August 2015
Katelyn Updates
-One of her favorite games as of late is Hide and Seek. She gets the idea but typically just hides her face when she hides (see picture of her hiding on left) and counts to maybe 5 if she's seeking (or she'll get to 10 but SO fast!!). She loves to pretend she can't find you even if she knows where you're at. "Is sheeeee.... under the chair? Noooo...."-Loves to play mommy to Lucas by asking him questions. "Lucas, do you want the red bowl or the orange bowl?..... Ok you can have the orange bowl"
-Has learned to pump her legs when she swings and even leans into it a bit. You can see she'll start to get the rythym of it and it'll work, but then she'll get so excited at how well she's doing that she just goes through the motions and doesn't time it at all and stops her own progress :) She's so proud of new skills!
-This girl suddenly grew up on me this month! I don't know what it is, maybe it's her long hair or her speech development or what, but suddenly she is acting very "3" to me. She's not 3 yet but man alive, she suddenly changed to me!
-Puzzles! This girl has mastered the art of 12 piece puzzles that come with a border :) She has two of them. She caught on fast and after some coaching on one of them, she completed another one without an inkling of help. I'm just so amazed at this girl and how fast she picks things up! She definitely has persistence as well.
-4t clothes and growing fast! I gotta get going on garage sales for winter clothes here soon!
Luke Updates
-Have I mentioned on here yet that he doesn't tend to go for sweets? Lemonade, he always gives a face to and won't drink it. Same with chocolate milk or juice. The kid loves his milk and water!-"I do I do I do!" anytime I ask who's ready for lunch? or any such question. Sometimes I'll just say something in passing like "Well Kate, I need to go get supper ready" and Luke will come running from the other room to climb up into his chair yelling "I do I do!" Have I mentioned that boy can eat?
-Counting: He has started to count! He does a great job saying "ooooone, teeooooo, thweeeee, Five!" We're still working on 4. It'll come :)-Colors: He's interested in learning them but still doesn't quite know them. He claims everything is blue or white although the other day he did correctly identify green!
-"no way" usually in a silly mode answer but sometimes in a more serious situation.
-If you call the child "Stinky pants" or make any reference to him pooping, he RUNS the other way!
-Luke has been working on his "inner british". The way he says "da-ddy?" is very british sounding! Love it!
-Favorite word: "buddy". It started with me just calling him buddy and he'd repeat it but now he just LOVES it when daddy or I call him buddy.
-Sentence: He put two words together uncoached this month! (I discount "I do" and "snack please" and "I'll get it" because those are coached or mimicked by one of us). He had a truck up to a plate with a waffle on it and he said "Conk conk (truck) eeeeat!"
-Very into cars/trucks/planes toys. Also loves to take care of his Mickey Mouse that daddy brought home from a youth trip.
-3t clothes- he's within 3 inches/2 pounds of Katelyn. Again, gotta get shopping!
Baby 3 Updates-34 weeks
-Baby girl still doesn't have a name. We tend to get way off track anytime it's brought up. We have a loooooong list. One popped out to me but it doesn't have the same "pop" to Tyler. We'll see what we come up with and when.
-Mover- she LOVES to stretch really hard! She also is carrying VERY low. At times she almost feels engaged and like it feels in labor (but no contractions, don't worry). It also makes it hard to sleep for more than 40 minutes at a time at night as she makes me have to use the bathroom constantly when she's in that position. And I have to drink enough water to stay hydrated or nausea comes back full blow at nights, but drinking water also causes reflux which can also cause me to throw up so it's a catch 22 but I'd rather drink the water and deal with it than to be dehydrated.
-Hiccups! We finally have hiccups! I've been waiting and waiting for those. Not that without them anything is wrong, but I know that hiccups are a sign of good lung development so I welcome them :)
-6 more weeks! (or 7. I think I'm going late.)
-Pregnancy- Getting very stiff and uncomfortable but so thankful for the lack of hip issues like I had with Luke! It'll come and go but it's nothing like it was with Luke- yet anyway :)
Family
-First movie! We all went to the cinedome to watch a 40 min. movie on airplanes. Luke was glued in the entire time saying "Airplane!" everytime he saw one, pointing out animals, just loved to lay back and snuggle and watch. Kate enjoyed the experience more than the movie (the movie was kinda lame- a documentary about how airplanes have changed the world around us) but she enjoyed it nonetheless
-Took a staycation together. We did lots of swimming, playing in the room, giggling, and did I mention swimming? Then our big plan was to drop off kiddos with grandma and take a night to ourselves. To our credit, we did go to a movie that afternoon, but after that, our "date night" was full of sleep. We woke up for breakfast the next
day only to go back to sleep until 1:00 (when our checkout time was).
Some day we'll actually do fun things again when we have time alone
together.