Books

Reid is really really really into books right now! He will look at them by himself, but usually brings them to us saying "booh booh booh" over and over until we read it to him!

We keep a large stack in the car and both kids read one and then pass (or throw) them back and forth.

I LOVE to look in my rear view mirror and not see any heads, but only the backs of two books. It's precious.

I keep trying to take a picture through my mirror but it's not the safest maneuver and the timing never works

Choo Choo

we found a great place to escape the heat during these triple digit days - cool, fun and FREE!! Barnes and Noble!

they loved hugging the stuffed animals, reading lots of books, and playing with the trains!

Here they're both saying "Choo Choo"

Little Man

He is soooo close to walking on his own but is still afraid to go more than a couple steps.

Here he is watching all the big kids run around and play...

Any day now, LittleMan, any day...

Climbing

He climbs (crawling, not walking) over and under everything...and does it repeatedly again and again for long periods of time. Mostly it's under the kitchen table, chairs and high chair but another favorite is Mommy and Daddy...

He loves to plant his face in the floor and just laughs and laughs. I need to get a video of him playing on the bean bag - he sits up on his knees, lifts his arms straight up in the air and then throws his whole body face first into the bean bag, laughing... over and over and over! He is hilarious!

Letters

Sierra loves letters!!!!!!

She has known all her letters (uppercase) for awhile, learned all of their sounds over a month ago and now knows some of the lowercase ones!

She loves to look at words and sentences and proudly shout out every letter. It's funny that she still doesn't completely get the left to right reading concept, so sometimes she calls out the letters in a random order, but gets all of them right!

My favorite is when I'm driving and she has a book in her hand and from the backseat I hear this sweet voice saying "T-H-E-W-E-A-T-H-E-R".

I have to give a lot of credit to the video "Letter Factory" by Leap Frog. It reinforced the identifying of letters (we had been practicing with magnets) and completely taught her every sound! I did not teach her a single letter sound and now she knows all of them! Pretty amazing! I mean, she did watch it every day for a couple weeks!! (much better than her previous obsession with the Wonder Pets)

Go get it if you can - or borrow it from the library!

Sweet smile

this is one of my favorite pictures :)

Expressions

Reid has some new funny expressions. He has this forced laugh (huh huh huh huh) that is accompanied by an open mouth smile and squinty eyes. It cracks me up! I captured it pretty well in one photo.

He also likes to blink if you blink at him or ask him to. His blinks are exaggerated and long. Pretty cute.

Here he is also pointing to his nose and head - he thinks it's even funnier to point out Mommy's nose, eyes and mouth :)