What Color Are Those Eyes?

I’m convinced that Dylan’s eyes are still changing colors. When he was born they were a dark bluish grey like most newborns.  I think we all thought they’d turn brown pretty quickly, and when you look at him from far away they look dark brown.  But when you look at him up close his eyes are anything but – they are still greyish blue around the outside but have neat pockets of brown in the middle.  I’ve been trying to get some good pictures to show all of the cool colors you see when you have him up close – this is as good as I could do.  So what do you think? Will they stay like this or go totally brown?

See how they look totally brown from a little further out?

And what about this kid? Can you guess the color of his eyes? ;)

8 Months and 2 and-a-half!

February is a fun month because Dylan is 8 months, Sean is 2.5 years, it’s Valentine’s Day and I’m 29 again! How exciting! Dylan is doing great, he has 4 teeth and the fifth one is almost in.  He’s sitting up unassisted, babbling, and showing *some* interest in rolling over.  Sean is proving to be a really good big brother, although when it comes to eating he doesn’t like to share that time with Dylan :) Sean is starting to sing a lot more, talks in complete sentences, shares the tub with Dylan, especially likes playing with his friends Grant and Julia, and loves going grocery shopping with me on the weekends (as long as we find the racecar cart. if we don’t it’s a loooong Harris Teeter trip).  They’re both lovely and we’re having more and more fun with them every day!

And here are the outtakes of my 2 and-a-half year old’s two-and-a-half year photo-shoot:

Super Bowl Sunday

Sean’s most favorite lady, Julia, and her brother Lucas came over for Super Bowl Sunday.  We had a fun time hanging out, eating and chasing after the kids! We figure by 2014 we’ll all be out of diapers and might even be able to let them play in another room so we can actually watch a little bit of the game!  A mother can dream… :)

Words I Don't Want to Forget

Kids have all kinds of funny ways to pronounce words as they're learning to talk. And Sean has certainly had his fair share of them. But when we were reading his bedtime story tonight his new one caught me off guard and I just had to write a few of the memorable ones down so I don't forget:
- "Pluh-SEE-GEE" [one if his first really funny ones, it meant 'please'. How in the world he came up with this one we we'll never know!]
- "Sean'd" [this is how he said his name for a few months]
- "Hobit-dopter" [how he currently says 'helicopter']
- "Up-pwane" [current word for 'airplane']
- "El-fa-nant" [elephant]
- "Am-in-als"[animals]
- "Pa-weeee" [Polly]
- "Swishy-swipers" [the one that made me laugh tonight. It meant 'windshield wipers']
Don't you just want to bottle up all that cuteness??? :)

First Official Brother Pictures

We took Dylan in for his “6 month” pictures (really he was 7 months and some change) and we got some really great ones of him and Sean.  Here is a link to a slideshow our photographer put together.  How adorable?!