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Brian spent the morning grabbing his shirt and pulling it up to his mouth to eat it. Yum! We were treated to nonstop viewing of his delicious squishy belly. On the way home from the mall, he was playing with his octopus and saying “b-b-b-b-b-b-b”. At first I thought he was saying octopus,but then I realized of course he was saying blue. That’s my exceptional child!

That’s right, Brian learned how to make raspberries the other day!

Ok – she had spaghetti sauce on her _eyelids_.

Marie had a lot of fun with her -uncooked rice in a tupperware- portable pretend beach. We got out her shovel, a bucket (cool whip container), some seashells, and some “sand”. She merrily scooped it and dumped it from bucket into tupperware and mostly on the floor. Cleanup took a while, but at least we didn’t have to drive over the bay bridge.

Mr. Brian was laying on his quilt this morning, and… we came back to find him laying on his side! So, movement is definitely occurring. Oh, and this is a surprise not just because he’s just over 3 months old, but because (based on a bathroom scale weigh-in yesterday) weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 17 pounds!

Marie is sleeping in her big girl bed now! We never even moved the crib over. We just put her to bed in her new room in her new bed (a mattress on the floor) and she screamed and cried and it was a long, horrible night. The next night there was just a little bit of protest and we all got some sleep and now she’s fine! Even for naps. The only issue is that the sun comes in her room in the morning and wakes her up around 7:00 – we were used to her sleeping until 8:30! Maybe that’s why she’s still taking her nap, though. She is the most excited that she can get to her sock drawer all by herself and pick out whatever socks she wants. She thinks we are ridiculous for folding the matching ones together. She prefers one navy and one yellow.

Marie got a tricyle today! It’s just her size and she knows exactly what to do – bottom on the seat, feet on the pedals, hands on the handlebars. We were trying it out in Toys R Us and she said “I need my helmet.” Thanks, Elmo and Dora! So she has a Pooh helmet and kneepads. We were practicing in the house after lunch. She still needs a little help with momentum, but she is starting to figure out how to steer and she is a very focused student! Plus she looks adorable.
Brian thinks he is hot stuff when we prop him up in the big cushy glider and he can “sit” by himself and look around.

Why is it they go for stuff that’s dangerous??? In the past few days, Marie has found scissors, superglue, white-out, watch batteries, Nair, markers (not really dangerous, but boy are they messy), and a book of matches. Luckily she didn’t know what the matches were for. She just stuck them in her ears like Q-tips.

If all goes according to plan, I’ll be taking Marie’s crib apart after her nap tomorrow, and moving it into her new room. She’ll get a couple nights to sleep in it, and then be moving into her “big girl bed”. It’s about time, Marie can now climb into the crib herself. Don’t anyone tell her, she hasn’t figured out that she could easily climb or jump out of it…

Brian had a rough night tonight. He was fighting a gas bubble, and got so upset and tense that it just got worse. For about an hour, while Mom was at work, he was just _wailing_. Fortunately, Mom returned and rescued him. A little food helped him relax enough to sleep. *Whew!*