Baby Curls

Bryce quotes

After looking at a picture of me when I was little - "Mom, who was my mom when you were a baby?"

While wiping a kiss off his cheek "I don't like to get kisses, I only like to GIVE kisses."

A nurse with lids

So everyone in our house is sick this week. Some more than others. After two trips to the doctors today we found out that Andy has pneumonia and Bryce has an ear infection. Since I'm less sick than anyone else I've been playing nurse all week. Andy and Bryce keep hacking up gross phlegm while sitting on the couch so I've brought them Tupperware containers to hack into (sorry if this is TMI for some). Well my observant little 15 month old has noticed me going into the Tupperware drawer and wants to be a nurse too so I noticed a pile of Tupperware lids on the couch too. 5 Tupperware lids ought to do the trick.

Fun with cousins

Sarah and her family are visiting this week. It's been almost of year since the cousins have played together. The contrast between gender dominated households is best described in the following conversation while driving back from lunch with Nana and Pop:

Anya: I had my hair done at a beauty parlor this morning (Sarah spent hours trying to untangle an accident with the bubble machine).
Bryce: Don't say beauty, it's a potty word.
Anya: (very curious now) what's a potty word?

Miriam's 1st birthday!

In my haste to catch up I guess I won't so severely neglect my third child's first birthday by not giving it its own post. Miriam is such a sweet little girl. She's a daddy's girl and has Tyler wrapped around her finger too. We love her dimpled smile and shy peekaboo games. She's observant and notices what the big kids are doing and wants to be a part. She's a climber but doesn't shy away from trying again after she's had a good fall.We love her excited baby chatter. She reminds us of boo on monsters inc. Chattering away to anyone that will listen in her own baby talk. Excited to see what the next year brings.

Andy's New Frederick office

Andy moved to a new office in Frederick at the beginning of March. Here's some pics now that its all put together. No, Bryce and Miriam aren't usually hanging out at the office during sessions.

3 year old antics

This kid wears me out. It's a daily battle over things as small as cut up pancakes or his hands feeling too sticky. Screaming for help because he can't reach the light switch in the bathroom and he needs to pee. He thought the trunk of the van would be a good place to catch stink bugs was his explanation after my frantic search of the house and yard. He likes to finger paint with toothpaste all over the bathroom mirror and regularly dumps out trash cans to flip over and use as stepping stools. His just-learning-to-walk 15 month old sister is his favorite bowling pin and its not 4:30 on a weekday without a battle with Tyler over which cartoon to watch. Dumping cups full of water out on the kitchen floor to make puddles to jump in always seems like a fun idea at the time and bath time is always better if the water splashes the walls and ceiling too. All in a days work for a 3 year old.

I keep telling myself this stage won't last forever. Some days I tell myself just to make it to bedtime and then I can rest.
I'm always a sucker for the bottom lip and "but I just want you to snuggle with me" line at bedtime (after he just screamed for the dinner he never ate and mooned his sleeping brother).

I have to remember that one day he won't ask me to snuggle with him anymore either. I guess I'll enjoy it while it lasts.