even thinks I've done
something and his offended cry is so cute and funny. Let’s be clear: I do not
do anything to him to draw out this offended cry. He does it to himself. I just
let him learn by experiencing it and it’s a little funny for me along the way.
(you know, just in case anyone reads this and thinks I hurt my child for fun.)
And he’s so happy in the morning. I love going in to see
him in the morning first thing because he always smiles really big and is super
happy and cuddly. I LOVE It.
here's some more random pics of him:
so that's about it for now! Life is good, we've had a lot of changes over the past year that I might write about another time if I get the motivation.
Peace out home scout!
