Brotherly Love

It's crazy to think that little Diego is already 5 months old! What happened to my newborn?! He has been rolling over for a few weeks now, but really only to avoid tummy time. If, by accident, he rolls onto his stomach he looks annoyed and quickly goes back to his back. He doesn't have much of an urge to move anywhere else. Charlie takes his job as Diego's biggest source of entertainment somewhat seriously. As part of his brotherly duty Charlie "reads" books for Diego, plays music for him and dances for him (as shown below). Another part his brotherly duty seems to be tormenting him already. He gets really close to Diego's face and kindof kisses him yet kindof scares him and kindof rocks him in his bouncey chair yet kindof bounces him towards whiplash. I'm still not sure if he is acting out of love or spite. Diego does his younger brother duty of annoying Charlie by grabbing at him whenever possible. It especially annoys Charlie when we are reading books at night.

I've been trying to find more mutually enjoyable excursions. Given that our lives revolve around our children I figure that we should find things to do and enjoy together - other than just looking at trains. Art museums seem to be a good joint activity so last weekend we went to the National Gallery of Art. Charlie sat for a while in a class meant for 4-7 year olds talking about Alexander Calder but it was clear that it was over his head. The teacher asked the kids to describe what makes a painting different from a sculpture. Charlie is pretty good about identifying sculptures, but verbalizing it is definitely beyond him. So after 15 minutes he decided it was time to move on.

This week I was in Atlanta for work and well....it was pretty tough on everyone - mainly Carlos. Trying to coordinate 2 kids going to sleep is tough especially when one of them is out of diapers!!!! Poor Carlos had to pack the kids in the car at 8pm to go to the store to get diapers. On top of that Diego didn't sleep well. It was a long few days for Carlos....