At one age does one learn shame?  I have distinct memories of feeling embarrassed when I was 2 weeks old after a particularly bad blow out, but the boys have yet to develop any concept of it.  They do get shy around strangers (for a couple of minutes, anyway), and Dexter at least will look extremely dejected when he think he’s in trouble (which is still working extraordinarily well on defeating our parental will), but when it comes to prancing around naked they have no qualms whatsoever.  Due to the presence of carpet and upholstered furniture in our home, we aren’t exactly eager to indulge their inner nudist all that often, though we have nightly nearly naked time (diapers required), and they’ve run around our back yard naked a few times (seriously, why waste a swim diaper on a back yard sprinkler?)

They also take to the occasional accessory.  Usually it’s the desire to wear anything they can find as a cape, but occasionally it drifts to the odd hat.  Slightly strange, since they fought us so hard about wearing them in the first place, but they’re probably just rejecting our authority, which is important if they’re going to head off to college next year.  So anyway, a couple of weeks ago they grabbed the ball caps and ran around the house screaming at the top of their lungs, preening in front of the mirror, running into each other, and running away from Katie and I whenever we had the sleeper in hand.

Dexter was a bit more cooperative, but he almost looked cuter in the sleeper – such a little train engineer, right?

Nicholas refused to put his sleeper on until he finished brushing his teeth, while Dexter refused to brush his teeth without the Kangaroo there for company.

I really don’t understand children’s whims.  Dexter walked around with a ziploc bag on his foot earlier, while Nicholas was adamant that he only wanted to put blocks in the empty Vitamin container, and under no circumstances was an empty Peanut Butter container an acceptable substitute.  And you should see how they scream at us for more lotion after their baths.

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