growing babies

I have a few photos to post, but I haven't had a chance to get on a computer for a while. I can't post pictures from my phone onto Blogger. I can, however, write a blog from my phone. So I'll just write today.

Ethan surprises me every day with new stuff he knows. Recently he's started saying, "I'm 2, Momma. I'm 2!" I don't know why his age clicked with him just now; I haven't been emphasizing it. But anyway, so I'm teaching him how to sign "I'm 2!" I was sitting there struggling with him, trying to help him get his fingers to work correctly to show "2" and I looked up and see that he's doing the perfect hand shape on his other hand, his left hand, while I'm struggling to make him do it on the right hand. Ha. Left-handed boy.

Ellie seems to be ambidextrous, but on a weekly basis. She uses her right hand exclusively for several days, then she switches and uses her left for several days. Not sure how that will turn out.

We've started talking about letters with Ethan recently. I've just been drawing his attention to the fact that letters are everywhere. A couple of days after I started talking about letters with him, he says "Remember this song? A-B-C-D-E-F-G..." He sang the whole song by himself! I've sung that song to him about 4 times before that. I'm not sure how much Brett sings it, though.

He's learning to spell his name. The first phase was "E-T-8-9-10" and now that's become "E-T-H-9-N". He'll get it soon. Ha. He already recognises several letters: D for Daddy, I for ice cream, O for owl, and T "lives in In-N-Out". Hmmm. Momma eats chocolate shakes a bit too often, perhaps. But cool that he noticed the T on the sign!

Ellie is going to crawl any time now. She gets up on her hands and knees and rocks a bit, trying to reach more stuff to put into her gaping mouth.

I'm working at the college now and enjoying it very much. It's nice to see my friends that I haven't worked with for a long time. I'm missing paid holidays and sick leave, though. Or, I am anticipating missing them. I haven't had an opportunity to not-use anything yet. I miss my friend April, too. But it's nice to have a set schedule and nice to be home so much now. We're all trying to get used to me being home. Things are a little crazy right now, but it will settle down soon.