It has been awhile since I could find the time to write another post. I'm sitting on my chair by my computer and am trying to type while Sarah is sitting on my "wap" and Nathan is squished in on the other side. The younger two are sleeping (or I couldn't be on here writing now :)). I am never without someone sitting on me every time I sit down. Lately it seemed like I was getting a bigger butt as Hannah was becoming a tighter and tighter fit between me and the chair- but my clothes still fit and hers don't ;)
I'm noticing we get to have more conversations with our kids. Hannah still smiles (two dimples) her hamster smile (one tooth in on the bottom) and giggles. Abby knows quite a few new words and can speak in sentences. I think of Abby as "defiant until the end" or "the revolutionary". She like everything else has attacked her two year old perceived independence with a passion. I actually have arguments with her sometimes. I will ask her to do something simple ( probably something she already wanted to do) and she will respond with a stormy face "NO!... I DON'T DO THAT" and then proceed to lecture me in a stream of angry babble with a recognizable word here and there. Sometimes I find this frustrating , but most of the time it is amusing. She has been in the habit of not wanting to nap recently, which of course makes her unbearable at times. Once I tossed her on the couch and told her "Not another peep from you!" As I was walking away I heard her growl at me with her thumb in her mouth.
Nathan will repeat himself persistently until we feel as though we will go crazy. He repeats phrases he hears on commercials or TV programs or if he wants something he will repeat it over and over and over and over.... not listening to us try to explain why he can't have what he wants in that exact second. Sometimes he will spout random facts like "A is a vowel!", or "A silent "E" makes the first vowel say its name!" like he was the one that discovered phonics :). Today he has been saying "Christmas is coming!" over and over again. Sarah has advanced in speech more then any of them. I never know what she will say next. Mark and I can have actual conversations with her and she understands us :) The others can understand us as well but the interest and level of understanding varies. Sarah likes to hear me tell her stories of king Daddy, queen Mommy , prince Nathan, princess Sarah, princess Abby and baby princess Hannah. The royal family often gets out of trouble with the help of princess Sarah's magical animals.
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| Eating peanut butter for supper (it was a bad day...) |
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| Happy second birthday Abby! she is pretty happy to see all those chips |
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| Nathan taking apart my watch |
