Picking Food Up Off The Floor

The Boys

The boys are doing all kinds of fun and crazy things, but by the end of the day I’m so tired I usually forget what they were! I’m trying to keep notes so I can start updating more regularly again.

Breakfast has been interesting lately:

The boys like to have cheerios in milk. They actually have been able to eat a bit with their spoon, but usually use their hands. After eating about 1/2 of it, they drink the rest of the milk, taking in a few cheerios with it! They think it’s so fun to do this. Sometimes Drew blows bubbles in his milk.

Bran really likes to dunk his toast in the milk. Usually after a few dunks he decides to just submerge his entire piece. When he gets it to his mouth it’s dripping milk. And he’s so happy!

Andrew

Drew has learned to to blow on his food, he’s been doing this often at dinnertime. This morning he blew on his cereal. He scooped up a spoonful, leaned over it and blew!

At swimming lessons yesterday they got to try on life vests. Bran hated it, but Drew did really well, he floated for about 5 + minutes and was just relaxed and peaceful. It helped that he was holding a ball the whole time!

Today at lunch Drew was putting his cheese on Bran’s plate while Bran was proceeding to put it back on Drew’s plate.

Drew can blow his nose. You put a tissue up and ask him to blow and he does! He’s been doing that for a long time. It’s been very helpful because ever since he was a baby he’s gotten stuffy noses and he hates to have anyone wipe it or pick at it (would you?). So now I just put a tissue to his nose and tell him to blow.

Brandon

Yesterday Bran’s cup fell on the floor and when I asked him if he wanted me to get it, he signed “please”

Bran loves dried apples. This morning he pulled the baggie of them out of his diaper bag and brought them to me. I asked if he wanted some apples and he signed “please”. After eating one, he brought the bag back and was trying to pull apples out of the bag. I asked if he wanted more and he looked really intently at his hands and signed “more”. This is a big step because Drew tends to communicate more verbally and with signs than Bran does, so it’s good to see Bran learning how to tell us what he wants.

Bran has been doing a good job of following multiple commands. Thursday morning I asked Bran to “go get your blue shoes and bring them here” and he brought the right ones! While not necessarily multiple commands, he’s also been good at following directions like put the blocks back on the box. He also likes to help me put things away. Of course he’ll often take them right back out after they’ve been put away!

Other Fun Things

The boys are starting to learn how to blow kisses.

They have a sign for finished/all-done. They use this sign for all kinds of things now. If they see something they aren’t allowed to touch (like the dog’s bowl) they go up to it and sign finished.

Words that WE know they are saying: dog, done, yes, mama, dada, bow wow, more (sounds more like Na, but Drew is beginning to use his “m”, so sometimes it sounds like ma. They use this whenever they want something so we hear na or ma all day long!), no (with a headshake), blocks (Drew just started this one), touchdown (this goes along with the touchdown sign, they haven’t gotten to use this one much lately though), stop (they tell Noah to stop when he’s barking).

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