Tyler...

Now that I wrote about Kelsi, I have to write about Tyler!!

Tyler has grown and changed so much in the last couple of months...He has become a school boy three mornings a week and loves it!! He has adjusted well, and his teacher gave me a quick update to say that he is doing great! He is the oldest in his class, but not the biggest!! I have volunteered twice so far and I love to see what they do, and what he does!! He mentions a few of their names, but I think is mainly concentrated on doing what they are supposed to be doing!! Even though it is a boy heavy class, he mainly talks about his friend Grace who happens to be the youngest in the class!!

Tyler has given up naps....Since mid-August, he has napped 4 times...two of those times, he had a fever and the other was the first day of school...Today was the 4th time and it came after a week with Noni and Nono! I bought an egg timer and he was supposed to stay in his room for an hour...when the egg timer went off, he could come down....I think the rule of having to stay there, gave him the time to fall asleep....we will see what happens in the next few days with it!!

Tyler is obsessed with potty words right now....Dr. Berard handed me a paper that said this is normal 4 year old behavior (at his 4 year appt.)....

He got the swine flu shot in school (without me!), and had 2 more at his dr. appt. later that day!!

Tyler loves activity books, coloring, hidden picture sticker books, playdough, painting, dinosaurs, building with blocks and tv.....He loves Caillou, Little Bear, Franklin, & Backyardigans....He loves Madagasgar & Curious George.

After less than a month of school he was writing his name....I think his computer and Scribble Time helped him to learn that and then seeing his name at school so much brought him to this point...I don't think they taught him that officially....

Tyler and Kelsi love to play together (at times) and love to wrestle etc....They also love to fight over things....such a killer!!!

More on Tyler later too....I am off to bed...It is WAY late!!

Kelsi...

It has been so long since I have had a chance to update the blog or edit pictures for my own family....I am hoping that I will change that by mid-December!!!

In the meantime, I wanted to document some of the funny things that Kelsi is doing and saying!

Kelsi is now TALKING....She is non-stop on the move and constantly talking...usually in complete thoughts and sentences!! It is just amazing to me!!

• She loves to apologize if she thinks she got in your way or did something wrong...it sounds like "thorry, mama".
• If she falls, she will yell, "Just me mama...I otay, mama"
• She will say, "Let me tell you a secret (thecret)...i love you"
• When Tyler pushes her/hits her...she comes running and crying..."Tyler pushed me in my thomach (or "on my arm")".
• If you say we are going somewhere, her response is always, "Right now?"
• She is ALWAYS saying, "I wanna go to store."
• When she wants a snack she says, "I need somethin"....and that happens multiple times a day.
• On Thanksgiving she went pee-pee and poop on the potty multiple times and then went on the grown up potty at the hotel with her Noni & Nono...progress!
• She still LOVES babies and stuffed animals...she feeds them bottles and her sippy cups...changes them, and wipes their bums with a real wipe....She asks, "I have wipe?" and then tilts her head and puts up her finger..."just one?" She will do that several times!!
• She LOVES to play, "Where are me?"...She covers her eyes and says, "Where are me?" Then I say...I don't know where Kelsi is....maybe she went to the store...maybe she went to get a snack, etc....Then she uncovers her face laughing hysterically and says, "i here".
• She repeats EVERYTHING tyler says and copies everything that he does.

There is so much that I could say and document...this is just a start....more later!!

Love you sweet girl....