Bailey is up first! Bailey started taking a few steps on her own towards the end of the month. Now, she wants to walk holding one of our hands, her walker, the couch, random things. She can walk several steps by herself now. She still loves to read books. We read for about 15-20 minutes at bed time, and she cries when we stop. She will grab a book and hold it at our hands. If she doesn't want to read what we pick up, she will close it and throw it. It's pretty funny. I'm pretty impressed with how she sits still and listens so well. She loves the Baby books by Karen Katz, Five Little Pumpkins, I Love You Through and Through, Where's My Reindeer, some Sandra Boynton books, and a few others. Yes, we read holiday books year-round! She also loves to find your belly button and knows where hers is. She can also follow some directions. She "helps" do the laundry by putting clothes in the dryer for me and will help me put away her toys. It's so neat to me how children can understand you before they can even talk! She also loves to color. She will climb into a chair at the table we have in the play room and go to town. However, we had to hide the crayons because she would crawl around with them and scream when you would take them away from her. Now, she's moved on to dry erase markers....(which are now hidden, too!). We just need the biting phase to pass!
Kya continues to amaze me with all of the things she is learning at school. She is becoming more and more independent, which is nice with a one-year-old. She got her ears pierced for Valentine's Day, which I think it hurt more than she thought it would, but we got both of them pierced! She has been learning adding and subtracting and prefers doing her math homework over handwriting, which is not surprising as Eric and I both enjoyed math. She is still enjoying gymnastics and her theater class. I think gymnastics has really helped her coordination, so we might try her in soccer next! She also still loves any church activity. She wants to go up to the church anytime Eric goes and loves playing with the "big kids". I come pick her up later on Wednesdays so she can play games with the "big kids". We also cut A LOT of her hair. One day she looked at me and said - "Mama, I want to cut my hair like yours.". I think she was getting sick of her hair getting in her face and "in her shirt" is what she would say. I love her new hair cut, too! I can't believe that she will be in kindergarten next year! So crazy!
