There Will Be Blood

No, not Daniel Day Lewis...it's Parks. Our first real combat wound from either boys, and I'm not counting the 4 times a day heel sticks that we had to give to Wyatt for his hypoglycemia. I was holding both boys in my arms, and Wyatt was wearing his Tron helmet at the time. Both boys moved in at the same time, and Wyatt gave Parks a head butt that would rival any ECW wrestler's style. Right in the kisser. I saw blood and freaked. Parks had just gotten his four teeth, and I didn't want him to be losing any of them this early. I checked him out, and it was just a busted lip. I snapped this shot after I made sure he was okay. He looks so pitiful.

Mardi Gras Beads

Our early intervention specialist for Wyatt introduced him to Mardi Gras beads when she first started to work with him in October. Since then, he has become mesmerized by them. He will hold them and study each bead individually. In the video below, he has learned a new trick. He will hold them out tight, collapse them, and then stretch them out tight again. He loves to watch the way they shake when he does it. His love for beads might have been the main reason that when we recently reevaluated motor skills level he tested out at a 9 month level for fine motor skills, only one month behind his real age. Ahhh Mardi Gras beads, they are good for so many things:

Fear

Roughly a month ago, Randi and I were away for the night, and our nanny kept the boys over night. This included the bathtime/bedtime routine that we do every night . Normally, it goes like this. We run bath water, set out towels, turn on the radio softly, and warm bottles. We then bathe Parks first. He loves taking a bath and playing in his bath seat while I bathe Wyatt. After the bath, we have our nightly wrestling match to get them both dressed before giving them a bottle and off to bed. If everything goes well, they are in bed at 7:30 in the p.m. and will not get up until 6:30 in the a.m. So, you can see why "the routine" is so crucial.

On the night in question, Parks did not want to take a bath. He fought the nanny the whole time he was in there. He clung to her neck and did not want to get anywhere near the bathtub. After she finished putting them both down for the evening, she recounted the event to us. We could not figure out what had changed in his attitude for a normally fun bathtime. We figured it was because a stranger was bathing him. That was until, he did the exact same thing for us the very next night. Looking around we finally figured out what got him so spooked. It was the new Boon Frog bath organizer that we had installed the previous day before we left. We were amazed that this new "imposing" figure had such an affect on him. What kind of frame of reference does a 9-month old have for fear like that? It was very interesting. See photo below:

Wyatt's Delirium

Recently, we went out for the evening and returned late than normal. Both boys were really fit-to-be-tied. They were extremely fussy, and we knew that our bedtime routine was not going to be fun. As usual, Wyatt finished his bottle well before Parks did and Randi was trying anything to keep him occupied. So, she started blowing air in his face by squeezing the bottle. He started to die laughing. Most of what is on the video below was the second round of laughter because I was still in the process of feeding Parks and the video was in another room. It must have gone on for 4-5 minutes and had both of us cracking up. Here's the video of what we witnessed.