Buses and Smiling

Have I mentioned Ben is fascinated with buses?  He loves buses more than I ever imagined a little kid could and also really like cars, trucks and fire trucks of course.  He spends time laying on the ground or at the table moving his cars, trucks and buses around over and over again.  I have to admit, that I love when he lays on the ground and acts like a little boy pushing his car around and bumping them into each other.  This is now an everyday occurrence and he has to travel with at least one if not more of his buses when we leave the house.  Here is a pic of what our coffee table looks like everyday since he lines up and rearranges his vehicles on it.

Then onto bedtime.  He still is a really good sleeper at night, but his pre-bedtime rituals are quite amusing.  Thanks to our video monitor we get to watch it all unfold and I can't help but laugh almost every time.  He still has a pillow, two blankets, two woobies (security blankets/animals), diapers, a jayhawk and plush football that he sleeps with.  I'm sure I've mentioned this all before, but instead of him just piling everything together and pouncing on it he now gets some exercise and last minute energy out by hanging onto the side rail and jumping for a bit then falling onto his bottom.  He sometimes lets out a giggle at this as well.  I'm sure it's only a matter of time until he climbs out of his crib, but I'm really hoping that day is far, far away as I'm not sure he'll ever sleep if he has his whole room to play with and no confinement within it.  I've seen him play with books and diapers for hours so I'm afraid when he does get out of his crib, his good sleeping nights are over.  Only time will tell.

Next up is Ashley - our princess.  And yes, I'm not ashamed to call her our princess as she is way too sweet and quiet to fit in around Ben.  They truly are polar opposites and in a way I'm glad we have the two extremes.  She's still doing really well at night (majority of the nights) with sleeping after each bottle and going about 4-5 hours in between nighttime feedings.  She's also been smiling on purpose as of this last week and I have to say it's adorable.  I love talking to her and being able to see her light up with a big gummy grin - she's too cute.  I don't have great pictures of it yet, but I'm working on it so this one will have to do until I get the full out grin.

All Clean!



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