When one doesn't update one's blog in 5 months... an entire season has passed, birthdays have occurred, many many cute things have been said and done... it had better be worth the wait. At least that's the pressure I put on myself with every passing day when my little family journal does not get written. Excuses abound, from volunteering for preschool projects, crafting my way through Christmas presents, and the fact that my children still do not go to bed on command (or stay asleep all night, for that matter!). But please, don't get your hopes up for a craftily worded and concise summary of the last 5 months! I'll just try to get us caught up... since there is no way to do that quickly with words, please check out the new photo albums linked to the right that give some idea of what we've been up to this busy fall and Christmas season!
To start where I left off, Ian's wind phobia disappeared as quickly as it appeared, thank God! It was a rough summer, but we took comfort in knowing that (while extreme) it was a totally developmentally appropriate phenomenon. Some kids fear other weather, drains, small animals, or noises, but Ian feared something we have a lot of here in CO, wind. He laughs at wind now, and though it may make reappearances in the future, this phobia is conquered for the time being. Now Ian is a big 4 year old, thriving in Mrs. Greer's 4's class at school. He lives as a Superhero most of the time, and costumes are his thing right now. He stated to me the other day that he was going to teach Maggie how to be Wonder Woman. He is asking many many questions, some of which are hard to answer! "Did God make that?", "Are we on the bottom or the top of the world?", "How do our white blood cells kill the germs?", "How do we move our muscles?"????? They go on and on, and show his growing curiosity of everything in his world, and sometimes the outer realms too. His favorite way to ask for something he thinks is unlikely is "I can't have another cookie......", or "I can't watch another Superhero Squad Show...." in a sweet and trailing voice.
Maggie has gone from a curly-haired toddler to a little girl in the past 5 months. She is weaned, potty-trained, sleeping (mostly!) in her Dora bed at night, and constantly chattering up a storm. She went from curly hair to almost bald (in retrospect I do wonder why I never took her to the doctor?? Intuition that all would be well, I suppose) to a full head of straight and irregular-length regrowing brown hair. That was a strange transformation, but I think it must have been losing baby hair finally, as it happened during a very rapid growth and development spurt. She's grown inches and all her teeth are (finally!) in. She is so grown up, in fact, that she is starting in Miss Cheri's Toddler class at Ian's school next week! We did a trial day earlier this month and she absolutely loved it, so we've signed her up. In theory that means Mommy time on Mon/Weds mornings, but in reality I'll be working every Monday, and since we now have double the coop days I'll be at the preschool just about every Weds! Oh well, it really is for Maggie's benefit and she is oh-so-ready. She has plenty of questions too, but the cutest thing has to be her inability to pronounce a hard "C" or "K" especially to start a word... this translates to "Sitty-sat", "Supsake", "Charseat", and my personal favorite, "Sookie". "Mellelllos" has grown to "marshlellos" (marshmallows, of course!) under Ian's persistent coaching. Finally, and I don't have a clue where she got this, "bishup" means to zip-up... These are the things I must write down or they will be lost forever! I already hear glimpses of "K" in these words, I think this cuteness is on it's way out.
Daily there are things that should be scribed for posterity, and now that I've broken my silence, I just may do a better job of keeping up!
No comments:
Post a Comment