Monday, November 7, 2011

Andrew Moments

Some favorite Andrew moments from this week:

Last night, I was playing with Andrew upstairs; he picked up a book off the bookshelf, waddled over to within about two feet of me, then turned around and started to squat. He realized he wasn't quite close enough to sit in my lap, so he started kinda waddling backwards till he could plop in my lap. It was pretty cute.

After reading the book for a page or two, he stood up, turned around and stuck the book on my head, and laughed.

He also loves to help Mommy - while doing the laundry earlier this week, he came toddling in with a dishcloth I'd had folded up in the laundry basket waiting to be put away. He walked over to the dryer, opened it, stuffed the washcloth in and pushed it closed (it wasn't latched all the way). He left, and came back a few minutes later dragging a dish towel, opened the dryer, stuffed it in halfway and closed it again. He also loves to help me sweep and tries to hold the vaccuum for me, though it's a little heavy for him.

I'm loving being a Mommy to these two darlings! (And I should mention, Grace is sitting in my lap while I type, trying to read what Mommy's writing . And doing pretty good with it!)

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Will you marry me?

Gracie asked Daddy last week, "Could you marry me if somebody else walks me down the alley?"

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Story Time

Today after I'd tucked Grace in for her nap, she asked if I could stay and she could read a book to me. And she did! Not perfectly, but she knew a bunch of words by "sight" (more than I realized!) and tried to sound out the words she didn't know.

It was really sweet, and I was so proud of how hard she kept trying and how she persevered, even when a 2 minute board book turned into 15 minutes of painstaking labor. My little sweet pea is growing so fast!

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

The day after...


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First Word?

Grace and I were playing on the computer this morning (starfall.com has some great phonics "games"), and she sounded out, "b..o..x... box" all on her own. I think she might have sounded out other words before, but it's impossible to tell if she's really sounding them out, or just had it memorized. She still can't get all three letter words, and anything beyond that and she's guessing, but it's such fun seeing her surprise and excitement when she gets one.