Since September ALOT has changed...

Now into the mix we have added a third member 'Nana' as her brother affectionately calls her. She's our very busy 6 month old. It never ceases to amaze HOW MUCH she can actually do and even more amazing how much she attempts to do. She is small in stature but I don't think she realizes that she is the smallest one, because she gets down, rough and tumble with rest of them. She has already sustained accidental kicks and hits, sometimes in the face, sometimes she's been fallen on (by her big very ACTIVE brother) and she kinda just shrugs them off...sometimes she'll squeal (as if to say "hey buddy, watch IT!) but she is really a tough cookie.



She's already trying to ...get this... STAND UP (what?) Yes, she's trying to get and run with these guys I guess. For the most part she's still tummy cruising and is very quick and determined! I WISH I had video evidence of her awesomeness... Hope you don't mind as I gush about her for a while...she just cut her FIRST tooth and I think its to accomodate the LION sized appetite that she has. Needless to say my nursing career with this one is pretty much drawing to a close.



On to the other little sweeties...Mimi: I often have to remind myself that she is only 3, because she speaks to me in such a mature way, I find that I forget that she still doesn't have reasoning capacity past her age. But I love going out with her on our mall adventures, she is so much fun! We have decided to homeschool and now she's learning phonics and a little math. She caught on so quickly and as a result she sounds out almost EVERY word she says and tells which letter they start with. She is positively excited to learn and she can 'read' quite few three letter words and sound a few of them out as well. She is such a burst of sunshine!

Zix: He loves to tell knock-knock jokes. Well only one in particular, it goes like this'

Knock, knock
Who's there?
Nana (banana)
Nana who?
OOh! (orange)
(then he repeat about this about 3 or 4 times and then laughs really hard)

He's about a week away from being 2, and he is really starting to speak more. He still likes to make the sounds of most things, but strangers can even understand some of his words and he's starting put two words together. His favorite passtime is making spit bubbles though. Why...I just don't know, and he makes on by accident, he gets really excited and starts making them again.

I'll try to be more regular, so that I don't write a novel per post but...there's a brief summary of my infant-toddler-preschooler experience in the last little while!