I was busy feeding Lewis so I couldnt’ play with Art at the moment, but he kept trying to convince me anyway. He said, “You wanna go play over there, Mama? You might be inspired.”

(This wonderful vocabulary moment brought to you by Hugo and Miles in I’ve Painted Everything in which Miles tells Hugo to go to Paris with him where he might be “inspired to paint something new”.)

“I’m a bear.”

Art fell asleep while reading books in his room this afternoon. Jess says, “There were no books on the floor when he started. He was supposed to be taking a nap but got out of bed and ‘read’ through all those books and fell asleep.”

I love this photo Jessica took of me and Lew.

Does Jessica look like Lew? Our neighbor Emily thinks so…

As of about a week ago Lew has been putting toys in his mouth! This is a huge milestone in my book. He is now an official BABY, as far as I’m concerned. And he drools like crazy, but he’s been doing that for a long time now. Also, Lew laughs! You can get a hearty guffaw out of him if you eat his neck, give him a flubber dubber or, sometimes, if you just make some silly sounds for while. He just loves to smile. He’s flipped over twice, but I haven’t seen either time because I had him on his belly and left the room only to return and find him on his back. Finally, Lewis has a great big brother. Every once in a while I’ll have to dart to the kitchen or upstairs and Lewis and Arthur will be alone together and when I return Art is shaking a rattle for Lewis or giving him a gackoo, or bouncing him in his bouncy seat. Very nice.

I was nursing Lew at 4am and heard from Art’s room, in a clear voice, “Can I have some more covers, please?” Now that’s how you know the whole please and thank you thing has sunken in.