Unthematic Blog Post

It seems like we used to be able to come up with some theme that unified the pictures and things that we posted, but recently I guess we've lost our imagination.  So, again I just want to give you a random sampling of some of the things that go on around here that are worth seeing or hearing about.

Ziggy!

Ziggy is a little smiler these days (just turned 12 weeks), and is even starting to give some pretty good laughs too.  He loves sitting up (with help) and just looking at you with googly eyes and wobbly head.  Here are some things that make Ziggy smile: Daddy's face, Mommy's face, Ella's face ... Grandpa's face ... but not as much as Ziggy's face makes grandpa smile:

And Ella's face seems to have a similar effect (though maybe for a different reason).

For a long time Ella has liked for us to do voices for her stuffed animals or whatever.  But these days she especially likes us to make Ziggy "talk."  "Make Ziggy think what I'm doing," is a very common refrain around here.  It means she would like me to make Ziggy guess (wrong) about something involving her so that she can tell him all about it:

Ella: Make Ziggy think what I'm doing.
Me (Ziggy): Ummm. Are you mushing that pancake into your nose?
Ella: No. I'm eating it!
Me (Ziggy): Oh! Eating it!  Great! ... What's eating?
Ella: Eating is when you put food in your mouth and chew it up with your teeth!
Me (Ziggy): Oh! Great! ... What's teeth?
Ella: Teeth are the hard things inside your mouth that you chew with.
Me (Ziggy): Oooh.  I don't have any of those.
Ella: Make Ziggy think what this is (holding up pancake).
Me (Ziggy): Ummm, is it a pancake?
Ella: No, no!  Make him think what this isn't!
Me (Ziggy): Ummm, is that a hairbrush?
Ella: No, no.  A hairbrush is something that you use to--
Me (Ziggy): Oh! I know what a hairbrush is!  It's that round thing that the milk comes out of, right!?
Ella: No, no!  That's a nu-nu!
...

Ella is also getting pretty good at letters.  She can recognize most of them by sight and tell you their names and (sometimes) what sound they make, and she can draw some of them.  Enough even to write her own name (with some coaching).

                       

Here's what Ella likes to do at the beach:

Get buried in the sand!

 

Or just lie face down in the sand not moving for like 20 minutes!

Here's what Ziggy likes to do at the beach:  Go back to the hotel room and take a three hour nap.

... and be awfully, awfully cute!

Sorry.  We just couldn't decide which one of these was the cutest.  Enjoy!