you guys. i haven't written about my kids in MONTHS!!! i'm going to lose so many memories that haven't made the instagram cut, so i need to get them documented! the election and halloween and thanksgiving (and gilmore girls!) have all made things so crazy so right now while im watching project runway im going to get this done because i don't want to forget these sweet moments!
bea
-she has started PRESCHOOL! holy cannoli. she loves it (usually) and has a best friend there named zeke, whom she talks about almost daily. i've tried to get his mom's contact info but to no avail so no playdates, sadly. she loves to paint and craft and make jewelry and pretend play at school, but despite being really interested in numbers and letters before she started, she really doesn't seem interested about learning to read and write, which puzzles me, but what can ya do. she goes to a special needs integration class where she acts as a model student, and her great verbal skills and vocabulary make her a great one. most of the kids have speech set backs so she is a really great help to them to get them to speak out and learn to pronounce words
-she pronounces some words SO funnily i just need to jot them down. a move theater is a "movie vuhvator", thanksgiving is "schizskiving", sanjay is "shuhnjay" and there are several others i need to remember so i'll add them later, but movie vuhvater is my favorite.
-she's finally not afraid to swim. just in time for winter. #eyeroll
-she has become SO..."spirited". she fights me on literally everything. backtalking, making faces, yelling, hitting, kicking, and pushing. i've tried being the nice guy. i've tried being the mean guy. i've tried ignoring bad behavior. nothing really works. so i'm pretty much at a loss at what to do at this point. i'm going to have to hit the parenting books to figure it out because it makes my life incredibly exhausting.
-she really likes to explain things. she likes to talk me through what she's doing with her toys, or pictures she's drawing and things like that.
-she has such amazing vocabulary, she blows me away. every day she uses a new word that even 3rd graders don't use. like the other day she saw that i hung some of her art up on a clothing line on the wall, which i had done while she was at school. she saw it and gave me a huge hug and then put her hands on her cheeks and said "oh mom! this looks amazing! i love it so much! really mom, i am so impressed. good job." talk about 3 going on 35.
-she loves to pretend and dress up. i didn't realize that all kids aren't pretenders until she had a few friends over that don't pretend and she just had no idea how to play with them. every day she has a new character to play, and gives me a role. she goes through princesses, the characters from lego movie, and characters from into the woods, which she's really into lately.
-she still loves hamilton and can sing a lot of the songs on her own. she also loves to listen to "into the woods", disney songs, the little mermaid play, annie, and can identify a britney spears song from the first line, even if she's never heard it before. she loves britney. she also loves a lot of the music i listen to and asks me to add a lot of it to her "exciting songs" playlist.
-she's pretty into interpretive dance. she loves to choreograph songs and show them to the family.
-she's still taking ballet but i'm not sure how into it she is anymore. she seems to love it but is kind of spacey during class.
-maybe she's just being 3 but she will, at many points during the day, randomly get REALLY wild and hyper, and has a really hard time calming down and focusing on basically anything. she gets really wild and once she's decided to get hyper and out of control it's nearly impossible to bring her back down. i've played all the cards on this one too and nothing is seeming to work.
-there's more but i'll think of it later...
oliver
-he got his first haircut on saturday. with each layer of curls that got cut off i got closer and closer to tears, but i held it together and his haircut really is super cute but he definitely looks like a totally different baby. except for not even a baby at all. he looks so much like a big boy it's sad. but also cute.
-he is the cutest little dancer ever! he sticks out one arm and tilts his cheek into that shoulder and spins around in circles with the sweetest smile on his face whenever he hears music. it's SO ADORABLE! and sometimes he just shakes his hands around. just love that guy.
-he kind of says words but like not really. for most everything he has some kind of variation of 2 syllables, the first emphasized and swinging up, and the second swinging down. sometimes it sounds like the word he's trying to say, sometimes it doesn't. he's not interested in sign language except for "all done" after he's done eating and now he actually says something along the lines of "all done" so that's cool.
-he is SO affectionate!!! so many times a day he'll run up to me and grab my knees and tilt his little head toward me and close his eyes and say "mmmmmm-AHHHHH" for kisses. he loves to give me and brad and even bea kisses. and if he facetimes with one of us or my mom he gives the phone SO many kisses! like one every 20 seconds. it's the best. bea wasn't even close to this affectionate so it's nice to have a little chubby baby that gives me kisses all the time! he also loves to put his head on my shoulder for a minute or two every time i pick him up. he is just SO sweet!!! i love his big chubby cheeks.
-if he doesn't get what he wants, he. gets. MAD!!! he has the most violent temper tantrums (banging his fists and feet on the ground, kicking and screaming, etc). it's really funny but it gets old pretty fast. i don't know why he's so spoiled, we never give in, but he seriously cannot handle not getting exactly what he wants. it's still funny though... :)
i really am blanking right now. probably because i'm super tired so i'm sure there's so much more especially since it's been so long but i'll probably think of more later. the older they get, the more i love em!
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