Look At What We Can Do!

I am the worst Dad blogger ever. I had a whole post written with a video starring Matilda and then tacked on a cute foto of Olivia so she wouldn’t feel left out. Then I realized that Olivia was doing new fun things too and I would have to rewrite the whole thing.

The girls are growing up really fast and seem to be learning new things every day. When asked “Where is your nose?” Matilda will touch her nose. She learned that from Nana. Of course Dad had to try and get in on the action as well and started asking “Where is your tummy button?” She quickly figured out where her tummy button was. Now this request results in both girls lifting their shirts and pointing to their tummy buttons. I think I had help with this because Matilda is always bringing over the Belly Button book for us to read. Of course we were wondering what new thing we could have them point to. Caroline decided that Matilda was smart enough to recognize other things in the playroom and asked “Where’s Kanga?” I’m not sure what we were expecting her to do but she walked over and picked up the kangaroo her Australian grandparents sent and brought it back to us. This has now evolved into this -

Olivia, while able to find her belly button, doesn’t seem too interested in much else when it comes to listening to adults and performing tasks. She does enjoy pushing her little sister down for no reason, and has yet to connect that with Mum and Dad scolding her. She likes to climb on everything, the couch, the chairs and the stairs. She even tries to climb the tent we have set up in the playroom. I keep telling her that she can’t climb the tent but she keeps trying and getting her leg stuck. They are just tall enough now to get down anything on the shelf in the playroom which means everything has to be moved up a level. The bottom two shelves of books in the hall have already been moved so that they don’t destroy them.

We bought a wooden tower for the girl’s birthday and until recently the only interest they had in it was racing to pull it apart after I put it together. The other day I noticed that while it had been mostly taken apart there were still a couple of rings left on it which don’t normally go together. I assumed that one of the other adults had put the rings on there. Then later in the day I saw Olivia lifting rings off and putting them back on. I had to try and capture this so I put the tower together and showed it to Olivia.

I think I may have stopped recording a little too soon because this was the final result of all her work.

Each night when I have to stay at school late Caroline sends me fotos of the girls playing and we say goodnight over the fone. I like to be the last person to tuck them in and give them goodnight kisses.

“See you in the morning girls”