“Sharky, the friendly shark, but not too friendly…”
-Eddie Izzard
If you recall Ashlyn’s journey to movement, she earned the nickname “Crab” from the way she slid around the floor. James has earned his own nickname, “Baby Shark”. This is partly because James will slowly crawl his way across the floor towards you if you’re doing something interesting or non-baby safe, but mostly because Mom thinks putting his hair in a mohawk is funny. Thus, the nickname “Baby Shark”.
Ashlyn’s favorite color changes by the year and this year it’s blue. For dinner this week, she chose a blue cup, blue spoon, blue plate, and blue spaghetti while wearing a blue shirt. Not featured are blue socks and blue pants.
When she’s not making messes, Ashlyn is cleaning them up. Kind of. She means well, and I think she accomplishes some decent rinsing. And no, we don’t color coordinate every dinner and cleaning outfit.
The Internet is a wonderful thing, and Mom finds all sorts of fun things for Ashlyn to do. This weekend was an experiment with shaving cream, food coloring, and an art easel. If the amount of time Ashlyn spent painting was any indication, it was a success. James even got in on the action with a little sensory play in the shaving cream. It only took him 3 seconds before he tried to eat it.
Last week I reported that James was cruising, and this week he is continuing his rapid development with big boy crawling. He’s not consistent yet, but he’s starting to get up on his knees more as he’s learned that he can move and get things more quickly that way. So now he’s crawling everywhere, standing on everything, and all in all having a good time of being a baby. We’re just a few short months away from moving into official “toddler” status.
Cousin Ben made a visit this weekend, which is always fun. Ashlyn paused in her efforts to run around the house for a quick picture, and James just smiled..
Easter is fast approaching, and this year we thought it would be fun to decorate some eggs. Ashlyn enjoyed the activity and actually managed to keep from dying half the kitchen in various Easter colors.
Baby Shark!
