Exploring and Elsa

Adrian

He had a fun week practicing climbing the stairs, climbing Mommy, and trying to get into everything he wasn't supposed to get into. He has been starting to point and communicate with me by telling me where he wants to go. I'm more consistent with signing the simple words so he will use them back. He waves at people at the store, signs milk when he is hungry and is pulling himself up to stand on everything. He likes to jump instead of trying to walk when we hold him up. The last new thing is that he is sleeping all the way through the night without waking up now that he isn't sick! That is the best news because we only have a month and a week left until we go on vacation and my parents will be taking care of him and the girls. He had a fun time following me around when I was redecorating for February until he was annoyed and just yelled at me for not picking him up and bringing him with me.

Shay

On our day off on Wednesday, we went to the very busy library because they had a frozen day with lots of different winter activities. The girls met Elsa, got their faces painted, played games, ice skated on paper plates through the bookshelves, drank hot chocolate (outside of course), and made crowns. It was packed because they sent papers notifying their entire school about it and the day was a teacher work day! They were both very excited to go and dressed like Elsa which I thought more little girls would be the same, but there were only a few. The face painting only lasted until that night when we had swim class and they had to take a bath, but it was really pretty. Friday was the 100th day of school and Shay had a party where they were supposed to dress up as old people, but I really didn't have anything that would have worked well. Shay was sad when she got on the bus, but had a fun party and came back happy about having a good day, she has a great teacher.

Claire

There was a music program she performed in on Friday that was western-themed and Chris and I got to see her, even though we were on the very back row. There weren't enough chairs so a lot of parents were standing so at least we got a seat and could see her. She is so small that they always put her in the front row and this time she was in the corner too. We had the option to bring her home early, but I didn't want Shay to be alone on the bus and worry about her sister. They think about each other all the time and at church today each of them asked for an extra treat from their teacher to give to their sister. Luckily they also could share some with Adrian so he stayed awake on the ride home and could nap at home. I got some new accessories for Adrian because I knew it was going to start being rainy and I still wanted to walk to the bus as often as possible. I'm stubbornly resisting taking the car, mostly because it's not that far, and I like giving Buttercup practice behaving and some exercise. Claire said he looks like a space ship now and even the steering wheel he has helps the aesthetic!