Will you marry me?

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

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!

The day after...

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.

Grace - Almost 3!

Andrew at 11 Months - Happy Baby!

First... shuffle?

Yesterday while standing up, Andrew picked up a foot and set it back down a couple times. Not quite a first step, but getting close! :-)