Today I finally got the scale out and weighed the boys. I have needed to do it for some time for record-keeping purposes, and I should be doing it more often to track their growing. Joel is 39 pounds, and James 27 pounds. If only measuring their height was so effortless....
Joel has named the Beast from Beauty and the Beast, "Janeandthomas". I have no idea how he came up with this, but apparently "Beast" just isn't a good enough name for the poor beast.
A sad occurance has happened to Joel: he cannot wrap his arms all the way around me anymore! I told him that it was only temporary, and soon enough he would be able to again.
James is a little vampire right now. He has four little points sticking out of his gums where his eye teeth have cut through. He should be finished getting teeth for a time; not that it's really been an issue. He toughs it out real well. The last of his molars are useable now, finally coming in at about 20 months. You can see them quite well, especially when he gives out a nice big belly laugh, which he loves to do.
We got the pool out for the first time this summer yesterday, and the boys had a blast! Since the yard is sloped, one side of the pool is always much fuller than the other. So I let them run the water until there was about 5 inches of water in one side, although empty in the other. This was convenient for their exiting the pool whenever they got the notion to bring rocks and pebbles into the pool to wash them. They entertained themselves with a couple of buckets, some rocks and plopping down into the water and splashing as much as they wanted. Joel finally decided that I should get into the pool. I told him that I wasn't going to get in that day, but I would put my feet in. He began (what looked like to me) washing my feet, similar to a communion service. But he said, "Mama, I'm baptizing your feet."
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