February

I forgot to mention that in January, Kiernan and Patrick moved from Kindercare to a nanny who watched them in her own home. It was a perfect set up! The nanny was in our ward, so we knew she was the same religion, she was born in Brazil and lived there until she was six. This meant she knew fluent Brazilian Portuguese. She has a 1 year old, which means the kids still get some interaction with someone NOT in the family. Her apartment was on the ground floor, led out to a grassy area, and they had a playground and pool. The best part? She lives five minutes from my office. The boys adjusted quickly to her, and KB would ask from time to time when we were going to go to her house. This showed me that he did enjoy his time there. While he did miss all his same age peers at kindercare, I still think the best choice was to go with the nanny so that Patrick could be given more attention.

I brought this up because she would send pictures of the kids from time to time on my cell, which I loved. She made Pizza with KB

And was able to catch Patrick rolling on her cell phone for me. 

She was a great person to work with. She was also very understanding of KB's mishaps:

Why yes, that is a mac power cord that KB managed to destroy. don't worry, we replaced it ourselves.

Patrick got his hearing aids at the beginning of this month:

 Of course I immediately start my early intervention work with him :)

The video is of him responding to my voice on one side and KB's voice on the other side.

Of course, KB had to check out the hearing himself and see what it sounded like. I kept reminding him to be quiet or it might hurt his ears because the hearing aids are turned up all the way. He was quiet....then became his three year old self and just couldn't help but get louder towards the end, he'll say ow at the end of the video :)

We did get a chance to visit my Brother and his family in TN.

I unfortunately only have one picture from the visit, and it's of the three older cousins watching Veggie tales....

Patrick learned to do raspberries:

and KB continues to work on cueing with us (he's cueing bigger in here to tell me to make the balloon get bigger):