What have they been up to? Let’s see…
Kayla is just growing up so fast. She is singing full songs now like the “abc’s” and making up some as well. She is often “auntie susie”, though she will answer to Kayla most of the time. Kayla has really enjoyed the last few birthday parties we have gone to and will play those often, especially the one where she went to see a puppet show. Kayla loves to help bake, or rather taste the batter, and will scramble onto the stepstool spoon in hand. She often reads Tim or I the books lately. She has been building creatively with the bristle blocks and more able to focus on activities. She still loves to put stickers on things and can do that for long periods of time. Kayla can be very loving and helpful to her little sister at times and has taken to washing Julia during bathtime. I was watching her push the lawn mower toy around after dinner just amazed at how she’s grown.
Julia seems to be working on something new all the time. For a while there she seemed to be practicing standing by herself. She’d let go of one of us, or the furniture, and lasted a few seconds once. She has been “cruising” on the furniture more and sometimes will walk if we hold her hands. She still seems pretty content with crawling to get places though. Julia appears to be a great climber, now being able to climb onto the stepstool, and even climbed a bunkbed ladder alone the other day. She has also taken to going backwards down the stairs. Little J.found her tounge last week and we got to see that for a couple days. Julia seems interested in trying to put clothes on, especially hats. She often asks us to put this one on her. She has been around a few babies close to her age lately and wants to give them hugs. It’s very sweet. As for the older kids she wants to be right in the action and manages to join in wherever she can. Jumping (on her knees) on the bed, playing (or eating) playdough, doing art projects, eating food, whatever. She loves music still and dancing and shows more interest in books. She is such a good hugger and snuggler when she wants to give you a hug. Super tight and cheek to cheek. Love that.