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Okay, maybe only I can hear Beckett humming to the tune of "Over the Rainbow", but I really think he is!! Taylor sings it non-stop, and has forever, so it makes sense that he's been taking it all in. So, at this rate, it looks like he may be singing Judy Garland before he actually speaks his first word :)
Also, sorry I haven't posted in forever, but with two kiddos I barely have time to shower, so I usually post things on Facebook, and then get too distracted/busy to post anything here!

Let the trouble begin......

So here we are, walking at 9 months old. Luckily he's a tough cookie, because he gets injured weekly and I foresee an extremely exhausting summer in my future. Oh, and today when I went to make his bottle for nap time, I came back in the living room only to find Beckett at the TOP OF THE STAIRS!!! We have 16 stairs and a curved staircase and it would have been ugly if he would have fallen before I got to him. Wow, I'm tired just writing this, so off to bed!

Teething Patterns

So I've been trying to get a good picture of Beckett's hilarious teething pattern, but it's not easy to do! He now has his 2 bottom teeth, 2 upper side teeth, and one upper middle tooth. Not sure if he's more vampire or more Billy Bob.....oh, and the top picture if purely for entertainment :) He was gearing up for a squeal.

First Bath Time Together

So we finally tried the double-bath tonight and it was an interesting adventure. Aesthetically, it was perfectly adorable; however, Beckett is at the splashing water frantically stage, so of course when he did it, Taylor also had to do it. The thing is, Taylor's splashing apparatuses (arms, legs) are significantly more powerful than Beckett's, leading to WAY too aggressive splashing and Beckett being on the verge of drowning the whole 10 minutes he was in there. So, overall, unless I get a bathtub seat or something for Beckett, they'll be taking separate baths for a few more months :) Speaking of aesthetically pleasing, check out those adorable baby man-boobs!! Love it!

No Pictures

Okay, so long story short, my computer hard-drive is full, so until I get our IT friend over here to put it all on some fancy external hard drive, I can't download any new pictures or videos (which is a shame b/c watching how fast Beckett does the army crawl is quite funny!). So I thought I'd do a post of just a few of my favorite word pronunciations that Taylor says. I'll use them in a sentence and see if you can decipher them yourselves :)

"egg-sy-ged" "Mommy, Tucker is soooo egg-sy-ged that I'm coming outside to play with him!!"

"hopsital" "That ambilaynce must be going to the hopsital, right?"

"eneree" "I'm eating all my carrots and grapes so I'll have good eneree all day to play outside!"

"coff coff" (while in shower) "Mom, can you hand me a dry coff-coff so I can wipe my eyes?"
**she can actually say washcloth, but for whatever reason prefers coff coff**

"froggy" "It must be gonna rain because it looks really froggy outside" or "Look! If I blow on the glass door, it gets froggy and then I can write on it!"

Bras and Such

Taylor: Mommy, what is this under your shirt?

Me: My bra.

Taylor: Oh, like by your eyes?

Me: What? What do you mean?

Taylor: You know, those little hairs above your eyes. Those are your eye-bras.

Me: Close, but not quite. They are called eyeBROWS.

Taylor: Hmmm. Well, I call them eye-bras.

Smile and show those pearly whites!!

Love green beans?....not so much

Beckett appears to not love green beans as much as Taylor did (and still does!) at his age. He doesn't necessarily make an "I don't like it" face, so much as spits it out at every bite. It cracks me up enough to keep giving it to him, though :) It's also super-fun to wipe down a million spittles of green bean puree spread over a 2 foot complete radius around the highchair. Lucky he's so stinking adorable!!

Kids Expo

So I took Taylor and Beckett to the Madison Kids Expo and besides the millions of people and strollers, it was pretty fun (well, pre-meltdown). At one point, one of the booths was a karate school and they asked if Taylor would want to be a part of a demonstration class, which of course if there's a "stage" and people watching, she's all over it. She looked so tiny and unsure of what the hell was happening, it was adorable :) She also got to meet Bucky Badger, an elephant, a moose, a dog, etc. which is a huge difference from last year when she wouldn't go near any of the people-dressed-as-animals. And my beautiful Beckett, well, he was his usual chilled out self in his usual position: in the carseat wishing he could be running around with his sister. Taylor topped off her afternoon by hosting a little story time for her brother :)

Singing cousins :)

So Taylor was IN HEAVEN when Sasha was here and got to play with him much more than usual since they were here longer. They both love to sing and dance like banshees, so here's a short clip of them singing Do Re Me. Poor Sasha was somewhat overtaken by Taylor's singing, but it's still a really cute video of cousin-love :)