Life

This is going to be one of those boring update posts that only family will really care about...just be forewarned before wasting anytime reading this.

Noah: Noah now knows his alphabet! He can tell you just about every single letter. He gets Bs, Ds, and Ps confused as well as M, N and W. Another tricky one is Q which he confuses with O but he's doing great! I buy these organic cookies called "letter of the day cookies" and Noah's favorite thing is to pass them out when we have them for snacks and tell the daycare kids what letter they get. It's just so cute!

I know I said this in the last Noah post...but I am so impressed with how his language has taken off. In the last few months he has really gone from sounding like a toddler, to sounding like a little boy. It's just amazing how much it can change in such a short time!



Eli: Eli has been crawling for a few months now, and while is isn't walking he sure is climbing! And he is pretty dang good at it! He can climb stairs, and he can even climb up on chairs. Yesterday I watched in amazement as he climbed up onto the kids table using one of the kid chairs to get up to the table with. It's a little scary!

Our nights have gotten better too. He is still not sleeping through the night, but he is now only waking once to eat again. As it is now, he nurses sometime after dinner (around 7 or 8) then goes up to bed. I go up around 10 and wake him up to feed him again (this is for my benefit...I get a longer stretch of sleep this way) and then he sleeps anywhere from 1am-5 am before waking up to eat...then sleeps until we get up at 7. Thankfully he is also now sleeping in his crib better. He can fall asleep on his own without tears just as long as his tummy is full :)


Other: I have been thinking about it for awhile, but just recently decided to start cloth diapering. Noah still spends some time in diapers (mostly when we are going to be out of the house for more than a couple hours) and Eli will be in diapers for another year or two so it will save us a lot of money in the long run, and I feel so guilty knowing how much we fill up the landfill just in diapers. Since we spend most of our time home anyway it just makes more sense for us. We will still be buying disposables for traveling and when we have people watch the boys for us (so don't worry Gramma and Papa) but we are doing cloth at home.