January 1 & 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Luke:

Vocab: now says "Tee-tooo" for thank you, "ba-ba" for banana, "Hiiieeeee" for hi, "bu-bye"
guitar: This kills us with laughter!  Everytime Luke picks up the guitar, he sings.  I'll post a video down below because I can't even explain it.  It's like he HAS to sing when he holds the guitar and nothing else!  And that little smirk and sideways glance to see if anyone is watching.
downward dog: These two love doing yoga poses!  Luke started this but Katelyn surely follows!  They put their head on the ground, butt in the air, and legs straight to make an upside down "V".  they love to look at each other through their legs, and Katelyn picks her hands up and claps in between her V, only holding herself up by her head!  Sillies!
Spoons & Forks!: Someone is learning to use a spoon!  It's quite messy but it's wonderful!

not sleeping well: Luke has been sick, but even now that he's not sick, he still wakes up every few hours just to give a whine and then goes back to sleep.  His room is pretty dry too so we need to keep the humidifiers running.
Circles: Put anything (I mean ANYthing) in the middle of the floor and the kids will run circles around it giggling all the way.  It can be a mountain of pillows, a toy, or even just a sock.  It doesn't matter.  As long as there's room around it, we run circles.
She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes: When they ran circles around the couch, I used to sing the song and they'd clap and laugh.  Then I'd change "Coming" to "Running" or "Walking backwards" or "jumping" and they'd follow suit.  Lots of fun!
Wrestling: Still loves to roll over on his sister.  Sister is not always the biggest fan of it.  It's often a short-lived art for them both.  Luke also loves to just dive into pillows, blankets, beanbag, whatever is soft.  He loves to just throw his body around.  We're in for it when he gets older, aren't we!

Kate:

Potty: Oh please let this not jinx it.... but as of the past few days, suddenly she's decided to tell us when she needs to go?  I've stopped hounding her and we just have the potty seat closeby.  I'll often "remind" her without actually reminding her by just asking her where the potty seat is (like I'm looking for it) and she'll show me where it is.  She doesn't go then, but at least it's on her mind?  But I don't do that often and sometimes out of the middle of nowhere she tells us!
Vocab: Suddenly this girl's speech has taken off.  Full sentences that are easy (at least to us!) to understand!  She's picking up phrases from daddy like "There you go" and from mommy "isn't it?" "I watch Dora, if that's okay, please?"
Whining: Oh the whining!  Some days she wakes up and it's all she does.  I've found what works is simply pretending like I don't understand her when she whines.  So everytime she does it, I tell her "I cannot understand you when you whine"  She'll often try again with a little less whining but I keep saying it until she changes her tone and it's Hilarious!  She'll be in the middle of all out whining and then change her tone completely to "mama?  Can I have some milk please?" I'm VERY excited that we found something that's working as the whining really gets Tyler and I on edge and frustrated so hopefully with time she'll get rid of the whining completely ;)
"nilk" instead of milk still.. when we try to get her to say "mama... milk" she still says "Mama, nilk".  We've also tried "mmmmmmilk" and she goes "mmmmmm-nilk"  Which is hilarious!  She laughs, we laugh, it's all a good time :)

Family:

This month we headed to the Brooking's Children's Museum, had some nice days outside, and have spent a lot of time inside!  We've headed to library reading times more often (which they both adore!).  Luke walks RIGHT up to the book the lady is reading.  He's always got to have that front row seat when reading books!