Reading with Grandma during her visit this week.
Fun hats from Grandma.
Jake and Ben's friendship has grown profoundly in the past 6 months. Last spring I could not keep them from fighting for more that a few minutes at a time. Now they play and play, mostly Ben following whatever big brother is doing, and sometimes doing some instigating of trouble on his own. A few times recently, things have become very quiet upstairs. Once it was because they had found some bath crayons and done some artwork on the walls. But all the other times I have found them sitting together on the floor in one of their rooms, and Jake is "reading" a book to Ben. It absolutely melts my heart! Today Jake asked if he could go get Ben up from his nap, and when I followed him upstairs a few minutes later, they were both in Ben's crib, reading a book together.