Blankies and Swords

Trevor, and his blankie. Luckily we ended up with 4 of these blankies when the boys were born. Because now Trevor is completely attached to them. Luckily I can swap them out so I can clean them because they are like velcro for dog fur. So we now have one in his crib and one in the living room. Every time be bring him down from sleeping he cries all the way down the stairs because we made him leave his "blankie" upstairs. But when he's in the living room and see's is blankie he runs and picks it up and stops crying. So when will he learn that there are multiple blankies and there is no need to scream in my ear on the way down the stairs?

I do think that it is very cute how he carries his blankie around and sucks on it when he's tired. Alex hasn't taken to a blankie yet. He doesn't even like to be under his blanket in his crib while he's sleeping. Almost instantly he rolls over and lays on top of his blanket. Usually he lays on his stomach with his butt up in the air. I think that's addorable too.

I was wrapping presents the other day and ended up with two cardboard paper rolls. I used to give these to the dogs because they love chewing on them. The dogs were very tired though so they kinda just ignored them. Not even thinking about them anymore, I brought the boys down from their nap. And they almost instantly went for the cardboard rolls. And then like its in their blood or something they started playing swords with them. Now I cannot for the life of me think of where they got that. The TV is hardly on because we don't want them watching TV with all the hype about over stimulation or whatever... I haven't watched a Pirates of the Caribbean lately or a Star Wars. I suppose they could've been playing baseball too, but I'm pretty sure they've only watched one of my games, and about 3 innings of a Tigers game. Baseball is never on our TV at home because Kris doesn't like watching Baseball - "It's boring!"

At one point Trevor's "sword" broke. So he went over to Alex and stole his. Alex just burst out crying and Trevor just looked at him like, "what's the problem?" Then Trevor just did the cutest thing. Still clutching on to the the good "sword" he took the broken one over to Alex and handed it to him. Alex looked at it and just started screaming again so Trevor tried to give it to him again. Trevor was trying so hard to please Alex but it just wasn't working. Alex was just starting to get sick during this escapade so that could've been part of the problem. And he sure wasn't going to give up the good "sword". Eventually, Alex found something else to play with and one of the dogs picked up the broken "sword". Trevor thought that looked like fun so he started playing with the dogs. That made the good "sword" accessible and Alex didn't waste any time picking it up. :-)

My boys now have no fear of the dogs. They will take toys from them and play tug-a-war with them, they just don't care. They even try to take bones out of their mouths. Thank goodness the dogs are VERY good about it. I'll have to watch the kids with new dogs though. Not all dogs are equal...

Trevor just had a blast playing with Nicky and the old cardboard tube. He'd pull it away and Nicky would grab it and pull it away and then Trevor would take it again. It lasted quite a while while Zagnut the protector just watched over them.