For Posterity

Naomi just started sitting up by herself yesterday. She is so close to crawling. She does the army crawl really well, but hasn't quite mastered the real crawl. I know 2 people with babies the same age as her that have been crawling for 2 months. As Ray puts it, "Naomi's just fat, she just wants to lay there and be fat!" Which isn't completely true, she rolls all over the place :)

Maggie is a dancing machine!! She loves to dance. Her favorite show is "Fresh Beat Band" on Nickelodeon. She actually can follow some of the choreography during the opening and closing scenes! Whenever slow music comes on she gets this really funny look on her face, like she is about to cry, and does her own little interpretive dance. Up next, potty training. Am I up to this, you may ask, after the potty training debacle of '08/'09- Exhibit A, Exhibit B ? We shall see...

Elliot's favorite word right now is "holy cow!!" Like yesterday at Grace's soccer practice he said, "Holy Cow! I am so good at monkey bars!". He holds his hands out to the sides and moves them up and down enthusiastically as he says it. Oh yeah, he also recently learned to do the monkey bars and he LOOOOVES them now. I started reading Bob books with him the other day and he is picking up reading so fast. I wish I would've started earlier...I had very good intentions.

Grace scored a goal at her soccer game on Saturday!! First time. She was so excited. She has really improved this season. She has a really good coach. She is also reading so well now. We practice every day and she is really improving. She is really excited because she is going to be singing a duet at church during the yearly primary program (once a year the kids at our church are responsible for the program, showing us what they have learned in sunday school during the year). She has a very pretty voice and isn't shy about it, which I think is wonderful!

And.....2 weeks from right now I will be in Maui!