These are a few of my favorite things!

A few of the kids current habits are just too cute...Madelyn is just starting to learn how to converse, and likes to ask "Are HOW you?".   "What is it??" is her other favorite, which we're quite pleased with as it's helping her vocabulary take off.  She can't read (as opposed to the precocious 24-month old son of my friend Steve Kao, who visited over the weekend), but I'll be darned if she doesn't know where her philtrum is!  On the reading front, though, since I started assigning names of family members to letters, she's really starting to learn her letters...K for Auntie K, B for Baba, M for Madelyn or Mama, J for Aunt Joanna, P for Aunt Pat.  For the aforementioned letters she can now recognize them and name them by name, but for T she can't shake the association and shouts "Uncle T!"

Isaac, on the other hand, is just incorrigible.  Tumping over big boxes of toys, squeezing and tossing food all around, trying to tear off his penis every time his diaper's off, blowing his diaper out with poop - these are some of his favorite things.  Make a song from that, Maria von Trapp!  The saving grace is that he's so darned cute and good natured about it (most of the time), it's hard to get too mad.  He even acts up when you're trying to read books before going to bed - he'll crawl under his crib and say "night night" and pretend he's going to sleep.  Just don't try to take him at his word and leave...

Sadly, though, they have learned what happens when they fight over toys - it's now not uncommon for me to get home from work at 6:30 on call weeks, and Madelyn immediately points to the top of the fridge to let me know where the addiction of the day wound up.  After a bout of pink shopping carts and baby strollers, I was frankly relieved to see some good ol' fashioned and gender-neutral Lego's up top this evening.   Isaac does carry a pink blanket around, not that there's anything wrong with that...