Here's Wesley during his Saturday routine - following along in his copy of Thomas the Train books while Laura's parents read the same book through Skype. He wants it at least weekly, and Misha and Gin-Gin always deliver.
Change is afoot for our family. JM was accepted to a doctoral program in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, and we'll probably be moving down their this summer (after the Lord provides jobs & a place to live!). But beside all the details of deciding to move before we have any important details settled, the boys have been changing plenty.
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Curtis is an easy smiler. Even the people you know scare babies - Curtis will smile at them. And, until the last few days, Curtis reserved all his spitting-up and fussing in public for his time under Laura's watch. When JM had him, the boy was nearly perfect.
Easter family pic
I am going to miss the verdant countryside here.
Curtis in his 'command center.' With the pull of one of those animal-capped levers, he can make big things happen. Generally, he's not a big fan of such a big responsibility.
Because the Thomas the train videos are narrated by one person instead of the typical actor-character voice-overs of children's shows, there are many narrated remarks - Percy replied, Gordon huffed, etc. Wesley has begun narrating the dialogue among his toys.
Curtis is amazing...
So is Wesley. Here he is playing happily despite his new limitations...
Monday evening, JM and Wesley went down a slide together, and Wesley's shoe bottom stuck to the slide midway down, turning his leg unnaturally. Tuesday our pediatrician told us Wesley seemed to have a "toddler fracture" in his leg and "two bangin' ear infections, to boot!" X-rays, pharmacists, orthopedists, and plenty of miles later, and Wesley has a full-leg cast for 3 weeks and an antibiotic for 10 days. And we're driving to TX this week to make the rounds and begin preparations for moving this summer.
