Dylan

How to Drive Mom Crazy: A Guide For Newborns and Toddlers

Follow these handy tips to make Mom crazy in no time! If you're a newborn:

• Don't limit your crying to requests for food, dry diapers, or cuddling. Instead, be inconsolable during your waking hours.
  
• If you sleep at night, you're missing a golden opportunity to make Mom totally nuts. Try sleeping all day and being alert at night. For maximum effectiveness, pretend to fall asleep, and then wake up just a few minutes after Mom dozes off.
  
• Anytime your diaper is removed, you should be peeing all over the place, all the time. Make sure Mom has to change her clothes at least three times a day.
• Bonus points for doing any of the above at the exact same time your big brother is attempting something dangerous, like climbing into the oven.

If you're a toddler:

• All communication should be accompanied by biting, hitting, pinching, and kicking. When Mom reprimands you for being violent, let her know you don't take her seriously by laughing in her face.
• That huge pile of clean laundry that Mom just folded? The minute her back is turned, throw it across the room. Bonus points for getting the dog to walk all over it.
  
• When Mom hands you a snack, let the dog lick it before you put it in your mouth.
  
• When Mom is nursing your little brother, turn on all the songs on every single one of your toys, all at the same time, at maximum volume. So fun!
  

These tips are surefire tactics for making Mom crazy. Toddler and newborn can work in tandem to maximize Mom's descent into madness.

Crack Russell Terrier

Bunny bought Aiden a new ball the other day. Here's a little clip of Kiwi being a total crackhead with Aiden's new ball:



The epilogue to this video occurred yesterday, when Kiwi finally succeeded in destroying the ball. Kiwi's nuisance value outweighs her entertainment value.

Poundcake

Here are a couple pictures of Dylan's very first "tummy time" exercise yesterday:



At age one month and a few days, Dylan now weighs ten pounds and a few ounces. That's pretty substantial for a guy who was just six and a half pounds at birth.