Smiles and Beds

Little Miss Violette reached a developmental milestone at the beginning of week, she started to socially smile. She isn't as free with her smiles as I remember Noelle and Max being at this age. She makes you work very hard for them, only giving them out when she deems you deserving! I haven't been able to capture any on camera, yet, but they are heart stealing when I get one. Noelle gets the most and Tom has yet to see one directed at him! She seems to be the chubbiest baby yet. Her cheeks are little bull dog cheeks and her arms and legs are developing prominent rolls. It's adorable, if I may say so myself!
We have been playing outside enjoying the warm weather a lot this week. Max is eating sand like it is his last meal. Add a bit of water to their sand table and they are kept occupied for awhile. The resulting mud mess is a pain, but that is children. My floors seem to be suffering the most. Between the children, me and the dog I can't keep it clean. Sand has become my enemy these days. We are having a patio put in and that should cut down on the sand that gets into the house, thankfully.

Saturday, Tom went to buy a mattress. We gave Noelle the new twin mattress and put together a Big Boy Bed for Max. I figured we would try it Saturday night, but because he could easily climb in and out I thought it would be a challenge. We put him in his bed and didn't hear a sound from him! Today he took both of his naps and again went to bed with no problem. Obviously, he was ready for a big bed!
Noelle has really been into being a model and having fashion shows. Here are some pictures of Saturday's fashion show.
I let Noelle play with my camera during the week and she captured some pretty cute photos:

Max is talking more so I thought I would share a bit of it.

When he goes number 2 he tells us by saying "ewwww" and then Tom and I usually call out not it. He nows says "ewww not it".

Pop bottles are his favorite objects and loves to play with them. If he sees a bottle he shouts, "boddle" with much exclamation in his little voice.

Any vehicles, including lawn mowers, instantly grab his full attention and he points and says, "vroom, vroom" over and over. Typical boy.

He has many more words in his vocabulary including, sand, pizza, mine, night-night, fuffa, saw, water, juice, milk, cup, food, dude and dog to name just a few.