Iris onstage in The Phantom Tollbooth

Here are two photos of Iris during her stage debut in The Phantom Tollbooth last night. She is playing one of the Number Miners in the city of Digitopolis. The show was a lot of fun to watch, especially seeing her gigantic smile the whole time she was on.

Last bedtime conversation with Tommy as a 3 year old

Tommy turns 4 tomorrow. Here's my final bedtime conversation with him as a 3 year old.

Jim: You know, (classmate)'s mom is having another baby girl very soon.
Tommy: So is mommy
J: She is? Who told you that?
T: Mommy did.
J: Well, I'll have to talk to her about that. Do you know where babies come from, Tommy?
T: Yes.
J: Where?
T: From Portland!
J: All right then, good night little buddy.

I have no idea how he put that together. He has cousins in Portland but they are both much older than he is so I don't think he's ever met a baby from Portland.

Naturally he was up again  less than 5 minutes later because he had to poop, but this was our last meaningful conversation of the evening.

Whatev. Any way you slice it my little man will be 4 years old tomorrow. Happy Birthday Tommy!

Tommy is good at stacking

I took a bunch of photos of Tommy yesterday during take your parents to daycare day & the google photo app automatically rolled them into an animated gif, which I thought looks pretty funny

These kids really like Frozen

Maybe they even love it, and Tommy hasn't even seen it yet. 

Iris has seen it twice, part of her role as official household trend spotter.

Eventful Week!

so yes, it's been ten months since my last post. I blame facebook.

We've had quite a week here. Nicole decided last Tuesday (2/25) that she was done with scooting around on her butt & got up on her 2 feet for more than a couple steps for the first time. Here's a video taken that day by one of her daycare teachers.

And then around 7:30 tonight Iris finally let me grab ahold of her extremely loose tooth and after about one second of tugging, it popped right out. She had told us over and over for the past few weeks that "nobody is involved with my tooth" so I was glad she let me take care of it tonight. It was so loose it probably would have fallen out by itself in the next day or so anyway. She is *very* excited about the Tooth Fairy visiting tonight.