Accidentally Nice

I complimented Gideon and Silas on playing nicely together this morning.  Gideon's response was, "But the whole point was--we were playing goblins.  We did the playing nicely on accident."

Some Positive Reinforcement for Mom

Yesterday the boys were each asking me for a piece of tape (one of their favorite toys).  After granting their request, Silas said, "I LOVE the way you're acting!"

Potty Humor...Again

A little while ago, Peter overheard the following snippet of conversation between Gideon and Silas.

Silas: "...and what are you doing in the bathroom--pee pee or poo poo?"

Gideon: "I'll give you a hint.  It starts with a p."

Potty humor incident number two was from this morning.

Silas: "Can I pee in the garbage?"

Me: "No."

Silas: "Well, I accidentally did."

Cute Video

I'm Loved

Gideon likes to play the "I love you more than..." game where we take turns trying to one-up each other.  For example, I might say, "I love you more than this house" and Gideon might respond with, "I love you more than this whole city."  We were playing this game today and Gideon had just told me that he loved me more than space when Silas piped up with, "I love you more than a whole chicken nugget!"

Trip to San Diego and Seaworld

Ambrose had fun cooing at the fish and was especially excited by a sea turtle in one of the aquariums.

While we were looking at the killer whales, the trainer came over (that's her hand right above Gideon).  The whales would follow her wherever she went.

Gideon touching a bat ray.  This was Gideon's favorite part of Seaworld.  The bat rays feel really neat and they like people.  They come right up to you.

The next day we visited this sandy beach where we saw some dolphins surface close to the shore.  In the first few minutes of being at the beach, Silas got knocked down by a small wave.  I was standing right next to him and picked him up again, but he didn't want much to do with the water after that.

 After eating a picnic lunch on a different beach, we explored the tide pools.  This was my favorite part of the trip and Peter's favorite, too.  Peter and the boys saw an octopus and I found a Garibaldi (pictured below, although it looks like a goldfish it was about ten inches long. No really!).  We also saw lots of crabs and other types of fish.

 Silas was desperately trying to reason with this seagull about why the seagull should be his friend and not fly away.

 

There are more pictures in the slide show on the sidebar.  We had a lot of fun and the boys keep asking me if we can go back to Seaworld.

Bubbles and Hairstyling

Here's a recent picture and video of "Bubbles" (Silas' appropriate nickname for Ambrose).  He loves blowing spit bubbles and "singing" as you will see in the video.  He also really loves smiling at himself in the mirror.

 

On an unrelated note, I had the following conversation with Silas this morning.

 

Silas: "Mom, have you showered?"

 

Me: "Yes."

 

Silas: "Is your hair dry?"

 

Me: "Not all of it." (My hair was air drying and I hadn't combed through it yet, so it was quite frizzy.)

 

Silas: "Have you noticed that it doesn't look good?"

 

He then took pity on me and offered to fix my hair.



Today's Gideon Quotes

Gideon: "Mom, I don't have any boogers in this side of my nose so I need some Tylenol."  (I think he was trying to tell me that he was feeling congested. Perhaps. Or perhaps he just wanted Tylenol and figured that insufficient boogers would get him some.)

On our way out of Winco, Gideon looked into the cart and got very excited.  "Mom, you bought some cornucopias for us!"  It took me half a second to realize that he was talking about the bag of Bugles.

Silas' Food Critiquing

Last Saturday I tried barbecuing pizza for the first time.  After taking a bite of the pizza, Silas told me, "This pizza is not as foul as it could possibly be."  Coming from Silas, that's practically a compliment.

Who Does Ambrose Look Like?

Here are some pictures of Gideon and Silas when they were newborns.  We don't think Ambrose looks very much like either of his brothers.

Baby Gideon...

Baby Silas...