Okay...so this is a family blog right...and not only do we have it to share info with family but also to journal about what is happening in our kids lives as they grow...so I really hope no one things we are bragging too much here...if we are...please take it with a grain of salt...we are not thinking our children are superhero...astronomically way talented or anything like that...we simply want to remember some of these great events and stories as they happen.
So Jonathan is really starting to stand up alot more...today when I went to get him from his morning nap, he was standing facing the wall playing with the Eeore wall decor that was right in front of him...he'd pat Eeore and then grab the railing and bounce! He was having such a good time that he didn't even notice I was there...when he finally did see me...he squealed and laughed...oh he as having so much fun. Later when he went down for his afternoon nap...he had a hard time settling down because he wanted to stand and bounce more! I don't know how much nap he really got in!
I also wanted to share how well Abigail is doing with her phonics. She has really started understanding the concept of blending letter sounds together to make words. She can readily read "log" and "hog" now and is very proud of herself...she has started declaring "I can read now!" We have had to help tame that down some and explain that she is "starting" to read but that there are lots of words out there that she doesn't know yet so she still need to practice and learn! There are several other three letter words that she can put together now too but we aren't pushing that too much because the phonics lessons really encourage not going beyond what letters they have been introduced to to avoid confusion. There are so many "rules" when learning to read...we have to be careful..she really only understands the short sounding vowels...the other day she was trying to read "far" and the /a/ sound isn't the short /a/ sound so it was very confusing to her...but she is really responsive to learning and the phonics lesson is by far her favorite part of school!
Well, that about sums up the update on the kids. Nathan is still strongly wanting to follow after Daddy. Nothing really new going on with him at the moment.
