I know you all want to see photos and I've been trying to deliver. However, the photos only tell part of the story. I would love to write more... just seems my brain can only handle so much and by the end of the day when I can update here, I can do little more than stare at my computer screen and drool.
Lela and Cate are surprising us with new things every day, though, so I thought I better get to writing some of this stuff down. They are walking, running, dancing, and jumping, and getting pretty good at navigating stairs. They are kissing and hugging... which is good because it just a little bit makes up for the fighting and biting (a LelaBird special).
They sort and clean up their toys, put dirty diapers in the trash or diaper pail, put dirty clothes in the laundry basket, clean up spills when they happen and have their very own broom that they are still trying to figure out. Now if I could just teach them to mop!
The talking started back in March with Lela saying "hi", "dadada", "mamamama", and "dakyo" for thank you. Cate's preferred vocalization has mostly been doing raspberries. At this point, they both have nana (banana), cheese, ball, NO!, NoNoNo, and GoGoGo for when they are getting ready to go biking with John. Cate also has a hysterical "duck" and "quack" and can tell you that a cow says "mmmmm". Lela's language has really started to take off in recent weeks with clear enough communication for more, help, bubrary (blueberry), app-eh (apple), wabem (water), Li-el (Lela), Diee (Cate), diaper, poopy, love you, and so on. It's going to be really fun to see how they transform into little talkers over the next few months!
They can both take off and put on their shoes (gotta love velcro) and in the last two weeks, Cate has a special interest in taking off and putting on clothes. She hasn't started ripping off diapers yet, but she's really close!
They love, love, love being outside... if there is an open door, they are quick to run through it. Thankfully, daytime temps are cooling off so that outside time, before their 8pm bedtime, is more appealing. With the recent nearby forest fires though, all of Boise has been socked in with smoke so outside time has been somewhat limited.
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I drafted the above post many days ago and while I'd love to conclude it in some clever, well-crafted way, it's 8:35, the girls are in bed, Lela just stopped crying and all I can do is stare at my computer screen and drool.
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