All the yelling

There is a lot of yelling going on at my house lately.  I feel like everything is an emergency all the time.  Eliana will be eating and drop her spoon, and yell, "My spoon!"  She will be sitting on the couch and yell, "I need a sip of water!"  She and William will be playing together, and they will start to scream laugh.  It is so loud!  We have been working with Eliana on being more polite, saying please, and using a better tone of voice.  She is definitely making progress.  And when she does remember to say "please", she asks, "was that better??"

William has also been yelling A TON.  He wants to be crawling, or more accurately walking, so bad.  He will be laying on the floor crying because he can't get to where he wants to go.  Then you pick him up and he smiles at you.  At second later, he is crying and throwing his body out of your arms to some other destination.  He just wants to get into everything and go everywhere.  I don't know what to do with him!  And when it comes to mealtimes, you would think I was starving that poor child, he cries so much.  He will sit in his high chair and just scream for food.  Half the time his mouth is still full with his last bite and he is still screaming.  It amazes me how much he can eat and the force with which he demands it.

Some days after the kids are in bed, I just want to sit in silence for a while and enjoy the lack of screaming.  Whew, kids are tough sometimes!

So these pictures have nothing to do with the above story, but I just threw them in for cuteness factor.  This is at Adele and Hannah's birthday party at the end of April on an unusually cold day.  William played on the blanket with his favorite friend Cora.

Sharing his truck (actually more likely taking it away from Cora)

These girls are so precious.  They were running all over the playground together.