I need to interrupt the all the vacation pictures/stories because these kids are growing up SO FAST! Lately so many milestones have been hit by these three that I need to take a minute to write them all down.
First up, Carter boy. Last summer he desperately wanted to climb trees. He even went so far as to ask the librarian for a book about how to climb trees. You can imagine how that went. But this summer he is a tree climbing machine. He begs and begs "please mom can I go climb my tree." His favorite tree to climb just happens to be a big pine tree and when he gets to the top he throws "bombs" down on us.
An even bigger revelation for us SWIMMING. I feel like swimming in the ocean gave him a boost of confidence. When we returned from vacation he saw a friend at the pool swimming who began teaching him various skills. I was shocked to watch him put his head underwater and swim a few lengths. Although the ohio weather is not cooperating, I'm trying to get him to the pool as much as possible to go with this momentum.
Finally, he has a LOOSE TOOTH. I can't even wrap my mind around this. Knowing his personality, it's going to be loose for a really long time until it finally falls out on its on one day.
Now, we even have a supply list for kindergarten, only a couple of weeks away. WOW.
A little reflection: it's amazing to see how he tackles developmental milestones and it's generally the same approach. He likes to wait and wait and wait until he can do something perfectly. He really dosen't like the try/fail, try/fail approach. He did this with reading, walking, swimming, talking. Whereas Ava tends to approach problems by trying and then immediately bursting into tears because she can't do it.
Now, our little Miss Avaroo:
This is the outfit she choose to wear to t-ball. It was a very warm day, but she committed to leg warmers and did not take them off the whole time. The sparkle hat did not stay on the entire time though.
She is doing great learning to read. She has been sound out three syllable CVC words and even read her first sentence recently: See me read. Like I mentioned previously the hysterics/dramatics are a frequent companion to our reading sessions but we are working through them.
Preschool is also around the corner. I think she is going to flourish in this environment, and I'd like to see her make a lot of little friends her age.
Last up, Dawson boy. We are on the third day of potty training and he has been in underwear all day long. We even managed shopping, YMCA and summer camp drop offs/pick ups in underwear. He was over ready for this, and I feel like waiting has in fact made the potty training process easier for us. But who knows, we are only on the third day and have yet to have a BM in its proper place. I'm so excited to have everyone in underwear by the end of summer!
