Mama's little characters!

Today was all about the blocks and building for these kiddos. Rose E started out the morning by banging a few of Walter's wooden blocks around. Then Walter and I built towers trying to get Rose E to stack but she would go to set her block down onto another and then change her mind and take the block back. Then Walter said "can we please bring my logs upstairs?" He has been building a lot of train stations, bridges and track lately with his wooden and duplo blocks so I wasn't too surprised when this one became a train station too. He even made sidewalks and platforms for the people that where waiting for the train along with train track. I had to laugh though because he was protective of his creations and blocks (even though we had some lessons in sharing) and at one point Rose E snuck over to the box grabbed two Lincoln logs and crawled away as fast as she possibly could still holding them in her hands feeling like she got away with something. She was a little character today! Walter made-up a few songs this morning and when I said to him "you don't have anymore" Rose E replied "no, no, no!" This afternoon too she was supposed to be going down for a nap but she was crying, so I went into her room to see what was wrong and her pacifier was on the floor and when I said "where did your pacifier go?" She looked down towards the floor and said "whee." She also learned how to sign bell and her other new words of the day where "sss" for the sound a snake makes, "please" and "eat." Speaking of eating, today when I cooked up a batch of broccoli, for the first time I didn't put hers in the blender to puree but cut it up into tiny pieces and she loved it! A whole lot easier for me and a whole lot more fun for her! Oh and that reminds me Walter has been saying lately when there is something good to eat "not eat it all" even if there is lots left. So not too long ago I had another one of those proud food moments when Jeff took seconds of broccoli and Walter said "not eat it all daddy." I also got a kick out of one of Walter's observations today. He said Chevy and we have teeth but not cars, trucks, motorcycles, trees, grass, the house (and his list went on and on). Sometimes his thoughts just take me by complete surprise, it is fun to see those wheels a turning! He also asked me why Chevy doesn't go everywhere with us in the van (to places such as the library, the grocery store and to church) and why he doesn't have a dog house like Clifford's in his books.