Tag: Colouring

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All by myself

Of course kids grow up. We know that.
Today Ben wanted to help Cassie do up her snowpants (there isn’t any snow here yet, but she is so excited for it that she wears them around the house), but of course ‘It’s okay Daddy, I can do it.’ Other feats this past month included getting herself up on the toilet (now she doesn’t need us for that at all), climbing UP a slide, jumping off the last few steps (of course with mom’s reminder, ‘careful!’) and getting very far in her reading skills! Pretending to play Doctor and Hide and Seek are her favorite games right now. She is also getting better at colouring and focusing on one game for a longer period of time. What a big girl she is getting to be!

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Talking

We wake up every morning to the screaming words, “Momma, Momma” coming from Jay’s playpen. If it takes us too long to get there, he moves on to “Dadda, Dadda”. And from there straight to freaking out – so we try to make it there before that happens…

After picking him up, he immediately begins asking for “bankie, bankie” and as we walk to the kitchen he tells us that he is “hungie, hungie”. He has just started eating his own breakfast, either oatmeal, muesli or cereal – but his favourite is definitely yogurt. He usually finishes breakfast with some “wata, wata” or “leau, leau”. Of course, if he threw some food on the floor, he might tell us what happened, “drop, drop”. It’s all pretty comical … except that its extremely tiring!

He’s not allowed, but he continually asks for “makas, makas” (markers) during the day. And if he sees someone on the computer, then he immediately calls out for “gampa, gampa”. He sure is growing up!