Daniel is so handsome. And such a talker now too. He loves to play what his older siblings are playing, but also enjoys playing on his own when they are stuck doing schoolwork! He still likes to do stuff he knows he shouldn't-like writing on the walls. I'm glad he sticks to chalk lately when he's feeling like misbehaving. :)
The street cleaner is very fascinating.
Nathan is getting so much older! His greatest wish is to have a saw and drill of his own, lots of wood and various other parts so that he can build his own car out of wood that he and his siblings could play with, and they'd never get bored! Just today he thought that if he had two drills he could use the drill motors to turn the wheels, instead of using pedals. But he'd first use the one drill to do any drilling for the car, and then use it for the motor.
Matthew loves to play outside, and spends a lot of his time as an observer. He's taking it all in and coming up with some amazing stories, about what he did yesterday, of which I have no recollection! It's hard to remember his stories, since they usually involve something getting bigger and stranger as the story goes on!
He also spends a lot of time doing crafty type stuff, and loves to give his creations to people he loves. He's made a two cup-money holder for his Dad, and a spy glass for me (which was a bird beak gone wrong-he wanted to be a goose, and use his coat sticking out to be his wings). His latest was a kite, which he proudly told us flew (showing a foot of the ground) this high! It didn't go higher because the wind wasn't winding enough. That was because we hadn't gone to the park with all the trees in it. If we had gone to the one with the trees the trees would have made the wind windier, and the kite could have gone even higher than it did fly!
Fortunately Nathan doesn't mind to do "girlie" things, and I kick his Dad whenever he starts to make comments about stuff Nathan likes to do that he never was interested at when he was younger. After all, he is Nathan, not Phil, of which we are all very thankful. :p
Jennifer is thrilled that she can crawl. And she seems to get most of her enjoyment out of the freedom and joy of movement and exploration.
Daniel is strong enough (he proved me wrong!) to be the engine of the train, and pull his two bigger brothers up to the station.
Back down again is even easier!
An obvious advantage to getting adept at moving around the house, is getting adept at digging into things you shouldn't! Jennifer now habitually passes things to me that she's found, with a guilty sort of grin, knowing that I likely will be moving the item she has found out of her reach.
Bedtime story time:
Daniel wanted to cuddle instead, for a short while,
and then decided to pretend he was Jennifer too, wanting to come up to his Mommy!
