kids update - November 2009

Jeff is 18 months old now. He started walking a month or so ago, and now is working on talking. He can say a lot with just a few words and lots of inflection! He adds new words about every day, it seems. He wants to do what the big girls do - read the books they read, go outside when they do, drink juice because they got some. He's all boy and loves everything that bounces or has wheels. Oh, some funny things Jeff says: pear is "prrr", bear is "brrr", and ear is "rrrr". And water is "oioioioi" (don't ask me why!). And "thank you" is "ga-cum" (as in, you're welcome?).



Emily is 3 yrs, 3 months old. She can read and is improving that ability every day. She still loves the computer. And dolls/bears/etc. Her current favorite is brown bear (well-loved enough to have his nose fuzz rubbed off) and the stuffed sea turtle we got on our last Myrtle Beach trip (October), and the knitted squares blanket Grandma made her when she was a baby. She's growing up so much! Looks like a big girl now, especially since her hair has grown out.



Katherine is 5 1/2. She still loves to read, and has just gotten into the "Best in Children's Books" set I had growing up (though I'm sure I acquired some since then). http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/re-bestindex.shtml Now I need to go catalog which ones I have, so I can find and acquire the others! Katherine is growing up so much too. She still loves being outside, building with Legos (though we haven't done that much lately), and more recently, "making things" out of paper and scissors. She learned how to make snowflake-style patterns (http://highhopes.com/snowflakes.html) though usually with square papers.

Lincoln Log house (inspired by Little House on the Prairie log house) - we've been reading through the Little House books recently

We also finally went on a train ride, just for fun, since Katherine wanted to ride a train. It was just a "there and back" morning trip from Burlington to Greensboro, but it was nice enough.