More Kid Updates for Grandparents and So Forth

Lately Rose has been going through an amazingly communicative stage. She's using four- or five-word "sentences" to get her message across. Some examples: "Daddy go airplane China," "Simon pulling Rose's hair," etc. I really need to write these down as soon as she says them, because she has come up with some real doozies that I can't remember. Also, interestingly enough, she has kind of "reverted" to babbling and nonsensical sounds. I think that her speech is developing so fast that she gets tongue tied at times.

Her attention span is also lengthening, because she'll sit still for some DVDs. We checked out a princess sing-along at the library, and she watches it all the time. There's a song in it from Cinderella 2, and one of the lines is "mmm-aahh--ooh la la." As I was in the other room, I heard Rose sing that right on cue.

Rose is also a big fan of play-doh, and her hobby has given me the opportunity to see her imagination at work. Today she made a wide variety of creatures and objects: dolphins, clouds, a baby bird and birdhouse, a daddy snake named Sevak who later turned into a "turd." Okay, just FYI: I used that word once in conjunction with potty training, and it magically became a part of Rose's vocabulary. Seriously--one day she said it, and I was like, "what?" She had to repeat it a couple of times before I finally realized what it was and where she heard it. She always uses it very matter-of-factly, which makes me have to stifle laughter.

As for Simon's developments, he is just about as wiggly as ever. He pushes himself into downward-facing dog, but he still hasn't started crawling! Today he even pushed himself onto his feet by using my aerobics step. He can get places by rolling or scooting backwards, but he can't control it very well so he gets frustrated. I know that as soon as he starts crawling he is going to be very, very fast. Today he was playing on the playground with Rose and she was really getting him excited and causing him to quickly push himself around. It was a riot. Oh, and he is extremely wiggly in the tub. He's constantly getting on his tummy, rolling, reaching for things, etc. I have to have my hands on him at all times.

To conclude, here are some pictures of the kids that I swiped from my sister Paige's facebook account: