My Little Lifesavers

Brennen
He’s in a fun stage right now. He’s a little over 2 1/2 (technically he’s just about 32 months but I don’t keep track of his months anymore!) He was kind of a difficult baby but now he obeys us (most of the time…) and is really fun to be around! And he’s potty trained so at the moment there’s not a lot of stress. :) Here are some fun things he does now.

• He always turns around in bed. I’ll tuck him in all nice but when I check on him before I go to bed he’s always turned around with his head where his feet should be, on top of his covers, with his pillow on top of him.
• He climbs up to the very top of my treadmill.
• He climbs into Deans crib to play every morning.
• He “reads” books by himself. He’s not actually reading but he remembers what each page says and recites them from memory all on his own. I love it. :)
• He loves building with his legos and other blocks.
• He LOVES vegetables and fruits. Both of my boys will eat practically anything so that’s way nice!
• He was NOT a cuddly baby but now he loves to cuddle. He climbs in bed with me every morning and will often climb into my lap and give me big hugs and say “I love you, Mom.” SO sweet!

This kid started talking very early. At age one he was saying: dad, uh oh, juice, and thank you. I remember the day we got our Christmas tree in 2011 Matt and I were trying to figure out all the words he had in his vocabulary and we lost count. He was not quite 18 months then. And his voice has always been so clear and clean and he’s very easy for anyone to understand. Always has been. 
Anyway, I’m going to try to list some of the funnier things he’s said in the past year or so. There’s no way I can remember them all. Some may be border line inappropriate… but really funny! And I swear I’m not making this stuff up. How could I? :)

• We were in the car and it was dark so he said, “The sun is sleeping. Have to be quiet.”
• He was giving me a hug and suddenly grabbed my chest and said, “These are eggs!”
• He pooped his pants (at the very beginnings of potty training) and so I put him on the toilet while I was washing out his undies and he put his hands over his face and said “I just cannot handle this.”
• Right after Dean was born he narrated everything. “Baby Dean sleeping. Baby Dean hungry. Baby Dean crying.” and etc.
• When he could barely talk he’d go around crying, “Juice! Juice!” Now he says, “MOM! I need some more juice-UH!!!!”
• He sings several entire songs on pitch! He always sings to Dean whenever he’s upset.
• Whenever he sees anyone wearing a cowboys shirt (or just anything brown) he says, “I love your nice cowboy shirt!”
• Whenever someone cries he says, “It’s okay! It’s okay! It’s okay!” over and over very quickly. This started about the time Dean was born.
• He understands words like: behind, under, on top. And uses them appropriately.
• He was pretending to teach a piano lesson and I heard him yell, “Key signature! The KEY signature!!!!” (I’m pretty sure I don’t sound quite that angry with my students when they miss an F#…)
• He sings along to songs on the radio and the other day he randomly started singing “I got da moves like JAGGA!” oops…
• And just today I heard him singing, “Here’s my numba, ca-call me bayBA!” (I don’t really like either of those songs, they just happen to be on the radio in the car I guess…)
• Last night he looked at Brad and said, “Brad! Where ya been, bud?”
• My mom taught him a game where she says “Give me that face!” and when he does she’ll kiss him and then he wipes it off. It’s really cute. :) So now he’ll go around saying “Gimme dat face!” and wipes off my kisses then says, “Grandma teaches me to be funny. HA HA!”

He says WAY more smart and funny things but of course I can’t think of them when I want to! I’ll probably insert more “Brennen-isms” in future posts.

Dean
He turned 10 months about a week ago. I’ll just list a couple things since not much has changed about him since my last post. :)

• He can stand alone for several seconds and when he wants to get down he just slowly lowers himself.
• He still wakes up at least 3 times a night.
• We give him a lot of table food (the kids has 8 teeth) and he loves everything he’s tried.
• He still loves unplugging everything.
• He can reach the piano and plays it while I’m trying to (it’s electric so he also likes to unplug it…)
• He climbs onto everything! He can get onto the couch by himself. Oh boy… :)
• He crawls around SO quickly and bats things out of his way as he goes.
• He laughs and “talks” ALL the time! Actually, his talking is more like happily screeching words.
• He’s starting to retaliate to Brennen. If he gets pushed he’ll push back. He also tries to bite Brennen if he tries to do anything to him. :)
• He’s started to throw fits. He’ll get up on his knees and bounce around a couple times and then fall backward and burry his face into the floor and cry. It’s actually really cute. :)

I appreciate and love these boys even more when I go to work and then come back. :) I realize how much they mean to me and that I would do anything for them! They bring so much joy into my life. I don’t even know how I lived without them before!