Need Blow Nose

The boys were playing outside in leaves when I pulled up at daycare today.  Brayden was laying down in the leaves and Calvin had a rake in his hands and was "raking" the leaves.  The boys were quite dirty with dirt in their hair, on their hands and face.  One thing I love about Virginia is this great weather.  It was in the 70s today and it's the middle of November.

Calvin said "Dada and Bray Bray and Calvin and Carter and Aubrey...YAY!!!" several times on the way home.  "Need blow nose dada," said Calvin.  So I handed him a tissue and he made a little nose blowing sound as he held the tissue up to his nose.  Then he said, "all clean" and dropped the tissue on the floor.

Carter and Aubrey are doing well eating their Puffs.  They both can pick them up and pull them up to their mouth.  They aren't very good at getting them in the mouth, but they're working on it.  We also gave them Vanilla Wafer cookies tonight to knaw on.  They really seem to enjoy picking up their own food.

Carter was moving even more tonight than yesterday and Sunday.  He has figured out how to do a sort of military style crawl.  He actually moves forward fairly quickly now.  It definitely won't be long before he's crawling.  I'm sure once he starts Aubrey will realize that she needs to crawl too and will start.

Brayden took his blanket to daycare today.  As luck would have it we left it there when I picked everyone up today.  He asked for his blanket after we got a few miles down the road.  I realized we left it there as soon as he said "blanket", but I didn't want to turn back at that point.  I wasn't sure if he would go to sleep okay without it.  Last time we forgot his blanket at daycare he cried and cried before going to sleep.  Tonight was much better.  He asked for it a few times, but I said he would get it tomorrow at daycare and he seemed okay with that. 

We need to get our Christmas list sent out.   I developed a simple Excel file that we update year-round as we think of things we would like.  We also put things on there for the kids.  It's a little difficult to tell what the kids want, but we can determine some things that they really like based on what they play with at daycare, home or at a store.  The babies don't really need anyting other than clothes.  They are too young for any toys.  I've been ready to send out the list for a while, but Erin finally updated her list tonight so that I can send it now.