Eleanor is not crawling but she scoots and inchworms to get where she needs to go. This has made her a much happier baby. Eleanor has no teeth but can eat anything. Eleanor "talks" non-stop and laughs very easily.
Henry has two best friends at school, Silas and Vinny. He now only plays with them, I think. I asked the teacher about this "triangle" and she says Henry is the pawn, meaning Silas and Vinny are like brothers because they live next door to each other and their parents are friends, and so they are constantly fighting and trying to use Henry to gang up on the other. Awesome.
Henry's thing lately is silly bandz. A teacher at his school had them and gave some to the kids and then they just spread like wildfire. I think it's a teenager or pre-teen thing too. I see lots of kids at my work with them. Henry wears 20 of them on one wrist and based on his approval, he might give you one. I have a purple one. It took me over a week to earn it. Last week we went to a park and he found a girl he liked and offered her one. I'm not entirely sure how much English she spoke, or how much she cared about his silly bandz, but it was a big deal for him to give her that. Then we went to our local farm for eggs on Saturday and he was playing with a little girl, having a very nice time, but when she asked for one he flat out denied her. I guess it must be bestowed and not asked for, who knows. (He gave her one when we had to leave).
Henry's grasp of English continues to surprise and amuse us. It's like when a foreigner speaks English but says something that makes sense but no native speaker would ever say. For instance, "My blanket is not cooperating!" He was very irritated last week when he was watching his morning cartoons and yelled to me in the kitchen, "My back is not comfy!" He sits on the floor but has not yet discovered the art of piling up lots of pillows, but I think we just need to get him a little bean bag.
Sometimes Henry is ridiculously sweet to his sister. Almost anything he does makes her laugh, which endears him to her, but her screaming and grabbiness detracts as well. But this morning he was all about entertaining her and when he left the room, she yelled for him and he said right back, "I'm coming sweetie" and then he came right back and gave her a kiss and a gentle pat on the head. She was beaming again.
Henry should be getting number silly bands in the mail. I think they are the same thing you are talking about. Didn't know if he would wear them or not so pleased to see they are a hit.
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