Vocabularies

This little girl has found her voice and absolutely LOVES to use it.  She is such a sweet talker.  I could listen to her for hours.  She has the cutest little squeak and she talks as if everyone can understand her.  She loves to tell me stories and her face just lights up when she's talking.  Now only if I knew what she was saying!

She actually loves tummy time too.  The others hated it when they were small.  She thinks she's pretty cool when she can lift her head and talk directly to her animal friends on the play mat.  And she's pretty strong too.  She'll hold this for quite a while before getting tired.  

And last week she rolled over for the first time.  She was on her tummy and rolled to her back.  Way to go Madison!  She was a little startled at first, but I flipped her back and she rolled over again with a big smile.  

This silly boy has really increased his vocabulary over the past couple months.  It is so nice for him to be able to tell me what he wants/needs instead of just whining about everything while I try to figure it out!  Brooklyn was talking way more at this age, but he's finally getting the hang of it!   He's started to put small sentences together and I'm understanding most of what he's talking about these days.  He can count to 10 all by himself without skipping any numbers and he's getting better at his ABC's.  Those still need some work, but he can recognize a lot of letters I point out and gets them right about 2/3 of the time.  He gets so proud of himself when we practice and asks for a high five when he's doing good :)  He's also singing nursery rhymes all day and gets most the words right even when the songs aren't playing in the background!  

I love being able to communicate with him!

And this little chatterbox never stops!  She has an answer for everything.  She sings songs all day, some of which I don't even know (she learns them from the preschool website she uses on the computer).  She loves to read books.  I love to hear the stories she comes up with by looking at the pictures.  She's even started to sound out letters and put them together into words.  She's not too sure about that yet and struggles a bit, but she's gotten some small words like dog, cat, bird, etc.  I'm so proud of her!   She has taken on a "teacher" role with Trenton.  When he doesn't say a word correctly, she breaks it into syllables and has him repeat her.  It's so cute!   

As you can imagine, it's not very quiet around here these days.  We are having so much fun though.  I love watching them grow... sometimes it's just a little too fast for this momma.  They won't stay small for long!