cuteness

townsend has decided that he wants to help with the dishes now. he loves to put his hands in the water and get all wet. what i usually do is hand him the rinsed dishes and let him put them in the drying rack. yesterday he was doing his job and then he sneezed all over the drying dishes. nice.


we are very glad that townsend and ellory love to read. i really hope that habit continues since norton and i are readers. and of course we hope that marin will love to read also. i guess from the picture it would seem that ellory isn't too interested in books but don't let the picture fool you. she loves, loves, loves to have books read to her. and she is so cute when she puts a doll on her lap and reads to it. sometimes she reads and turns the book around to show the pictures to everyone, just like a teacher. :)
on another note-if i can learn how to put video on here i will post the video of dinner tonight. townsend asked for a napkin and so of course ellory did too. then while she was eating she started wiping her mouth after every bite of food. it was soooo cute. norton and i started complimenting her on her good manners and then townsend started doing it too.