Round and Round

Yesterday the boys played a new game after snack time. They had a messy snack of yogurt and watermelon, so they were only wearing diapers. Standing next to the dining room table, Liam began counting, "1, 2, 4, 5!" and then he took off running around the table. Graeme followed with "1, 2, 3, 5!", and he followed Liam (the counting still needs a little work sometimes). After a couple of laps around the table, Graeme yelled "Stop!", and they froze.

Then they counted again, and ran around again a few times. This time Liam stopped and said, "Take a rest", and he laid down on the floor. Graeme followed with his hands flat on the floor, and he rested his forehand on his hands and said, "I sleeping". A few seconds later, they popped up and started running again, giggling the whole time. The entire routine was repeated several times before they were finally tired. During the craziness, I ran and got the camera, so here are a few action pics:

Liam runs around the table

Graeme runs too

Resting

The boys were still in a good mood after running around, so I took some more pictures of them together (which is always a challenge). One of my favorites is now on the blog home page in the right upper corner - check out those huge smiles! Here's another favorite, the Glamour Shot:

Doing the sulky model thing

And finally a "normal" smiling shot:

We're good, we swear!

Today the boys had a rough day. They are clearly missing Grandma and Aunt Mar, and are very whiny. Liam poured out his milk all over the floor at all three meals (oh, the challenges of teaching toddlers to drink politely from regular cups!), and Graeme followed suit tonight at dinner after watching Liam dump his. I was very frustrated with them, but one cute incident occurred which reminded me how sweet they are, even though they misbehave. They were sitting on the bottom "time out" step watching me wipe up the milk when Graeme turned to Liam and said, "Need a hug", and hugged Liam. Then Graeme said, "Thank you". I smiled, and took them upstairs for bath time.

More cuteness: At nap time, Liam pretended to tickle himself while laying in bed and repeated, "Tickle bug" over and over, a phrase he learned during Ar and Mar's visit. In bed tonight, he mentioned Elmo, and I told him that Elmo was tired and wanted to sleep, hoping that Liam would go to sleep too. Liam said, "Elmo sleeps on the fire truck", which I thought was clever since the boys watched "Elmo Visits the Firehouse" today.

I'll do that review of the bath routine in the next entry.