Luke: Luke is still very much into trains. He also spends a great deal of time planning "his house". Sometimes he will get frustrated with us and say, "I just wanna be IN CHARGE!" so one day I responded with that one day he would get to be in charge and that he would be the leader of his own household but that right now he was learning so that he would be a great leader of his home one day. He has taken that idea and RUN with it. Multiple times a day he talks about his house. What he will have in it. What it will be made out of. What he will let Leta do. What he will do. It is going to be right next to ours with a slide that goes down to daddy's garden. He will have talking dogs who can do the dishes. And cats. And mice. And flies. IN THE HOUSE! And he will not kill the flies. And in his house, whenever Leta asks for candy, he will give it to her. He could spend his entire day thinking about and planning his future house. It's very real to him. He often asks Kyle where the wood is so he can start building. One day we saw a semi hauling lumber and he KNEW they were bringing it so he could start building his house. He was disappointed when he got home and there was no lumber. He has taught himself to skip. He loves hide and go seek and most recently playing "bad guys". He loves to be a bad guy. I'm trying not to read to much into this and am going to assume that it's all very normal. One day he sat down and stared at the TV (which was off) and told me his was watching "bad movies". Not sure what he thinks those are, exactly, but he sure was having fun watching them.
Leta: She has become quite the talker and will often ask "Where Daddy at?" and "Coming?" She also loves kitty cats and horses and asks to see "more 'neighs'" on our drives home from Body and Soul. She loves to talk on her play cell phone to "Tyle" (Kyle). Last week we arrived at church and she asked if Emmett would be there. I told her I thought he would be, to which she replied. "Tiss Emmett. Hug Emmett" She is also very possessive and everything is MY or MINE! And this is cause for many a heated dispute between her and Luke. She got very upset with Luke the other day when I was holding him (very rare) and she ran up and hit him and yelled, "NO! MY MOMMY!". She got sent to time out this morning and she hollered, "No want to!" all the way there and then sat in time out screaming and yelling "No like time OOOUUUTTT!" It was pretty funny. She is much more snuggly than Luke and is still very much a "momma's girl" where Luke was very definitely a daddy's boy from about 18months on. She loves to play in her kitchen she got for Christmas and can spend a great deal of time bringing me water or milk or sometimes applesauce. She also loves her babies (although she frequently says they pinch her and need to be put in time out) and coloring. She colors just about every day. She is VERY independent and many times a day we hear, "No! ME do it!" followed by a complete melt down if she's not allowed to do it. We're slowly learning to schedule extra time in so she can do things herself. Luke was not this way. He couldn't have cared less if he did something or if you did it for him.
Max: Max is now 6 months old. He has two teeth (which he got before he was 5 months old). He gets out of his crib at 8am. He is the happiest, smiley-est baby ever, although he will definitely let you know when he's had enough. He is eating solids very well, a variety of veggies for lunch and supper. I haven't progressed to anything else yet (meat is to be next) because he's been having a bit of trouble with constipation and I'd like to get it worked out before moving on to protein. He and Leta have a well check ups tomorrow so we'll see what the pediatrician says. He can roll over both ways, but hasn't rolled from his back to his tummy in months. I wish he'd learn to love this skill a little more as I'm tired of getting up to roll him back to his belly at night. He loves to watch the kids and has only recently begun to show an interest in toys. He gets up on all fours very well and rocks back and forth and will scoot his knees forward, but doesn't have the arms figured out at all yet. He's also sitting up pretty well, he still needs to be attended, which means he doesn't get the opportunity to sit up as much as he should since I have to sit right there with him. I need to work on this skill with him more.
Me: I'm back to instructing at Body and Soul 3 days/week. I also do the dishes, fold laundry, change diapers...oh wait? You don't want to read about all that? Back in October I decided I wanted to start running again (mostly because at this point the kids aren't fast enough to keep up!) and decided to start training for my first 1/2 marathon. I just run the roads near our house but recently got a pedestrian pass to Arcadia Lake (just a few miles from us) and ran 10 miles (my farthest run to date) on the trails there this past Saturday. The half marathon I'm registered for is in Tulsa on February 26th. I kinda wish it was earlier so I could run my first half while still being 30. Anyway, it is a "Troad" race, half trail half road. My planned training run this coming Saturday is a trail race at another nearby lake (45min drive). I'm to run 12 miles. We'll see if I survive. I'm not racing it, just using it as a trail training run. My official goals for my first half marathon are: 1. Don't walk. 2. Finish.
And now...some cute pictures of our kids!
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