Weee!

I promised Walter the other day that I would take this magnetic alphabet leap frog toy back out, so this morning I put it back on the refrigerator and he decided to rearrange all of the letters into a "7-up abc train" (he made a 7, well a backwards one and then made them go up). His thinking just blows me away sometimes. He has definitely been into arranging and sorting his toys and things in certain ways lately. Even in his sticker book he has started to arrange the stickers into lines. This alphabet toy apparently set his mind onto letters too because then later he told me he was a "fast and slow train moving in (not circles but) o's" as he ran around and around. He also told me that the letter K looked liked it had bunny ears.

Another cute thing that he said to me today as I was washing his hands and he was studying the water coming out of the faucet was "is that a waterfall mama?"

Little Miss Rose E has apparently taken on her brothers longing to be "big"too! I had been giving her a sippy cup with water in it after her meals and now she has discovered that what Mommy drinks out of is a whole lot more fun. She is just fascinated with my drinks and once I give her a sip she just keeps on asking for more. In the picture she has her bonnet on because I let them eat out on the porch today, Walter was excited to have "a picnic." Then afterwards we played outside. It was in the 60's! It was cute because Walter gave Rose E a full blown tour of our yard as he pointed out grass, trees, the fence, his slide, etc to her. Then when Rose E saw the swing she started to kick in excitement and said "wee." I couldn't believe it especially since it has been a couple of weeks since she has sat in it (she is usually napping when Walter and I go out to play)! She is saying so much! Today she said "pacifier" and "giraffe." She also started to sign tree and hat.