Between Christmas and New Years...

The boys LOVED playing the "racing game" on the Wii with just about anyone. Basically you'd play and just give them an empty steering wheel and they were happy for hours. Needless to say, Cory was more than willing to take care of the boys that way! They even fell asleep a few times doing it, and considering how hard it is to get them to sleep lately, that was a big plus!


Speaking of sleep, here is a funny story:

After night after night of trying everything else, we finally decided to just let the boys cry it out. The first night, this is what we hear:

Both: Screaming at the top of their lungs with their little mouths right by the crack in the bottom of the door.
Noah: "Stop!" (they both stop crying) "Micah say Mommy, Noah say Daddy"
Micah: "Mommeeeee! I neeeeeeed you! Momeeeeee!....scream, scream, scream"
Noah (at the same time as Micah): "Daddeeeeeee. Help Pleeeease! scream, scream, scream"

When that didn't work, they switched:

Noah: "Ok, Micah say Daddy, Noah say Mommy. Loud!"
Micah: "Daddeeeeeeee. Waaaaaater. Daddeeeeeeee! Scream, scream, scream"
Noah (at the same time as Micah): "Mommeeeee! Jeeeeesus songs! Now! Scream, scream, scream."

How's that for manipulation? Yeah, so now we are pretty sure that letting them cry it out is the best option.

Samantha discovered that she has some pretty tasty toes while we were there:


We made some music:


and took a trip to Burger King:


Samantha just started learning how to army crawl (she is much better at it now). She would get up on her knees and then sort of throw herself forward and land on her belly making very slow progress across the room:


We played with the train multiple times EVERY day (it was for sure a favorite):

This game was another favorite, but has a funny story to go along with it as well. The basic idea of the game is to use the big giraffe to cover up whatever smaller animal the game says. So if it says "monkey," you put the giraffe on top of the monkey. Well, Noah picked up on it pretty quick and liked it, but Micah refused to play it correctly. He would put it on anything but the animal it wanted him to. This went on for days. We were pretty sure he knew how to play it, but was just being stubborn. Then one day, Cory and I were both sitting there with him while he played it when we realized he was playing it correctly. After about 5 or 6 min, I leaned over to Cory and quietly said: "What do you think made him decide to start playing it right?" Micah immediately stopped, looked up at us with a funny little smirk and started playing it incorrectly again. Funny boy.



They boys also loved playing this sleeping game with my mom. They would pretend to be asleep on her shoulder and then she would say "wake up!" or "Micah (or Noah) is awake!" and they would pop right up.


Okay, I'm done posting for today...more later. Man, we have way too many pictures from this trip!