Buddies

At least until Will wises up and realizes that Adde is a bully! Yes, it's true. Liz was concerned about putting Will in the stroller with Adde for fear that he might hurt her. I thought she'd be fine so we put them in together. Please note in the picture that Adde has her bird, rings, and nuk attached to her so she can access them at any time to be entertained. Also note that Will has his book nicely tucked away in the side storage pouch beside him. We start on the walk and hear no complaints from either of the kiddos and assume all is going well. We looked in and somehow Adde has stollen Will's book and is chewing on it. Poor Will has no toys, but does not complain about it one bit. We stopped later and I gave the book back to Will since Adde was well equipped with toys. A few minutes later, Adde is chewing on the book again. I really wish I could have seen how she repeatedly stole a book from a kid who is one year older than her.

Needless to say, the kids and moms had fun on our walk and played at the park too. After spending time with Will, Adde took a two hour and fifteen minute nap. At that point I was ready to volunteer to watch Will every morning for an hour or so in attempts to get a really long nap out of her. That offer is no longer on the table as Adde decided she was only going to sleep until 3 am this morning. I really don't think it was the long nap earlier in the day. I attribute it to the fact that it was so hot in our house because it was 85 degrees here yesterday. Mark didn't think it was worth turning on the air conditioner for one day, but as Grandpa Sprunger pointed out, it would have been worth it.

One more funny story about the 3 am wake time. We are still in bed trying to ignore the screaming baby. She had just been fed and should be back asleep. At 4 am, Mark decided to go put the nuk in which only makes her scream louder. On his way back to bed, our neighbor's dog is trying to escape from their backyard, which is right beside our open window. The dog is very loudly trying to rip his way out of their chain link fence. Mark yells at their dog to stop, which causes Titus to start barking. So at 4 am, we were serenaded by a screaming baby, escaping dog, barking dog, and my laughter at the entire situation.