francesca's little men

Noah

1. Daniel and Noah went to Play It Again Sports and got a small glove for Noah and a few softballs to play catch with. They have been playing in the backyard off and on all day. Noah is getting better and I loved watching both Noah and Daniel play catch outside.

2. Noah wanted to make a Father's Day gift for Daniel, so yesterday at Michael's I got some air-dry clay. Today Noah made a shark for Daniel (with Daniel's help) and a turtle too. They look so cool. This was a great idea, I hope it dries well. It's supposed to take 2-3 days to dry. I love projects with Noah.

3. Noah is a good eater. This has taken years to perfect. We have been training Noah to eat food when it is placed in front of him for 4 years and over the past week (including tonight) I realized that Noah eats his food, without us coaxing him and then puts his plate in the sink. OK, he's not always like that every meal, but it's definately better than before. We have set te timer for him to eat and he used to spill everything all the time (which coined the phrase "the squirrel cage" when we were referring to the area around Noah's seat at the dinner table). It's much better now and that makes me happy.

Liam

1. All of his "ers" he pronounces "ees", for instance, "covers" he says "covees" and "diapers" he says "diapees" and "water" is "wawee". It's adorable.

2. Daniel and Noah have been playing catch outside and Liam wanted in on the action, so Daniel gave him one of his old gloves (way too big for Liam) and he loved it! Daniel was concentrating mostly on Noah and teaching him how to throw it, but Liam would come within 18 inches of Daniel and throw the softball as hard as he could (and Liam has quite an arm). Daniel would grab it and then throw it and Liam would run after it. Everytime Liam found where the ball had landed or rolled he'd say, "OK! gah-deet" (ok got it). Then he'd run up to Daniel about 18 inches away and throw it without warning as hard as he could. I watche dhits go on for about 15 minutes. It was great.

3. As I am writing this, I can hear Liam in his room. He's supposed to be asleep. It's 8:24 pm. Liam doesn't require a lot of songs or book reading or anything to go to sleep, we just usually put him in his bed and close the blinds and door and make sure he has his blanket and that's it. We wave goodnight and close the door and that's that. But I can hear him right now saying stuff. He's not yelling and he's not singing (which is what Noah does), but he is just saying stuff. I can't even tell what, just stuff, in his little voice. I love him.