Brotherly love

Here's a video of a fairly typical interaction between Josiah and Asher. We took this video in Josiah's bedroom at the cabin. They have fun playing together, but inevitably someone can't control his hands and the other winds up with an owie. Today Josiah has several scratches on his face from Asher who desperately needed his nails trimmed. Be sure to watch this video until the end.

Last night was Asher's night to sleep in the playgym. We gave him the choice, but we didn't really think he'd want to do it. Lately he's been getting scared easily and hasn't wanted to try new things. We had a fire again in the evening so we'd be out there while he was going to sleep. He was really hyper just like Josiah was and he kept standing up looking out. He finally fell asleep around 9:30. Len slept with him and I heard him come in to use the bathroom around 3. At the same time some coyotes started howling and barking. They sounded like they were right in the backyard and then Asher started screaming and crying. Len ran out the same time I did and we brought Asher back inside, just inside as it started to rain. Today Asher talked about the "horses" waking him up, so he didn't associate the noise with dogs so that is a good thing. He's already terrified of dogs. Last year, our neighbor's dog "Annie" would come and visit us and Asher would lay all over her giving her kisses. This year he screams anytime a dog comes near. He is completely petrified of them.

Sleeping in the playgym

Yesterday at lunch Josiah informed us that he was going to sleep out in the playgym. He had done this once last summer so he must have remembered. Len brought his mattress out and put it up in the treehouse. Although we put him down at 7:30, he was so excited that he didn't fall asleep until 10:00! Len and I were outside having a campfire so we could keep an eye on him and he was so hyper. He was jabbering away to himself about how he was going to sleep but then wake up each time a car went by. Len slept with him and said it got really cold during the night even though we've had unbearably hot weather during the day.

Daddy's helper

We bought this little wheel barrow for Asher and he absolutely loves it. It was especially fun to follow Daddy around when he was using his big wheel barrow. He even insisted on bringing it to VBS last week!

Cabin

I've always felt Josiah and Asher are generally inflexible when it comes to change; however, they LOVED the cabin from day 1. We've been going up there every Sunday after church and I leave with the boys on Monday morning. Then Len has been staying through Monday and sometimes Monday night. The boys head right upstairs where they entertain themselves and each other by jumping on the mattresses. They have no problem eating there and up until this last weekend we had them sleeping in the same bed. The sleeping thing didn't go so smoothly as they would talk and giggle and fight until late. We finally put them in separate rooms and they went to sleep right away. This is a picture of them eating breakfast on a card table in the middle of our "living room."

First blog ever!!

Wow.... I'm finally joining with the rest of the world and starting my very first blog! Since it took me only 5 minutes to set up, I can't believe I've waited so long. Thanks Em for all the advice!