These kids have been cracking me up lately. Maybe it's out of delirium because I feel more exhausted now than I recall feeling when Gavin was a newborn. But I really have been laughing a lot lately. Gavin's got this new thing going on where he just shakes his head 'no' back and forth really fast. When we do it back to him, it really gets him going. He's going to make his bald spot bigger the way he's rubbing it so much, but this is a funny new form of entertainment for him and us. I remember Tyler learning to shake his head around the same age. Only Tyler did it most often when he was sitting up in his highchair. Gavin does it most when he's laying down on the ground, his crib, changing table, in the car seat. Funny little one-toothed wonder.

Shawn has been training Tyler to feed Chili. It's never too soon to make the kids earn their keep with chores, is it? Anyway, Tyler loves this task and if it were up to him, Chili would eat every morning, noon and night. Tyler was diligently scooping the food one night, using all his might and suddenly the handle snapped off the scooper. So now, every night he picks up the scooper and tells us "Ty broke it," as though we had not just heard about it the previous night, and the night before that. Next, he begins talking to himself as he fills the scooper with food, "Little bit more," he repeats several times as Chili obediently stands by frothing at the mouth but waiting oh so patiently. Finally satisfied with the amount of food in the scooper (which takes at least a minute or two), Tyler carefully pours the food into the bowl. This is where his learning curve is most prominent because we've progressed from one or two kernels of dogfood actually making it into the bowl, to just one or two not making it in the bowl. Then Chili dives in and Tyler sings words that are magic to Chili's ears "hmmm need little bit more." Tyler would feed the dog all night if we let him!