Future scholars?

I wonder if Albert Einstein started off reading books like, "Busy, Busy Town" and "Elmo and Friends Search and Find"????

Sleeping Beauty

I wish that I could sleep like this...

Easter

We had a fun and busy Easter! It felt like Christmas with all of the new items that occupied our living room by the end of the day!

Nick's fave thing out of all this stuff was the lollipop in his hand.

Easter morning cuddle (excuse the foolish cat)...

Pat-A-Cake

I have been "playing" Pat-A-Cake with Chelsea pretty much since birth and she LOVES it. Nick never seemed interested in joining in and never even seemed to be paying attention when I would play it with her so I was very pleasantly surprised when I was putting my makeup on in the bathroom one morning and heard the scene below (of course I had to have him repeat it so that I could get it on video). These are the moments that absolutely melt my heart...when Nicholas talks to or plays with Chelsea unprompted by us. It's very cute when we say, "hey Nick, come here and play with Chelsea" and he does, but it's even better when he does it just because she is his sister and he loves her.

Miracle on Gaslight Lane

NICHOLAS WOKE UP AT 7:40am TODAY!!!!!!!! I know, some of you parents are reading this and saying, "Where's the miracle?" Trust me. It's a miracle. This child has maybe 5 times in his whole life slept past 7am. And the norm is for him to wake up right around 6. We'll take 7:40 any day, it was very nice.

Too bad Chelsea was up at 6:30...

Just another Thursday

Nick found this tie in his room and brought it to me and said, "Mommy, can you put this on me?" Of course. Once it was on he smoothed it down and said, "Just like Dr. Chung!" (That's his doctor, who wears ties). Nicholas Wagner, MD has such a better ring to it than Nicholas Wagner, Chippendale.
Still sporting the tie during snack time (I made him take it off when he went down for a nap). I was at the computer doing work while he was eating his rice cakes and when I came over to check in I found this disaster...

It was a gorgeous day out so when Alison, Jack and Megan came over for our weekly get together we headed outside for some sand table fun...

Chelsea had the BIGGEST poop blow out EVER today; I was going to take a picture of the clothes and put it up but I thought that I would spare the viewers. Below she was displaying her grabbing skills... if you put something in front of her, she will grab it and hold it in a death grip (including hair which does NOT feel good!).

Chelsea: 4 months

We had Chelsea's 4 month appointment today. She's still a biggie! 75th percentile for weight and head and 90th percentile for height. Her Doctor says that she is doing great and gave us the go to start giving her rice cereal. Ever since Nick put a cookie in her mouth when she was about 4 weeks old she has been VERY interested and watchful when she sees us eating; so we figured she's waited long enough and we'd get started right away. I was telling Nick all day that Chelsea was going to eat real food tonight and he was all excited and kept saying that he wanted to eat Chelsea's food too. When it came time for her to eat of course we busted out the video (check out Nick in the background).




Doesn't look like he'll be asking to eat her food again!!