Accalia's picks from the library today favored knock-knock/riddle books and hot-to-draw books. i finally get a chance to learn with Ed Emberly just like I said I should!

Both kids napped at the same time this afternoon, so that was a nice slice of quiet for me. Accalia took a whopper of a nap - close to three hours - so she's going quite strong still as the evening progresses. Cole went down about 8:30 after managing to injure himself a number of times in a row and getting increasingly distraught. He was even too tired to say his constant "ba, ba, ba." He'll experiment with this sound using different consonants. I think he likes to say it over and over because of the sound his mouth makes smacking together. I catch him doing the motions silently sometimes. And I think he's progressing toward saying actual words. He's said something resembling "mama" before, but that's about it. And unless he's absolutely desperate to have something and doesn't have much patience, he'll simply go to the place he wants to be or motion to the thing he wants. Tonight he crawled over to his highchair, held on to the tray and waited for me to put him in for a snack. I found that pretty amusing since he usually eats on the run. He lasts about two minutes if I put him in his high chair at a meal.