What’s Been Going On

Things around here have been sort of crazy lately; I have notes for about 10 or 15 different posts that I have wanted to write over the past couple of weeks but obviously that never happened.  So here is the condensed version…

Over the past few weeks, maybe since school started, Julia seems to have made another big leap in her mental (and also physical) growth.  There are just little things that I have been noticing that have struck me and left me thinking, “wow, since when can she do that?!?”  Things like…

 coloring inside the lines

correcting my reading at when I’m putting her to bed at night

remembering what day it is when she wakes up and knowing what activities we’re going to be doing that day

helping her brother

understanding the rules of Candy Land and following them

eating a whole sandwich rather than pulling it apart and fussing with it

 

Benjamin has also had some major leaps in the last few weeks:

playing peekaboo with a blanket – holding it over his face and then pulling it off when I said “where’s Benjamin?” (the first time he did this was when he was supposed to be going down for a nap – good thing he’s cute!)

walking holding onto furniture or our hand

getting 5 teeth!!

climbing the stairs

drinking from a straw but really he prefers just using it to blow bubbles

swinging at the playground

and, of course, outgrowing all the pants that I bought him 2 weeks ago!