Early bird gets the....

....grumpy mom! Abby is such an early riser these days. I think maybe it's payback for being such an excellent sleeper as a baby. She is up somewhere between 5-5:30 EVERY DAY!!! Seems like the older she gets the earlier she's up. I thought that wasn't supposed to happen until you were old but maybe she's just special. She always comes in and asks if she can play something or watch cartoons and every time I tell her that she can do either one any time without waking me up to ask. Then she disappears for a few minutes and then comes back saying she's hungry. I tell her it's too early to eat, she gets pissy and loud and gets in trouble and sent back to her room, where she stays, sometimes. Mostly she's in and out of her room and mine, talking, crying, fussing, playing, reading, singing, talking, talking, talking.... I've tried every parenting trick, every bribe, every threat and nothing, NOTHING makes her stay in her room. We've tried putting baby locks on her door and all she does is scream, which wakes Trey up and leaves me with TWO unhappy people. Once we head downstair however it's all sunshine and rainbows for her. The solution seems to be that someone (ME!) should just get up with her at the unholy hour of 5 and take her downstairs. Good for her, not so good for me. Every day is a long day now.

Trey is my fun guy right now though. He kind of makes up for his sister's willfullness/stubbornness and general attitude with his spunk and his charm and his neverending smiles! He's learned some new words this week. "Up" and "Out" are newly found fun words that he figured out actually mean something! He also knows "horse", go figure. He has lots of baby words, mama, dada, baba, cheese, thank you and occasionally please. He knows what I'm telling him most of the time now and can follow commands well. He's starting to get into books, especially animal books and knows what sound a lot of animals make. He's jabbering all the time, most of it nonsense but it's fun to listen too. He still is pretty destructive and can get into EVERYTHING. Today I found him eating my cookie out of a ziplock bag, plus he found a red sharpie marker and wrote on himself, ripped up two books and got a big ol' goose egg on his head from the underside of the table. And that was all in the last few hours. He loves Abby's toys (much to jerry's dismay!) and if you ask him what he's wearing or tell him you like his outfit he'll twirl around for you. He has discovered a love of dance and has three moves: bopping, twirling and quick feet. He loves to run and explore, especially outside and is just ALL BOY!