After our trip to Disney we decided to start putting the boys to bed at the same time together in their shared room. Up until that point we'd read them a few books and then put Elliot to bed in their room while we took Henry to our room to read a few more, longer books, and let him fall asleep in our bed. In the first few days of the transition to having the same bedtime we convinced them to stay in their separate beds, or rather convinced Henry to stay in his bed, at bedtime to avoid them getting all hyper and jumping around while giggling like crazy. Henry soon learned that he could get in his snuggling if he waited until Elliot fell asleep and then crawled in to Elliot's bed. Now I have to remember to move Henry back to his bed before I go to bed otherwise Elliot wakes up in the middle of the night because he's too squished with all of Henry's loving snuggling. Here are a few of the snaps over the past few weeks of what I find when I go in to move Henry:
First time I saw it:
Here you can see that Henry is sleeping on a pillow which he brought from his bed - showing that he was ready to stay:
In this one it's hard to see unless you really look but they are both sleeping on top of their swords. It's hard to find them without their swords these days - or for the past 6 months for that matter.
One of my favs...
I heard Henry tell Elliot the next morning "Elliot, do you know I put your ankylosaurus on you last night because I knew it would make you happy to snuggle him." To which Elliot said "Oooooh".
Seriously?
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Hello from Mongolia! Scott is heading in to his third, and last, week in Mongolia on a work trip during which he, in all too concise of a summary, is assessing the vegetable sector. He sent a few (fantastic) photos that I thought I'd post. This one on the left is of a farm and dotted in the photo are two 'ger' or yurts that the farmers live in during the summer to be near their farms out on the steppe.
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Although this one is coming a bit late I didn't want to miss posting it. At the boys' school auction I won a "Discovery flight" out of a small airport near my house. Some of you may know that since I was 6 or 7 I have dreamed of having a small plane pilots license. I've flown a few times, most often with one of my Dad's friends when we lived in Minnesota, and always look for ways to go up again. When I saw this 30 minute flight on the silent auction list, I stalked it like a mad woman. I ended up splitting the flight with a friend. During the flight he sat in the co-pilot seat and I was the photographer. We had such an amazing time on our tour of Stone Mountain!
