In other news, Downton is over, so that's depressing. And Lent is about to begin. Anybody have any good ideas for sacrifice and self betterment? I had a blast last weekend with my college girlfriends. I haven't seen a couple of them for about two years, so it was an awesome evening. We talked about just about everything from kids, to work, to TV, to families to, to old stories - great evening. Unfortunately we of course did not snap any pictures. We all carry around iPhones and no pictures. Pathetic. Oh well.
I have tons of kids' development, milestone type updates. I'll start with a quote from Hannah when she woke up yesterday. "Mom are you babysitting us today?" Me: "No, Hannah it's Saturday. I'm your mom. You live here." That really makes me feel like mother of the year. Despite my kids' seemingly lack of knowledge about the days of the week or of their home base, they seem to be doing very well. Hannah is picking up her letter recognition now. She had a slow start to the year, but seems to finally have some momentum. She is gaining confidence too, which is even better in my book. She is mimicking things that I say, which is funny usually. For instance when something happens that frustrates her, she says, " Are you kidding me?" And she tells us everything is disgusting that she doesn't like including me. When she's mad at me she will stomp her feet and yell, "Mom, you are disgusting." or "Mommy, you are gross!" I usually just want to laugh, but it only makes it worse when she's angry. Other favorites of Hannah's are Barbies and puzzles, and she is quite good at them.
The girls recently saw Frozen in the movie theatre with Matt, and they loved it. Hannah got a Frozen costume from my sister for her birthday that she wears sometimes. But more than anything, she and Laura have been singing Let It Go non stop. Laura said that she and her friends sing it at school. I would love to be a fly on the wall for that! Laura and Hannah pull up videos on you tube in multiple languages and listen to it. They are obsessed. So don't you know that I had that song in my head all week at work. Lovely. Well, it became available for download on iTunes this week, and Matt got it for them Friday night. They were SO excited. They have probably watched it four times this weekend. Laura knows most of the words and will talk along with some parts. I think they like this movie more than Tangled, which was probably tops for a long time in this household. So begins a new era in the Adams' household. Out with Rapunzel and in with Elsa and Anna.
Laura is doing great developmentally too. She loves kindergarten. She can read now and can write some too, although she still much prefers to draw. She told Matt this morning that she wants to be an Illustrator. I just looked at him. Maybe a scientific illustrator, right? We shall see. She is growing by leaps and bounds. She ate four eggs for dinner one night this week! Crazy. She is also becoming such a little girl. She loves the iPad. (Really all of the girls do.) But Laura likes to do things more by herself. She is getting less and less into toys - scary. She wants to sleep by herself now too. Hannah is a little too cuddly for her. We are thinking about putting bunk beds in their room so she can have her own bed. And Emma will want to be in there soon enough, so she and Hannah can sleep together.
Little Emma is exploding verbally. She is saying new words and sentences every day. Sometimes I can't quite make it out because she still pronounces things like a toddler, but usually I can put clues together. She's so dramatic too. She dances often whenever she hears any music, from the toy on the fridge, from the TV, church, wherever. And she raises her head and sticks out her chin and tries to move slow and dramatic. It's hilarious. She is also extremely strong willed and somewhat of a protector of her sisters. Whenever I am scolding Hannah, she will come and hit me and say "No mommy!" Thankfully with the explosion of verbal development the biting seems to be subsiding. We have had a couple of incident reports at school, but they are getting fewer and further between. The last one was actually for scratching and not biting, which I can deal with since I can just cut her nails. She is recovering from an ear infection right now. We have had our share of doctor appointments this winter. I think we have seen the pediatrician way more than in past years. Most of our sicknesses have been viruses. But again, it's March! So we will hope we are almost done with all of this crap for the winter. Emma is also a crazy climbing toddler. I may have mentioned that in a previous post, but she is my first to be a climber. She climbs everything constantly! It's just a ball of fun. (You may detect some sarcasm.) She still loves her baby dolls. They are still her toy of choice. She tows one or two around all the time. Her diet these days is primarily her "muck" and her "nucks". (milk and snacks which are her fruit snacks). She also is at the stage that she doesn't like when her sisters or any other child sits on our lap or we hold them. She will respond sharply with, "Ma daddy!" And then shove them out of the way. She steals the kids' toys, and they yell, "Mom, Emma took my xyz!" I think "Really, the 1 year old is stealing from the 6 year old? Does this happen in other households?"
We went to my Grandma's 80th birthday last night. We had a great time, and the kids had a blast! Anytime they are aloud to run freely with other kids and eat and drink whatever they want, they are in heaven. That pretty much described last night. They ran freely with my cousins' kids, ate junk food at will, and my aunt had juice boxes for them. Could anything be better? Maybe, but they are unaware of better things at this point in life. (Ha ha ha.....evil laugh.)
Until next time, a few pictures.
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