Everyone is having a pretty good december so far. Kyle is starting his second month of eating solid foods. He had his first yams today and seemed to like it. He eats pretty good, but sticks his tongue out to swallow which pushes most of the food back out. He is getting more active and can sit up on his own for about 10 seconds. He can move around a little on his belly, but can't get up on hands and knees. He rolls over easily now and prefers to be on his belly. He's putting everything in his mouth now (his lab is up and running). He seems frustrated that he can't move around more. Bryson is playing well with him and brings him his doggie toy. He always seems to remember where it was left and brings it over when we move to other rooms of the house, it's very sweet. We converted the back room into a playroom for the boys and they both love it, Bryson plays in there most of the day and Kyle enjoys being in there too. Kyle is cooing more and the other day while I was singing him to sleep he was cooing with me like he was singing too, it was so cute.
Bryson is talking more and is getting better at singing songs. He can sing parts of the ABC song pretty well (see his videos). He helped me make cookies a few weeks ago and did a great job. He really enjoyed it and pretends to make cookies in his playroom with his rolling pin and cookie cutters. St. Nick came a few weeks ago, I don't think Bryson quite got the idea, but was happy to have a new Thomas movie and some fruit snacks(see videos). He knows who Santa is and we went to get a picture with Santa but he wanted to look out the window at the cars and didn't want anything to do with Santa. He cried the whole time, the elf just grabbed him for a quick shot and then put him down(see picture above). Kyle didn't seem to care much at all. Bryson had a great time decorating the tree (even though he put all the decorations on the same branch). I thought he would get bored, but he kept up until they were all on the tree. He likes looking at all the santa trinkets on the stockings and tries to guess whose is whose. I finally found a video other than Thomas that he enjoys, Frog and Toad. I'm not sure why, but he just loves it. He smiles and claps along with the stories, he may even like it better than Thomas! We tried to get some nice Christmas pictures of the boys together, but Bryson was not cooperating despite cookie bribes(note the cookie in his mouth for most of the pics). Kyle was easy to photograph, but it was nearly impossible to get one of Bryson or the two of them together, but all you can do is try.(see animoto above)
Mara and John will be coming for christmas this year and friends of ours will be coming for a christmas eve dinner. I'm looking forward to christmas at home, but will miss everyone back in WI.
