These Days..

I am amazed at how much my girls changed day by day (and especially since the last time I blogged! - there is a February and Spring Break update hopefully coming soon). We have officially entered into the world of knock, knock jokes with Maddie. She has no idea what it means, so half the time when I say who's there, she makes up a word or she will say Bentley Camp and then just laugh and laugh. She is at such a fun age. It is amazing what a different a few months makes, 3 1/2 is seems to be much easier than 3. She seems so big to me right now. She talks nonstop and will catch me off guard every once in a while with a word like impressive. Tonight she was building a tower out of juice boxes and looked up at me and said mom isn't this impressive? She loves drawing and cutting out pictures. She spent her rest time today cutting paper into small pieces and then gluing them onto her picture. Whatever entertains her! (And gives me time to catch up on laundry!)

Emalyn is still not walking! It is killing me. Playing outside is so hard with a baby who is crawling, every little rock and leaf goes straight into her mouth. She is good about handing me any little piece of dirt from the floor inside, but outside is a whole new territory. And she does the crab crawl just like Maddie did, so she drags her leg across the aggregate, which either results in torn pants or scrapped legs. She is pulling up on everything and will walk if she is holding my hands, but no steps on her own yet...we are waiting anxiously! Her favorite new word is "boom" and she loves to say it as she throws her pants off the changing table when I am changing her diaper. She is getting a few more words. She is using "mama" more these days (and Chris often gets called mama too). She calls my mom and Millie both "baba" and starts saying baba as soon as we pull into either one of their driveways. She loves to say "duh, duh" for dog. And loves to do the sounds for a dog and turkey. She doesn't say the word "no" but she has got the head shake down pat....there is no doubt what she means. And the funniest is when she sees a cookie or a cupcake, she says "Oooooh," she is definitely my child.  Her two favorite things right now, are crawling up Maddie's stairs and grabbing a snack and crawling to her high chair to let me know she is hungry.  She has Maddie beat in one category: she has a mouth full of teeth...she is working on tooth # 12 right now. Hopefully she will catch up in the walking and talking categories soon. :)

But my very favorite thing right now is watching them see each other for the first time each morning. Emalyn's whole face lights up, and she usually squeals with delight. Maddie usually runs to give her a hug. Maddie cannot get enough of her. It makes it all worth it!