The Bowl

If you read my "fun game" post below, you'd know that Gavan digs these plastic bowls that I have.
I found out just how much tonight.
We're getting ready to run some errands with Papa after dinner. Its raining. We put jackets on the kids and start to head out the door.
And Gavan grabs his bowl, puts it on his head and walks out the door into the rain.

So, we load him into the car with it on and he wears it all the way to Home Depot and while we're getting the stuff we need at Home Depot.
It seems that it is now part of his wardrobe in addition to his toy collection!

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Fun game

The plasticware is a pretty good distraction for my kids. While I'm making dinner, they can rummage through the drawer thats full of it and have fun.

Tonight, Myla was sleeping on the couch while I was getting dinner ready so Gavan was playing solo. He really likes to put plastic bowls on his head...

So I wasn't really paying attention to what he was doing because, well, he was being relatively quiet and staying out from under my feet.

Dinner was almost ready so I walked over to where Myla was sleeping on the couch to wake her up...

and Gavan had given her her own plastic hat as well as a couple of toy offerings.

It just made me laugh to think what was going through his baby mind as he set the bowl on her head:

"Now Myla is just like me!"

or

"That's what she gets for passing out!"

or

"I can't wait until I can put shaving cream in her hand and tickle her nose"

I like to think its because he has a good sense of humor :)

Mini-maestros

So dear - the little people are playing a song from my "Deceptively Delicious" cookbook. Sounds good, guys!

Ice Baby

Yesterday evening, Myla was riding her trike around the cul-de-sac and she tipped it over twice. Her poor knees! Our friend Kim came to the rescue with this blue ice pack and it is now one of Myla's favorite things to play with. She has figured out that Gavan doesn't like it when she presses it against his sweet baby skin so that is her new game at the moment. Kinda cruel, don't ya think?

Gotta return it to Kim tonight!
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Just gotta dance!!!

My kids like to dance. When I was pregnant with Myla, Nick bought an electric piano for our home. It came with a bunch of songs pre-programmed into it. And that has turned out to be just great because whenever I try to sit down and actually play the piano, the next thing I know, I have two super-adorable but super-unhelpful piano playing assistants on the bench and my lap and I can't get 4 straight notes out.

But they love the music! The pre-programmed music. Myla will turn a tune on and then they are in the living room, running around the ottoman laughing. "Turkish March" was their favorite for the longest time. "Mommy please play number 14! 14 ! 14!" Or, Myla will do a very serious interpretive ballet number depending on the tone of the piece that is playing. "Moonlight Sonata" is pretty fun to watch. Gavan mainly sticks to running around the ottoman or spinning in circles. The circles are a realtively new development and its cute to see him deal with dizziness. Myla has picked up the circles and the other night, after going around and around for awhile stopped, stared at the wall, and said, "Papa, is the house moving??"

Myla has a couple of DVD about this mouse that is a ballerina. At the end of each DVD, there is a short segment about a real children's ballet class and they show moves and such. Myla really likes that and has started to show me some of the moves and associated names. "Promenade, Mommy." After the folk dance segment "These are Half-breaks Mommy" all said with an English accent because the DVD is narrated by someone with an English accent. Its sweet :)