Our Kids Torment People, Animals, Things, and Each Other

I was just taking a moment to move all of the videos and pictures we've taken over the past few weeks onto the computer, so I figured I would do a quick update so everyone could see them. Here goes, in no particular chronological order.

Gabe eats his first snow. Well, this is the first time he's eaten on purpose, anyway. He's done a fair amount of face planting the other times he's played in the snow. This was from last Sunday, actually (two days ago). We got about three inches of snow on Friday night. It was our end of March snow. Our biggest snow of the year was the last weekend of March last year. I'm thinking a tradition is starting. Anyway, I guess here he's just tormenting the snow, since it has to apply to my theme some way.

Gabe torments Sandy. Sandy spent a chunk of the weekend here. Gabe LOVES Sandy because they spend most of their time tormenting each other to hilarious effect. Here he decided to stack all of his giant puzzles on her then climb aboard. Kids are weird.

Gabe torments a sippy cup filled with chocolate milk. Bit of a stretch, probably.

Norah torments Tsunami. There's two parts to this. We were trying to capture her victory yell--like Xena, sort of. She'd grab a handful of the cat's hair then start screeching. She does the screech a few times in the videos, but without the volume and not right after she grabs the hair. Still, you can see that she's starting to figure crawling out. She does more army crawling than actual crawling right now--pulling herself forward on her forearms. But just in the past two days she has started to figure out that she can move forward more easily if she's on her hands and knees. Squeee!

Part 2. More of the same, really, but still amusing. Tsunami really is the best cat ever. If only she wouldn't crap all over the carpet in the back room instead of in her litter box, then maybe Libby wouldn't want her dead so badly.

Gabe torments Norah. Sort of. She's actually having quite a bit of fun--though we did a terrible job of getting her smiling face in the picture. She likes peak-a-boo and baby-squirming-under-a-blanket-like-an-infant-piglet right now.

Here Norah is getting her revenge for whatever tormenting Gabe has done to her in the past. She is trying to get Gabe's binky, and he is trying to keep her from getting it while still letting her amuse him. They're mutually amused, really. After rolling away at the end of the video, she rolled back and tried some more for a few more minutes.