Update

Abby and Alex both love to eat Eggo waffles. Abby will call them “yeggos”, “pancakes” and “waffles”.

You both like to help, in fact you have to help. When Alex puts his syrup on he has to make sure that he gets syrup in each individual square. Abby is less particular. They both like to help cut the waffles. They hold the knife and fork first then I hold their hands and cut it up. They both usually eat two a piece. If it were up to Abby she would eat waffles for 3 meals a day.

You both like to help on the rare occasion that you want a sandwich. One of you gets to do the peanut butter and the other gets to do the honey and help cut the sandwich.

Alex loves to play games when he is supposed to get dressed or have his diaper changed. He thinks it’s the start of a wrestling match. He’ll run and hide, laugh and giggle.


Back in the summer time, Abby was helping me sort through the Get Out Shirts getting ready for an event. There was one of the shirts that had a tag on it. Abby said, "We need to buy it" -

Alex wanted Melinda to hold him, she said she couldn't because her back hurt. The light came on in his head, and he ran and got his little back pack and gave it to Melinda, expecting it to make everything better.


Abby likes to pretend that her and Alex are the Mommy and Daddy and Melinda and I are the kids. What makes it so funny is when they intimidate us. For example, Abby was putting “Abby” to bed. She said to her, “I’m going to go potty and I will be right back”, which is exactly what Melinda and I both use to get out of the room when we know that the kids are tired, but don’t want us to leave yet. They understand that they can’t tell us we can’t go to the bathroom so they let us leave and then they usually fall asleep before we come back. Today Ales was pretending to be daddy. Adamantly, (he says everything adamantly, everything) he put his hand on his chest and says, “I’m the Dad”, while talking on my cell phone.

A few weeks ago Abby and Melinda laid down to take a nap together. They were having some girl talk. Abby has a pretty good sense of humor – they were talking about how Daddy was silly because of something I had done. Abby agreed and said, “Yea, he’s silly. We should buy a new Daddy.”

Alex has a nice sense of humor as well. The other day all of us were hanging out in the living room. Alex walked down the hallway and stepped on something and said “Ouch”. Abby thought it was hilarious so she started laughing. Alex must have liked the attention because a few minutes later he walked down the hallway and intentionally (and obviously) said “ouch” again.

Potty Training - Alex

Alex is starting to Potty train. He did well today and went in the potty twice. Melinda even said that he shook it off when he was done. This afternoon he was downstairs in the office, sitting in my chair, pretending to me dad. I left to go upstairs and next thing I know Alex is coming upstairs, crying and in trouble. Turns out he climbed up on my desk, stood there and peed. He peed on my PCM binder.

Alex used the Potty

Abby was helping me sort through the Get Out Shirts getting ready for an event. There was one of the shirts that had a tag on it. Abby said, "We need to buy it" -

Alex wanted Melinda to hold him, she said she couldn't because her back hurt. The light came on in his head, and he ran and got his little back pack and gave it to Melinda, expecting it to make everything better.

Abby wouldn't go to sleep - she said that she was scared.

"But Mom, the dragons".
The dragons don't live inside
But they could come and knock on the door
But we won't let them in
Ohhhh

Rhett, Jared and I were playing Frisbee in the backyard on conference Saturday (29 September 2006)- Abby said look, a triangle. She has been learning a lot in pre-school. She learns a lot of new songs and on the walk home loves to sing. The song she probably knows the best is “I love you” from Barney. She will sing it again and again, faster and faster until she is nearly screaming it and it turns into a rock star version. She also sings, “I’m bringing home my baby bumble bee.” Alex likes to sing that one too. She is learning how to count and use her fingers to show her numbers. She still has to really concentrate to get her third finger up.

Alex used the potty for the first time on 19 September - he pushed so hard and each time he peed a little he would look down and point in surprise and say "look!" I would ask, “Are you done yet?” “Nope, I’m peeing”

Abby asked for some pudding, but she couldn't have any. "But my tummy hurts" she replied. "Pudding won't help your tummy." Thinking for a second, she came up with, "but my nose hurts"