January

A Christmas tree by our toddler.
And a self portrait our preschooler drew in his primary class.


Movie and popcorn.


As soon as baby was done with tummy time, they were like blanket! Let's get our stuff and sleep here!


Our preschooler pretended the kitchen was his house. I thought it was pretty imaginative.

He took pictures too.


With daddy.



Our preschooler made a road with the magformers, but not just any road, that's our street.


Pretend naptime.


I'll just stick this here because I haven't been posting enough selfies lately (ha). But really because the other subject is super adorable.


Pre-K had a dress-as-a-community-helper day and our boy picked police man. He wore blue because he said policemen wear blue. And he wore a walkie talkie and a homemade badge (craft foam, markers, modge podge, hot glue, and a pin).  Naturally little brother joined the fun.



I love when he tells me about school. It's almost never about what they're learning but instead about his classmates, like what someone said, or did, or how they weren't doing what they were supposed to.

Our toddler is hilarious, he'll say "goodbye mommy!" and run out of sight, and then a few seconds later he'll return calling out "I'm back!"
I wasn't sure he understood the meaning of silly and heavy, but he's getting there.
Sometimes I ask his big brother for a squeeze rather than saying hug, so now he'll grab my shoulders with his hands and squeeze them, ha. 
One day he was up for nap when I hear him start to whine. I'm not sure what he's saying but eventually I go up and he's standing at the window saying "come back" and his big brother's name. He's sad because a school bus come and went without dropping of his brother. He was super concerned but I explained that his brother was on a different bus.  He sat on my lap for a while repeating that his brother was on a different bus while I assured him that was correct. Poor kid was so worried.

Christmas arrivals Magformers and Gravity Maze are played with every. single. day.  Gravity Maze was actually given to their dad, but I don't suppose that matters, and neither do they.


We had a little bit of snow a few days before the big snow and I thought I'd let them get acquainted before they were overwhelmed.  Every time they got a handful of snow they'd bring it to me for a picture.


They boys love to help with and play with their baby brother! They'll help bathe him, one time they were washing his hair together and it was sooo adorable. Our preschooler discovered that the baby likes when he draws shapes on his cheek with his finger.  They'll sing him the ABCs and sit and talk sweetly to him.  Our preschooler also teaches him about numbers, the other day he counted even numbers backwards from 100 to 0 for him.  The baby loves it and has lots of smiles and noises for them.  But even when he doesn't, and is upset, the boys just hug him and try to take care of it.  And if they can't they tell me to feed him.




He's pretty great at keeping his head up, but after a few minutes he finds his hand and rests for a while with it in his mouth.


We've played a lot of Sorry, our preschooler his helping his little brother with his turn here, they're counting out the spaces together.


Handsomeness


At the end of the month we celebrated my birthday with my family at my parents. My preschooler took this picture with me (using my phone). And my cousin took the other picture.


A few more from the kids' camera ...

Taking pictures of his brothers.


And of toys. Rug borders are always roads.


I love when babies are small enough to curl up on your chest.


The toddler plays with the camera occasionally too but isn't usually still enough to capture anything. This has to be his picture though because those are his socks :)