Little Bits

After months/years of eating dry cereal, Collin put milk in his cereal this morning. He realized it was good and asked for seconds! There's a reason the rest of us do it!

Owen is learning to write the letters of the alphabet and has his name down. It's so cute to here him, "O-W-E-N ... that's my name!"

Owen loves eggs - will eat them any way but runny. He's the only one of our kids that will eat them. (Well, on occasion Collin will eat the white of the egg only.)

Kate has words! Yesterday Kevin walked in from work and she said, "Hi, Dada!" She also now says: Mama, Nana (Banana). Lori tells me she also says "help" ~ I'll have to take her word for it.

Kate's current favorite activities: stack blocks (or anything) then knock them down, put things in/out of containers, play pretend mealtime with her kitchen stuff, climb up on the couch then back down then up then down (etc). She's still totally into her brothers and loves to climb on them. She's recently learned to give them hugs!

Yesterday morning I was doing my hair when I heard Kate wake up. Collin went in, and I listened as he said "good morning," asked her about her night, then sat down on the floor next to her crib with a pile of books - "I'll read to you while we wait for Mommy to finish getting ready, ok, Kate?" I walked in a short while later, and she was sitting in her crib, watching him, and listening intently to his made-up versions of the stories. Such a good big brother!!!

I need to post a picture of Owen's stick person. It has two eyes, a big smile, sometimes a nose, and legs sprouting from the smile! Too cute!

Owen doesn't carry anything in the palm of his hand anymore ... it's actually really sad. He's been growing up a LOT over the last six months, and he recently dropped that "habit." (He's also lost his toddler-look, his face and thinned out, he's gotten much taller, and he's super independent. He has his own ideas, his own plans, and is absolutely ok - sometimes even chooses - to be off doing his own thing. He even suddenly sounds older. It's happening so quickly...)

Collin has never been a huge talker. I used to have to drag conversations out of him about his day, his dreams, etc. But nowadays if you get him started, you better settle in and focus ~ he's been storing up ideas and thoughts and dreams and plans for the last few years, and he's ready to share!! I have to promise him at bedtime that we WILL talk again tomorrow, so we need to stop and get sleep. So funny! Love it! (By the way, we've been up later than usual lately because there is nothing harder than telling your big boy that he needs to stop talking to you!! Just absolutely wrong! But so is bedtime after 10 p.m. - especially when you hopped under your covers around 8:30!)