Oh what a week!

(Please read the title to the tune of "Oh what a night," by the Four Seasons).

The boys caught a virus Monday, April 4th for Ben and Wednesday, April 6th for Will. Billy was pretty much gone for the week, so it made for a long week! By Thursday I took the boys into the doctor to discover Ben's evolved into a double ear infection and a "really bad, really really bad infection on his tonsils". When a doctor says really bad multiple times you figure it must look pretty gross in his little throat.

During all of this, some pretty cool things happened too. On Monday, while Ben had a 102 temperature he decided it was a perfect day to "go" on the potty. Two days later when the virus hit Will, he had potty fever too and went. Pretty much once a day since then, they boys have been going on the potty. They are 20 months today, so we are pretty impressed!

They continue to grow their vocabulary. Some of their best sayings right now are:

show me (as they tug on your hand to have you go with them so they can show you something)

Come on (waving to each other to follow)

Where are you?! (when we are waiting for friends to come over)

Ohhhh Josie! (They love to call for her)

Mine (ugh... I don't like this one, but man do they love to say it!)

Okayyyyy (Ben especially does the long drawn out Ok)

Snuggle me (when they wake up from nap)

Happy 20 months boys!

Ben and Will - a tackle turned into a love hug.
Will was still having temps of 103 at Grandma and Grandpa's but what a trooper!
Beginning of the week, Will in his frog hat snuggling Emily
Ben wearing underwear after he went on the potty for the first time!
Ben burning up on the couch.

Smarty Pants Will and Ben

This morning we were having bath time fun with the boys. I sprayed shaving cream on the walls to make shapes and then let them "draw" with it. Shaving cream is great for creativity. It's like finger paints!

The boys yelled out "circle, heart, triangle." And most of the time they were pointing to the right shape. Then they started to count and I thought my mom would fall down in shock (grandshe is visting this weekend!).

It went something like, "One, two, three, Five! High Five!" So we are forgetting the number four and technically high five isn't part of counting, but pretty impressive for our soon to be 20 month old boys.

They also love telling you different colors. While Will's favorite color seems to be blue, I make him say pink a lot just because he melts me when he scrunches up his face and blinks his eyes so hard when he says "Pinnnkkk!" Ben seems to be a big orange fan. If he isn't sure what color something is, orange is his fall back color.

They are learning something new everyday. We just love seeing what they will pick up on next.