A Few Milestones

Last month I had one of those moments where I realized the boys are growing up again. I wrote down all the things they were doing to show me what big boys they are becoming.

• Bear is now going down the stairs by himself at the gym. We had that moment where he snatched his hand out of mine with that look of, "I can do it myself!" And he did!
• Bear has now started the gibberish talk. You hear a car, train, mama, dada or an oh oh but the rest just comes flying out of his mouth.
• It took us a month (and a box of ear plugs) but Bear is now night-weaned. We've had 2 nights of full sleep. You do realize that is the first time in three years I've slept the night through?!? This is huge news.
• Coop is now trying to give up his afternoon naps. He goes one day and then the next two we have to recover. But he really wants to give them up.
• Coop has become a parrot. He has learned, "Oh Crap and Oh Shoot!"
• Coop's new game is to say, "Count with me 1, 3, 4, 5, 6....." He will go up to 14 and then he just starts saying whatever number he feels like. He almost always will not say the #2. Not really sure why.
• Coop ate his first salad last month. Unfortunately I got excited and wrote it down but that was also his last salad. Couldn't repeat that little miracle but we at least had one time.

They are also now starting to play together. It's mostly teasing and stealing the other's train and running away but they will hug each other quite often and pat each others heads with such affection. I will never understand why it is we have 50 little trains but they will scream and holler over just one of them. Baffles me!