As usual, I have several “serious” blog posts in process, but none of them done, which leads me to two conclusions:
1. I need to learn to type faster with my thumbs.
2. It is time for another quick kid update.
Well, number one is probably not going to happen, unless I can find a thumb typing exercise program like when I learned how to type on our family’s electric typewriter…with all my fingers. Typing with my thumbs? Another story.
So…it’s all about the kids today…
Fiona had two major accomplishments recently…wait, make that three. She slept in her crib for a 2.5 hour nap, she drank a full 4 oz. bottle with no fussing, and she started giggling. I tickled her under her chin, and out popped a little chuckle. I love it when their pint-sized personalities start to emerge. She is becoming so social, loves to cuddle, and thankfully doesn’t mind when her personal space is invaded by one of her siblings.
The bottle was truly a Christmas miracle, because the most she had ever taken from a bottle was probably 2 oz. and it was under duress. However, I picked up some new Adiri bottles, and it is truly the closest bottle I have seen to breastfeeding. Hopefully the first time wasn’t a fluke..we’ll see…
Parker’s new toy is a wrestler figurine that Ben bought for him over the weekend. He calls him his “super guy” and has accompanied Parker in the pool, sandbox, and bathtub. It is so fun to watch Parker develop his own interests apart from Madi. He will, most of the time, just want to do whatever she is doing, but more and more, he will choose to different things. He likes zooming cars around, throwing balls around, sitting in the playhouse outside and playing restaurant with pinecones and walnuts, digging toys out of the bottom of the toybox to play with, painting with dot paint, looking at books, and wrestling. (Okay, Madi likes some of those things too, but usually not at thesl same time)
And then there is Madi. She has discovered reading, and it is true that it opens up a whole new world…and makes her seem so much more grown up. I don’t need to read the directions in her workbooks anymore, she reads her library books in the car on the way home from the library, and she wakes up in the morning, grabs a stack of books from the bookshelf and starts to read to herself and sometimes Parker if he isn’t looking at his own stack of books.
It is definitely exciting, but to be honest, I wasn’t quite ready for it, because now there are less things you can control. We can’t “edit” stories anymore…she can sometimes figure out the newspaper headlines…and there are just things I’m not ready to explain to a four year old. Plus, there is so much garbage out there…even in kids books…and we have to be more aware of what is getting into her hands and actively teach her how to make good decisions herself as well.
I guess all three of the kiddos have been finding things…Fiona finding her personality, Parker finding his own identity, and Madi finding the written word.
Exciting…scary…adorable…what can I say…it’s what growing up is all about…
— Post From My iPhone
