Changes

Lennon is changing every day.  He's finally at that point where each day he gets a little easier to handle.  It's so nice.  He now sits down and plays with toys and entertains himself pretty well.  It's so much easier now that I can set him down to fold laundry or do the dishes or whatever.  He's still not into baby einstein videos too much, like Mia was, but he will watch Baby Mozart every once in a while with his standard Lennon style intensity.  

He is making so many sounds.  R's, V's, K's, B's...  He does what I think they call "razzing"  and loves to blow bubbles.  Mia didn't make near as much noise.  She pretty much was silent until she could speak whole words.  A little perfectionist.  Although I know Lennon is still way to little to have a real playdate, he had his first pretend playdate today with Bianca.  She is my friend Claire's one year old daughter.  We joked that they were having a playdate, but really we just hung out and chatted while Lennon drooled on himself and Bianca stared him down and stole his pacifier.  She's a very serious baby.  While Claire and I hung out with the babies, Dusty, who is in town visiting for a few days played pirates with Mia and Mateus.  He is really good with the kids, and I gave him yet another nick name.  I have started calling him Nanny D.

  

Lennon is trying sooo hard to crawl these days.  He tries and tries and then just gets really frustrated when he just ends up going backwards.  He'll get it one of these days though, and then look out!  He's going to be into EVERYTHING! 

 

Mia had her first ice skating lesson today.  Thanks Grandmommy!  She had a really good time.  She fell down a lot, but it didn't seem to phase her.  Such a trooper.  We had gone ice skating once last year and she fell down a couple times and got so frustrated that we left, so I was a little unsure as to how she would handle it.  I think she'll really do well because she's not afraid at all.  It was pretty funny watching as the kids all fell down all over the place .  Mia kept a smile on her face the whole time.  She was really sweet and kept waving to me and Lennon through the glass throughout the whole lesson.  She loves him so much.  She's had a lot of fun with Dusty in town.  His visit overlapped Grandaddy's by a day and we all had breakfast together saturday morning at David's hotel, and then came home to play in the snow.  Shelby and Dusty helped her build our first snowman of the winter while David played with Lennon.  The snowman was pretty pathetic, but much better than the teeny one she and I made last winter.  We went to the science museum on sunday after church and Mia got to see sheep lungs and a heart up close and personal.  I thought it was totally gross, but she loved it.  She got to wear gloves and feel all over it and open up the heart and look inside.  She was really engrossed in what the volunteer had to say about how it all worked.  It was fun seeing her so enthralled in something.  Kids are so much fun.

They are both changing so fast.  It's hard because on one hand I want to freeze them right where they are and never let them get any older, but at the same time I am so excited to see them change and grow and find out what kind of people they are going to be.  What will their interests and passions be?  I can't wait to know them each better and better every day.