Oscar was born March 2, 2012 at 4:27pm, and weighed in at 3 pounds 8 ounces and was 15 inches long. He was born in Florida and Jordan and Tiffany made it just in time for Oscar to come into the world 7 weeks early from his due date. After a month's stay in Florida, we are healthy, growing and happy to be home.
We woke this morning to a dusting of snowfall of about 1". From leaves falling to snow in 10 days. Well, we'll have fun nonetheless.
Elsa enjoying the snow. She loved running back and forth and was very excited about Jones playing in the snow.
Jones getting in on the action. He was very confused after he "caught" the snowball, since it disappeared on the catch. Titus followed suit and was throwing snowball more or less at Jones who didn't seem to mind much.
Momma and Elsa smiling. Titus asks to build a snowman after being unsatisfied with the result of his snow angel.
Ask and ye shall receive. It wasn't a very big one, but it was as big as Elsa. After decorating it, Titus asked if he could "go kick it". We convinced him to make another snowball to kick, rather than blasting our poor little snowman to smithereens.
A quick family pose before we went back inside. After one of Elsa's hands got cold and wet, she was d-o-n-e and not feeling shy about letting us know. I asked Titus if he was cold and he said, "No Daddy! I have gloves on and a hat on and-a and-a a big-ole-coat on." (When I first opened the door to go outside, Titus said "Oh Daddy! It's too cold outside." I then told him he had a big coat and a hat and gloves on, so he should stay warm. Seems like he remembered what I told him.)
And what better to warm back up with? Hot chocolate of course. Titus is happy he's getting "hot chocolate milk" and Elsa is just thinking, "Brother, don't be silly. You are wasting time. You need to be drinking it faster, like me!"
Well we've been enjoy the seasonal change and having fun in the leaves this fall. Here a couple of short videos showing the fun we've been having.
The kids had so much fun, after their naps they both wanted to go outside and play in the leaves again. Titus is particularly fun to talk to. It's fun to ask him to describe why he likes doing certain things. The leaves discussion when something like this:
Titus: (immediately after waking up from his nap) Daddy! We need to go play in the leaves again!
Daddy: (smiling, but still parenting) You mean would like to play in the leaves again. Mommy and Daddy take care of your needs. Ok?
Titus: (realizing this mistake, it's a frequent one) Right! Can we go outside and play in the leaves?
Titus: (realized he left a word off, makes eye contact with Daddy) Please?
Daddy: (redirecting, because we are leaving for dinner) Did you have fun playing in the leaves?
Titus: Yeah!
Elsa: (interjecting from the change table, slightly delayed) Yeah!
Titus: I love playing in the leaves.
Daddy: You do? What do you love about playing in the leaves?
Titus: (quick and disorganized, but honest) I love to play the leaves because Daddy counts and then Elsa runs then it's Titus' turn and then I go really really fast, too fast and jump over the leaves! And then I throw them and leaf rain!
Daddy: (amused) You make it rain leaves?
Titus: (bright) Yeah! (short pause) Daddy I hungry!
Daddy: Okay. We are going to get some pizza!
Titus: Oh! I love pizza!
Daddy: You do? What do you love about pizza?
Titus: I love pizza...umm...because it's food!
Yeah, so not all conversations are not all as deep and revealing as the rest.
