At the zoo, getting ready to walk around
Mikey at Gradma's house
Mikey splashing in the pool
Konrad coloring on the porch (coloring the porch)
Zachary taking a break
Zachary has started calling himself cookie monster...it is actually really funny and adorable even though it is really messy. He even makes then noises that cookie monster makes. The only problem is that he also eats like cookie monster and so he crumbles his food and destroys EVERYTHING before it reaches his mouth while growling num num num "cookie monster". He also runs around the living room growling and saying cookie monster...we are not sure why cookie monster struck his fancy but he did. So now when we go places and we try to give him a snack we have to make eye contact with him and warn him and say "Zachary no cookie monster" or else he will start crumbling his food and num num num growling, laugh. He usually just grins at us in a naughty little grin and does it anyway but sometimes he listens :)
Konrad is talking so much, he stares at us and rambles off something so fast like we know exactly what he said. Sometimes we do, sometimes not. He is a very precise mimic and he repeats everything that he hears which is frightening and hilarious. The other night the TV was on for a split second within his hearing and a commercial was on (they normally watch DVD's not live TV) and the loud voice said "next Saturday Big Savings" and I hear Konrad saying "Big Savings, Big Savings"...Mike and I just looked at each other and laughed. He skips around and jumps off furniture. He is still so goofy. He thinks he is so funny and most times he is but it is so much funnier because he thinks he is funny and he is trying hard to be funny. He has to much energy and he can be so intense. Sometimes he will walk up to us and hold our face to make sure we are paying attention to him and only him like if we look away it means we are not listening to just him. Poor Konrad, he wanted to be an only child - he needs the snuggling and the extra along time and the attention, he really does. He has so much energy and he is so sensitive and he has to brothers to share us with.
Mikey is having a hard time with his language skills and it is very frustrating for him. He is happy and playful most of the time and he runs around and plays with his brothers and wrestles them and does all of the things a rambunctious two year old should - but it is at the times when he wants something that his brothers don't or when he is trying to tell us something separate from his brothers that he get most frustrated. He is talking all of the time, but we have a hard time understanding him. We are working hard with him to help him figure out how to communicate with us. The one thing Mikey says all the time is "I Love You". He doesn't say it crisply, it is more like "I yuh you" but it is very distinctly I love you because he often gives kisses after saying it. He says it in this sad, forlorn sort of a ways like you are leaving him forever...it is hilarious and adorable. In the morning when he is leaving his crib, he says to his blanket (which he calls coket) "Coket I yuh you" as he reaches pitifully back for it. He runs up to Mike and I and gives us puppy dog eyes and lays his head on our lap and says "I love you". As we walk past doggies on the evening walk and he is leaving them behind "forever" he will shout "Doggie I love you". It is wonderful, adorable and pitiful and we love it. Our Mikey has a big and wonderful heart that he wears on his little sleeve already.
