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One little monkey jumping on his bed . . .

Posted on March 14, 2008 8:58 am by TheAngelForever

This is my little monkey last night after he put on his Purim costume. He had to test it out for the parade at school today.

With permission from Mommy, the little monkey was told that he could act out his favorite story. So my little monkey was jumping on his bed. . .

Thank goodness he was not a wild and crazy monkey, so he did NOT fall off or bump his head (Mommy is sick of calling the doctor after all thanks to his little brother).

Soon after this the monkey went wandering in the house and found a familiar looking rodent.

Mickey Mouse JSL was quite fascinated by his monkey brother. He took quite some time to check out all of monkey NHL.

Mickey inspects the monkey

Before long they were giving big monkey and mouse hugs to one another.

After that they just sat around waiting for some help out of their costumes because it was time for bed.

NHL’s parade is later this morning at school. My grandmother is going with JSL and I to watch it. The kids will be performing some Purim songs after they parade around, so it should be VERY cute.

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Love thy big brother

Posted on March 13, 2008 9:52 am by TheAngelForever

Last night JSL was having some play time with Daddy before bed. NHL was already asleep and I was taking a shower. When I came out I went to my computer to check on something. Next thing I know JL was calling for JSL. The little guy was taking off across the living room. He quickly made it to the hallway. At this point I stuck my head over to say hello to him. He looked up at me, smiled and continued down the hall. As further in the hall he started to call for his big brother.

Awwwwwwww!

My heart just melted as the little guy was trying to get to their room to see NHL. He was quite upset when I scooped him up. JL took him from me for a diaper change before bed. While on the changing table he went bonzai. I was across the house and heard him screaming. Over and over he kept saying NHL’s name along with Big Bro. It was so sweet, but so sad at the same time. He would not stop yelling for NHL and crying hysterically. After the change JL took him to their bedroom so he could see NHL sleeping in his bed.

Thankfully seeing NHL and having some milk before bed seemed to calm him. He nursed a little, had his teeth brushed and then curled up and fell asleep.

This morning once NHL was awake we told him about what JSL had done. He quickly ran into our bed to see the little guy (the teething monster was in our bed for part of the night). Legs and arms were going crazy. He was chatting up a storm because he was SO happy to see NHL. NHL quickly gave him a big hug and kiss. JSL quickly looked over to me and smiled and then tackled NHL for a hug again.

Ah, nothing like sibling love. I will enjoy it because soon enough they will be tackling each other and yelling and screaming for other not so nice reasons.

Brotherly love

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My strange sleepers

Posted on March 11, 2008 9:08 am by TheAngelForever

There is just something about photos of kids when they are sleeping that makes me smile. The peaceful look on a little face, the quiet in the room. . . . and of course the neck twisted back funny.

What? You mean your child does not sleep like this?

No? Oh come on ! Where is the fun in that.?!?! This just looks way too boring for our family:

Really this is just too normal, especially for NHL:

I have even found NHL like this:

Apparently this is catchy with the youngest member of the family too. Last night I went in to check on the two boys and this is how I found JSL. Just looking at it makes my poor neck hurt.

I have to admit this is by far the most odd position I have found the little guy in. Most of the time he falls asleep on a Mommy or Daddy.

He also likes to nap in our bed like this with the flannel all around:

Unfortunately the flash of the camera can assist in bringing on strange sleep positions like so:

Please note bed head is just a perk that often results and is VERY much a photo moment that has to be captured. Here are two examples from Sunday:

I have to get these photos in while I can now. Before I know it the smiling face above and his big brother will frown at Mommy and Daddy taking photos like these. So that just means I must do my fair share now.

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They stayed in their room – ALL night!

Posted on February 28, 2008 11:23 am by TheAngelForever

For the first time in weeks both of the boys stayed in their room all night.

WAHOO!!!!!!

Sure, JSL fussed a few times, but he managed not to bunk with us for any of the night. He was so exhausted from no afternoon nap. Why? Well, thanks to another snow storm NHL’s school was on a 2 hour delay. It just was not worth taking him for 10:00 to pick him up at 1:00. Too much effort. Plus Tuesday night NHL was up with several nightmares again. So we did a PJ day here. Every time that JSL fell asleep in the afternoon he would hear NHL and wake up

This is Spud on the couch in the morning:

The brotherly spats started already. NHL was upset that JSL got his toy. NHL took it away and JSL went crawling over to him at one point and slapped him. This at nine months – I am in for it! Here are the sweet boys together after the mini tiff.

Near brotherly headlock

JSL quickly lost interest in sitting with his big brother and wanted to be on the move. He would not take both of my hands. So he took one and I took some shots from above for a different perspective on things.

As nice as it was to have both of the boys with me for the day . . . it was a LONG 9 hour day. It was great to see NHL head out to school for a few hours.

I even managed to get JSL out of his PJ’s for the first time since he has been back from the hospital. I figured it was time, plus it was a way to celebrate that he is officially done with antibiotic.

Then it was time for the boys to say goodbye to each other.

Poor JSL was sad to see big brother go. . . I think.

I will cherish these moments now. Before I know it the two of them will be clawing at each other and wresting on the floor while screaming for me to stop the other.

P.S. – Stay tuned . . . a new blog design is coming soon. My webmaster (JL) is almost done so it can go live and then we can tweak things. A giveaway will be coming with that too!