These little boys are a joy! They keep us on our toes for sure, but we often comment on how
utterly boring our lives would be without them! For them, having a brother so close in age is just so much fun. You always have a play mate, you essentially get two birthdays a year (because you share all your gifts), and you get to stay up too late talking and laughing every night (until mom and dad come in and make you go to sleep).
So, what are our two little guys up to these days? Well, they are adoring their baby sister, of course! These guys
love love love their new sister. They shower her with kisses almost incessantly. John Hudson talks about how he is going to protect Clara and take care of her. They often have to be reminded to be gentle, but overall they are so sweet with her. Daniel always alerts me when Clara is crying..."Clarwa screaming, Mommy!" (As if I didn't notice...)
John Hudson is a little boy who
loves to dress up. And he usually ropes Daniel into playing along. Each day, getting dressed is the very first thing on his mind and he has often planned his outfit the night before. And his outfit changes throughout the day, depending on what he is. For example, a basketball boy cannot be dressed like a workman. A police man cannot wear mail man clothes. A teacher cannot wear worker man socks, etc. We spend a lot of time changing clothes, but thankfully he can almost fully dress himself now (We're just working on putting all the unused clothes away...). John Hudson also likes to dress like people he admires. His new thing is asking Daddy to leave a note by the coffee every morning telling John Hudson what he is wearing (down to the socks and shoes). Many days, JH dresses just like Daddy and eagerly anticipates Daddy's arrival home so he can show off his matching attire. He also loves dressing like GaGa when they're together. He consults GaGa every night before bed as to what he will be wearing the next day.
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| Dressed like GaGa |
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| Choo choo men |
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| Three worker men |
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| Worker man |
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| Basketball boy turned fire man |
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| Basketball boys |
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| A mail man and his riding lawnmower |
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| Mr. Hudson |
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| UPS man |
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| Police Officer |
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| Dressed just like daddy |
John Hudson loves to look up costumes online. He will ask if we can look up pictures of say, a trolley driver. Then he will study the picture for awhile, disappear into his closet, and then reappear dressed strikingly similarly to the picture he just saw. He really has a knack for creating costumes. The other day he asked to look up pictures of "Story Time Readers" because we had just gone to story time at the library. I told him story time readers don't normally have uniforms :)
Daniel is as cute as ever. Just one look at him will make anyone s-m-i-l-e! He just enjoyed his second birthday! He spent the entire week singing "Happy Birthday" to himself and eagerly anticipating his dinner of "Spaghetti and Strawberries and Cream," which he thought of entirely on his own! We had a blast at his family birthday gathering. We got him a tiny balance bike and he has turned into quite the little speedster on it!
Daniel is also talking like crazy. He definitely says anything he wants to say. I guess having an older brother to imitate has really helped his verbal skills. One of my favorite things is listening to Daniel say what he is thankful for each night during our family Bible time. He says the sweetest things! A few examples.."I kankful for playing in the hose" (When we haven't played in the hose in about two months) or "I kankful for my blanket and boo-paci" or "I kankful for power went out" (during a recent storm). It's so neat to see how both boys process the day and pull out things to be thankful for!
Daniel still loves his paci (which he calls boo-paci for some reason unbeknownst to us). He actually prefers to have three boo-pacis at a time, one to suck, one to hold and one to rub in his eye. Weird, I know. He would have boo-paci all day, every day if we let him...but we don't. He can have his boo-paci only at bed time and nap time now, and he's doing a great job with that. Sometimes though when the house is too quiet, I'll go into their room to find Daniel in the corner furiously sucking boo-paci, just waiting to be caught!
Daniel has also taken over John Hudson's
love for hats. He has one hat in particular that he wears at some point every single day. The teachers at our Thursday morning
Bible Study always comment on his hat (which he wears almost every week). I love it when my kids like to wear cute things :)
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| This was our first car ride with three kiddos... |
These boys bring us so much joy. At the end of each day,
we are tired. So, so tired. Yet we still sit around for half an hour talking about all the cute things the boys did that day. We just can't get enough of them! Thank you, Father for entrusting these little men to us. May they grow to love You and reflect Your light to the world around them. Amen!
