Day 39 The Sweetest Things....

I've been thinking about this for a couple of days...about writing this. I know that I have not done very well emailing, and there is no real excuse for it. I try to reason to myself "well after watching over those two all day...I'm beat" but then I remember you have 80 something kids to babysit.

I want to tell you about all the little things the kids have been doing or do on a daily basis...the little things that I just don't remember to say unless I just sit and think about it. I'm sure it will make you feel a little melancholy, but that's not my intent, I don't want to make you sad or feel upset like your not here to see it yourself...I just want to let you in so your know a little more and can just imagine it because I think ultimately it will make you all gooey inside:)

- Zayda loves her lovey just as much as Steven does. When I lay her down, and give her her paci, and then lay her lovey on top of her....she grabs it with both hands and immediately scrunches it up to her face :)
- Steven loves to play Scrabble on my iphone..meaning he likes to swap letters and resign games because it makes a neat "ding!" noise.
- Zayda really doesn't like puffs...at all.
- Steven thinks that most words spell "dog"...thanks hun, lol!
- Zayda really likes to play 'chicken' with the cat..unfortunately I have never let her complete a game to see who would win.
- Steven really doesn't care for rootbeer. crazy!
- Zayda is not a big fan of strawberry jam!
- Steven will now repeat the sound of animal whenever he hears that animal mentioned. Like someone says "horse" on TV then he immediately starts to whinnie.
- Zayda doesn't really like Strawberry Banana food...but likes Banana and likes Strawberry and Banana with oatmeal.
- Steven likes to read Shel Silverstein with Tata almost every night since we have gotten here. And he will sit and listen to her read about 7 or 8 poems to him.
- Zayda will not hold her bottle, unless you absolutely positively make her.
- Steven likes his Cars toy cars but no longer wants to watch the movie.

Here's just a snippet...I'll do this again some time. :)

Day 28 - Bedtime Battles

Oh it was just one of those days! The kids are still in that rut, trying to figure out what is going on. I like that I am in here, but in many ways, I just really wished we had stayed put. There is many pros and cons to leaving vs staying but now I'm not sure if the pros outweighed the cons. There is something to be said for normalcy.

We spent about 45 minutes tonight getting him to go to bed...he just kept crying as he went to sleep, which he can't do, because it will wake up Zayda. So he kept getting put into time out. We did this 3 times before I think he realized that this was not the kind of staying up that he wanted to do. le sigh!

Zayda is such a silly girl! I went to a resale shop today and got her a pink walker with all these buttons adn stuff on it. Steven likes it too, of course. But I put her up to it, and when it started to move forward and her legs went with it, it was like a light went on! She got stupid excited! She went forward about 5 steps before it got to be too much for her. She also had a running argument, not conversation, argument, with herself in the big mirror in Tara's living room. Really cute.

Anway...tomorrow, I will get some pics of her in the walker.

I am doing okay...have been really missing you especially more the last few days. I don't know if it's just being here without you just feels weird or what...but I wish you were here. Only 5.5 more months! I know that sounds silly to say, but really, we have already done 3 and we are FAN-TAB-U-LOUS!

we miss you...
we love you...
and
we are SO proud of you....

xoxoxoxoxoxox