tower of boys

One evening at bed time last week (January 13th), all three boys piled into the rocker to read books. It was a cute tower of boys! Caden's still into books, hooray!


We tried out their new squeeze pouches from Santa for smoothies for dinner one night. Both of the boys like smoothies, which has been a good way to get fruits and veggies into them. Recently, our go to has been milk, one yokid yogurt, an orange, an apple, a couple carrots, a couple handfuls of kale (ever since we found lacinato kale, aka dinosaur kale, Zane actually gets upset when we don't add it... occasionally I can sub spinach without a fuss), and frozen berries. Yum!


On Thursday evening, Zane requested a new tattoo. It was "Cesco," as Zane refers to him, from the Cars 2 movie - Francesco Bernoulli. :) this time Caden got in on the action too and got his first tattoo. Zane picked out one of the smaller race cars for Caden because he has a smaller arm.


Caden has still been working hard on his spoon skills.


He's especially good with important food like yogurt, and he gets almost all of it into his mouth.


That weekend when the boys were helping me out in the backyard, Caden climbed into Zane's chair. Zane thought it was so funny that he asked me to take a picture of Caden sitting in Zane's big boy chair and not his own little chair:


Caden started saying "no" repeatedly all week long. A few times I replied, "yes," and he cracked up laughing. On Saturday night, Miss Tara came over to watch the boys, well really just Zane since Caden was asleep the whole time, while we went to the Amazon post-holiday party. Zane was really excited about her coming over, and they put together a few puzzles together. We also got the inside scoop that he's working on writing his name - I had seen a picture of his handiwork on their Facebook page, but thought he had gotten a lot of help because it was legible. Miss Tara said she just started the Z for him, and he needed some help with the E, but the rest was all Zane! I'm going to have to try to get him to repeat it and see what happens!

The next day was the big Seahawks and 49ers game, and Zane had a birthday party to attend that started right at kickoff. Needless to say, there were fewer parents than usual, and mostly moms there!