Monkeys

I made cinnamon sugar monkey bread for breakfast for a Saturday treat.  I should have read the recipe a little closer...Kneading+two risings+time to dip 64 dough balls in butter and sugar+baking time meant we had a breakfast snack, followed by monkey bread at 10am :}  I had no idea there were live monkeys in my house...you have never seen boys consume such vast quantities.  We are lucky there were no upset tummies!     Luckily, I haven't eaten for 4 days and still don't have much appetite, so I wasn't even tempted.  Eden figured out it was pretty good.

Eden says now...
sign language:  all done, hi, night-night, occasionally a 'please'
words:  uh-oh, Dada, Ah-eh (Asher), Oh-eh (Owen), occasionally 'ah-uh' (all done)
receptive language:  off the chart!  she is understanding a lot.

Not walking yet!  Cruising around and around!

Boys went swimming with Dad again today and had a great time.  Eden and I ran a few errands this morning and had lunch out and it was fun to have a ladies' day.  She actually likes sitting in a stroller and walking around a store, which is pretty new to me!

Asher:  HUG man.  This kid is a lover!  Not complaining.  Asher wanted to do homework this week just like Owen.  So I printed out umpteen million worksheets for preschoolers and he was in heaven...would have done them for hours.  His fine motor is getting much better...starting to handle a pencil pretty well.

Owen:  Drew me a multipage diagram of how he would like the candles arranged on his cake for his 6th birthday right on up through his 13th birthday.  He was REALLY into it...planning the patterns of smaller candles arranged around one larger candle in the middle for each year.  It was sort of a geometry project for him!