Friday, June 1, 2012

Rock and Roll

Music is a big deal in this house.  Grady loves, loves, LOVES to sing.  Loudly.  And sometimes even on key!  Here he is singing the ABCs.



A few months ago he started making up songs - the first one was about a garbage truck and a huge tractor.  Recently he expanded beyond the car theme to a song about mallets....



Luckily, Grady's oldest friend Rose is quite the singer herself.  Grady politely told Rose to try jumping while playing the harmonica.  HUGE hit!


And singing Baa Baa Black Sheep - Grady rushes it a bit at the end, but I think they've got something good going here.


Unforunately the video of them singing Grady's original piece, Race Car, is corrupted and not uploading.  Boo.  That one is pretty amazing.


The other big news for Grady this past week is his transition to the big boy bed.  The transition went amazingly smoothly.  Having his monster truck quilt from Grandma Wilkinson helped a LOT.  He loves that quilt.



He has totally taken it in stride, and only today during nap has he tried to get out of it - he very quickly ran over to his couch, got a book, and brought it back to the bed.


trying to escape during nap today
He's in there now singing the race car song!  Not asleep, but at least he's in bed.

Clara also had a big milestone this week.  She has been increasingly enjoying - or at least not minding - tummy time.



And, after three rolls in the past few days, I think we can officially announce that she is rolling.  Here's videographic evidence.





We continue to struggle with getting Clara to sleep.  She will now take one long afternoon nap, but other than that if she's not on me, she's not sleeping.  We've regressed with nighttime sleeping because I pinched the sciatic nerve in my back and it's been too painful to get her out of her bed and sit to feed her, so I've been leaving her in bed with us all night and nursing her in bed.  I'm hoping it won't be too tricky to break her out of it.  My back is much better at least!  It's hard to get too upset when she looks so darn cute.



And here are the beginnings of a giggle!


Hope that wasn't video overload!  I'll try to take more stills this week.


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