It has been quite a while since I have posted an update about the babes. So, here you go...Colin and Meli are doing great! Colin had a bout of the flu that has been going around. Thankfully only one really rough night. Meli (knock on wood) was able to keep the virus at bay. She was teething at the same time, so she kept scaring us with little fevers, but then was perfectly fine the next morning.
Both kids are at such a fun stage. Well...fun for the most part. Colin is at a phase of asking questions. Who knows when this phase will end. "Ask, ask, and then ask some more" is his motto.His reponse to everything is "why?" Question everything! Our own little Socrates. His questions cover every topic you can pretty much think of: from what things will be like when he is a dad to what happens to Will's tattoo when he is dead. Colin ask about death a lot, which makes sense, since that is such a hard concept to get at any age. It is hard though, because he does not understand that we may not know something (like when he asks, "Were we dead when the dinosaurs were around?") Trying to explain the concept of he did not exist is super hard. We ended it at a truce... with the explanation that we were little angels waiting up in heaven for our time to be born. This idea of not existing comes up a lot. He asked me the other day, if he was in my belly when I was a kid. I quickly said, "um...no". So again, he was an angel waiting for mommy and daddy to meet. There are so many more questions, but I will save those for another post.
Well, one more...the other day when we were driving home Colin got very serious.
Colin: "Mama, I need to ask you something".
Me: "OK" (getting nervous)
Colin: "Well, I was wondering...Will Mae be a mommy when I am a daddy?"
Me (yay not so hard) "Maybe...if she wants to be"
Colin: "no, no, no. Will she be a mommy when I am a daddy?"
Me: "She can be. She is a little younger so maybe not at the exact time. But if you both decide to have kids, then yes she will be"
Colin: "Why would we not have kids?"
Me: (Oh no)
The questions he comes up with just blow me away sometimes. Kids are too funny.
We have started reading chapter books to Colin. We wanted to work on his ability to focus and thought that this would be good practice, since there is not that many pictures. We are reading
Snot Stew, a book that I enjoyed as a kid. So far, Colin is loving it. I think a big part of what he enjoys is the one-on-one time with one of us. Right now, I am reading this book - but next Will is going to read him
The Wind in the Willows.
I think the last time I posted about the kids, I may have mentioned that Colin was going through this rough phase of pushing all of the boundaries. He was not listening and just being straight out defiant. We started this reward system of having a glass jar that he gets to put these little glass pebbles in. He earns them by listening the first time or doing nice things without being asked. It actually has worked fairly well. When he fills the jar he gets to go to this new frozen yogurt place that opened up near our house. This is something I saw on pinterest. The pin I saw was using a fish bowl but I bought something smaller. It would take FOREVER to fill up a fish bowl. One of the things that was emphasized, is that once they earn a pebble do not take it away for bad behavior.
Meli has really transformed to a little toddler. She is acting older with the way she plays and interacts with everyone. So cute...but so sad at the same time. She is not my little baby anymore. Lately, she has been playing a lot with her little tea set. Super cute. I love watching her trying to pour the tea and hand out the cups. Her favorite part is to stir the tea with her little spoon. Mae loves it when people pretend to drink it!
Baby girl still loves to dance. Each week it seems that she has new moves to add to her repertoire. I cannot wait to get her into dance classes.
Her vocabulary has blossomed at well. She just talks and talks. Most of it is babble but here and there she throws a word in. There are times when she is saying something that we do not understand. She gets frustrated with us because she knows what she is talking about and thinks we should too. Some of her newer words the past few months are: door, please, thank you, bad, cheese, cookie, turkey, owl, ....and I am failing to remember the rest.
~ Love, Hugs & Kisses ~
The B Family
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It has been quite a while since I have posted an update about the babes. So, here you go...Colin and Meli are doing great! Colin had a bout of the flu that has been going around. Thankfully only one really rough night. Meli (knock on wood) was able to keep the virus at bay. She was teething at the same time, so she kept scaring us with little fevers, but then was perfectly fine the next morning. 
We have started reading chapter books to Colin. We wanted to work on his ability to focus and thought that this would be good practice, since there is not that many pictures. We are reading Snot Stew, a book that I enjoyed as a kid. So far, Colin is loving it. I think a big part of what he enjoys is the one-on-one time with one of us. Right now, I am reading this book - but next Will is going to read him The Wind in the Willows.
