After well over a month of silence, I am finally back to posting! So sorry for the delay. But I've got lots of pictures of the boys so enjoy! Noah is now approaching 3 months old and has grown very quickly. So much is new. Noah has been fantastic and you can really see in his face how big he has gotten. He can hold himself up really well and has the sweetest smile (when he chooses to share it with us). He is great at rolling over and pretty much does so at will.
Often times 2-3 times per tummy time session. Ben on the other hand showed us once early on that he could roll over and then not again until he was MUCH older. If it remember correctly, closer to 8 months. Noah also now keeps his beautiful blue eyes open a good portion of they day. Don't get me wrong, the kid wont ever turn down a nap, especially when he's in his baby bjorn, but he's now enjoying looking around more and more. He has recently taking to staring, cooing and smiling at the sheep hanging over his swing too. Those things amaze him! He's been a pretty good sleeper too, although some nights mommy might strongly disagree.
For the most part, he is now waking up only once, sometimes twice per night. As you can see, Noah requested to be a pumpkin for Halloween so we happily obliged since coincidentally, we had Ben's pumpkin costume from a few years ago! Perfect fit. He was adorable!
Ben on the other hand has had a rough last week and a half. Poor kid had a fever last week which then turned into some terrible cold sores on his lips and in his mouth. So he ate next to nothing for the duration and was EXTREMELY cranky and moody. We felt terrible for him but sadly there wasn't much we could do for him. At last, he is just about over everything.
We did selfishly drag him out for Halloween though! We all went over to a mommy friend of Joanna's house who had a whole bunch of kids over for dinner and then trick or treating. Ben was pretty cranky until we went out and then he was at best indifferent. But atleast mommy and daddy had fun!
Trick or treating with mommy friends picsHmmm... what else. We also took a Halloween train ride up in Kempton with the boys and Joanna's parents. Just a 45 minute out and back ride through some beautiful country
Train ride picsWe also all had a great time carving pumpkins. You'll all no doubt be impressed with my pumpkin handy work. I am available for rent for reasonable rates.
Halloween at homeOther than that, Ben is speaking extremely well and is coming ever closer to speaking in sentences. It always amazes us the things that he pulls out of nowhere, remembering conversations from a long time ago or books that he took out of the library months earlier.
Thats all for now. I promise I'll be better about posting again!
Ben has always spoken very clearly and has had a big vocabulary, but over the last few weeks, Joanna and I have both noticed that he has really started speaking in fuller sentences. I expected it to happen gradually, but something must have clicked for him. He is now blabbing about everything. His favorite topic is of course trucks and cars, but anything goes.
At long last we bought Ben's new bedroom furniture last weekend and it will be delivered tomorrow. Ben has been extremely excited about that. Noah will be inheriting Ben's older bedroom set so finally we should be able to move Noah out of our room! We were concerned that Ben would have a hard time parting with his furniture but he knows
