Some video.

Isaac develops an interest in baseball.


Isaac loves the baby gate.


Evan's new bike from last Christmas.

He's a talker.
Isaac, 13 mos, Evan 3.75 years.
Isaac has been saying all sorts of things. For example:
Hi "hiiiiiii"
Hello ("lllo.")
Bye bye ("baba")
night night ("nana")
Mommy ("An-ee-a")*
Evan ("yaya")
Daddy ("dada")
Woof ("bbbb")
Wow ("wow")
Milk (does the sign for milk, which looks like milking a cow)
Eat (does the sign for eat, which should look like hand to mouth, but he makes it look like he is raising the roof with one hand)
Bath ("ba")

* For about a month now, whenever he wants me, he says, "Aaaan-eee-aaa!" Each time, I thought, "no, couldn't be." But it has happened about 20 times now. He hears the daycare kids call me Andrea, so I guess he thinks that is my name. Each time, I correct him and say, "MOMMY." And he says, "An-ee-aa."

He overheard Jerry saying "Wow" while they were playing one day, so he started whispering (very distinctly), "wow wow wow wow."

We had an Easter egg hunt yesterday (inside, because there was a dusting of snow outside). He quickly learned the game - grab an egg, open it, quickly stuff items into mouth. Jerry had hid some down low for both of the kids to find (and Evan and I were at church at the time), and Isaac kept grabbing them and eating the contents. So Jerry had to hide them up high.

Isaac is walking pretty well. He still walks from side to side, and often falls back on his butt, or falls forward and catches himself w/ his hands. Although he falls a lot, he doesn't actually hurt himself very often.

The daycare is going great. I have a great mix of kids. All of them are gentle with Isaac. They roughhouse with each other, but know to be gentle w/ the babies. Isaac gets so excited when they arrive. If he is eating lunch or cuddling with me and he hears a knock at the door, he will suddenly sit upright and say, "hiiiii."

He adores each of the kids' mommies, and often walks up to them for hugs.

He likes to feed the baby (a 4 month-old). He shoves the bottle into her mouth and then removes it as soon as she starts sucking. If I take it away from him, he cries. He wants to be the only one holding the bottle and then chose when to take it away. So I usually feed her when he is occupied with something else.

Evan.
Evan is doing great. He loved to color Easter eggs this year. He keeps asking if it is Spring yet, since that's when nana and papa are coming. He said, "there are no flowers yet, just snow. But the sun will come out and melt all the snow, and then the flowers will come."

The other day Isaac was napping and Evan was talking right outside his door. I said, "Evan, let's whisper outside your brother's door because he is napping." He said something under his breath. I asked him to repeat it. Again, in his darth vader voice, he whispered something. What? Then he said, "I don't want it." I asked what "it" was, and he said, "baby brother." I asked him to talk more about it, and he said, "mommy, I already told you."

I have been taking him to Sunday School. He always says, "I don't want to go to church," but then he seems to like it. After one of the classes, they gave him a booklet that had the Bible story they had read for the day. I was reading it with him later that day. When I was done, he said, "mommy, why is God wearing flip flops?"

One day, he went across the street to play with Samantha (age 6, the current love of his life), and her brother Jack (a charming 2 year-old who he barely notices because Samantha is always in the room). After playing over there for an hour, he came home and said, "mommy, Samantha's cat got hit by a car, and she died, and now she is in... Evan?" I realized he meant heaven. I had no idea how to respond to this, so I said heaven was where animals and people go after they die, and it is in the sky. That's all I could think of.

Later I said he needed to wear special clothes to dye his Easter eggs, because dye would stain his clothes. He said, "And then they go to heaven?"

So I explained dye vs. die.

I gave Jerry a telescope for his Birthday. Jerry was explaining to Evan that it will allow us to see the stars and the moon and make them look very big. Evan said, "I want to look in and see Samantha's room."

Oh my.