Our cup is overflowing

 

I spent months trying sippy cups, straw cups, old cups, new cups, pink cups, blue cups, with NO luck.  But....guess who is using a cup now?  Thanks to my friend Laura for suggesting juice boxes to get him used to straws, he now tolerates (sometimes) straw cups.  Juice boxes - who knew?   Sometimes the answers to the problems are so simple, they make me feel brain dead and waaaay sleep-deprived.  Ever since I posted this picture below saying he sleeps 11 hours a night, he now gets up multiple times a night due to some nightmarish teething.  He has his second tooth and will prob have his third tooth any minute now, thank goodness.  I gave him medicine for the teeth last night, which I'm not a fan of, but poor thing is in pain with HUGE puffy gums.  

Anyway, after a week or so of squeezing Capri Suns into his mouth, he figured it out himself (and realized he liked it enough to want to try it).  He doesn't love drinking out of other straws or even drinking milk out of the juice box straw.  But he usually drinks a little before he flings it across the room.  (His favorite game right now is throwing ......books, toys, food, cups - you name it!).   He also likes drinking out of regular cups with no straws.  That's a little messier, but with him flinging all of his food around, everything is a total mess anyway.  

He has changed so much lately!  Besides the teeth and the drinking, he is now an expert speed-crawler, can pull himself up to stand anywhere, anytime, and has, unfortunately for me, figured out how to crawl up the steps.  Making dinner has just gotten 100 times more difficult, but at least he isn't running through the house...yet.    

and I had to include this, because ever since I typed the title for this post it has been playing in my head....
http://youtu.be/ekJO0honXs0

 



xoxo  Keri

showtime!

This morning I let the girls have a 5 minute head start so they could pick out their clothes and I could finish feeding J.  When I came upstairs, this is what I found (gotta love Jeremy bouncing in the background):

http://youtu.be/QGaLnUi6cok


and then there was this:

http://youtu.be/9GCSrlqwj8c



Goof balls! 

John - Sylvie wrote her own message on the chalkboard and asked me to take "a bunch of different pictures to put together for Daddy".  Here ya go!

 

xoxo  Keri

baby giggles and Christmas trees

I'm trying to be better about keeping the camera or video camera handy to catch the sweet little moments.  Tonight, as soon as I put Jeremy down to change him into pj's he started giggling those great big baby giggles that make everyone smile.  I scooped him back up, went downstairs to grab the video camera, and went back to change him into pj's.  

Cue the baby giggles:
http://youtu.be/wL9wfLeJK2k




Stella had the sweetest way of singing Christmas songs this year (by the way, she told me today it is almost Christmas time again because she heard birds singing.  She is also very annoyed that "her snow" is all gone and is not so patiently waiting for more snow!).  Anyway, her most famous Christmas song was probably Jingle Bells, sung:

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells Away....  I don't even know the real version anymore.  She also liked to sing the refrain "I like the sleigh ride..I like the sleigh ride" 

She does beautiful versions of "Children go where I send thee" and  "Santa Baby".  I need to remember to capture her versions.  


Anyway, John sent me a video that Stella recorded on his phone, while singing her version of "Oh Christmas Tree" in the background.  It makes me nauseous, but I love it :)


http://youtu.be/PfFkdTt3Dr0




xoxo  Keri