I have been slacking a bit on keeping up with the blog lately because things have been crazy around here. But the kids are growing so fast and keep us on our toes everyday. I wanted to take a minute and write down all the funny things I didn't want to forget. They love play dough, painting coloring, Lilly could color all day! And for some reason they are both obsessed with socks.
Lilly
Lilly has become so independent, it almost breaks my heart, it happened so fast and without warning! Now when she goes into dance she asks me to wait because she wants to go by herself, then she walks down the hall and just waves and says "bye mom!" Dance does through her off a bit because she just wants to be on stage. She asks every week "today do I get to get on stage?!"
She is still dressing herself in wonderful outfits! But now she wants pictures of all of them, so she gets dressed then asks me to take her picture. Then she will say something like "don't I look fancy," or "I am so cute." One day all the kids were showing the teacher their boo boos on their legs and arms, Lilly walked up to her and said "I don't have any boo boos my legs are beautiful." She is a trip!
She still loves to sing! But now she sings Lean on me, or Your Song by Elton John. She still loves Baby Mine and You are my Sunshine.
The biggest change in Lilly is now she has an imaginary friend. Her name is Emory and I didn't realize she wasn't real until she started blaming her for Lilly getting into trouble. Emory teaches her dance moves, songs, and sometimes bad words. They play almost everyday and Lilly wants me to call Emory's mom to have a play date...so I guess she wants me to have an imaginary friends as well. :)
John
Mr. Bigs. His talking has really become clear. And now that we can understand him and he can express himself he never stops talking! haha He will ask a question and if you say no, or he doesn't like the answer you give him he says "ooohh but why," in an accent I can't even describe! It is pretty funny.
He loves flashlights! He likes to try to take Pinckney's, so one night I told him we would go to the store the next day and get him his very own. Well it is no secret we love target, when Bigs was first born one of the only places we could go was Target or Walmart because we needed a shopping cart and they were kid friendly. :) Anyways so the next morning was the day I said we would go get a new flash light. Now that he is in a big boy bed he can come into our room whenever he gets up, so that morning I woke up to Bigs in my ear whispering "tttaaaarrrgggeeettt (target) flassssshhhhh liiiiigggghhhhttt (flash light)" I laugh every time I think about it!
His favorite book is Guess How Much I Love You. He tells me every night and with arm motions "I love you this much, I love you as high as I can reach, I love you all the way to the moon and back. And that is far Mommy, very far."
He LOVES his sissy! I will hear him say "You leave my sissy alone" and if you tell him that he is too little he will stand on a chair and say "but look I'm bigger." But if you tell him to do something he doesn't want to do he says "but I'm little."
These two are the best of friends. They play all day together, they get excited to see each other and when they are with a group of kids, they would rather play together then with anyone else. We are very blessed that they are ours! In the beginning I couldn't imagine how it was going to work with kids this close in age, and now I see it is was all in our plan that is not in our control. I wouldn't have it any other way! And I don't think they would either.
