Apr 23
Everyone,
After 4 years, some things never change. 
Ahhh…Professor crying and Pirate looking un-bothered by the whole thing.
First there was THIS:
Now there is THIS:
Man I am SO lucky.
Safire
PS- For those interested parties, 4 year old stats on the boys.
Pirate: 47 inches tall, 48 lbs. 120th percentile for height and weight. He is as big as a 5 year old.
Professor: 41 inches tall, 33 3/4 lbs. 50th percentile for height and weight. He is now average instead of a tiny peanut. Way to go!
Safire2 boys-double trouble, Pirate and Professor, Pirate mile stones, Professor mile stones
Apr 16
Everyone,
I’ve been enjoying looking through my shots of the kids’ Easter clothes and playing around with editing them. I really enjoy this one I put an old timey look on. Such cute boys I have!
A cute story about Professor: The other day he was playing with an airplane toy that we have. He would fly it around (complete with sound effects) and then land it. One time, he landed it upside down and laughed over it. He flipped the airplane over to right side up, then flipped it over again slowly. He ran over to me, “Mommy! Hahaha!” It’s so fun to see him develop his sense of humor.
Pirate this morning has been running races. He backs himself into a corner, says, “Uh, Uh, Go!” and runs away as fast as he can. It’s so cute!
Safire
SafireGMYBS, Pirate and Professor
Mar 16
Everyone,
Before we had kids and we had money to spend on frivolous things for each other, I bought Juice a mechanical dinosaur. A raptor. It’s interactive. When you turn it on, it growls, sniffs around and can follow things. (No picture because it’s way late (again!) and I don’t want to find it/take a picture of it.)
Soot (our dog) thought it was a being of great evil descended on our household. She barked loudly at it but also ran from it a great deal. We named it Bunny.
It also came with a tiny version of itself that walked. It was Juice’s toy for a long time, but then it somehow became the kids’ toy. The dinosaur, which Butterfly named Bob, is very sought after in my house. Professor really loves it and calls it a “rarrr”.
The other day, Juice decided to bring down Bunny to show the boys. They had never seen the big one before. Professor had been hauling around his “rarrr” for a few days at that point. When Juice showed him Bunny, he threw down Bob with a resounding thud.
You could just see him look at the one in his arms, and say, “Yours is bigger! I’ll take it!”
Then Juice flipped the switch and Bunny roared. Poor Professor ran sobbing from the room and won’t go near Bunny now. (He still loves the little dinosaur.) Bunny is on the top shelf in our closet and he will go over to the closet and point and talk about the big one. But don’t take it down! He likes to look at it from a distance.
Pirate thinks Bunny is great. We had to tell him that Bunny was tired and needed sleep or he would play with him all day. Pirate has also made up his own sign for sleep because of this conversation that I have repeated at least 30 times. He lays his head over to the side and sighs really big. Yes, sleep!
Speaking of signs, Pirate says very few words still. He signs A LOT though. And most of them he’s thought up himself. Other signs he knows the “proper” way of doing is eat, drink, cereal, more, all done, milk, car, mommy, daddy, baby. It’s amazing what you can say in a day with those 10 signs.
Safire
SafirePirate and Professor, Professor talks, toys
