New this week....

It was apparently Livi's week this week to rattle off some new things after Logan's spurt last week.  (Logan still definately is the quietest, he doesn't talk often, but he is finally showing us he KNOWS & can say the words though he uses them less often)  Hayden's turn must be next week?  Though he had a pretty good week too. (I told you I wasn't tired of keeping track yet!)  There may be things that I'm forgetting to put down, this is just what I can think of off the top of my head.  But its fun to sit down & look at in writing, & see just how much new has actually been said.

Livi:
"coco" - broccoli (says it but won't eat it)
"PEEK!" - playing peek-a-boo
"hello" - when "answering" toy phone
"ouse" - house
"no" - actually says it now sometimes instead of just head shaking
"ride" - in regards to the train we rode at the zoo. 
"peas"- refers to please, peas & corn
"eow" - meow
She makes a monkey noise, a fish noise/face & a elephant noise (hillariously we taught all 3 of them that tonight, comes equipt with arm raising if to immitate a trunk.  But we really needed Uncle Aaron to do it the right way!)
"weee" -when going down slide
"football"
"oot" - shoot, which is said while shooting hoops & when throwing football
"eye"- when pointing out eyes
"teeth" - when pointing out teeth
--> yes we have our first point to & NAME YOUR OWN body part! 

Logan:
"bak-bak" -chicken noise
makes an elephant noise & a fish noise/face
"arr" - noise a tiger, bear & dinosaur make
"duh" -duck
"football"

Hayden:
"football"
"cheese" - when taking a picture
"bak-bak" - chicken noise (even made the noise when Jeff was cooking a beer-butt chicken this week!)
makes an elephant noise, a monkey noise, a fish noise/face & a pig noise (the snorty version of a pig noise vs saying oink... which is awesome!)

They can point out SOO many things in their books lately.  They are just learning so much.  {Though don't expect to ever see it because they are pretty shy}  Thanks to our favorite "Elmo sings country songs" they can even show you a banjo & a fiddle in our picture book.  {I ABSOLUTELY LOVE that they know that by the way!}  Sometimes they can find the harmonica too.  They can differentiate things that go.  Fire truck, school bus, wagon, stroller, train, airplane, tractor, etc.  They are getting pretty good at animals.  We spend SO much time with books playing the "Where is the _____" & seeing who can point it out game.  But it gets a little exhausting {or annoying} as 3 kids point & demand to know "Dis?!"

Since the end of summer is sadly & rapidly approaching, we (along with apparently the rest of the city) decided to take advantage of this beautiful day & take another trip to the zoo.  It was busy.  But it was beautiful out!  We spent most of the time outside this trip, which I think helped avoid some of the crowd.  We're getting braver about letting them out to explore.  {Read they are getting more demanding about wanting out of the strollers, as I pushed Livi around screaming "ALL DONE!" & fighting to get out today}.  And we even took a ride on the "choo choo." 

Running around checkin' out the bears!

The boys hanging with some big kids.  We apparently pick the same outfit for the boys almost everytime we go to the zoo!  Ha!

 Gorillas.  There was a sleeping mama & baby over in the corner.

 More monkeys "Oooohh Oooohh"

 The old school part of the gorilla house, I remember hanging on that carpeted ledge as a kid!

 Lunch time. 

I kept threatening if they didn't sit nice we would have to go home & go night-night.  But if they sat nice & ate their hot dog (or in Logan's case just eat something even if its only popcorn) we would go ride the train.  I must have said "ride" enough times, because then Livi started saying "ride."  Which eventually turned into "Ride peas!"  I think thats our first string of words....

Hayden "Cheese"

"Cheese!"

Logan

 Waiting VERY patiently for our turn to ride the train.  This was the worst part of the zoo being so busy.  We waited a very, very, very long time!  They were SOOO good.  More patient that mama & daddy, thats for sure!

 Logan always gets nervous.  Had to sit on dad's lap.

 Hayd & Liv sat on the seat like big kids! 

Livi pointing out the animals along the way.  "Dat???"

 Hayden enjoyed waving & saying either "Hi" or "Bye bye" to everyone we saw along the way.

This was the end of the day & they were TIRED by the time we got off.  So we headed home.

Reality starts this week.  No longer do we have a stay-at-home-while-in-school daddy to keep our house/groceries/laundry caught up & keep mama's head from spinning.  Ready or not, here we go!