Everyone is our family is growing by leaps and bounds right now (well, maybe not Joe, but he's trying hard to take care of all the rest of us).
Adelaide has exploded into 4-year-old-ness. The past few months have been a steep learning curve in every aspect. She now counts to 100 by 1s, 5s, 10s and does simple addition. She's gone from sounding out a few words here and there to reading whole sentences. She does the monkey bars, back and forth, over and over, like a real monkey! And her ability to think and reason are just astounding. She's suddenly a real person. I am daily amazed at the things she can do, achieve, comprehend, remember. It's been explosive. Here she's "spelling" farm animal names.
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As for Mr. Miles, he's in a language explosion phase. New words abound every day (today: spider, jump, raspberry), and he's starting to put them together occasionally "Ada, bath" (when she's too slow up the stairs for bath time), "mama, no!" (when I misunderstand his request). Unfortunately for us, his annunciation of all these new words is just above terrible. We recently discovered that "bauk-bauk" (the sound he makes for chicken) sounds almost identical to Papa, his name for my dad, which has been amusing for all but one in the family. Fortunately for us, he is very expressive and persistent, so when we misunderstand, he repeats, points, gestures, frowns, until we get it right! Nonetheless, new language is so exciting!
For my own part, I have a growing belly. Now 20 weeks with the big #3 (third and last, if anyone is counting!). Had my fetal anatomy scan this week, and everything looks good which is a nice relief. I've been affectionately calling the baby Norbert, the little dragon. This baby absolutely tortured me for the first 18 weeks or so with nausea, exhaustion, lots of illness ... it was a rough winter. But now the spring has arrived with gusto and thankfully I am feeling like a normal (fat) person. My belly is swelling to the point that I look "plump" (thanks mom) but not quite pregnant. The nurses at work have been teasing me about my new "booty" and I'm just at the point that my clothes all look too small, but the maternity stuff is ridiculously baggy. Here's Norbs, blowing a kiss from that cozy little space to his/her new family.
Adelaide has exploded into 4-year-old-ness. The past few months have been a steep learning curve in every aspect. She now counts to 100 by 1s, 5s, 10s and does simple addition. She's gone from sounding out a few words here and there to reading whole sentences. She does the monkey bars, back and forth, over and over, like a real monkey! And her ability to think and reason are just astounding. She's suddenly a real person. I am daily amazed at the things she can do, achieve, comprehend, remember. It's been explosive. Here she's "spelling" farm animal names..jpg)
For my own part, I have a growing belly. Now 20 weeks with the big #3 (third and last, if anyone is counting!). Had my fetal anatomy scan this week, and everything looks good which is a nice relief. I've been affectionately calling the baby Norbert, the little dragon. This baby absolutely tortured me for the first 18 weeks or so with nausea, exhaustion, lots of illness ... it was a rough winter. But now the spring has arrived with gusto and thankfully I am feeling like a normal (fat) person. My belly is swelling to the point that I look "plump" (thanks mom) but not quite pregnant. The nurses at work have been teasing me about my new "booty" and I'm just at the point that my clothes all look too small, but the maternity stuff is ridiculously baggy. Here's Norbs, blowing a kiss from that cozy little space to his/her new family.
