Summertime

Not much new has happened this week. It seems like they are adding new words everyday, though! Xander has a fascination with balloons and says an approximation of that word. Curt (from church) indulged him and gave him a balloon from church and all we heard from Xander's mouth was "ba-oon" for two days. He has also started saying "cracker" for every crunchy food he might want, cereal, cookie, cracker or chips. Grace has started pointing to something and saying "this?" wanting to know what it is. She'll put her hands all over our faces doing the same thing, wanting to know our face parts. She's very curious. Will still loves dogs and doors. If I haven't mentioned before, he loves doors! He will open and shut doors for hours. All doors, including dishwashers, refrigerators, and the little flaps the hide things in picture books. He was at Dale and Ellen's house last week, playing in the basement, and apparently opened and shut various basement doors for about 45 mins.

The pictures are:

Top: Will at the Children's Museum. There was a bridge that he LOVED. They said he walked over it for a long time, just making a circle around. Once he finds something he loves, he does it over and over again, (like doors)!

Middle: Grace being weird.

Bottom: Xander sitting in the hall. You can't tell from this picture, but he was the only awake from nap and he was in the living room with Brian. But, Brian had left the office door open. We don't leave the office, master bedroom, or hall bath doors open ever. We just leave them shut so we don't have to worry about them playing in there. So, if they see one of those doors open, they make a beeline for them to go into the "forbidden rooms". On this occasion, Xander saw the open office door and REALLY wanted to go inside, but he knew he shouldn't. So, he sat on the floor in front of the open door and looked in. He would look at us and smile and inch closer. He kept looking at us and whining that he wanted to go inside. I think eventually the urge overtook him and he went inside, but it's funny to watch the conflict inside of him when he knew he shouldn't go in. I'll post more next week!