A quick glimpse...

Abby, in full princess regalia (she's the pink blur in the background), is insisting she needs to read a book to Jacob. The book she needs to read is situated out of reach, and therefore requires that she climb our leather chair to get to it. Our leather chair doesn't have nearly the traction a princess needs to keep her footing in a shiny pink polyester gown. In just a moment the books, and the girl, will come tumbling to the ground.

Caleb, meanwhile, is going on six solid minutes of trying to figure out how to remove the orange truck from Jacob's exersaucer. My insistence that (a) the truck is permanently affixed to the exersaucer and (b) that's Jacob's toy and you need to leave it alone are going unheeded. Or perhaps unheard. It's hard to tell with 2-year-old boys.

Jacob, meanwhile, is alternately thrilled with his new outlook on life and terrified that it puts him squarely in the path of destruction that is his older brother. We've brought our inventory of baby equipment to a whopping four items, including the swing, the tummy time mat, the bumbo, and now the exersaucer. Both the tummy time mat and the exersaucer are functioning at about 30% capacity with far fewer accoutrements than they had when our first child played with them. Thankfully, Jacob has Abby and Caleb to pick up the slack on entertainment.