Mr. Chatterbox

Hi Friends and Family,

A special thanks to my mom for sending the two videos for Easton. One is of space shuttle launches and astronauts. The other is of fire trucks and construction equipment. Easton goes bananas over everything related to fight and big equipment. He’s 100% boy so these movies are right up his ally. He asks for them all day long, but since we limit the twins to 1 hour or less per day of TV time, he’s constantly asking to watch which ever movie he didn’t see that day.

Easton is saying more words by orders of magnitude recently. He just woke up one morning last week and hasn’t stopped talking since. The video is a personal thank you to Nana, which shows an infrequent scenario where Easton is Mr. Chatterbox, but Layla is quiet.



On the potty training front, we've had zero success after the big one-time event last week. When asked if they want to use the potty they both say (with great enunciation) I don't like it as they shake their head. Oh well... all we can do is just keep trying!

Kendra found a Snow White barbie doll on sale for Layla. Now she has a "friend" for her real barbie doll to play with. How about that... My princess with a princess.


The Chicken Dance song... Why, God, did you allow such a terribly annoying song to be created and WHY do Easton and Layla love it so much? Every night as a part of our bed time ritual they insist on dancing to the Chicken Dance song while standing on top of their step.


If Easton stands on Layla's step or vice versa, the world comes to an end and disciplinary actions follow because of the tantrums and unwillingness to share. You'd expect lions in the African desert to be territorial, but 2 year olds?

Easton and Layla are diligent about watering the plants daily. Layla waters the flowers and Easton waters the rocks and himself.


You think I'm kidding? Here's a video clip of said watering practices.



Easton's interaction with the actual flowers is regularly destructive in nature. The flower below used to have both red and white flowers. If you look closely you'll notice there are several random stems and no white flowers. Easton is the culprit!


The gentle breeze and perfect temperature made for a great kite flying day with our neighbors last week. The kite is ratty and broken, but works just fine for our purposes.


I know I posted about the kite day earlier this week, but wanted to share what kind of equipment we are flying at Casa de Webb.

To follow up on the Gatorade flowers, Kendra smiled and laughed as I expected when she first saw them the next morning. She immediately dumped out the Gatorade bottle and reset the flowers in a small drinking glass with plain old water. I gave her a hug and said a few romantic things, but not the whole story. Later in the day she read the blog. I knew she read it by the way she came into the bedroom where I was napping and cuddled up really close to me. She sniffled and smiled with tears in her eyes as we talked about my feelings for her. It worked! My words came through loud and clear as intended.

See you soon!