So Patient

Anna likes to hold Brian. Sometimes she likes it more than he does. 

The other day, I was in the kitchen while Anna and Brian were in the living room. When I checked on them, this is what I found.

He is so patient with her. 

I'm in there too

In a lot of ways, Brian is like Jason. He is tall and skinny (more like Jason now than Jason as a baby) and gets the hiccups when he eats a lot.

I don't know if you can tell from this picture but Brian has Jason's coloring. They both have brown eyes, yellow undertones and tan. I'm more pink-y and the thought of a tan makes my skin laugh. 

Now Brian has started sucking on his hands. Generally, he works with whole fists. Trying to get it all in his mouth at once. Now and then, he goes with just a finger or too, like so..

Sorry about the strange colors, it was taken at night and lightened in photoshop.  He looks like he's wondering why I'm taking his picture just after changing his diaper. 

Interestingly, this is exactly how I would suck on my fingers when I was little. I guess, like Anna, Brian is a mix of the two of us.

Mommy Payoff

The other day, while Brian was in his bouncy seat, Anna decided to read to him. She grabbed her Book Of Mormon illustrated story book (what we call her picture scriptures) because she said she wanted to teach him about Jesus. 

Beach Day

A little bit ago, some friends of ours had a party at the beach. It was Brian's first time there. 

He was rocking his sunglasses and hat. For the most part, he likes them both and doesn't mind wearing either of them. The only time he had a problem was when the strap from the hat started making his sunglasses go wonky.

  

We tried out the sand in the safety of a beach umbrella. While he didn't seem to hate the sand (there was no crying) he wasn't thrilled about it either. I think he was disgruntled that it got on his binkie. 

Naturally Anna had a blast. I rarely saw her the whole time and it was hard to pin her down to eat. 

Anna is the one on the far left.

It was a beautiful day and while I didn't go in the water (my pregnant self totally stretched out my swimsuit and I haven't had a chance to replace it yet) Anna was able to have fun with her friends both in and out of the water.

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Around lunch time, Brian fell asleep and managed to sleep for a few hours, made all the more impressive by the fact that he was only sleeping for an hour at a time at home. I think we need to get him a wave machine. 

The Body

We had a lot of fun at the Body exhibit at the Bishop Museum. There was a set up of the street and you could push different buttons and different characters would talk to you. 

There were several places with little interactive screens teaching about things like washing hands, brushing teeth or hair and healthy food choices. We have talked a lot since then about "sometimes foods" like cookies and candy. Anna was entranced.

 Here is the aforementioned digestion portion. I thought it was clever but Anna wasn't a fan.

Brian was just taking the whole thing in. He wasn't sure what he thought about the whole thing.

She spent the most time at a little store section with lots of fruits and vegetables and little shopping baskets. She filled each of the baskets with all of the food. That was how we met the man who works there. He helped her clean it all up and she insisted they play together from then on. Even when we went back, she sought him out. 

When we were done, we went to another part of the museum. They have a black light tunnel that Anna loves to go down. We always like to see how our outfits work in the black light. That day, Brian won the best black light outfit

Skinny little legs

Although Brian has filled out a a bit, he still has skinny little legs. I like to call them his saggy baggy elephant legs.

Funny Anna

Dude, this is my 400th post!

You can never have too many accessories

Anna has always been funny. Now it's really funny to see how her mind works as she makes connections and asks questions. Here are some of my favorite most recent comments from her.

We went to visit some friends who just had a baby. Anna explored their apartment and saw a diaper bouquet that someone made for them. She said, "You put your diapers there? My mom puts them in the trash." The best was that she said it completely without judging. As if this was just another acceptable option. So there TIME magazine.

I was singing "Summertime" to Brian. (Back story: My mom sang it to us as a lullaby and I love it, it just makes me feel safe and like all is right with the world. We haven't been singing it to our kids until I realized they don't love it like I do. Now I'm incorporating it into our nighttime singing so they have that.) Anna asked me to sing the "spread your wings part" so I sang from there to the end. When I was done she asked me if that song was real. "Will I really turn into a bird someday?" I had to tell her no, it was just figurative.

The Bishop Museum has a traveling exhibit on the body done by Sesame Street (more on that later). They have a section about digestion complete with a lever that makes a fart sound and you see fake poop passing through (I told Brian he would probably love that in a few years). As we were leaving, Anna told me she didn't like that part because it was disgusting. When we picked Jason up from work, she told him, "One part was disgusting but I could handle it."