Toby crawls

Tobias is crawling!! from Kendra Rohl on Vimeo.

More Toby goodness. What would you do for an iphone? Toby will crawl for one and give his mommy some serious joy. I was cracking up at how excited Kendra was in this video.

Tobias and the wrestling puppies

Tobias loves to laugh from Kendra Rohl on Vimeo.

Check out Toby Laughing and read my Mother's day post over at Stay at home dad portland for Kendra.

henry wanted to say hello

seriously done sleeping

Henry had a long nap in the morning yesterday so when it came time for the afternoon nap he didn't seem to think it was necessary. At first he just played in his crib with his RV and bull dozer. A bit later I heard books dropping between crib and wall followed by Henry voicing his displeasure with being in bed. He got louder and more forceful unitl finally he was yelling "I sleep ALL DAY!" "DADDY, I sleep ALL DAY!" We had to go in and get him at that point, he was just too cute.

beard hunter

One morning last week Beautiful and I were wanting to sleep longer but the boys had a dissenting view. They jumped in our bed and crawled over us as we tried in vain to find some peace and slumber. Soon Henry had the blankets off the bed and was blowing rasberries on all or our bellies. When he got to me he pulled up my shirt and started to place his slobbery, snot ridden face to my belly and then stopped short and examined my belly button. He then looked up at us confused and said "Daddy has belly button beard?" I was awake now after the belly laugh, and Henry started looking for a belly button beard on everyone else. "Finny have belly button beard? noooooooo!" "Mommy have belly button? noooooo!" So next time you see Henry don't be surprised if he lifts up your shirt to check your belly button for a beard.

questioning the street

This morning while watching a dream sequence on Sesame Street involving Bert and Ernie where Ernie was on a flying and galloping bed that went through the clouds as the clouds came to life Finn turns to beautiful and asks "mommy, how does the rubber duck stay on the bed?" He doesn't have an issue with a bed that comes to life, runs and flies through the clouds that then too come to life and chase the bed. That seems perfectly reasonable to him but with all that craziness there is no way that rubber duck stays perched on the head board, that's just crazy talk.

talking about the singer

Our good friends our in town from Montana and we took them to see Music time at Posie's Cafe in the Kenton neighborhood. The place was packed and it seems this hidden gem we had been enjoying is not so hidden anymore. As I have said before Finn loves music time and today after it was all done he went up to Mr. Ben to tell him thank you for the great show and he asked if he could talk into the singer. Mr. Ben wasn't sure what he was talking about and looked to Beautiful for some help but she didn't know either. "Can I talk in the singer?" he asked again this time pointing at the microphone stand. "Oh, the singer! No the microphone got put away but next time come up right when we are done and you can talk into the microphone then." Finn smiled and said "Oh I see, Microphone not singer. Thank you for the good show Mr. Ben! See you next time." If you live in the portland area and have kids them keep Mr. Ben in mind for your birthday parties or board meetings. If you need a reference Finn will be happy to get his guitar out and play you some of his favorite Mr. Ben songs

The puddle dancers

henry, dog whisperer

Henry went with Beautiful to visit his great grandpa and grandma in Iowa. While there he met some four legged friends that spoke his language. They just wanted to eat, crawl around and sleep. That is just about Henry's speed of life.

henry explains it all

A little video of Henry to remind us that he is cute and we love him. After this weekend we need a reminder.

a pair of monkeys

Two Costumes two years apart for my two little monkeys. This is like on of those US magazine "Who Wore it best?" things. I mean I have heard they do that. I don't really read US magazine or anything so I wouldn't know about that or about Stars being just like us.

i loooooove yooouuuuu

Last night after the boys had been in bed for about an hour they weren't asleep. They were talking to each other and Beautiful grabbed the camera and recorded a bit of it. There isn

t much to see in this video but turn up the volume and listen in. Finn tells Henry that he loves him and then Henry responds.

he's a sensitive little crooner

On Monday or Thursdays we go to Posies Cafe in the Kenton Neighborhood in North Portland and listen to Mr. Ben play some kid songs. He changes up old mcdonald to old mick jagger had a band that made some rock roll, and in that band he had some drums that made some rock and roll, with a boom boom here.... you get the idea. Well Finn has been enthralled by it and asked for a guitar of his own. Yesterday while in Clatskanie Beautiful went into Calvin's, the local thrift store and the first thing she saw was this peach colored guitar in a pink case. She talked Calvin down to $5, really he talked himself down, and Finn now has his guitar. When he got home he asked Jesse to fix the strings for him and Jesse agreed. Jesse and Finn seem to have a different timeline on fixing those strings though. Finn thought he meant this minute while Jesse is leaning to sometime this weekend. They are in open negotiations still. Last night while we were sitting in the living room around the fire Finn was playing his guitar for us and boss us around. Commanding us to be quiet, even when no one was talking and then telling us to SING SING! Then he turned the guitar up and asked what it was. "Hey guys what's this, does anyone know?" Carly said it was a guitar and Finn said "That's right Carly! It's a guitar!" This is what Mr. Ben does at music time. Jesse showed him how to use a pic but I think Finn prefers the classical style, just using his fingers. He only has three strings now but anytime this weekend he will get all six and get busy composing.

introducing jack and keega

Beautiful made the boys new babies because she had a day off and had already made them wool pants and cool shirts, pictures to come. Finn named then Jack and Keega, not sure of the spelling of Kouga but this will work. They are true hipster babies with their skinny jeans and neck tie with a cardigan. Henry's baby, Keega, has a vest with some cool pockets. Neither baby has a mouth, I'm not sure why that is but Beautiful is probably making some sort of commentary on the empty social impact of generation of kids who are more interested in finding a band you have never heard of and drinking PBR on their bikes, but again I'm only guessing here.

beautiful's note

I'll be at Krakow; I'll be back at noon; I'll try to find a lovely, high paying job; I'll probably look at a lot of crafting blogs; I'll love you forever

after - henry

Like I said there isn't much change on Henry. His hair is still wild and hip just slightly shorter and more spiky. He is the envy of the Alberta arts district and practically runs Mississippi Avenue. He gets free PBR where ever we go. Ok enough of the hipster jokes that are way too geographically specific to even be funny to anyone but me. Henry is cute and his hair is all kinds of awesome, that's really what I'm trying to say here.

3 boys on the floor

Here are the boys pre-haircuts. They were getting a little shaggy in front and as I have written before Finn gets a little teenager angst when his bangs are too long. Henry is just a dirty hipster no matter how you cut his hair so his haircut was more from proximity then necessity. Ian didn't get a haircut but he is so freakin cute that he had to be in the photo too. The kid has his picture taking face down.

boys in a drawer

he controls them with his mind

i rest my case

I know there are some of you B.O.B. stroller people still out there even after that brilliant letter Beautiful wrote a year ago on her blog. Listen a B.O.B. is great if you got one kid and you don't mine taking up so much space at the market. But once you come to your senses and realize that more is better when it comes to kids but not with obnoxious stroller foot prints then the Phil and Ted is the way to go. Have you seen a double B.O.B.? It is ginormous and there is no way you could get that thing around the farmers market without knocking over the fresh flowers and getting all up in some granola girl next to you. It's just rude. Phil and Ted on the other hand has the small foot print coupled with the carrying ability that you need. I won't even have the discussion anymore about which is better, I mean look at that picture above, are you getting that kind of capacity from a B.O.B.? I think not. Wake up people, and by people I mean Jen!