Visitors

Recently we had visitors! Kevin's sister Kathi and her family came out and visited us for their Spring Break. Even though it was a surprise visit for us it was a lot of fun and the kids had a great time with Kathi and her kids. Kayleigh, Thomas and EV all took turns holding Evangeline and all mastered "The Walk of Love" which was the way to get Evangeline to stop crying. All of them got really good at keeping little Evangeline happy, which was a great help for me! Evangeline even fell asleep on them a few times. We got to take Kathi and her family to church with us, and also got to have them hang out with us quite a bit. The dogs loved the walks they got taken on, and Kevin and I loved the company. But I think the one who loved it the most was Davy! He got to play with his cousins all day long for about a week! It was great fun for him and he was quite sad when they were gone. We really enjoyed the visit and can't wait till we get to see them again!

Shapes

As I've mentioned before Davy loves to learn. He loves colors, numbers, letters and lately shapes. We got a book for him that goes through different shapes and helps and learn them and he's got most of the shapes down. So far he knows circle, square, triangle, heart, died (diamond) and rectriangle (rectangle), he still working on octagon but eventually I know he will get that one too.

Sharing is fun! Except when deadly...

Recently I brought home a Bumbo that my parents have for the grandkids. A Bumbo, if you are not familiar with them, is a little seat thing that you can put babies in that helps them to sit before they develop the muscles for it. I started putting Evangeline in it and because she is such a strong little baby she has been doing great with it. Lately I have been using it when I need to do something where I can't hold her but need her not to start crying. Often I put her in it when I am feeding Davy or something similar.

Today I needed to give her a bath, she has been spitting up a bunch the last few days and today she had a bout of spitting up a bunch on Kevin and myself so she was super stinky today. So while I looked for the clothes I wanted to put her in I placed her in the Bumbo and sat on the ground to go through some of the hampers of newly washed clothes. While I dug through the hampers Davy came over and kept sitting on my lap. Because Evangeline was sitting right in front of me I had to be careful with Davy and her, I didn't want Davy to accidentally kick her and hurt her, so I tried to make sure that I was careful with how Davy was sitting on my lap. Davy did really great and brought over some shapes he was playing with. He had a triangle and square and he was showing them to Evangeline. He even tried to put them in her hands, which didn't work too well because she isn't quite to the point where she will hold things you give her, but she was able to hold the triangle for a bit. I was really proud of how Davy was sharing with her. Then he got up and got some goldfish crackers. He came back over and ate a few and then took one and tried to give it to Evangeline. Super cute, and I figured it wasn't bad unless he put one in her mouth, which he wasn't able to at his first try. Then he tried again and popped the goldfish cracker right in her mouth!

I must admit that I kind of freaked out a bit. I said, "Oh no!" and did a finger swipe and got the cracker out of her mouth right away. This caused Evangeline to start crying, and then Davy started to cry. So I had to reassure both of them that everything was alright. I made sure to tell Davy that the baby was ok, and that it was very nice of him to share with her, but that she was too little to eat crackers. Thankfully everything turned out ok, but I will have to make sure to watch them when they are together to ensure that Davy doesn't share something that could hurt little Evangeline.

On another note, later in the night I was nursing Evangeline and Davy was playing on my tablet, one of the games he was playing with froze up and he got frustrated by it. I had to turn the tablet off and then on again to fix it, but in the meantime while he waited for the tablet to turn back on he began to cry. When he began to cry Evangeline stopped nursing, looked up at me with big eyes, stuck out her little lower lip and then began to cry too. So I calmed Davy and calmed Evangeline and got her nursing again. Then Davy started crying again and she popped off, pouted and started crying again as well. I thought it was cute that Davy being sad made Evangeline feel sad too. It has been really fun to watch the children interact with each other and watch their relationship as siblings develop.