Tiberias is now at the stage where he can open doors. He opens all the doors and tries to go play outside by himself. I now keep the front door locked all the time.
He now wants to draw all over everything. He gets into our pen/marker drawer. He has drawn on the tile floor a few times and on the drawer itself many times. I'm trying to teach him not to ever even open the pen drawer. He's not allowed in there. We may have to move all the pens/marker up where he can't reach.

Tiberias now moves chairs to get up high. To play with stuff on the counter top. To reach the microwave.

He also likes to sing when Luke sings. Usually they sing simple words like "da" and "do." Luke will start singing a silly song and Ty will try and sing it too. It's so cute!

Lachoneus is becoming a big help to me. He can stop Tiberias from doing things I don't want him to. He takes Tiberias by the hand and leads him away from the problem area.

Tiberias likes to jump on or fall onto his brother for some rough housing. If the tv is on Luke will say "no, Ty. That's enough!" He doesn't want to play. But if the tv is off he usually laughs and tries to tickles Ty. They like to play together that way.

Luke is doing well with potty training. He still won't go unless I make him go. But he only has an accident about once a week.

Tiberias learns from Luke, copies him, way too much. It's always the stuff he's not suppose to do; banging a fist on the table, making angry sounds, throwing things.

Tiberias still does not sit and watch tv. I thought he would by now since Luke is always watching movies. I think Luke starting watching tv at Ty's age.

Their dad is away on a TDY work trip. He is in Spain. He has been gone one week and about 4 days now. Lachoneus knows the routine now. Sterling goes TDY at least one a year. We tell Luke a few days before Ster leaves that he is going away for a long time. We do a good farewell telling daddy we'll miss him and we love him, as we drop him off on the base.
We walk about Daddy and view pictures of him while he is gone. We talk to him on the phone. I talk to him every day. The boys talk to him most days. And when he has good enough internet we do video chat.
Tiberias always smiles when he sees his daddy on the video chat.

Luke talks about daddy flying in an airplane and being in Spain. Of course, he has no idea what Spain is like. But he can relate to the flying party because he remembers flying in many planes last summer with Ty and mommy. He talks about his own flights as well.

We played cars together the other day. Luke picked the blue airplane and said it was the one daddy took to Spain. He flew that plane from one rug to the other and left it there. So we played Sterling's homecoming scene for fun. I told Luke we'll get up at night when we're sleepy (Ster should arrive at like 10pm) and drive to the base. We drove a car and pretended it was at the military base.
We had daddy's plane from back from Spain. We pretended we all got out of the car and gave Sterling hugs and kisses saying "I love you!" and "We missed you!"
Then we all got in the car and drove home. :)

We have one week until Sterling comes home. It's a short TDY. But it seems long. The boys are doing very well though! I have to rough house with them once in a while because daddy isn't here to do it. They like me to chase them, throw them on the couch or push them onto a cushion, tickle them, play bite them, chase them. They also like to dance but we have not done that in a while.

Tiberias won't let me work out, not even dancing to Just Dance2 on the Wii. I have no idea why he hates it. He cries if I don't pick him up when I try to workout. Or, if I'm down on the ground he will just climb on me.
So my workout time is during his nap every day! lol

Lachoneus is so smart! He is speaking well. He describes what he sees and what is going on. He will do that during a movie too if I'm on the couch with him.
He likes to sing the Alphabet song but always skips the letter N.
He loves pointing out his shapes and colors and counting.

He loves doing any kind of school at home. We bought Hooked on Phonics' Leran to Read set for 3-4 year olds. Luke loves it! He already knows his letters and most of the sounds so it's more fun than work. It does help him learn rhyming and practice the sounds of each letter. We just started it last week. It also gives online games to go with each lesson and he loves that!

I am so proud of my boys!

Lachoneus has finally picked a favorite color. He has never had a favorite toy or activity or color. He has had a favorite blanky. He has had a favorite food (PB sandwich).
Less than a week ago he started saying his favorite color is green. And he still claims that.
He sees pink and says "pink is a girl color" then gives anything pink to mommy (me). He sees blue and says "that's for daddy." And now green is for Luke. Orange or Yellow he usually gives to Tiberias.

Tiberias has a little vocabulary. He says night-night, bah-bah (bye bye), nana (banana), dotdod (hot dog), yeah, no, appoh (apple), dah (dad), momom or ma, purpah (purple) he said while we were at a birthday party last week!We were making colored pasta necklaces and he would hold up the colors for me to identify them. When I got to purple he repeated me. He started to catch on which ones were the color purple. He would hold them up and say "purpah."
This morning Sterling taught him to say pepper. We have a toy green pepper. I came downstairs this morning and Sterling said "Ty, what is this" as he held out the pepper. Tiberias said "peppeh." lol. So cute! He kept saying it until I pulled out the video camera. Then all he would say was "pear." After the camera was away dad got him to say it right again.

He might say more if he didn't have a binky. We allow him to have a binky and so he has it in his mouth a lot. He don't let him have it often when we are away from home but at home we let him have it whenever he wants.

Lachoneus and Tiberias share a bed now. They have a queen sized mattress. Tiberias will sleep in his crib for naps but both boys love sharing that big mattress at night.

A New Year

Both of my boys have gotten their teeth late. Tiberias now has four teeth on top and four on bottom. Two on the top and two on bottom have not grown out much but they are there.

Tiberias has an imagination! We went on a hike last week. We stopped near the end to let the boys play. Ty picked up a stick and was holding it up and walking forward then laughing like crazy and stepping back. Then he'd do it again. I dont' know if he was fighting an imaginary creature or what. But he thought it was funny.
It was then that Sterling pointed out to me that Luke was not like that at all when he was Ty's age. When Luke was in nursery and Sterling and I were no longer the nursery leaders his teacher pointed some stuff out to us. Luke must have been atleast 6 months older than Ty is right now.
His teacher had two sons with physical disabilities. She pointed out Luke's lack of social skills and suggested we get him checked out.
We did get him into the program EDIS and they helped me tremendously! Now he is in preschool and his social skills are doing well. He is so smart too.

Luke did not act like he had an imagination back then...not like Tiberias does. Luke was our first child so we thought he was normal and perfect. It was hard to accept that maybe he was behind and needed help.

When we met with Luke's teacher a month or two ago she told us that Luke is a very smart boy.
When school started up after the holiday break I sent Luke to school with a Happy New Year card I made for his teacher. She sent an email to us and this is what it said;

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Roundy,  Thank you so much for the wonderful card you sent me
today.  I  consider myself very fortunate to have parents who appreciate me and 
the hard work and long hours I put in just to make this look like it  is so easy.
I was Blessed by your card today. I so needed to hear  those words you wrote to me.
I love Luke and I think he knows that. And I tell you again, Luke is  unusually
smart and insightful. I just love how he will reflect on  something within the
 classroom, or point out a "detail" that someone  else may have taken for granted.
 He is very, very, smart.  Thank you again,  Ms. Benton-Flores

That makes me really happy. He has come such a long way. A drastic change in only 6 months! School really helps him too.

With the beginning of a new year Lachoneus graduated from Nursery to Sun Beams at church. He loved nursery and I know this change is hard for him. A week ago I spied on him in his class. He was sitting with the other kids who are trying to learn to sit and not just play the whole time. The teacher was asking a child what makes them happy. Luke was making farting sounds with his hands. His teacher stopped to ask Luke not to spit. She handed him a tissue.

Next month Tiberias will turn 18 months old. That means he will finally be able to start in nursery! He is so ready and I am even more ready!
Ty has tried to go to nursery every Sunday for months. He knows where the toys are.
He is too squirmy and curious to behave and let me stay in class. Lately I have had Ty during Sunday School which means I sit out in the foyer during that hour. Sterling has a lot of work to do, being ward clerk, and Tiberias causes problems when Sterling tries to keep him in the office.
Sterling has been taking Ty with him during the third hour so I can go to and enjoy Relief Society but then he complains about how Ty keeps him from getting his work done. We both complain after church every week about Tiberias. Unfortunately we still have about a month before we can put him in nursery.

Yesterday Lachoneus spent half the day at work with his daddy. Luke went to school on the bus at 11:30a as usual. Around 1:30p I received a phone call from the school nurse. She said Luke was sleeping in class and had a fever. So he was waiting in the office for a parent to pick him up. Sterling had the car at work so I called him to let him know what was up. He said he could leave work to get Luke. Class usually gets out at 2:30 and it must have been close to that time when Sterling got there. Luke had woken up and was sent back to class by then.

Sterling had to get back to work and so he took Luke with him. He spent the day coloring, reading his new books, eating snacks and hanging out in daddy's office. He must not have been too sick because he was fine spending the day at daddy's work. Sterling had to work late.
It was weird to be without Luke so long. The boys got home around 5:00.

Sterling is going on a TDY soon. The boys never get enough time with their daddy. They love him so much! He is a fun daddy.
I need to make a good effort to get the boys and their daddy to spend good quality time together before Sterling leaves.