Our Kids

The girls’ imaginations have really kicked in lately.  It is so awesome to watch.  They will play for a couple hours sometimes using nothing but their imaginations.  They are really in to Go Diego Go right now and love to play like they are animal rescuers.  They will go around the yard rescuing Baby Jaguar from a waterfall and then Baby Bear from a tree, all the while rowing their boats away from the crocodiles in the lake, steering their cars (big boulders in the yard) with imaginary steering wheels that they got out of a tree.  I am amazed at what they come up with and how much fun they are having.  Makes you wonder why you even buy them all the plastic toy crap when all they need is a little imagination and some free time to use it.

Jason spent the better part of the morning the other day with Piper at the Mayo clinic getting another consult on her finger.  After two hours in an exam room she came out able to write the letter P.  He taught her to draw a line and then a semi circle.  It is so cute, I am not sure she realizes what she is/can do but even I was impressed.

Tonight I asked the girls if they wanted to take a bath.  They said no (my mistake for asking) and they said that I was stinky (meaning they were not stinky).  Then Lela proceeded to tell me that I was disgusting, which elicited a laugh from their father!  Now the only time we use the word disgusting is when Piper picks her nose and eats it, which is really disgusting.  But it just goes to show how they assimilated that word into their vocabulary and used it correctly, well not really correctly since I am NOT disgusting:)

Oh the things we teach our kids:)

Last night Landis did what she normally does during the day, she slept in three hour increments! Well really 2 hours 30 min or so but with the nursing it was 3 hour shifts. That is what I told her to do when we went to bed at 10:30 but little did I know she would actually do it:)

Also after the nighttime routine Landis has started to have an alert period that lasts a good 45 min or so every morning. The girls love it because she looks at them and Piper makes sure to get in to her field of vision if she can’t or won’t turn her head towards her.

I don’t know what she weighs but she is definitely getting bigger. She is out of her preemie clothes, they still fit but are snug, and is starting to fill out her newborn togs. The preemie clothes did not last long but it is nice to have clothes that actually fit your baby, it makes them look less scrawny:)