Lucy loves to go the the library. She picks out books to read during her rest time in bed, and helps Brandt find books that he will like also. So she works hard on her reading every day, and we are amazed at how fast she is getting and the words she can sound out. We will take turns reading a page on larger books and she moves my finger if I run it under the words she is reading. So now we have gotten a spelling book and are working on that because she is always writing or drawing and asking how to spell certain words. I'm still prayerfully considering homeschooling because I don't want her love for learning to get lost or slowed down. It's so hard knowing what to do. I was just looking back at pictures of Lucy last year, and she still had the chubby little toddler face compared to now. She is looking like such a big girl.
Lucy is such a monkey... she crawls all over the swing set. She is getting so strong. We go for 2 mile walks and she rides her bike the whole way. She gets pretty tired and Mike has to push her up some of the huge hills on the trail, but she does it. She is so proud of herself when we get home.
Today after we finished reading a story we were talking about how the holidays are coming up and that Daddy will be home more often because he has so much vacation. So then she said "you know what my favorite part of Christmas is?" I started to guess...that Daddy is home more, that we get to bake cookies, that we go to Grandma and Papa's and Grammy and Papa's... of all which she answered, "oh I do like that, but that's not my favorite." I was trying to completely avoid saying Christmas presents because I was afraid that was what it was. So finally I gave up and said so what is your favorite part. She said "that Jesus was born." I am starting to cry all over again just typing this, and of course I started crying and hugging her right after she said it. I said, you've got it, that's right! And here I was afraid she would say presents when she said what our greatest gift of all is, Jesus Christ. This precious girl amazes me daily. I am so blessed to be her mommy!!
Friday, October 22, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
All about Brandt
Brandt is almost 2 and is beginning to talk more like a big boy, but it is still sweet little words and the most common words we hear throughout the day are "sissy", "mommy" and "baby" and "tweet tweet." Tweet tweet is for binky, and just when I was about to take the binky's away, he began calling it his tweet tweet. I thought it was so cute that I couldn't bring myself to take it away because I love to hear him say it. Baby goes with him everywhere and is always in need of a bath. I washed him last week and Brandt cried so hard when we put baby in the washing machine. It was so sad. Then when he heard the buzzer, he ran to the laundry room and then I had to tell him that baby wasn't ready to play yet because he had to get dried. Oh, how he cried again as we put baby in the dryer. It's a very traumatic experience for him and so baby is dirty this week and we just put some baby doll pajama's over him until I can sneak him away for another bath.
So after dinner, we usually all go in the living room or playroom and play for a while. One night, Lucy wanted Mike to throw blankets over them and then tickle them. So he was doing it for the longest time and they were laughing so hard. Well, Lucy told Mike to do it to me. So he did it and was tickling me and Brandt ran over to me crying "mommy" and was trying to save me. He did not like them getting me. It was so sweet. Then we had a sweet friend take our family picture last week, and whenever she was trying to take a picture of just Mike and I he would run over to me, stick his head between my legs and cry so hard. My goodness, I do have a mama's boy on my hand. I like it that way!!
I love that Brandt will play dolls and tea party with Lucy, and then a minute later he has found something to "fro" and is tossing it up in the air and yelling "fro" every time. We were in the kitchen and all of a sudden we here banging, so Mike goes up to see what it is and he finds Brandt throwing a ball against the wall. Mike tells Brandt not to throw the ball at the wall. He says "oh" and then goes over to another wall and it about to throw it. Mike says tells him not that wall either. He does this again and finally Mike says, here buddy throw it to me. So he gets all excited and starts to "fro" it.
I have noticed that Brandt will say "ta u" a lot without me even asking him to say thank you. He will do it when I hand him something or help him with something. It makes me smile every time because I can see such a sweet kind spirit in him. He also is quick to say sorry and give hugs. Oh how I love this precious little boy who is growing up much too fast for his mama!
So after dinner, we usually all go in the living room or playroom and play for a while. One night, Lucy wanted Mike to throw blankets over them and then tickle them. So he was doing it for the longest time and they were laughing so hard. Well, Lucy told Mike to do it to me. So he did it and was tickling me and Brandt ran over to me crying "mommy" and was trying to save me. He did not like them getting me. It was so sweet. Then we had a sweet friend take our family picture last week, and whenever she was trying to take a picture of just Mike and I he would run over to me, stick his head between my legs and cry so hard. My goodness, I do have a mama's boy on my hand. I like it that way!!
I love that Brandt will play dolls and tea party with Lucy, and then a minute later he has found something to "fro" and is tossing it up in the air and yelling "fro" every time. We were in the kitchen and all of a sudden we here banging, so Mike goes up to see what it is and he finds Brandt throwing a ball against the wall. Mike tells Brandt not to throw the ball at the wall. He says "oh" and then goes over to another wall and it about to throw it. Mike says tells him not that wall either. He does this again and finally Mike says, here buddy throw it to me. So he gets all excited and starts to "fro" it.
I have noticed that Brandt will say "ta u" a lot without me even asking him to say thank you. He will do it when I hand him something or help him with something. It makes me smile every time because I can see such a sweet kind spirit in him. He also is quick to say sorry and give hugs. Oh how I love this precious little boy who is growing up much too fast for his mama!
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