Chatty Chatterson

Matteo is very talkative these days. From happy, sing-songy verbalizations to "what the F?!" kind of annoyed and angry ones. It amazes me how long he can go on and on, too - talking away in that way that babies do. I am loving it.

It's beginning to look a lot like Easter...

Debbie took Luca to an Easter Egg Hunt this morning. He loved it, of course.



The visit started with some lap time with the Big Bunny.



Luca took the opportunity to give the Easter Bunny the letter that he wrote with his Pop-Pop's help a few weeks ago. There are a few requests in there, apparently. Since when did the Easter Bunny near Santa status?



Next up - The Hunt...



Not as much of a hunt as it was a "who can grab the most eggs in the shortest amount of time" sort of frenzy.



The loot: stickers, tattoos and candy (most of which is hard candy and, therefore, prohibited in this house). We did cave and let him have some Pez and some chocolate, though.



The morning ended with a train ride and some bouncy-house action.





He came home a very happy boy.

Beach Boys

When Max was here - oh so long ago - we took the boys on their traditional beach romp.





That day - looking like some sort of infant astronaut - Matteo made his beach debut.



He never left the stroller - but he enjoyed the ocean breeze and loved watching his brother and cousin do their thing.





It was a great day for a beach visit and we all had a good time.









Some of us, more than others...

Me on the Map

I found a cool little book on the concept of maps at a kid's consignment shop this week.



After reading it a few times, Luca wanted to see some maps of his own.




I don't think he fully grasps the concept of a map yet - as it relates to larger areas - but he did like looking at his room and his house mapped out on paper.

McDrool

My attempts at trying to take a picture of Drooly McClure in his new cloth diaper while holding him in one hand and the camera in the other.

Eggs-tra special project

Earlier this week we decorated egg candles with shapes that we made from sheets of beeswax.





We had both beeswax and regular candles and - after pressing or cutting shapes out of the thin beeswax sheets - we pressed them onto the candles.



We found everything for this project at Nova Natural online.



This was Luca's first time working with beeswax and it took him awhile to remember that he had to warm the wax pieces in his hands in order to get them to stick to the candles.



Debbie and I got into the project, as well and - before we knew it - we had created Easter/Spring eggs for each one of Luca's classmates.

Fee-vah

Matteo is on day eight of a fever. Low grade, but a fever none-the-less. It ranges anywhere from 99.4 to 100.9. The highest came tonight and he fussed himself to sleep. The doc says not to worry, but how can you not? I know it's just his little immune system fighting a bug - but, by day eight, all kinds of crazy things have gone through my head. Hoping it will end soon.

Cloning

I may start a rumor...


Luca - around three months.



Matteo - two and a half months.

Tummy Time Face