Our Kids

Well Landis is acting like she is teething but nothing has appeared. She will get as much of both fists in her mouth as possible and often times gags herself and then looks surprised. She is a drool machine but so cute. Just in the passed week or so she has become so alert and is falling into a regular nap routine. She is a super baby and she takes two little naps and one big nap and then goes to bed for the night around 7PM. When she is awake she is all smiles and giggles gnawing on anything that comes near her mouth.

Piper and Lela continue to adore her and play with her. Piper is so good about consoling her and getting down on her level and talking to her in her high pitched baby voice. Landis can roll from side to side and even on to her tummy, if you set her down on the floor she will wiggle herself about a foot or so but isn’t trying to move with purpose. She is working on sitting up and can do pretty well but definitely cannot be unattended while attempting a sit. She loves to jump in her jumper and is getting more and more fond of her exersaucer, she also loves to swing in her new swing that daddy put up and to sit outside and watch her sisters jump about. She hasn’t shown any interest in food yet but that might happen as quickly as the rest of her milestones so we will see.

Piper is up to her old tricks again. The other day we were playing in the yard and I decided to write some words in chalk on the wall. I wrote the usual, Mom, Dad, Piper and Lela which they both recognize on site and can spell if they are looking at the letters. Then I decided to write cat, dog, jump, fly and run on the wall. We proceeded to spell them and then a little while later I asked Piper to pick out the word cat and she did and then she spelled it. She did that with all the other words except jump, that one she just pointed out and did not spell. I was pretty impressed, I shot some video and you can see them looking at the words and processing the letters before deciding which one was which. Both girls did the same exercise but about halfway through little Lela started being silly and she was just so darn cute. She has got the smarts but she has got the personality too and I am not sure which one she likes more:)

Today Piper was pointing to words and asking me what they say. They had an italian ice when we were leaving the zoo and Piper asked me what a word was on the wrapper, it was Luigi! LOL! Also when we were driving and stopped at a stop sign she said, “Mommy, that sign says STOP.” She is putting together that words are words and that we read them. Pretty interesting stuff.