Clapping and crying: new developments...kinda

About a week ago, Asha started clapping. It is fun to see her full smile (with wrinkled brow and squinted eyes) as she claps.

Lukas is at a point where he doesn't want anything in his crib. We recall something similar with Shane. There is lots of crying at bedtime and a fear of the dark. But having Shane in the same room is helpful since he's a good example to his little brother of staying quiet and in bed!

At some point in the next few weeks we need to move Lukas from his crib to a bed. This is so that Asha can shift from her travel cot to the crib. All this allows the new baby to go into the travel cot. Should be a challenge since Lukas is a little more strong willed than Shane and likely to jump out of his bed more!

Don't think we mentioned this anywhere, but when we returned to India in mid-Sept, Shane started taking a stuffed cat (which came with book "If you give a cat a cupcake") to bed. Then he added a heffalump. Shane instructed Lukas to take a tan kitty (gifted at an IDEAS conference) to bed...and Lukas eventually added a moose (which came with book "If you give a moose a muffin). Anyway, apparently Lukas is now old enough and is excising his independent decision making powers.