Cutie Pies

Wayne came home tonight to find me on the sofa with both of these kids in my lap wailing at the top of their lungs. Audrey was over it, it was the end of her day. Miles had just banged his head/ear while trying to open the plantation shutters to watch for Wayne's arrival. I think his crying was made more dramatic by Audrey's waterworks. And I just sat there laughing. Mostly because, well, what good would crying do? but also because Wayne's mom told me of a time when she had Wayne & his sister on her lap and all three of them were crying! I'm actually surprised I haven't had the tandem criers until now.

But most of the day they were absolute sweethearts. We had our playgroup and Miles had a blast running around with his girlfriends. Audrey sat up the whole time (in my lap) watching the action and checking out Noelle, who is 4 months older. Audrey's getting much better at sitting, though needs a prop for sure. Like above, where they were wedged into the sofa together. Don't they look sweet? I swear I have video of them giggling together, just need to get around to posting it.

I've been a mommy-brain blogger... I keep forgetting to share the fun stories. Like last week when I had to take Miles with us to the grocery store. First he did NOT want to go. I tried explaining all the things that we needed to get for him... Blueberry Eggos, OJ, fig newtons, jelly, but he didn't care. I don't know what he thought he'd eat. But finally when I said we were out of milk and couldn't eat Cheerios he said, "Okay, we'll go get one milk." What a stinker. Of course once there he didn't mind picking up everything on the list. I keep trying to entice him to eat new things. The kid won't eat pasta, cheese, or a bread product unless there's PB&J on it. And forget veggies. So this trip I worked on pasta. I showed him all the cool shapes, corkscrews, tubes, stars, letters, ears. Even went so far as the Nemo shaped pasta but he didn't care. So I moved on. At the checkout he picked up some M&Ms..."Ooooooh, M&Ms! I LIKE these!" he says. So I countered, "You try some pasta that I make tonight, you can have the M&Ms." The little stinker put them back so fast, even the checker was laughing. Oh boy, it's always fun!