Daily Photos: Day 164

Wednesday, June 11th

Izzie, sporting half of her dinner, gets her hands on a car while the boys aren't looking.


Ben decides to regress and crawl, but didn't want his picture taken doing it.

There was a lot of "monkey see, monkey do" going on while Izzie, Ben and Sam were together. In the car Ben would imitate both Sam and Izzie. Sometimes Sam would ask for something (over and over) and it would take us a while to figure out what he was trying to say. In the meantime Ben would oh-so-helpfully start repeating it too. He would even switch his pronunciation of words to match Sam's. Any toy that one of them had immediately drew the attention of the others, but they were usually quite good about taking turns, sharing, or giving back the toy they had just taken. Izzie wanted to use the race track from the yard sale just as much as the boys and she spent a lot of time (as Chris put it) playing Godzilla. Ben took to saying, "Like Samuel." at the end of everything he asked. For example if Sam was eating noodles, Ben would say, "May oh have some noodles please? Like Samuel." (We're not sure why he decided to use Sam's entire first name, but we think he picked it up when Grandpa John was introducing us to people at church.) There were a couple of times that Izzie was crawling after something and both the boys got down on their hands and knees and followed her! It was fun to see them playing together and learning from each other.