window watching before bed time
I let them loose in our apartment for a little adventure and they loved it!
Jackson enjoying the mirrors!
Here are their favorite things:
- chewing on books:: recently destroyed Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (and found remnants in Gray's diaper)
- windows and mirrors:: standing against them, banging hands, licking them, getting up and down from them, Jackson especially likes to watch himself in the mirror
- talking into cups:: Jackson loves putting cups up to his mouth and babbling into them
- wrestling:: Andrew is an amazing dad and he and the boys all laugh when they "wrestle" together, which includes holding them and sort of rolling around with them, and tickling them
- reading:: they've always liked books, but now when we read to them they can turn pages of board books, but more often they just like to grab the book to play with it themselves
- shows:: the boys are mesmerized by the kids shows on tv or online if we let them watch…animation, songs and little kids get their attention the most
- playmates:: G + J love to play with each other! Chasing each other, crawling around and spotting the other always brings smiles, stealing each others' toys, trying to pull up on each other
- first word:: since a few weeks ago Grayson was saying "ba" pretty consistently for "ball"
- throwing:: they both, but especially Grayson can actually throw a ball now
- hate putting clothes on
- hate diaper changes
- love to chew on their shoes
- love bath time together (but getting out is stressful with tantrums over diapers and pjs!)
- pushing balls:: they love to push and follow anything they can roll around
- favorite toys:: fire ball, Georgia football, bouncy balls, stacking cups, board books, things that make noise (like spinners on exersaucers)
- foods:: eat increasingly more finger foods- they love bananas, black beans, chicken, cheese, Cheerios and puffs. they often refuse pureed foods, but will usually eat applesauce, they're obsessed with yogurt, like cereal, sweet potatoes mixed with fruit, but hate peas, and aren't huge fans of mashed avocados
- Jackson:: jovial, loves to laugh and smile, will repeat whatever we laugh at, adventurous, have to repeat "no" and doesn't immediately listen :), clingy, loves people, smiles at strangers easiest, loves baby sittters, likes playing with people's hair, likes to cuddle especially at night, loves to give kisses, has 5 teeth with the bottom and top middle two being most prominent
- Grayson:: sweet, independent, doesn't mind doing his own thing, really likes to play with hair, really loves to follow balls, usually sleeps a little longer than Jackson, likes to sit in laps but after a while gets antsy, an explorer, hates having shirts put over his head!, especially hates socks and will pull off his and Jackson's, loves his puppy dog stuffed animal, has 5 teeth but one on the upper left is biggest and so sometimes we call him "snaggletooth" :) makes for a sweet smile
