Cutie pies

What cuties!! The kids are really stinkin' cute everyday, but they have taken it to a whole new level the past few! So first of all, their words are really coming in, both of them! And their mimicking skills are really good too!

Over the weekend, we were talking about what to do for my birthday. I suggested Disneyland! We went in December and said to Emily & Kyle, "Do you want to go see Mickey Mouse at Disneyland again?" Emily got excitedly frantic! She started clapping and running off saying "mu-maaah" (read musically). She bolted out of our room, downstairs to the front door repeating her "mu-maaah". I told her we had to put on shoes first to which she replied "shoooes!" (read ascending musically) so she went over by her shoes, but then ran to the garage door for another "mu-maaah"! I had to break her heart saying we weren't going to Disneyland yet. :-( I told her that we'd get a Mu-Maah show in the meantime. She replied "shoooow!" (again read ascending musically) and waves her arm in excitement. We couldn't find a Mickey Mouse cartoon show at Best Buy so I ordered one from Amazon. I told her that Mickey Mouse show is coming on Wednesday. (This was Sunday.) So everyday, she has said "Mu-Maah Show!" She is going to be ecstatic when it gets here! And Kyle is getting in on the "Mu-Maah Show" too saying it very similarly to Emily, though with a more masculine enthusiasm.

One of Kyle & Emily's most favorite things is PlayDoh. What genius inventors!! To even earn a penny for any size PlayDoh produced would make a millionaire! Anyhow, they have found the secret PlayDoh stash - we have to keep it hidden otherwise we will be playing PlayDoh 24/7! So Emily found the new hiding place today, points and says "pee-doh"! So we played for quite some time. And they are no longer afraid of the fun factory and Kyle can push it down to make the shapes come out!

Today at the park, Kyle showed us his amazing strength on the monkey bars! So he didn't quite traverse the bars, but held to a bar, by himself for nearly 1 minute!! He was SO proud of his strength! Emily did some hanging as well, for about 10 seconds, and then want to climb around on the playground. Yesterday at the park, they discovered how to mountain climb! There is one park with a structure that has a giant 'mountain' to climb with grips and then at the top you can choose between 3 slides to go down. Wow did they love that! Emily saw how Kyle climbed up the first time and mastered it right away! They both got such a kick out of mountain climbing! Spike will be so proud!!

And tonight bathing in our room, Kyle discovered how when you put balls underwater in the bathtub and let go, they pop up to the top making a little splash. And he showed us that he knows some colors - red, yellow and green! That was a very entertaining bath for him! Emily had learned this the other week when she was bathing in our bathroom while Kyle had his owie. It's really amazing how routine things that aren't necessarily playtime are good playtime and learning time for kids! To be a kid again!