Busy little beavers!

Walter has made some exciting accomplishments this weekend. First of all, he is now cutting on lines (before he would make small little cuts). Anyway, I drew out some roads for him to cut out and boy did it ever make his wheels turn (in more than one way)! It started out as a couple of black pieces of paper and turned into this big village. He insisted on taping it onto the floor and then added the yard stick, some foam bath tub road pieces and a ribbon that has marking on it like a road. Then he drew lines on a piece of paper for his parking lot. Of course he had to make buildings too. So he got out his blocks and built "a mining building and a train station." Each building had a set of feet according to him. He worked on this little layout for hours and even said "I can't wait for Daddy to come home and see my car road and buildings." Oh and then he drove trains by the train station and drug out another train building.

Then today he was drawing and on his own for the first time wrote some letters to label what he was drawing! He made the letters O, i, t, x, l, p, and a. I don't know who was more excited me or him!
Rose E is now officially stacking blocks. Before she would go to stack a block onto another and then psyche us out and take it back. Anyway, it was cute because she would set her block on top of the other and say "block, block" then clap. She is turning into quite the little character. When I say should we change your diaper, right away she shakes her head no and says "no, no, no!" Earlier today we where in her bedroom and she said "coo coo" I said are you thinking about clocks? Then she pointed to the clock in her room and said "see." "See" was her most used word of the day. Every time I (or she- I have been letting her flip the switch) would turn on the light she would say "see." She also pulled herself up to a standing while holding onto chair pointed to it and said "sit down." Oh speaking of chairs, she was sitting in her high chair this evening and would purposely drop a toy and say "oopsie" (you really learn what you say when you have a couple of little parrots repeating your every word). Her other new words where "hey sweetie", "plane" (for airplane), and "wa" for waffles.

Word, words, words!

This afternoon Walter looked at the dog and said "the dog is sitting down." Look Mama I wrote "sit down" as he arranged his letters and spaced them into his own words on the refrigerator. Then he went on to make other words such as "big," "blocks,"trains," "sheep," "cows" etc. That imagination never stops and he can get creative with just about anything! Today we where in Rose E's room and I had a small pile of folded blankets on her bed, so he grabbed a stuffed cat and stuffed it in between the blankets and said "look Mama the kitty is sleeping in the back room of the castle." Then when the kitty woke-up he was ready to play, so Walter played trains with it (speaking of trains, today we took out his Geo trax trains and it now takes over our whole living room, but the kids had fun with it). Oh, Walter also made me smile today after he finished drawing "a train driving on the track" on his magna doodle he erased it and said "the train drove onto other track."
Little Miss Rose E kept me on my toes in Shopko today! She has learned how to stand-up in the seat of the cart (while buckled)! Anyway, she would stand-up and then say "sit down," little stinker! I had to laugh then as I loaded her back into the van she said "the end." Her new words that she just picked-up are "sorry" and "please." She also said to Jeff as he left to go back to work "see ya!"

Little Drummer Boy (and Girl)!

Today I brought out this drum full of instruments and did these kids ever fill my ears with the sound of music! It was cute because after I took this picture Walter got out his "building" he had made with blocks and said he was playing the music for the building. Then he told me I had to move the scarves to his music.
Rose E (which reminds me she said "Rose E" today) is copying everything now! Especially what her big bro does! Yesterday she not only pointed to pictures in a book and asked what they where but also to letters! Then she repeated the letters back to me!!! She also has been pointing at the letters on a sign in our kitchen and saying numbers as she points to each one.
We had another house tour meeting tonight. We got a babysitter and Rose E was a completely different baby(as compared to when we left last time), not minding at all that we where gone (Walter loved it too). It was nice because I snuck in a date with my hubby beforehand (we went out to eat) we both ordered things that our kids wouldn't have eaten much of, of course! It was a strange feeling though not to have them with. My steak sandwich came out steaming and I almost signed hot to Jeff, things like that just become habit! We left our meeting again talking about going antiquing and about all the things to get done this summer. I am sure it will be here before we know it!

Happy Memorial Day

Summer is in the air, well sorta (it doesn't feel like it today)! This weekend we planted a little vegetable garden with tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots. Walter has been very into a book of his lately called How Groundhog Garden Grew, it's about a Groundhog planting a garden and it shows what different plants look like underground as well as the different stages they go through as they grow. Walter has been studying it. I have even noticed him drawing pictures with potatoes growing in the ground. So anyway, it will be a fun learning experience for us all. Hopefully we have some luck and will get some tasty vegetables out of the deal! He is also very excited that we have ordered our caterpillars from a company called insect lore. Pretty soon they should be arriving. It will be neat for him to watch. We have been talking a lot about them too.
He said a few things this weekend that made me chuckle a little. Oh the innocence of young children! First of all, I took him to a rummage sale (to scope out some antiques but didn't find any) and parked on a hill. He looked up the hill and said "mama is that hill a mountain?" He has noticed too that some of the dandelions are starting to turn into their seed mode. He looked at them today and said "mama did spiders make those dandelions?" This evening he wanted help with his puzzle, there was a missing piece that he couldn't find and he turned to me and said "Mama, you a genius?" "I can't find my piece." He also gave us a little scare today. We think that he had a reaction to strawberries and broke out in hives. When I first gave him strawberries as a baby he broke out from them. I just thought I gave them to him to young and that he outgrew it. Anyway, the other day I bought some for the first time in a long time. Afterwards he broke out with two hives on his face and I thought may bee he had mosquito bites but a few hours later is was gone. Then today about a half an hour after he ate them his face was completely covered with hives. It eventually went away and that is all we can figure it was from. Strange! Never a dull moment!

Rose E has been keeping us hopping this weekend too of course! As we picked out our vegetables at the green house I held her and she would point to every plant and and say "plant?" She also was signing "flower." I had to laugh this evening on our walk Jeff pointed the nose of the stroller into the air while they where in it, goofing around, and Rose E said "whee flying!" How in the world did she know that! She is amazing me! Oh and on Saturday I said 1,2,3 and she then said "4,5,6,7,8,9." It was clear as day and I was floored.

We have been cutting foods up now that we have at our meals for her into tiny portions and she just loves it. She is definitely a meat eater! She loves beef, chicken, fish and tuna. Speaking of tuna, that was one of her new words the other day along with "cup."

Celebration!

Sending Birthday wishes your way Dan on your day! Hope it's full of fun adventures!

P.s The photo is courtesy of Jeff's parents camera.

Little slugger!

As you can see Chevy now has a new love. Yesterday while we where shopping I let Walter pick out a new toy for him, he found a hedgehog and that hedgehog has gone every where with him(except for outside-I had to make him drop it at the door). He certainly treasures his toys just like the kids do, I think it is so cute how he sleeps with them too.
This morning Walter woke-up and needed his nose blown and said "mama my nose is broken." It made me chuckle a little.
This afternoon I dressed up the kids and took them outside for some photo shoots. It was such a beautiful day so we spent a good amount of the rest of the day outside playing. As you can see Walter took out his baseball tee. He had a good time with it, batting at the ball and retrieving it when it was my turn to bat. He made some masterpieces with chalk too. Nana received a new job according to his drawing- holding the flags at his race track made of chalk and he drew Papa watching the race with his "baseball cap" on too.

Rose E was a little character today too! This morning when I went into her bedroom she had taken her sock off. Then when she saw me she placed it on top of her foot and said "see ya" to the sock! She has started with the questions too!!!! Gee I wonder who she is taking after? After breakfast I brought her into the living room and she said "play?" She also handed me a book and said "read?" Then later on when I was petting the cat she looked at me and said "pet?" As she bent down to pet her. She is starting to follow my directions too. Tonight when we where about to read stories in Walter's bedroom (inside his tent) I said "Rose E come here" and she crawled right to me. For her birthday we gave her her first Barbie, a barbie called princess Rose Ella it sings when you touch the necklace so I showed it to her and told her to press the necklace without showing her where the necklace was and she put her finger right on it! Then it started to sing and she turned to me with excitement and said "sing!" Another new word of hers today was "Jay, Jay" who is an airplane in one of Walter's books.

Mama's smarty pants!

Walter is finally on the home stretch of feeling better, I hope that is it for sickness now! We had a puzzle kind of day. Rose E has been playing a lot with her new puzzles and carrying the pieces around and Walter has been into really into puzzles too. He had fun with a couple of big train puzzles and then today we went shopping and came home with a John Deere 6o piecer which Jeff helped him put together this evening and a 35 piecer cars one. As we where shopping for them I had a flashback of buying his first puzzles for him when he was a baby, doesn't seem like that long ago! He had a couple of cute questions too today. First, he said "Mama why Chevy not have any shoes?" Then on our way to the store he said "Mama why does the van move?" My little curious George!
Rose E is now sometimes calling me "mommy" instead of Mama, where she got it I don't know since Walter calls me Mama but hey I'll take it. She also made me laugh because she was holding two books in her hand earlier today and Walter said he would like to look at them and she responded back to him "no, no, no!" One of the books that she was holding had Elmo on it and she looked at and then looked at me and signed is that a dog? Speaking of dogs and books we also set-up a little tent in Walter's room and read books by flash light tonight anyway one of the books that we read was Clifford and she said "Clifford" she also said the words "jean" for jeans, "truck" and "that hiccup" as she had the hiccups today.