Everyday Love

These two little babies are growing so quickly and becoming best buddies more each day.  Although it is a love - hate relationship as most sibling relationships go.  Owen will beg Chloie to chase him around only to pummel her if she stops to pick up a car he feels is his.  Teaching Owen to be kind is such an easy feat one minute and such a difficult one the next.  Their newest sharing adventure is sharing suckers in the car.  After swim lessons, they each get a sucker, and they will trade back and forth all the way home.  Many times one of them has both suckers which causes a case of hysteria for the other.

Chloie has become quite a Daddy's girl.  The loudest "bye" is in the morning when Daddy leaves for work, and her most energetic "hi" is when he comes home at night.  Last night she even fussed to get out of my arms to reach her daddy when he got home from work.  I was a little sad and happy all at the same time. 

And of course I have an Owen story or two.  He's such a manipulator and a candy freak since Easter.  He tells me many times a day that he "needs" candy.  Oh, please.... Well, over the weekend he took it a bit farther.  After I had ignored his "needs," he finally resort to, "Mom, I'm sad right now."  To which of course I responded with utmost concern, "Oh, why Owen?  What's wrong?"  "You give me candy.  I'll be happy."  The calculated manipulation.....

Owen is a big fan of Monster Trucks, and his neighbor gave him a little video that he's watched many, many times.  The other day he decided he wanted to go see them himself so he says, "Can we go see those Monster Trucks?  Let's email them!"  Yes, Owen, everything can be done through email.

Ups and Downs

What a week of ups and downs.  The best part of being gone for two weeks is certainly loving your home and routine so much when you get back.  However, the worst part of being gone for two weeks is having your two precious babies come down with something yucky that includes fevers and ear infections and coughing and crying and pink eye and snot and snot and more snot. 

Despite all the yuck at the Davis house, I did find a few things to make me smile this week.

Miss Chloie is getting more stable with each day.  Where she used to fuss for two hands, now she'll swat away your second hand and take off running with one.  Though Owen likes to regress to crawling now.

I found that Owen and Chloie are fans of karaoke.  This is great news for me.  Now I can play singing games and pretend it's to entertain the kids.

And we got to swim in our pool.  The kids love playing as long as they can touch the bottom or are clinging to Mom or Dad.  I am very worried that Owen may be a swimmer like his mom who hates putting her face in the water.   Hopefully swimming lessons will get him back on track.  His poor teacher will have her work cut out for her since he's already talking about how he's not going to go and not put his face in the water.  I'm just thrilled to start lessons this week...