Life Lately

Here is our life in bullet points:

• My little sister gave birth to her first baby on March 12th (which also happens to be Mike's birthday!) After many, many hours in labor, Samuel David Walters was born weighing in at 6 lbs 11 oz and 20" long. I don't have any good pictures yet! Hopefully we can get a nice family shot on Easter!!
• Ava is on Spring Break this week. We have been crafting up a storm. 
• Noah loves music. Any toy that has music on it, he will turn on and play over and over again. He loves to try sing the songs, but loves to dance.
• Ava and Noah have a typical love hate relationship. Sometimes they play so well together and the other times they are at each others throats.  The other day, they were pretending that they were on a ship and had to watch out for the sharks. They played and played.
• Most times, when one kid has a toy, the other wants it, claims that it was theirs and/or grabs as fast as they can and runs with it. This is always followed by tears.
• Noah likes to copy everything Ava does. If she says something funny, Noah tries to do the same. If Ava does a funny move, Noah copies.
• Noah still won't really eat meals. He is a snacker on the go. We do get him to sit down for dinner, but lunch and breakfast, for-get-about-it.
• Ava has been waking up again in the middle of the night. It is always around midnight. She has been pulling lots of shenanigans at bedtime again. When this started over a year ago, we decided that we would sit in her room for 5 minutes after Noah went to bed. Lately, as soon as Mike leaves her room, she either a)starts crying and/or b)gets out of bed and opens and closes her bedroom door and/or c)reads for a little bit and then proceeds to do a) and b). I finally took away one of her animals that she took to bed and it has worked for 2 nights now. I know this won't be forever, but it is hard to have your sleep interrupted and to go in and out of her room for an hour at bedtime. We have told her that she can read or play with some animals in bed, just don't call for mommy and daddy.
• Noah wakes up at 5:30 EVERY SINGLE morning. The only nice part about it is that he is a snuggler and will usually come in our bed and snuggle.
• Last weekend, both kids slept in past 6 am on Saturday. It was such a nice present!

Looking forward to Easter. I am going to make it my goal to take family pictures.