The boys

Time for an update on the boys.

Ethan
Lately he has been getting into games a lot more. He got Junkyard Jalopy for his birthday. It is like Operation, you have to take small pieces out of the car using tweezers and not touch the sides or the horn beeps. He’s getting really good at it. And he still loves playing Snap and Memory.
Last night I went out to the movies with Christi (thanks, it was fun!) and when I got home Rob told me that when he was putting Tyler to bed, he realised there were no socks left in his drawer so he asked Ethan to go downstairs and find 2 matching socks on the washing rack and bring them back upstairs. Apparently it took him a little while, but he did it! He must have been able to tell which socks were his and which were Tyler’s (even I have trouble with that sometimes, LOL) and then found two the same. And they weren’t in pairs to begin with.

Yesterday he didn’t cry when Rob dropped him off at Kindy. He was so proud when I picked him up, and the teacher had given him a stamp on his hand. On Friday, we’re going to a Movie Night at Kindy. They’re having a sausage sizzle and watching Ice Age 2. The notice said “bring your sleeping bags” and when we told Ethan, he looked very puzzled and said “why do we need our sleeping bags? Are we sleeping there?” … I guess he’s never watched a movie in his sleeping bag, so I can understand why he was confused!

We got his first Kindy photos on Monday – you know the ones in the pack that come with those ultra trendy cardboard frames! I can’t believe they still have them, they are just the same as the ones I had for my school photos about 20 years ago! The photo itself is not fantastic, but we decided to buy them anyway. I think we’ll buy the school photos every year, even if they are bad. It would be wrong not to have one for each school year. The class photo is quite good, so we’re also going to buy that. The timing was awesome, since they came to take the photos on Ethan’s first day of Kindy! I don’t know how many times a year they do it, but it is only once a year at school. So I’m happy that we got in when we did, just in case there aren’t any more photo days.

Tyler
He’s talking so much now! He has a few cute phrases that he loves to repeat. One of them is “I do it!” which he says when he wants to do something himself, or when he has just done it and is trying to say how proud he is of himself, LOL. If we ask him something and say “alright?” at the end, he will answer “okay”. And if we say “are you sure?” he will reply “sure”. SO cute!!
His bedroom is right next to ours, upstairs. Quite often we hear him talking to himself early in the morning (he often goes back to sleep again after a bit of a chat). Rob and I have both heard him say “Daddy door shut” if we make too much noise shutting our bedroom door! And we are pretty quiet up there since we know he is a light sleeper!

He’s still obsessed with shoes. But it is getting a bit much. He wants his shoes on from the minute he wakes up, and he refuses to take them off when we come home. We have a general rule of no shoes inside the house, but it has proven to be much easier to just let Tyler have his way. Otherwise we have to deal with the ugliest tantrums. I’m hoping that the shoe obsession will gradually fade!

They have changed the age group divisions at preschool (daycare) now. It used to be age 3 when the kids went to the “big kids” area, but now it is 2. So Tyler is doing quite a few visits to the downstairs classroom. He spends all day Thursday down there since there are no other little ones there that day. Melissa said he just loves being down there! He’ll be moving permanently in September. His friend Jake has just turned 2 and moved down, so I think he misses him a bit when he is still upstairs. But he does have a couple of little girlfriends who are his age, and he plays with them a lot. They read books to each other, apparently! Raquel (he calls her Kel), Isabelle (he calls her Belle) and Olivia (he can’t really say her name properly). I find it so interesting because when Ethan was Tyler’s age, his friends were all boys. And it has stayed that way, for the most part. I wonder if Tyler will be different?

I know that was a long update, but I had so many random things I wanted to write about. I know many of you are reading from afar and don’t get to see the boys every day, so this update is for you!