Molly- she is all over the place. She is crawling fast and loves exploring our apartment. I find her in funny places all the time; in the shower, half way up the kids slide, in my closet chewing on shoes, etc. She pulls up very easily and can cruise a bit from place to place. She can let go and balance standing up for quite awhile. She is waving now and clapping. Her sign language is not quite what I taught her but she is working to communicate. Instead of tapping her finger tips together for "more" she does a little clap. She basically does it for anything, milk too. As soon as she wakes up in the morning or from a nap she will clap and start craning her neck to look around the room for the prepared bottle that she knows is coming. She is eating a lot of table food, a lot meaning quantity, but not variety. She loves turkey, american cheese, bread, bananas, cheerios. But I can't get her to eat many different fruits or any real veggies. All her veggies are the baby food kind right now. She has continued to have ear infections and we went to a specialist at CT ear nose and throat. They say she may be a candidate for tubes but did not want to do them at such a young age. We are hoping that cold season is near its end and hoping she will make it to next winter before we need to do anything drastic like tubes.
JJ- my nut bar. She is as devilish, defiant, yet still incredibly lovable, as ever. She is doing this new thing where she looks at you with her head cocked, eyes looking up at you as wide and round as saucers, and saying something to you in a very serious delivery. I don't know how to capture it on camera but I wish I could. She is talking more and more. She struggles with her F + consonant words. For instance, she pronounces frog like schrog, and floor like schloor. I asked the speech therapist at Casey's school about it to see if I needed to work on anything with her and she said not at all. She said the f Consonant combo is a developmental things and one of the very last to develop. She is just fine and that her jaw will earn to move correctly to straighten that sound out.
Casey- Casey seems to be turning into a little girl, no longer a toddler. She is taller, more mature, and more capable in every sense of the word. She plays differently than Julia now, she is getting an imagination and likes creating more elaborate pretend play games. She can easily play children's board games with us, she rides her bike (with training wheels) well. She taught herself to whistle, she discovered it one day and was so proud. One recent development is that she has been getting scared at night lately. Every few nights she will come into the living room or to our bedroom crying saying she is scared and does not know why. It has resulted in a few night sin our bed, which leaves all of us tired in the morning. Her school had a parents visit day and I had a ball peeking in on her life there. It just cracks me up watching her stand up to say the Pledge of Allegiance, sing her school song, participate in her circle/meeting time and go about her routine. One little thing that cracks me up too is the routines that Casey gets herself into. For instance, sometimes we take a nap together while Molly and JJ are sleeping. She will get into my bed with me, pull James's pillow right up next to mine and while I read my book with a book light she has to read a certain book, "If you give a pig a pancake" and has to have her own book light like mine. It has to be that book and with a book light otherwise she might as well not be in the bed at all. It's so funny to me.
