A lot has happened since I last updated - this post will probably get pretty long.
Peanut has been working on writing her letters and the letter sounds. We started that this past week. She knows A, B, and we introduced C but she isn't as strong on the "c" sound just yet. Writing the letters is pretty rough at this point for the letter B, and for the lowercase a and b, but practice makes perfect. She'll get there :). She is so excited about being able to attend school this fall that it's a good motivator.
Peanut is still doing two gymnastics classes for now, but that will likely change over the summer as we adjust our schedules. She has one with Miss Lina and one with Mr Adam. We also enrolled in the annual recital for this spring again. She did the recital last year after LoveBug was born and did a great job with it - I hope this year goes equally as well. In gymnastics she has become much more confident on the beam and on the forward flip over the bar. We're still working on the back flip on the bar, and we need to work more on listening now that her free will has kicked into high gear :).
She is doing great in swim lessons, too. She has put her face in the water a couple of times, but it takes a lot of coaxing and isn't something she does willingly yet. She's been going to practice with grandma often the last week or two.
Her favorite movie right now is Frozen, and she's watched it no less than 30 times already. She also likes a new show called Sheriff Callie. For the first couple of weeks she liked it she thought the name was Bashira and we weren't sure what she was asking to watch. Love those funny pronunciations for things! She's got it down now, though.
LoveBug is a mover. He is all over the place. Crawling everywhere, walking all around the furniture, pushing the walking toys around the house. He likes to throw anything out of the container that it's in: movies, toys, wet wipes, diapers. You name it, he spreads it around the house. He is also a biter. He chomps down on everything he can get his hands onto (as I type this I have two sets of teeth marks on my arm from two different bites at lunch today). At only 10 months, he isn't trying to be mean. I think maybe his mouth is hurting from teething but that's just a guess.
LoveBug is my buddy all the way. I love how his face lights up when he sees me. His favorite toys right now are water bottles (go figure with all the toys we have in our house, he'd pick a non-toy as his favorite) and he came up with his own word for bottle, Abba. He also says "gone" when he plays hide and seek with you. SO CUTE.
LoveBug is starting swim lessons this summer, and likely will start gymnastics class in the fall. We'll see how things go :) I'm so excited for this summer I think it will be a lot of fun with two mobile kids! Picnics, feeding the ducks, swimming trips, etc.
We took a family trip to visit Aunt Olivia and Uncle Adam in St. Louis at the beginning of March and that was a long ride but a lot of fun. Both kids were sick with nasty colds, which wasn't great, but our times together at their apartment and at the zoo and science center were nice and it was awesome to see Olivia and Adam.
My FIL had surgery just before we left for St. Louis - the surgery went well, but the recovery has been a bit rough. He's back in the hospital near us for now and isn't looking great just yet. Hopefully soon he'll be back in action.
Daddy got a promotion at work recently and has been working crazy hours lately. He pulled an over 24 hour shift two days ago and is still recovering from that - and still doing more work here and there. It's certainly been an adjustment for our family, but a good one!
Okay, I think that's all for now - I can always add more later if I remember :). Just don't want to forget these wonderful memories of our kids!
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