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There's got to be an easier way!

Bedtime was eventful tonight. We've been talking about Emmett moving into the front bedroom for weeks, and now that Henry is sleeping full-time in the boys' room, it seemed like a good time. I cleared enough out of the room to put in a mattress, so Emmett is sleeping in his own room tonight. Then while flossing his teeth, I realized that Emmett has pink-eye. Fortunately I have a stockpile of pink-eye meds from the last time so we started eye-drops immediately. We talked a little bit about how contagious it is, and how we should all make sure to wash our hands more often for the next day or so. We also figured out where Emmett picked it up - their summer Spanish classes with about 8 kids started last Thursday. After Luke and Henry were in bed and Emmett was in the other room, Luke started to cry and hide his face in his pillow. I asked him what was wrong and, of course, Luke wasn't talking. I brought him out to the rocking chair to talk, but I did pretty much all of t

Flying Trapeze

The boys have discovered the monkey bars this year, and shortly after that the trapeze/rings for the swing-set. (The kids next door have one, and I've had ours in the shed so there could be two swings and Henry's baby swing, but now there's one swing, one baby swing, and the trapeze.) Luke went at it first, turning himself upside-down with ease and figuring out how to flip by pulling his legs up and then between his arms and turning over. Emmett started out by insisting that the rings were too low for him, but he got over that pretty quickly. I showed him how to flip over like Luke does, and he's been having fun with the rings ever since. Both Luke and Emmett have figured out how to hang by their knees, and it's rare that a kid runs inside crying because he landed on his face. Not to be left out, Henry likes to hang from the rings too, and was delighted when I grabbed his feet and helped him do a flip like his brothers. Today at lunch, Emmett said, "When I

Lute!

Henry pronounces "Emmett" pretty well now, with two quite recognizable syllables. He's also been good at "Lily" (the two year old next door) and "Melia" for "Amelia" (her 5 year old sister) isn't too bad. But for a long time, he didn't have any vocalization for Luke. Probably two weeks ago, though, he started in with "Lute!" for "Luke." It'll do.