Last week Anna and Kate decided to "play some tricks" on us in the mornings. One morning Kate climbed into Anna's bed with her and they waited in bed giggling and singing until one of us came in to wake them up. The next day they did the same thing, but this time started getting their pj's off. When Matt went in to get them, I heard Kate say "I'm naked!" and Anna shout "I'm topless!" The next day, Kate again crawled into bed with Anna and then they switched pajamas. It was nice to wake up to a couple of smiling, happy girls for a few days :)
Kate has really come into her own at different places since Ethan has been born. Instead of staying close to be, being shy, and refusing to talk to Miss Debbie at music class, or the librarian at story time, she now proudly stands in front of her music class and tells about her assignment, or introduces Ethan to the rest of the kids at story time. She also really, really enjoys her Sunday School class, repeating the story almost word for word to me after I come to pick her up.
Part of Kate's assignment for music class this past week was to draw an "outdoor scene". On Friday, she spent about 40 minutes talking her way through this picture. The amount of detail she described was amazing! Some of the details she shared with me included black pupils in her eyes and then blue eyes; five fingers on each hand, except that on one hand she's wiggling her fingers so you can only see four of the fingers; the green and yellow "G" on her black and blue dress; and the trunk, branches, and leaves of the tree. Kate never ceases to amaze us.
This past Sunday at church, Matt thought he felt something in his shirt sleeve. Thinking it was a dryer sheet, he reached in only to discover a pair of Kate's underwear stuck in there. Oops! The best part about the story was that he was lay minister at the early service that day, and didn't notice the underwear until about halfway through the late service!
Last week one afternoon the girls decided that they wanted to give each other ice cream cones. So we found a handful of coloring pictures online, they got one another's orders, colored the ice cream appropriately, and then stuck them in the freezer so they didn't melt. Then Anna wanted to do the same thing with other food, thinking that they would play "restaurant". But first they needed a name for their restaurant. They came up with "Dzert Ferst" (Dessert First), but only had enough time to make the sign and name tags for each other before we were going to have our real dinner.
Yesterday Kate fell asleep in the van on the way to pick Anna up from school (while Ethan was screaming because he spit out his pacifier). She very, very rarely sleeps during the day so this was pretty surprising. Anyway, she kept sleeping even after we got her home and I carried her in, took off her coat, boots, and hat, and put her in bed. When we were finally able to wake her up about an hour later, she ended up with tons of energy that needed to be used up before bedtime. So we told her to jump on the trampoline 100 times. She started jumping and counted correctly until she got to 39, then she asked me what came next. I directed her to Anna. Here's their approximate conversation.
Kate: Anna! What comes after 39?
Anna: Well, Kate, what comes after 3?
Kate: Umm ... (thinking ... she really knows that one)
Anna: What will you be on May 16?
Kate: 4!
Anna: So what comes after 30?
Kate: 40?
Anna: That's right!
Kate continued jumping and counting with Anna helping her in a similar way when she got to the next set of 10s. Then she started over and jumped to 100 a few more times.
Here's a couple of pictures (finally!) of Ethan smiling! Those smiles are coming more and more often these days. He loves to smile and coo at his sisters, and Matt and I get our fair share of smiles, too.
Plus, this seven week old baby figured out how to roll from his tummy to his back yesterday. He did it several times, but then got a bit tired. He did it again today several times. We'll see if this skill sticks since he definitely uses the weight/size of his head to get the rest of his body moving over. I don't know that I want to have an early mover as our third child ...
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