What's your name?

So we have often affectionately referred to Eliot as baby. The whole family has. I think we may be reaping our reward from that. Now when we ask Eliot what his name is, he says 'baby'. See for yourself:

Miss Pigtails

Addie has started to take an interest in her hair lately. Here is our favorite latest style:

I sent this to my Mom and she said that it reminds her of another little girl 30 years ago. I am afraid she may be right! Sorry Addie. :)

A rite of passage

A few nights ago Charles was gone and the kids and I were having a casual dinner. By casual, I mean really casual. In fact, Jack mastered this skill sought after by most eight-year-old boys. We were all so excited that we took this video and texted it to Charles. He was genuinely sad he missed out. :) 

Wife

Yesterday I was helping Addie with her speech therapy homework which consists of saying a lot of words with the letter F in them. Basically, you point to a picture and ask her to say the word. Well one of the words this week is WIFE.  Every time I point to the picture she says 'that is you Mommy.'  Yes, and what is the word Addie? And she says Erin. Every time. I blame my nickname from Charles as the culprit!  Too funny.

Addie, Fans, and Mom & Dad's Clothes

We've been taking Addie to speech therapy recently. Sometimes I think it is expensive pre-school, but nonetheless, she loves it and I love seeing her interact with her therapist. It is so much fun to see your kids when they are interacting with another adult.

Specifically, we are working on the F sound. One of the words she was concentrating on was fan. Well last session, she started to tell Rachel, her speech therapist, about how she had a fan in her room, and that Jack and Theo have a fan in their room. She then said that Eliot didn't have a fan in his room because Mom and Dad keep their clothes in there. Rachel looked a little confused. Why on earth would keeping clothes in someone's room prevent you from having a fan???? Well, I had to explain to Rachel that actually Eliot sleeps in our closet still so space was somewhat limited. It was so funny that in Addie's little head we keep clothes in Eliot's room, rather than him sleeping in our closet!