Flanagan Clan

Today the boys all proved to me that they’re growing up.

Ethan, who has been a very cautious and slow-to-take-off walker, has been making real strides the past few days. He can walk across the room now, and can pull himself up on his feet all by himself. He also can stand for several minutes without holding onto anything. Tonight I told the boys it was time for bed, and Ethan, who was holding onto the table, looked me straight in the eyes, turned around, and took off as fast as he could walking in the other direction. Unfortunately, he ran into the couch and fell down, but it was the funniest thing!

Sammy couldn’t keep his diaper on today. Most of the day he spent running around the house naked because just as soon as I would get a diaper on him, he would decide he had to go to the bathroom and would take it off! I tried doing pull ups on him yesterday with very little success. He wore them for a little bit and he must have hated how they felt on his cloth diapered bum, because he started crying and trying to pull it off, meanwhile grabbing a nice soft Goodmama and begging me to put it on him. We’re going to have to wean him off soft diapers. I am definitely thinking that we’ll have him potty trained by September, though, just in time to enroll him in preschool with Patrick. That’s exciting!!!

Patrick’s language and thinking skills have grown in leaps and bounds this past year, and I think a part of it has to do with the preschool we’re sending him to. He’s processing information in that little head of his, and he comes up with new ideas and thoughts all the time! I was making cupcakes with him this evening because he had been asking for them for a couple days now, and as I was pouring batter into the little cups, he started spelling his name out loud, which he can now do perfectly. Once he had spelled it out, he informed me that Patrick is a very good name. He then asked me if I knew any bad names. I asked him to tell me a bad name. He immediately said, “Death is a bad name. Death is very bad. It makes people sad”, or something to that effect. It was just soooo funny. I wanted to make sure I had heard him right the first time, so I ended up asking him again just to make sure he really said what I thought he did!

So, that’s just a little taste of the cuteness that I was able to witness today… my boys are growing up, faster than I could ever imagine!