Anyway, here's a recent picture of the girls, wearing dresses that came from my sister Elizabeth after her girls outgrew them. (Ok, so maybe black pants don't match... tights just seem too much trouble.)
Emily is hitting that verbal explosion that I remember Katherine coming to, where she has the ability to attempt to imitate any word you say (if she wants to). She still uses hand motions for "please" and "thank you", though they occasionally come out verbally too. She can communicate what she wants (as long as Mommy remembers that "poooo" (spoon) is not the same as "poo" (food) or any other similar "word" of hers).
She also has a great sense of humor, and likes to do things for the purpose of being funny (as opposed to, kid things that she does being innately funny to adults). E.g., she put part of her cheese sandwich on her head for a hat, and yes, it was funny. (who thinks of making food be a hat??)
Katherine is learning to read with a book called "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" - thanks to Jolene, who was using the book with Anna when we visited them in July. It's nice because pretty quickly they add a little "story" to each lesson (which at the beginning might be all of 3 words), and she looks forward to that.
We try to do some math too, but really dropped the ball on that during November. Maybe we can do better in December. She really likes to do it, it's just a matter of Mommy making time for it. Now that I'm not so exhausted all the time, maybe we can make it a priority again.
Anyway, more to write, but Katherine's waiting for the books I promised to read before bed.
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