Sean got a Chuggington catalog at National Train Day on his birthday. For a long time, he had never seen the show or played with any toys but he knows that catalog front and back. I took him to a kid matinee at the Studio Movie Grill to see Chuggington: Ready to Rescue and he loved it. I didn’t really like it because it was super chaotic, loud, and a little too old for him in terms of plot. The catalog is definitely more his speed.

He is super serious about observing things. He got to go to a baseball game with his dad, Uncle Sean, and Brendan on July 4th weekend, which he still talks about daily. Apparently he sat in his seat the whole time, and I guess absorbed much baseball information. He was “playing baseball” with a cup on one hand and a railroad track in the other one day (I think a bat and glove). We took him to a Frisco RoughRiders game a couple of weeks ago with Ryan’s work, and while he watched two players warming up, throwing a ball back and forth, he would yell “Catch it!!” when they threw it and “Yaaayyy!” when they caught it. It was pretty hilarious.

Love love love her smile. I call her a sunflower, because she can be just looking at you, and then bloom into a huge smile.

There are moments when two kids feels like two too many… but most of the time, I wonder how I got by without them for so long. I wonder what Sean and I did all day without Avyn to look after and play with. I wonder what Avyn and I would do without Sean to show us all of the ways to try to injure yourself and scare your mother. I wonder what I did before I had a helper to push my baby’s stroller, and how I ever entertained Sean as a baby without big kid toys.