MamaBlogga

I’ve been making soup a lot lately: salsa soup, white bean soup, and coming up this weekend, turkey noodle soup, of course.

Hayden has also been making soup: mostly alphabet.

Yeah, that’s a deep fryer.

In other activities, Hayden has begun singing various and sundry songs, with a little help from us:

He’ll be ready for Don’t Forget the Lyrics any day now.

Not to be forgotten, Rebecca has made her own strides this week. On Monday, she discovered her toes!

Got toes?

It’s times like these . . . that I think maybe I’m thinking and talking just a little too much about my weight.

I’m finally getting around to uploading all the videos I’ve taken recently. This one features a happy, laughing Rebecca (two and a half months) and a singing, laughing Hayden (two and a half+ years).

And this year, his only trick-or-treat:

Thanks, Jaime, for taking this video and letting me post it!

I wanted Hayden to be the first member of the family to meet Rebecca. He got to the hospital about four hours after she was born, and Ryan brought him into the hospital room.

“Hi Mama,” he said. “Seeping?”

“Yes,” I said.

Then he saw the baby in the bassinet. His mouth shrank into a tiny o. “Baby!”

“Do you remember the baby in Mama’s tummy?” Ryan asked.

Hayden nodded. “Out.”

The first time Hayden held Rebecca, she started to fuss. “Ssss,” Hayden whispered. “It okay.”

(link to video)

He says her name “uhbecca.” I wonder how she feels about that.

Believe it or not, we don’t watch American Idol. The references in the video are to Yo Gabba Gabba episodes, which is where he learned to sing into a “microphone.”

I love this video because it’s hard to get pictures of most of Hayden’s funny expressions, but here we get several of them.

No Haydens were harmed in the making of this video.