Ben and Rebecca July 3, 2011

7-3-11 Ben is talking so much and is such a big boy!  In the last few weeks, he's decided that he doesn't sleep in a crib anymore.  He sleeps in the "other bed", the bed in the guest bedroom.  He sleeps in the middle with pillows on either side of him, and early on with Daddy one side of him.  He won't settle down and go to sleep with any less than 4 stories read to him, usually 2  from his "Nursery Tales" and 2 from his "Farm Tales" books.  He loves Farmer Jones, Farmer Brown, the Drummer Boy as well as Three Little Pigs, Three Bears, Jack and Beanstalk, Gingerbread Man, and Little Red Riding Hood.  His class spent the month of May learning nursery rhymes and fairy tales and since then he's been obsessed with many of the stories.  He is especially interested in the "Big Bad Wolf"and pretends that the "big bad wolf comin".  This morning we looked out the front windows and the front door, looking for the wolf.  I've told him that the wolf can't blow our house down, but he still seems to worry about what the wolf could do if we encounter him.

Ben woke up yesterday morning and told me he had diaper rash.  Luckily he didn't, but he must have remembered me explaining to him that he had diaper rash a few weeks ago.  Usually when he wakes up, he either wants to see "baby" or wants to "go downstairs".  He loves to play in the morning, which is tough during the week since we're rushing around trying to get ready for work.  He likes to get a bag, usually either a gift bag or grocery bag, and say he's either going shopping or to a birthday party.  And he always wants company...so that means I need to have a bag too and we put food from the pantry in the bags and then head out, either to the car or to the porch.

Rebecca just started sitting up without any help in the past week or so.  She's also really started to have an interest in various baby toys, including the large soft block with animal pictures, the soft giraffe, her Sophie giraffe, and just about anything else you put in front of her.  She's been rolling over for a while and now she seems to be able to move around a little bit by rolling and rotating on her tummy.  She's just now able to play for a few minutes on her own without fussing for someone to be there with her.  Before, she was only satisfied to be by herself if she was under the play gym.