Frog

I think it's about time that I mention a very important member of this family in my blog. He simply goes by--Frog. He has been a part of this family for almost three years now. He sleeps with Lenny about every night and even wanders in to our room along with Lenny on occasion in the middle of the night.

By the time that Lenny was 14 months old, he loved to watch Thomas videos. Imagine that. He liked to lay on the floor in front of the TV and watch it. So my mom bought him a frog pillow. Lenny loved it. Here is a picture of Lenny when he was 14 1/2 months old with "Frog".



Just by looking at the pictures above, I can tell you that there are several similarities between him and the babies and several differences. At this age, Lenny was still using a bottle at night time and sippy cups the rest of the time. Brooke and Nathan do not use bottles at all anymore, they use sippy cups all the time. Another difference, Brooke and Nathan would NEVER sit still long enough to watch a movie. They don't care one bit about the TV except for the fact that they can turn the power off and really upset Lenny. A similarity is that Nathan also has bruises on his head all the time from bumping things.

I'm not sure if you can tell in the picture above but Lenny is squeezing (for lack of a better word) Frog with his one hand. Lenny has an obsession with squeezing things in his hand. I don't know a better way to describe it. When he lays down for a nap or to go to bed, he has to have something to squeeze. If it's not Frog then it is the end of a pillow. He has one favorite pillow and if the pillow case is on it, we have to make sure that Lenny can reach the side that is open so that he can squeeze the pillow. He can be in the middle of doing something, and he will stop, go over to Frog, squeeze his ear or foot, then go back to what he is doing. And he doesn't even act like anything just happened. He must like the feel of something pushed into the palm of his hand. It's very funny. He still does it today.

Anyway, Frog is still a part of the family. Dominic, Lenny, Frog and I played Thomas bingo tonight. We were getting ready to play and Lenny asked if Frog could play too. So he did and Lenny put the chips on Frog's card. He even won a game.

Here is Lenny and Frog right before we played bingo. Lenny is squeezing Frog's eye.


Brooke has some kind of silly obsession too. From the time she was about three months old or a little younger, she has loved to smoosh her blanket in her face when she sleeps. Really. You have to put the blanket on top of her face, then she pulls it close and smooshes it in her face. It's silly but she still does it. That's the routine. Lay her down for a nap or bedtime and throw the blanket up over her face. I remember being really nervous about it when she was younger but that's the only way she would go to sleep.

So I wasn't surprised at all to catch Brooke squeezing Frog the other day. I had to laugh. I was glad the camera was close by.


Believe it or not, Nathan doesn't have any kind of obsessions like the other two. I'm sure he'll come up with something someday.

While I am on the subject of crazy things my kids do, I thought I would include some pictures of them in the plastic drawer where we keep some toys. All three of them love to sit in it, on it, and under it.




I know that this post has been all over the place. I wanted to close with a picture of Lenny and Frog that I took just a little while ago. Not much has changed except that Frog is looking old and weathered and Lenny is much bigger. They are still watching Thomas movies to fall asleep and Lenny still has his milk for bed time.

Notice what Lenny is doing to Frog's leg.