Week in Review

This last week has been a crazy one in Trey's development. Every day he adds a word or two to his ever-expanding vocabulary, he's doing great with a spoon now, he is playing and interacting with Abby a lot - when she lets him, and is starting to "read" books to himself! His latest words are: Rust(dog), Doods and Bell (cats), shoes, apple, watch, dance, bounce, sweatshirt and a few I can't remember right now. He has started to fake snore - so funny! He can follow directions pretty well. He wanted a hard-boiled egg yesterday and I asked him to get me a bowl and he opened up the kid drawer and there weren't any bowls clean so he brought me a cup instead. He can put most of his shapes in his shape sorter by himself and will put things away when asked. My baby is becoming a boy!

We let him sit at the table now instead of using his tray. Up next, the booster seat!

Applauding his awesome spoon skills!

Oh so cute!

The kids have been playing a lot of follow-the-leader type things, guess who the leader is?! Trey has discovered Abby's new play area between the couch and the wall and she has also taught him the super neat skill of crawling outside through the dog door, yikes.

I love it when they play so sweet!

I have managed to clean the house and keep it clean for a week now. That is a BIG deal if you know what the normal clutter level for my house is. Dishes have been done and the kitchen cleaned every day, laundry isn't piling up, and all the toys have been put away (5x a day, ugh!) and I owe it all to Shrek! The first Shrek movie was on tv the other day and the kids caught the last half of it and Trey was mesmerized! I recorded it the next time it was on so that we have it available whenever I need a few minutes to get something done. It is the only thing that holds Trey's attention for long. I'm pretty sure he doesn't even blink through the first half.

Eating lunch

Bobs for him, snack for her (different day than above!)

Watching Dad mow the lawn, how very interesting for the little guy!

Dancing is the latest craze to hit our house. The kiddos dance ALL THE TIME to any sort of music that's on. Lately they have been dancing more together, which works out sometimes but mostly Abby gets a little wild and spins Trey right into the ground. She has also started to breakdance, or at leat her version of it. Quite hilarious that girl is.

Abby has thrown out a couple cute things too this week. Instead of decorating she says decTorating, she told me in the car the other day that her "lips are getting real strong" whatever that means, and when there weren't any cows where we usually see them on our way into town she told me it was because they were all inside getting haircuts. I told her it was more likely that they were taking a nap or eating lunch and she said that she was pretty sure they were getting baths and haircuts. So there you go, strong lips, clean cows and some dectorating, what else do you need in a day?!