It’s wild watching how development goes. Fits and spurts, much like the way I do business these days. I feel like we have long plateaus followed by massive mountains.
The past week has been a massive mountain kind of week, for both boys.
Xander, as I’ve mentioned, is mobile. Still not hands and knees or even forward motion for that matter, but mobile all the same. With the same unique slide that Ewan used.
Oh, and he’s an eater too. He’s tried bananas, avocado, pumpkin and sweet potato. All mixed with copious amounts of mama milk. His favorites, by far, are the avocado and pumpkin. So very different from his fruitatarian big brother.
Ewan, on the other hand, has become a true helper. When he wants to, of course.
Tuesday nights are our nights alone, while Aaron is at grad school. It can be a long day. What’s more, it can be a long night, cleaning up the day’s detritus once the boys are in bed. No need to wait until after bedtime, as it turns out.
Ewan, singlehandedly, cleaned up nearly every toy in the place. After I turned it into a little game. It was GLORIOUS to come out to a picked up house when bedtime duty was done.
Oh, and he can help with the chopping too.
Equipped with his own knives, safe but still capable of cutting, he now helps with the dinnertime chopping.
Here are his peppers.
He chops all sorts of things – tomatoes, garlic, parsley, and he loves it. And, I love having him in there with me.
I think tomorrow we are going to wash windows. I’m pretty sure I can get him on board with that!
Mountains. They are awesome. But I’ve gotta say, the plateaus are nice too. It’s nice to slow down and drink in these two little ones. Cliche, I know, but they are growing up way.too.fast.
