"Hi Animals!"

Everett has always been my talker. He talks All. Day. Long. He tells me stories and dreams and what everyone at school had for lunch. His vocabulary is outstanding ("Look at Woody's magnificent trick!") and he is very descriptive. I love it 99% of the time (the other 1% being as soon as I open my eyes in the morning.) Lionel has never followed in his brother's loud footsteps, although he has taken it up a notch lately. No, Lionel's thing has always been - animals. The kid just loves them! His first word was doggy and that says a lot about him. He always notices the animals wherever we go and every animal (including the billboard with the Geico lizard) is "cute" to him. He went bananas at the petting farm! He grabbed hay and personally hand fed every animal. I usually am a bit grossed out by petting farm animals, but seeing the joy in Lionel's eyes made it worth it for me. Everett enjoyed it quite a bit, too, until he was butted by a goat!