More From Daddy's Sketchbook

I included from pictures from my sketchbook last time. I try to draw a quick sketch every night as a sort of journal, but I end up doing it only a few times a month. You can click for a larger size.

Some of these date back to Ethan's birth.

I extend my apologies in advance to anybody I've depicted :)

Our photoshoot with Pitter Patter Photos after Ethan came home from the hospital:



Random mischief:



"Look daddy, baby fell"



Daddy and Audrey shopping for video games at Gamestop:



Ethan isn't crawling yet, but he has found his own way of maneuvering to reach things.



The "do be do be do" song from Grandpa Wood.

Mystery of the Safety Pop Stick

I may have told you this story already. It's currently one of my favorites.

I didn't have any pictures of the incident, so I'm including some artist renderings (mine). You can click to get a larger size.

Amber gave Audrey a safety pop. She loves lollipops. Anyway, after she'd finished eating it, I noticed she didn't have the stick anymore. I started asking her "Audrey, where's the stick?", to which she'd only respond, "Look Daddy, hole" and point at Ethan's highchair.

I started to get a little panicked that maybe she'd eaten the stick, but she so consistently answered my question with the same response that I thought I'd look into it.



Sure enough, there was a faint glimmer in the tiny hole of the highchair leg. I decided to take it apart.



Mystery solved. Apparently she's be stockpiling junk in there for some time. Up until we moved the high chair into the garage for storage (Ethan now uses a different chair), I'd still catch her slinking over to the highchair to squirrel away some little bit of trash.

Calling Grandma

The other day, we were playing in the backyard. Ethan was doing his tummy time on a blanket with Mommy, and Audrey was playing with a toy telephone.

Audrey: "I call Grandma. Hi Grandma. How doing?"

Called moon

Last night Audrey was helping me take out the trash and it was getting dark outside.

Audrey:	"Look, daddy; moon!"
Me:	"Very good, sweetie. Yes, I believe that's called a waxing gibbous*"
Audrey:	"No, daddy. Called moon."

* I was wrong; it's actually a waxing crescent.

Art with Mommy II - Mush

One of Amber's art books had a recipe for "mush". I'm not sure what the point of it was... probably supposed to encourage tactile exporation, or sensory development, or something. Daddy thought it was creepy and stayed well away from it. But Audrey seemed to like it.

Cakes

Here's the latest projects Nunner has been cooking up in the kitchen...

A fondant purse-shaped cake:




Cake "pops" for an event at Audrey's school:




And of course, assisting Nunner in all this is her dedicated little sous-chef.

Night night, Daddy

This is a game Audrey plays where she takes the pillows off the couch and covers up under Ethan's playmat. Then she wants Daddy to lay down too.

We say "Night night" to each other and she giggles. Until she gets bored, and we move on to another game. Laying quietly seems to take a great deal of concentration for her, so the game doesn't usually last long.

Exersaucer for Two

Note that they're both in the exersaucer together. I'm sure this is voiding some kind of warranty somewhere.

Hug!

Audrey loves to hug Ethan. He's indifferent to this, at best.




Here's the step-by-step.

Step 1: Ethan looks cute.



Step 2: Audrey sees him. "Hold tight baby! I coming!"



Step 3: Huuug!

Snow

Here's some pictures from the last snow fall in Austin. The family was sick at this time (I think Mommy had just recovered, Daddy just gotten sick, and both kids were still sick). At any rate, Mommy and Audrey made it outside for some pictures.

Art with Mommy

Amber got a bunch of art books for toddlers over Christmas, and she and Audrey have been busy making various projects this year. Here's some pictures from one of them.

Matching X-mas PJs

They both have a set of matching Christmas pajama's that we decided to put on them the other day, while they're still the right sizes...

Reading with Ethan