gregory at six months

Weight: 18 lb 12.5 oz
Height: 26.54"

missing front tooth

 

halloween 2012

Captain Hook, Frog and Cowboy

gregory at four months

Height: 25.25"
Weight: 16 lbs 4 oz

latin alphabet

Daddy (during a Latin lesson with Elijah): We borrowed our alphabet from Latin.
Elijah: When are we going to give it back?

lights 2.0

 Ephrem discovered that he can reach the light switches, so he is now a travelling light show.

curious ephrem

This is Ephrem checking out Gregory our first day at home.

cookie monsters

This is Elijah's composition.  He wanted to take a picture like this.

 

gregory owen

Born: May 31, 2012 at 5:17 am
Weight: 7 lbs 13 oz
Height: 21 inches

Gregory came a week early.  We were almost ready for him.  We still needed to buy a pack and play for him to sleep in until Ephrem would vacate the crib, and pack a hospital bag.  Fortunately, we have a bassinet that he will fit in for a few weeks, and the hospital bag was frantically packed at 2 am as we were rushing out of the door to the hospital.  We brought all the things we ended up not needing (like a heating pad and a water bottle) but forgot clothes for the baby.  He came home wrapped in mommy's sweatshirt.

master bullfrog on the phone

Elijah copies two lines of text every day for his school work.  Whenever he finishes a poem, he gets to draw a picture of what the poem was about.  Today he copied the last two lines of the following:

Twenty froggies went to school,
Down beside the rushy pool.
Twenty little coats of green,
Twenty vests all white and clean.

"We must be on time," said they,

"First we study, then we play.
This is how we keep the rule,
When we froggies go to school."

Master bullfrog grave and stern,

Called his classes in their turn.
Taught them how to nobly strive,
Likewise how to leap and dive.

Taught them how to dodge a blow,

From the sticks that bad boys throw.
Twenty froggies grew up fast,
Bullfrogs they became at last.

Polished in a high degree,

As each froggy ought to be.
Now they sit on other logs,
Teaching other little frogs.

Daddy: "You can draw a picture of the froggies today."
Elijah: "Hm, twenty frogs is a lot to draw.  I'll draw the bullfrog, too!  He'll be on the phone."
Daddy: "Why does he need a phone?"
Elijah: "Because it says, 'Master bullfrog grave and stern, called his classes in their turn'."
Daddy: "I don't think that's what it means."
Elijah: "No, I think he called the froggies while they were at home."

Here's the final result:

flying Peter Pan

 

overalls

Elijah: "Mommy, I figured out why overalls are called overalls.  It's because they go OVER your shoulders, and that's ALL!"

 

first missing tooth

 

brothers reading together