Ears, noses and animal sounds

To any of you who think being a stay-at-home-mom is "easy," I dare you to come spend a week in my shoes! Mr. T is deciding that he only needs one nap varying in length from 15 minutes to one and a half hours. Gone are the days of Mama getting an hour in the morning and another couple in the afternoon for house chores and freelance work. Between fun times at library time, swimming, taking care of Mr. T and Mr. J (a few afternoons a week), plus keeping the household running, I'm falling over at 8pm every night!. A life of bon-bons...yeah, right! ;-)

The exciting development this week is that Mr. T discovered he has ears. At least he discovered he has AN ear - we're not quite sure he understands he has TWO said ears. I am sure he'll discover that before he goes to college. T also knows where his nose is and loooves to crinkle it and sniff very loudly through it. Mummy's taken up Yoga and has been known to demonstrate her newly found yogi nose breathing skills when she comes home from class...Toby's taken up copying her and then giggling. Our little comedian has many jokes lately, from putting food on his head so it gets stuck in his curls to tickling Mummy while he is getting a diaper change. He now plays peek-a-boo with us, hiding his eyes with one hand...and peeking through his fingers.

T has added a variety of animal sounds to his repertoire lately. Elephants with trunks braying, cows mooing, monkeys oo-ahhing and dogs barking. The funny part? They all same amazingly similar...we only know the difference because we show him pictures and ask him about different animals and he has different actions for some of the them.