night night bag

we recently got boden a cool race car sleeping bag in hopes of making his mobile napping a little easier as we are going down to OK for spring break to visit aunt nae and uncle wiley. we figure, he can sleep on a mat with a bunch of other 2 year olds two days a week at daycare, maybe we can transfer that skill to our advantage... at least, that is the hope. i feel highly skeptical, we'll see.

when we are playing downstairs, boden likes to play 'night night' (pronounced 'nye nye') by grabbing a pillow off the couch and pretending to sleep. though he does associate 'night night' with real sleeping, this little game doesn't seem to lead to any type of real sleep. we were afraid that if we give him this cool new 'night night bag' (is what we are calling it) that it would be the same way. well, eric got the idea of when we give it to him, to give it to him in his crib and then try and take a couple naps on it in his crib. so, we gave it to him this morning and boden seemed a little scared of it all after the initial cool 'surprise', so eric just crawled right into the crib with boden, which boden thought was way too cool! after i saw the crib was not in any immediate danger, i ran downstairs and grabbed the camera as these are some must see pics!!! enjoy :)

faces of bode

boden has really been getting into making faces lately. here we caught a couple of his favorites. also, you may note, he has been teething something fierce the last couple weeks, with an almost constant stream of drool (more than he ever has before when teething). a couple of the pictures i included just so you could see the big honkers he is cutting in. the 'surprise face' lets you get a real good view :) (click on the picture if you'd like to see it bigger)

surprise face

squinty eyes/smiley face (they seem to be real similar right now)

not sure what this one was, but awfully cute and you can see the drool glistening on his chin...

surprise!

miss dig

maybe boden will work for miss dig some day...

'yah'

finally! boden said yes! well, really yah. but we'll take it! when i came home tonight i picked him up and his belly was showing, which he thought was great, and eric asked if that was his belly and he said "yah." we tried it out a couple times and he repeated it. soon after we had supper and it made it sooooooooooooooooo much easier. usually he is fairly consistent saying 'no' when he doesn't want something, but will sorta laugh and smile if he means yes, but it doesn't seem super consistent. i suppose the 'yah' might not be consistent too if we give it time, but it was tonight at supper. we'd ask him if he wanted something or not (say 'no' or 'yah') and he would respond with the appropriate one and follow thru with that decision. yeah!!!

posin'