Sick kids, Sick husband, busy days

I mentioned the boys were sick, which includes Jeff. Gordon and Walt are finally better. Yay! But Jeff is still very sick. He went to the doctor today, so hopefully he's on the mend soon. Meanwhile, I caught the head cold a few days ago. But I picked up some medicine today and I can already tell what a big difference it has made.

Because everyone has been so under the weather, we've been doing a bit more lounging and tv watching in the afternoons.  Adele always wants to watch Elmo. So I put on a little Sesame Street for the kids. They love climbing into the chairs and onto the couch.

Gordon, totally chillin'

Chair time!

Adele & Walt

Adele & Gordon. As soon as Walt climbed out, Gordon climbed up.

Couch time. They love their books. They pick them up to read aloud all the time.

I've started bathing the kids together every night.   Now they are older, I worry less about getting them in and out of the tub safely.  Since they use the same bathroom as Jeff and I, I just go in and make sure I move any unsafe items and let them have the run of the bathroom.

A new favorite place to play

They are fascinated by each others' soapy heads

We spend a lot of time, singing and playing in new ways with our toys.  We have an ABC chart handed down from a prior neighbor and the kids love to bring that to me and we sing the "ABC" song. They don't know it yet, but I'm starting to hear the formation of the actual letters from their grunts.

They also love when we get the Fisher Price Little People barn and we pull out each animal one by one as we sing Old MacDonald. They are starting to help make the animal sounds and even occasionally say the name of the animal. But everyone's favorite part is 'eee-iii-eee-iii-Oh.'  All 3 of them can sing that.

Speaking of which, Walt still isn't talking, but he has started to make true sounds back at me. For example, he now "Moos" for a cow and sings the Old MacDonald line I mentioned above. And it took a few days of practice, but he can now say 'uh-oh.'

Adele and Gordon are speaking more every day.  Gordon asked to watch "Baby Signing Time" the other day, by walking around and saying 'baby' as he made the sign. It was so cute!  And Adele is starting to put phrases together. Tonight when Walt was getting into the toilet behind my back, I see Adele pointing at him "Said no. Said no. Said no." I guess Mama had already said no!

Working on our ABC's

No ducks, but it was nice to get out of the house

Adele looking like a big girl with her ponytail

Spending some time on the windowsill