An update for your Thursday pleasure...

Two days ago, I got some video of the following: (since it won’t be up for a while because Jonny is traveling like crazy!) Gavi was sitting in the boys’ room, perfectly content on a floor that had been newly cleared of all clutter. Caleb sat nearby, reading a book. I realized that I needed to get the next load of laundry done, so I got up and left the room.

As soon as I left, Gavi kicked up a fuss as he is wont to do. But I could hear Caleb trying to reassure him. I unloaded the dryer, heard a thump and assumed Gavi had fallen over because he does that when he cries. So I moved clothes from the washer to the dryer, heard another thump, and went running.

Caleb had dumped two of his toy crates on the (clean!) floor, and was looking for toys for his brother. He started piling up soft ones and rattly ones around Gavi, all the while trying to comfort him. Gavi kept screaming – upright! – so I went to re-load the washer. By the time I returned to the room, every toy in the room was on the floor, every corner scoured for something to make Gavriel Zakai happy. I’m not kidding, it was like he was a petulant king that a lowly serf was trying to please.

I just got video of Gavi hollering and surrounded by his treasures. It was marvelous.

The other weird thing is that Caleb has just gotten into the double stroller lately. When Gavi was like less than a month, we took it to the store, and since then, I’ve just used the single because Caleb prefers to walk. But it all changed earlier this week and I have some pros and cons.

Pro: We can walk a little faster.

Con: We can walk a little faster – that stroller weighs a hundred pounds with the two of them!

Pro: We can get to the park and home more quickly, meaning that we have longer to spend at the park.

Con: Caleb isn’t getting tired walking, so all his excess energy seems to be diverted to his mouth. When Mommy is tired, she doesn’t have the patience to answer fifty million questions about flags or garage doors or big trucks or school buses or fire trucks or... you get the idea.

Gavi is being dedicated at our church on Sunday the 27th! The Fashbaugh parents are coming to town, and the church already okayed it! Yay! So if any of you are interested in joining us, just give me a holler!

Oh! And one more exciting thing: Gavi goes to bed when Caleb does now, and generally sleeps through until 5:30. It’s cutting a nap out of his day, but worth it when Jonathan and I are ready for bed at 8:30! And already he and Caleb are talking to each other when we put them down. If Gavi starts to cry, Caleb reassures him. It’s so awesome to have a teeny house so that our boys have to share a room!