Today it feels like fall is in the air, even though yesterday it reached almost 90 degrees. Honestly I was kind of excited to be able to put the kids in some of their new-to-them fall clothes. Will's are a bit big and Olivia's are a bit snug (surprise, surprise). I thought I would sit down today and update my readers on our lives.
Will is two and three months now, and his vocabulary has just exploded this past month. He repeats almost any word we say, sometimes words we wish we wouldn't say (Geesh! Move!) This last week he has really gotten into reading books, especially books where he has to find things in the pictures like
Goodnight Moon and
Each Peach Pear Plum. I am trying to mix some Bible stories in there as well, but the pictures in the story Bible aren't quite as engaging and he loses interest.
Will is very into Veggie Tales and tv in general, but I find most kids shows to be extremely irritating, so we stick almost exclusively to Veggie Tales with some Disney movies mixed in every now and then.
Will LOVES cars right now. He has probably twenty matchbox cars that he carries around in a bag and will line them all up like a parking lot on our ottoman (all facing the same direction!) He also has three bigger cars that he really enjoys and uses our tv stand as their "garage." Will is still a super picky eater, but every now and then he will surprise me with what he wants to eat. Last week he ate spinach, ham and onion quiche, but this week wouldn't touch his mac n cheese.
Baths are always a fun activity at our house and sometimes Will will stay in the tub for over an hour. He especially likes to sit in the baby bathtub in the shower with the handheld sprayer. It is a pretty funny sight that reminds me of old western movies where the cowboys would bath in old fashioned tubs.
Lately Will has been showing a lot more affection toward Olivia which is so sweet to see. He always has to tell her goodnight and give her a kiss when he goes to bed, but will also sometimes just randomly go up to her and give her a hug. He likes to give hugs in general; for example, when we go for a walk he has to give every light pole we pass a hug.
Olivia is five months old now and weighed 16 lbs at her last doctor appointment. She began rolling from back to front last week, so now log rolling across the room is the thing to do. Quite often she yells in frustration when she is stopped by a toy or piece of furniture in her way, or when she can't quite figure out how to get back to laying on her back. She is very vocal and loves to laugh, squeal and babble. If I answer her back with a similar sound to what she is making we can have "conversations" for quite some time.
Last weekend we got an exer-saucer for her to play with and she enjoys it for short amounts of time -if she can get to it when it is not occupied by her brother :) Overall Olivia is a very sweet baby who loves being held, talked to, and carried. I think she may be teething now as she chews on everything.
