Update, update, who loves updates?
Ha ha.
I've written maybe 3 or 4 ranting blogs recently, which have all gone unpublished.
Ranting?
What??? What could I possibly need to rant about?
Really just one thing, because everything else in my life is better than best.
What's that ONE thing???
It starts with a D and ends with a "I really hate diabetes".
That made no sense.
Yeah, anyways.....
I really hate diabetes.
But the crap surrounding that will go unpublished, cause nobody wants to read that stuff, ha ha ha.
Okay, more like I don't want people reading that stuff. :)
I'll save it for my future posterity to find in the archives of my blog and they'll be like.....
"Holy cow, our great great great great grandma was REALLY mad about her health condition!"
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
I digress....
Update!
My kids are so cute.
Ugh.
It hurts how cute they are most of the time.
Hunter got his hair cut last week!
*sobs*
It's SOOO adorable! Oh my gosh, he's a tiny man.
I can't get over how handsome he is.
He is just growing and progressing in every part of life. Except for walking. He won't even try. It hasn't clicked in his brain that he totally could if he wanted to.
He's a smart little dude though. He has started getting into the stage where he actually knows what I'm asking for. I'll say: "Where's the ball?" or "Where's Grace?" and he'll point or go get whatever I'm talking about. He's been able to do this with "ball", "car", "milk", "Grace", "dog", and "book".
He loooooooves my parents dog. Loooooooves. She's kind of a big dog too! She's a beautiful golden retriever and he just squeals when he sees her. He loves petting her and letting her lick him.
He's not afraid of anything. Grace has always been my scaredy cat, so I've always kind of thought that all kids were afraid of the things she's been afraid of....but nope. There is a long list of things that he is not phased by that Grace generally still freaks out about. Dogs, vaccums, loud noises, strangers, etc. Grace has gotten lots better with many of these things though. I'll talk about that in a minute.
Hunter LOVES Lightning McQueen! I'm excited to go to Disneyland (16 MORE DAYS I'M NOT COUNTING FRAGMENT SENTENCE) and see if he reacts to Carsland! He finds anything and everything in our house that is Cars related and carries it around everywhere. He plays with toy cars constantly.
He recently learned how to turn around to go down the stairs on his own. He's known how to go down the stairs for several months, but he never could figure out how to turn around to not go head first. So every time he would want to go somewhere I would need to turn him and then he could do the rest. Last week he started just magically turning around and now he is everywhere on his own. He is SO happy with himself too. I love watching his face swell with pride when he figures something out. He is the sweetest.
He has been a little bit naughty lately in the way that he knows when he's not supposed to do something. This mostly has to do with throwing toys at things.
Grace.....me.......our TV stand....my harps....
He will throw toys at my harps, which is a big no no.
He winds up, looks at me, will say "OH!?", and then throws the toy. Such a goober. Testing limits is what babies and toddlers do. It's all part of the process, ha ha.
Hunter and Grace have the super classic sibling relationship. They love each other and laugh so much when they play. They play with each other all day long and love giving each other hugs. They also get mad at each other and don't like to share. Yesterday Hunter was cracking me up, because he would grab a toy that was by Grace and then sprint crawl as fast as he could to me, dive on my lap, turn around and burrow his back into me like "save me, Mom!". Ha ha ha ha ha. He definitely does not like Grace having toys that he wants. Aaaaaand pretty much any toy that Grace has is the toy that he wants.
We are definitely past the whole Grace gets everything, cause Hunter doesn't care or know any better stage.
Grace is very adamant about getting Hunter up from each nap or every morning when they wake up. She will cry if someone else gets him.
Crying.
That girl is SO smart. She's far above her age in so many areas, but the emotional intelligence is right where it should be developmentally. Meaning......emotions are very high and crying happens a lot! Ha ha ha ha.
She cries to get her way. She cries to get attention. (Both of which we are working on)
I am hoping that going to preschool will help with this as well as us figuring it out at home. I am hoping that being away from me and learning how to function in a classroom, with friends, with another adult besides mom and dad, will help her calm the emotions down a little bit.
I think it will. She's already loved preschool SO much! She talks about it constantly. She always wants to say all of her friends names. We'll be talking about something completely random and not preschool related and she will say: "Maybe we can ask Teacher Celeste sometime!?!?" Ha ha ha ha. I love it!
Between going to preschool and going to dance class, we have been busy! I prefer for it to be that way, though. I need to be busy. Having things to break up the day is good for us.
Something else fun that we do often is go to our local library. Grace LOVES doing this! She asks to go 3-4 times a week. We usually just go once a week, maybe twice if we don't have anything else going on.
Grace likes checking out a toy, book, and movie each time we go. The library has big bags with educational toys in them that you can check out. My kids love them. The one Grace has right now is a bunch of magnet pieces that make robots. I like getting them, because it gives them a new toy to be excited about, but we also don't need to keep it. It freshens things up toy wise.
Grace has changed quite a bit recently with how she reacts to situations.
Like I was saying above, she has always been a big scaredy cat, but recently she has gotten SO much better.
She loves going up to strangers and saying hi now. She thinks it is fun to meet and play with new kids at the playground or the library. Just last night when we went she was playing with two boys maybe a year or two older than her.
Six months ago she would have NEVER done that.
I think preschool has been really good for her that way. I'm excited to see how well she does with it this year.
She also helped me vacuum for the first time yesterday. Her whole life she has hated the vacuum. She doesn't like loud noises and no matter how many times I've told her it's okay, she would never get close to the vacuum. Yesterday I eased her into it and she helped with the hose to vacuum the stairs. She figured out that it's not scary and wanted to do the rest of the vacuuming for me, haha.
I love watching her grow up and do things better, easier, and on her own. She is so capable of so many things! I am proud of my little girl.
No blog would be complete without cute pictures!
Always with Lightning McQueen <3 p="">
We went on the train to my dad's house! It was an adventure! Ha ha ha ha ha. Public transportation with tiny children is..................a little nuts! We had more fun than anything else though. :)
He enjoys looking at trains! We can see the train out of our kitchen window and he will point it out to me all the time! Smart boy.
Grace was worried that we had to show our ticket to someone! She held on to it for a long time just in case, ha ha.
She had to bring a whole bucket of toys with her. :)
This is why I don't practice as much as I want to. Ha ha ha. He does this constantly even if I'm not playing!
Last pics before his hair cut! Oh sweet sweet boy!
Long little baby locks!
He loves putting stuff in his mouth like this. I call him a puppy and he just giggles and crawls away. He thinks he's hilarious!
My tiny dancer who also thinks she's hilarious....
And she is!
"Grace do a thumbs up!" *pointer finger every time*
She looks like she's going to break into a hip hop ensemble or something, ha ha.
Always posing :)
The other day I was loading up laundry to take downstairs and Hunter climbed into one of the baskets. He's a goof.
He does NOT like to be fed by me. He gets very impatient and prefers to feed himself!
Grace's all about me banner. She loves preschool so much!
Another week of dance. Lookin cute in her dance clothes.
My buddy
