I really need to do better about blogging since I've not been very good about writing in my kids' journals. Hunter is definetely 2! He is into everything and throws fits when he doesn't get what he wants. There are days when I really hope her grows out of it...and soon! He is also a crack up. He loves to sing "A Boom Chick-A-Boom" all the time. He learned it at family summer camp. (We LOVE family summer camp)!!
He doesn't like to perform in front of people, but then other times he sings up a storm. He is the class clown of our family. I can't believe that a 2 year old can tell a joke, but he actually does, and it's funny too. A couple of weeks ago we were in the car coming home and he said, "Ewwwww! Mommy my finger is stinky with poop!"
Me: "What? Did you poop in your diaper and then touch it? Keep your finger up, don't touch anything we are almost home!"
Hunter: "Ok, mommy. My finger really stinks. Look Paige I got poop on my finger."
Me: "Okay we are home now, let's go wash your hands and change your diaper. Wait! There's no poop on your finger and you don't even have a poopy diaper!"
Hunter: "Ha ha mommy! I was just joking you! Just kidding. That funny!"
I can't believe that he's trying to trick me. He's is quite the jokester.
Now Paige on the other hand is starting to come out of her shell. When she started kindergarten she was too nervous and shy to stand in front of the class and resite her nursery rhymes, but now she will. She LOVES kindergarten!!!!
She brings a book almost everyday to class and reads to her classmates. She is now obsessed with dinosaurs and loves to watch Dinosaur train on pbs. Her and Hunter tell everyone about herbavores, carnivores and omnivores and quadripeds, bipeds, etc. She is like a little sponge. Her teacher thinks that she has a photographic memory. The other day she watched the show and by the end of it she memorized the Dinosaur ABC's. That means that she can name a dinosaur for every letter of the alphabet. I watched the same show with her and can name only a few. There are some names that I still can't even pronounce! She is quite amazing. Starting on Monday she is going to be attending a 1st-2nd grade class for reading since she's already reading at a 2nd grade level.
As for me, I just got back from Fresno. I was there to help Delight while she gave birth to Moana (Mo-Anna) Abish Lydiate. Delight was amazing and it was such an incredible moment. It was cool to be on the other side of the birthing process. I've never seen a birth, except for my own children. Our bodies are amazing things and birth is such a miracle. That was definetely an experience that I will never forget.
On our trip back from Utah, Paige lost her first tooth! It was on January 3rd we had just finished eating dinner in Elko and Paige asked if there was a bone or something stuck in her teeth. When I examined her mouth I told her that her toother was loose and almost ready to come out. I wiggled it a bit, but it wasn't quite ready. I told her that it would probably take a little while still for it to come out. We got back in the car and within 5 minutes she had wiggled and pulled her first tooth out!!!
She was so excited. Then after a few minutes she started to cry. I asked her what was wrong and she said, "I don't want to have to go to speech therapy!"
Mommy: What are you talking about?
Paige: When kids can't talk properly our teacher makes them go to speech.
Mommy: Paige, you can talk properly.
Paige: No, I can't say my "s" properly because I lost a tooth. My teacher taught us the all I want for Christmas song and when you lose your 2 front teeth you can't talk right.
Mommy: Paige, honey, you will be fine.
(I actually had to have her talk to Nana so that she would be comforted that she wouldn't have to go to speech).
She was happy when she found the 4 quarters that the tooth fairy left. When she woke we were in a hotel and it looked as if the tooth fairy might have forgotten to leave the money, but after she took a quick trip to the potty, mommy helped her find it under a near by pillow. *wink*
