Less Doing, More Talking

We are doing good at the tallgirl household.  The kids continue to get giant and crazy. 

 

It is weird to keep a blog of your kid's progress because I feel like the Peanut doesn't get as many good stories about her, but since she is so crazy and doing something wild, I feel like most of the good pictures involve her.  She is always in motion.  She is a blur of purple flowers and a string of  being fancy.  I think it is hard to capture what she is about in words when pictures can do it so well for me.  She is incredibly kind and helpful.  She is also hard to control because she is so crazy.  She is impulsive and aggravating, but I really can't stress how large her heart is.  She is so kind and cares so much about those around her.  She is also a very snazzy dresser!

Little brother seems to be doing really well.  His vocabulary has exploded!  He is using 3 and 4 word sentences pretty regularly.  "More water please momma"  "I like juice"  "Apple Juice box please momma".  It is so neat to see this little boy start to communicate.  I have always heard of kids having bursts of vocabularly, but now I really understand it.  Peanut would have some boughts of speech but nothing like babyP. 

He still loves his momma and his sister.  He is very affectionate.  Each night before I turn off the light he says "give sissy a kiss"  and runs out to kiss his sister.  Yesterday, after we paid for our campsite, he ran to his sister and said "HUG".  Hugs are his favorite.  He often stops people to get a hug from them. 

He is still pretty tempermental.  It is something about him that we manage.  He doesn't like to be told no and will loose his cool pretty easily.  Even with his new batch of words at his disposal, he still hits and bites when he doesn't get his way.  It can be difficult because he wants to be with me all the time.  If he can't, he will bite or hit me or his sister.  Sadness... I hope he outgrows this soon. 

He has also taken to biting himself.  He bit himself this afternoon and showed me.  He said Bite Bite!  I wonder if he is biting himself at school and blaming it on other kids.  I am going to have to be sure his teacher knows.  There is a girl at his school that he blames everything on.  Me: "Who hit your sister?"  BabyP: "Lily hits"

 He had an okay time camping, but i think he would have preferred to stay at home.  His allergies are giving him fits so he has been feeling a bit under the weather. 

In other interesting news, I am getting a new camera.  I CAN'T WAIT!  I have also been learning a bit more about Photoshop, so be prepared for super dooper cool pictures!