So just as a reminder, the things I post here are from the sidebar on the right and so the date you see on this post is not the day these things actually happened. I’m looking at what I’m putting in here and it looks like most likely these are comments from about March or so. Pretty outdated. Just FYI!
Erica has been off track for most of the month. She’s been having friends over to play and helping me with projects. She’s getting to be quite a good helper and I’m thankful she has an interest in helping me. She also had her hair cut a week ago and looks so much more grown up now. It’s amazing to me what a difference a new hairstyle can make in how old she looks! A few weeks ago she got a catalog in the mail for the American Girl dolls and accessories. She has been looking through that catalog with her doll Dmelle (a doll that she got from her Grandma) and making lists of the things she wants to buy for Dmelle. She told me a few days ago: "I can’t let Dmelle look at the catalog with me because she is always saying how she wants all the stuff in there and it’s too expensive for me to get it all for her!" She is trying to save her money to buy a bed and blankets for her doll (the set costs $98 which is, of course, ridiculous) and is always trying to think of new ways to get money – lemonade stands, bake sales, and saving money from Christmas and her birthday. However, she’s not interested in doing jobs around the house to earn money and she has been quite irritated with Isaac who has managed, over the last week or so, to find (on the ground at the store or on the sidewalk) about seven cents. 🙂
We were driving home from church today and Isaac was counting to see how high he could count before we got home. He started at 1 and counted correctly all the way to 39, which he promptly followed with 90 through 99, followed again by 30. 🙂 A few days ago, we were getting ready for lunch and the kids were talking about wedding colors (don’t ask me why – I can’t for the life of me remember what got us onto that topic), and Isaac told me his wedding colors will be red, orange, yellow, purple, and blue. 🙂 Isaac loves to show me on a daily basis the new things he has learned to do. These consist mainly of standing on one foot, hopping on one foot (both while holding on to something with one or both hands), and doing summersaults. At least once each day he will come to me and say "Well, Mom, wanna see what I can do?" followed by a demonstration of one or all of his newly acquired talents. He’s quite proud of his accomplishments. I have also noticed in the last week or so that he has started to pronounce the letter "r" sound which has made quite an improvement in his speech.
Cambria has begun climbing into her crib by herself when I’m not in the room. She goes up to her room to play from time to time, and the other day I was making dinner and realized it had been an awfully long time since I had seen her. When I got to a good stopping point I went up to find her and she had climbed into her crib. I’ve found here there on numerous occasions, and it will only be a matter of time until she learns to climb out. So this week (hopefully) we’re planning to move her into a toddler bed. She is very excited about it. She is growing up so fast! The other day we were outside playing and she climbed up the playset by herself and went down the slide! She loves to go outside and play, especially if one of her siblings will go out and play with her. A few days ago I was in the kitchen and Cambria came in and looked at me and sang "I have a little bottom, I need to get bigger!" Not growing up quite as fast as she wants to, I guess. 🙂
