Catching Up On Cuteness

Titus has started dancing. It is soooo cute. He stomps his feet or spins in circles or waves his hands in the air. =P Or a combination.

Emily bought Titus a Mylar heart balloon the day before Valentine's Day and he really really likes it. =) He carries it around and sometimes he plays with it like a punching bag. On Saturday he started saying "balloon!"

Sunday I was talking to Raven and Titus waved at her and said "Hi!" He did it again later to a couple of other people. He has started repeating words really well. Today he said "puffs" - he is a huge fan of puffs. =) If I am holding him in the kitchen, he points to the basket above the fridge, where the puffs are. =) And I love how he wiggles with excitement when I get them down and open them. And he said "turtle" when he saw the turtle that holds the bathtub toys.

He also started signing "milk" for real. I was never sure before if he really meant it, but now he does it really well and I know he means it. =P Sometimes he signs it when he wants water, too. Sometimes when he is nursing he will just look at me and sign milk and then smile when I say "Yep, you're having some milk!" He will do it over and over. I guess he likes that I understand him. =P

The other day, Lainey laughed and said "There's no such thing as egg NOG!" Then she just totally cracked up. Harper said "Laine, you're fun to watch laugh... Emily, you're fun to watch laugh, too..." and then he mimicked the famous Emily laugh where she chokes. lol So we were all laughing and Bekah said "That's funnier than jokes!" lol!

Bekah likes to make coffee with me and she calls the frother a "throther" and asks if she can "throth" the milk. =)

The other day, Bekah said "My head fore hurts... I mean... My forehead?"

We were painting some blocks black to put pictures on for the Valentine Dinner and Bekah said "The whiskers on paint brushes...are they all black?"

The kids were cleaning up scrapbook paper last week and they got to a point where it was just putting little pieces in the trash. Bekah said "All the paper should be put to death!"

The other night at dinner, Bekah said she was cold and asked for a blanket. I took off my sweater and gave it to her and she said "Thanks. Do you even want this dirty?" =)

I was snuggling Bek on the couch and she said "Mommy! You have some wrinkles!!" I said "Oh yeah? I guess I'm getting old." She said "No. You're getting UN-old!" =)

Bekah says "oof" when she picks up something heavy or can't do something. =)

Bekah was playing with one of the brain teaser puzzles that Emily bought and she thought she was solving it, but it really just wasn't put together correctly. She handed it to Harper and he fixed it and gave it back. She tried it again and couldn't do it and started to cry and said "I just think you're...not a very good one [dad]...because...you made me cry." I'm not sure what she had said before that, so that we knew she was calling him a not very good dad, but it was what she meant. lol

A few weeks ago the girls were talking about Finding Nemo and Bekah said "I don't like that one...because he gets all alone with just crabs!" Haha! I thought that was cute. There are sharks and bombs and jellyfish-filled trenches and a freaky anglerfish and a whale and getting stuck in a bird's neck, etc. And the scary thing is Nemo, free at last, but alone with crabs for like 2 seconds.

Anyway the Davises were here for the weekend and the kids all had tons of fun. Emily wired up a light with a switch and she and Hannah went into a room and turned the lights out and sent each other messages in Morse code. How cute is that?

Funny Girl

Tonight we were playing the Brain Quest game, which Bekah requested. We always have so much fun with that game. She got a first grade math question that required her to add 5 and 8. So Harper was working through it with her and she held up one hand for the 5 and then her other hand with 5 and Harper added 3 fingers for the 8. He asked how much that was altogether. She said 5 and 5 and 3. He said yeah, but altogether how much is it? Count them all up? And she said "With what hand?!" LOL It was hilarious. So he traded one of his hands for hers and she got a free hand to add them up. She counted "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14!" LOL He was like "11, 12, what?" and she said "11, 12, 14!"  A few times. =P Skip Count Kid ruined her teens with the skip counting twos song - I need to be more diligent to undo that. lol But at least she can skip count 2's up to 20! Hehe.