The Blur(s)

I am surprised every day at how much my two little men are becoming their own little people...peoples(?). Writing gets tricky when you have two babies the same age.

Anywho, they are becoming the funniest little guys with their own unique little personality quirks. Andrew is our little at home dominator. I would guess 90% of the fights between these two are because he swipes a toy from Gavin or pushes him out of the way or gets upset because Gavin has the audacity to swipe his own toy back (the nerve!). We've been working on all that and I am pleased to say it has gotten much better! Gav is usually pretty chill at home and will often give up a toy (without complaint) when he sees Andrew coming (sad!). Though he has recently started fighting back a bit, crying when Andrew steals something he really wants (good for him!), and of course hitting, sometimes for no reason other than he feels like it. Though he has started following up his hits with a snuggle (when prompted). At Sam's the other day he hit my hand and then immediately snuggled it (no prompting needed). Made me laugh pretty hard.

So at home Andrew dominates more and Gavin is much more laid back.

Take them out for a walk and boy how those tables turn. Andrew follows directions without complaint (most of the time), will hold your hand when asked and is generally sweet as pie. Gavin on the other hand refuses to hold any one's hand for any reason, loves to walk (or toddle as fast as his wobbly legs will carry him) up the street (away from home) and refuses to walk down the street (towards home) and usually has to be carried screaming (and sometimes kicking) all the way home.

It's because of this that I rarely take them out walking by myself. It's just kind of exhausting to keep everybody on the sidewalk and headed in the same direction. But they love it so much that it's hard to say no. So we compromise and now we go for a little walk (to get the mail) when Dad gets home, weather permitting of course. It's awesome.

{Our little blurs!}

{Andrew delighted to be outside

{Gavin and Daddy}

{Gavin taking a little rest (i.e. refusing to walk home) while Drew waits for him. Drew doesn't like to get too far ahead  on the way home and will often stop and wait for Gavin}

Has anyone ever used the leash backpacks? Thoughts? Are they helpful or not so much?

January

First of all, thank you all for your sweet comments on our family pictures! That pretty much made my day.

January has been an interesting month in our household; sick babies, cranky teething babies, exclusively walking babies and...hardly any pictures. What? I was so surprised to see I've taken approximately 3 pictures of our rascals all month (which I guess says something about the month we've had. blargh!). 

We've also been rearranging/selling furniture to make more space in our living room for our walking duo. Bonus: our front window is now more accessible so I took advantage of that and snapped a few pictures.

They are growing up fast!

{Gavin is just full of silly faces these days!}

{Andrew: He's perfecting the nose crinkle and the eye squint, all whilst looking adorable.}

Phones are the latest fought over beloved toy at our house. Though the boys do improvise in a pinch and use everything from their hands to play knives or toy cars if a "real" phone can't be found. It's pretty much a constant chorus of "hahwhoa" (hello) from dawn 'til dusk

{The phone is hanging over his back. He's still getting the hang of the whole holding it up to your ear thing}

{This boy in particular loves him some phone}

They quickly tire of being in front of the camera these days and instead want to inspect it or better yet get behind it and see all the pictures Mommy has been taking.

And this I deserve brownie points for: I took the boys outside to walk around our neighborhood by myself, no stroller involved. Boy was that an exciting walk. Trying to keep them together (no on trailing behind), on the sidewalk, out of the street, and off of other people's driveways was quite the feat. We made it almost all the way home before Drew bit the dust and conked his sweet little noggin. Poor kid.

{Sporting a nice goose egg. He's such a trooper!}

I think it may be time to invest in a couple of those leashes that look like cute animal backpacks.