JibJab Disco Dancing

Kristin shows us Ryan dancing on JibJab so I couldn't resist JibJabbing Kyle & Emily. Here they are!

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Ballgame

Kyle is really into singing songs. Emily is as well, but she is less vocal about it. She will burst out in song when she feels the urge, but likes to hear Kyle sing and just takes it in, though she knows the words b/c she will sing from time to time. Anyhow, they had a great time learning the Ballgame song. We just had to take a video of it because it was so awesome! It didn't hurt they were in Chicago gear - Bears & Cubs - to make the video even better!

little sweetie pies

Last week, Kyle says to me, "Mommy, you are a sweet girl! Can I sing you a song?" It was so sweet! He then proceeded to sing me the Hanukkah song, ABCs and I'm a Little Teapot. He's so sweet!

And he is so sweet with Emily. Just a few of what he has said to her:
"Hi punkin pie!"
"Emily, you are a sweet girl!"
"Hi princess!"

And Emily is very sweet with Kyle. She love Kyle and knows she can count on him to help her. Aunt Stephanie gave her a box of jewelry, but Emily hasn't mastered opening it yet so she always goes to Kyle to get the box opened. One day recently they were playing with Grandma Beth's jewelry and Kyle was getting tired. Emily turns to him and says, "you tired punkin pie?" So very sweet!!

Cognitive development

So it's obvious when the kids have grown and start really speaking even more clearly, but there are so many more little (but really major) cognitive developments that have been going on. In the past 3 months, the kids are speaking even better. They are now at the point that they think and speak. Before it was more like we would tell them what to say and now they will say, on their own "I don't want spicy milk. Can I have chlocate (chocolate) milk please?" or "Grandma, where is your pink sweater?" - bet you can't guess who says that! They really think! They express things that have happened in the past, that are happening and that will happen.

And they get spatial relationships. Kyle the other day learned that if he folds a square napkin, he can turn it into a triangle or a rectangle depending on how you do it. And he gets that it can be turned back into the square after making a triangle or rectangle. And they know most of their letters very well, remarking at all the letters they see around them. And they mentally rotate objects. They know that a W is an upside-down M and vice versa. There was another object of mental rotation that was striking, but it's escaping me now. It's a fun, new, stage now that they are really real, little people who can communicate easily!