"He thinks he's four, like us"

At kindy, a mother told me her daughter said "Emma's brother is so cute, he thinks he's four, like us". Which is quite true. It was one of Emma's three friends. She tells us about three specific friends who she dearly loves playing with. Will has picked up on this very quickly and when he talks about Emma's kindy days he mentions Maddie, Alex and Timmy. They're a sweet group of friends and I'm so encouraged to see Emma making friends, enjoying them and learning so much. William has launched into kindy as quickly as Emma has and I'm sure he quite believes he truly is four like his sister. Will has a glimpse of kindy at drop-off and pick-up time and totally feels like he belongs there. We're working on leaving kindy 'without fussing'. "Do all things without grumbling and complaining" (Philippians 2:14) has been quoted a LOT lately from my mouth! 

{side note: Maddie's uncle is close friends with my brother - Emma's uncle. SMALL world! Her mum and I were so excited to make that connection.}

At home I'm noticing massive changes in Emma. She's growing in maturity and discovering her sense of humour. I sometimes feel a little sorry for her - that I don't respond her to her the way her friends at kindy do. It's a good thing, as my role is very special and I am the only mum she has. But there are moments when, in her silly four-year-old-ness she says something or acts a certain way and her friends aren't around to enjoy it with her. I love seeing it though, it's a little revelation for me of her 'other' world of her growth and development (mainly consisting of cute silliness).

Anyway, thats all basically a super long introduction to this photo! I've been slowly teaching Emma to read, using a reading computer program. She's doing so well. We usually try to do it during Williams afternoon nap so he doesn't get jealous. But on the odd occasion he'll wake up and join us. It's lovely having our two children close together in age, he is absorbing so much from her.

This picture is adorable. Emma is sliding a picture of a spider into an 'S' box and William got right in her face and said "Careful of scary spiders, Emma!? No touch!"

These two are SO adorable, and such blessings to me.

Cute Girl

Here are two pictures of my darling girl. One taken in April 2010 (age 15 months), the next in April 2013 (age 4).

This is at a park near my folks house - we drive past it a lot (especially lately - I've been over there almost every day to be with mum post "she-fell-over-and-fracture-her-jaw-surgery". hectic hey? She's on the mend though) and each time she asks "Can we play at the boat park after Granny's today?". So finally one afternoon last week I made an intentional trip over to the boat park for an afternoon play and couldn't resist taking the latter snap of our chicken.

Gum Boots and The Crawl Space in the Bathroom . . .

Those two topics aren't related. I just have cute pictures of the boy related to them that I would like to post.

We bought him gumboots which are fabulous. Of course if you have gumboots you MUST jump in muddy puddles (I removed his shorts to save on laundry!)

 I love his face in this shot, he's working hard on that jump!

 Standing tall. For a shorty this pic makes him look like he has long legs!

These boots are GREAT because they have HANDLES. Weird, but extremely functional for a 2 year old! They're great for two reasons a) He can put his own shoes on; b) the fact that he can put his shoes on excites both William and myself.

And . . .the crawl space in the bathroom. OK so we're currently in a rental (the snob in me can't resist commenting: I would not have tiles that look like that in a house I own, I promise) and this bathroom has this weird space between the vanity and the bathtub (I wouldn't have that in my own house either. It's really annoying to clean, but aside from that, recently buddy has discovered he can fit in there. I think I was telling him to smile at this point and he did his typical fussing (we're REALLY working on that  . . . .sigh - feel free to pray for us in that regard actually!)

 and then of course he has a sudden attitude change and becomes rather joyous . . .

  . . .and all is well in William world. He is SUCH a clown.

The End.