April 2009

All 3 watching for daddy to come home!

Chloe

Chloe is starting to follow along with the words in books we read to her, and she knows words in the stories. The TAG pen and TAG books that we got her have helped her recognize many words! We love the TAG!

Chloe loves to cut out shapes. She has me draw silly shapes, and she cuts them out. She does a great job!

She is learning so much in school. I love to hear all about it. She was even telling me about monarch butterflies the other day. I had her screened to be a peer model for one of the special education classes at the school I work in. She passed the screening, and I think she will be a great peer model to the students in that classroom. She will hopefully start that in the fall.

No naps anymore. She has quiet time that she spends doing "quiet" things since Kyle still takes a nap in the afternoon.

She loves board games and card games!

Kyle

Kyle started the month with an ear infection. He was miserable for a few days. I was up with him all night on April 1st. He kept saying "Mama, ow,ow!" On April 2nd, his ear drum ruptured. He is all better now!

He is completely potty-trained. It was hard at first for us to take him places, because I feared he would have to use the potty, but he has learned to hold it until we can find a potty or until we get home! :) He will even wake up in the middle of the night to go potty and then go back to sleep. He has had ZERO accidents this week!!  He goes on the big potty sitting backwards...no little potty anymore!

He sits at the big table or little kid table. He no longer sits in his booster seat. He doesn't eat as much now since he is able to get up and walk around.

Kyle loves to snuggle and have me rock him. He comes up to me and says "I wanna wok". This is one of my favorite times of the day.

He loves to give kisses. He calls them "tisses".

Kyle wakes up in the morning in a great mood, but he wakes from his afternoon nap in an awful mood! I sometimes have him skip his nap just so he stays in a good mood for the rest of the day!

He says "I uh you." (I love you.)

Us

Eating out is very rare unless we go by ourselves, which is also rare. Hopefully by next year, Kyle will do much better in restaurants and not want to go wander around the places. Chloe was 2 1/2-3 when she started being very good in restaurants, so we hope we get to that point very soon! I look forward to going out again as a family and being able to eat a whole meal without having to box it up and take it home to eat. For right now, we will continue to mostly order out on the weekends or go to very kid-friendly places to eat! :)

With a 2 and 4 year old, there is little time to get much done around the house. There is really no use cleaning during the day, because they get all their toys out again anyway! I love a clean house, but I have had to learn to just forget about it for awhile. I would rather spend my time playing with them than cleaning up after them.

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