I've been meaning to make this post for a while. Sometimes I even 'record' moments that happen during the day as if I were adding them to the blog, in my head. But they seldom make it from brain to keyboard. Mommy is just too busy. I am doing my best to keep this order: children, home, business, food-stuff, pool but what gets left off the list most often is blogging.
The first week of December, while Jason was away to Florida for a conference, which we survived, Evie sprouted molars. She is not enjoying them breaking through and often wakes in the night needing snuggling. She wished Dylan a 'Happy Birthday' today and spoke the words quite well. I used to enjoy Mira's 'Aboo BeeBa' for Happy Birthday but when Evie speaks she is very clear. We are working on 'up' instead of 'bup' but she is a little chatterbox.
Mira crawled into bed this morning with me. Josh and Mira often make their way to my bed around 6:30 am. I asked her what she was doing and she said in her little sleepy voice, 'I'm beeping...with you.' Well, Mira, I like to 'beep' with you, too! They are both snuggle-muffins in the morning. Mira is quite the talker and can say long, complex things but she still has her own 'language' at times that is easier to discern in person.
Joshua has been enjoying legos (of course) but also sitting for long periods of time cutting Kiragami. Usually he asks me to fold the papers but he is quite good at the cutting part. He has also taken to Indiana Jones in the last week or so and has been scared more recently of movies and stories and such than in the past. It seems his fantastic imagination is catching up with him.
Joshua is understanding the Nativity and can explain the story. He talks a lot about GOD and rules and such. He is doing well both in school and in Sunday School and we are working on manners, listening (and following) directions and treating people with respect. It seems we will be working on these things for a long time to come.
They are all super excited about Christmas and Santa coming. They visited Santa the first Friday in December and an elf has left activities for them to do every day such as make cookies, watch Christmas movies, see the Christmas parade, etc. They made their requests to Santa - a princess doll for Mira, a Bakugan Dragonoid for Joshua and well... Evie didn't ask for anything but we put a good word in for her to the big guy in red.
