I was a bit torn if I should post today after Lowell just did (from the university) regarding updates about our family, but it has been awhile and L and K have achieved some skills that I wanted to let you know about too.

Alright the update on K; after a week of a whiny, complaining little girl I think that she has figured out how to do what she has been wanting to. These days she wants to sit upright, not semi reclined, which means that she spends more time on her nose than with the toys that she is trying to grab. Sitting her in the high chair has helped a little. It also lets her be where the action is.

She has been rolling over front to back and back to front periodically this past week, I think that those were mostly accidental. Friday she rolled back to front 3 times in a row intentionally. Yesterday L was playing with some trucks beside K, she was turning on her side and putting her feet on his trailer; “What’s she doing?” L said rather confused. Lowell said “I think she wants to load her feet onto your trailer.” Then she rolled right over into and onto the trucks. “What’s she doing?” L said rather annoyed.

A personal favourite to me is that K found her feet during her diaper change today. I think it is so cute when babies chew on their chubby little toes.

It’s been rainy and dreary here the last few days, so we have been inside more than L would like. Thankfully there are such a thing as indoor picnics.

Lowell is trying to finish a paper so we didn’t do anything as a family yesterday, but last Saturday we did the New England thing and had a pancake breakfast at a local Sugar Shack.

While K has been having a developmental growth spurt L is as well. He is still a fan of letters and busy spelling words with both his bath tub letters and magnetic letters. He makes up words and then tries to sound them out. This is tricky as there are often very few vowels in his string of 10 letters. If he runs out of the letters he “needs” then he writes more on paper. He was very proud of himself when I told him to put PEN, JET and then JAM together and he successfully sounded out the words so that he could recognize them. He is very thrilled with his new reading skills. I guess he has been using these skills in the church nursery. Sarah (one of the workers) asked L if he had read that word and he give her a look as if to say “Of course what else do you do with words!” Lowell and I like that L is interested in letters on his own and that his reading skills haven’t come because we have been pushing him. Learning is hard work; one evening he fell asleep on the couch and didn’t even care that K was kicking him in the head.