Videos and things I learned

Things I learned today:

2.75 year olds do not really know how to blow their noses...themselves, or with help.  Owen has a cold and he spent the entire morning *squealing* every time he felt his nose drip, but I could NOT get him to blow his nose into a tissue, he just refused.  So instead of clearing it out at least for a few minutes at a time, I had to incessantly mop the drip that just kept dripping.  I got so frustrated that he wouldn't blow his nose that in desperation I pulled out a piece of paper and a pen and it went like this...

Me:  Owen look right here.  [drawing] This is your nose.  This is the hole in your nose.  Here is the goop up in your nose. [draws an arrow rapidly]  When you blow your nose air pushes through and all the goop can come out!  Then you feel better!
Owen:  [pause for looking, pondering] Draw dat tissue.
Me: [draws tissue]  There's the tissue.
Owen:  Ok Mommy I'll blow my nose.  [proceeds to blow nose the rest of the day]

I have to say that usually trying to treat him too much like an adult is a big mistake, but today it really paid off!

I also learned a new term:  'line cheese.'  It took me a while to figure that one out.  Turns out it's prepackaged grated cheese.  It is in the shape of lines!

Here are some videos from recently...I haven't gotten around to uploading so many cute ones from a while back, but I passed over them for now and these are pretty current.   They are not all real exciting....

2 little monkeys jumping on the bed

Asher Laughter

Asher 6 mo., raw footage