week ending jan 14, 2007

Week ending January 14, 2007: Next week I will go to Heritage Baptist Academy to turn in the kids’ applications for preschool requesting a Tues/Thurs afternoon class to start in the fall. When we visited the school last time, the twins seemed to be able to follow directions about as well as the kids in the 3 year old class, so I think they will be ok. Alex and I are still coughing a bit, and Alex threw up Monday night about an hour after he’d gone to bed. He and Chloe are sharing a room right now (their choice), and Chloe didn’t wake up at all even when Alex cried after he threw up and I came back into the room to change the bedclothes. This week Chloe has been entertaining us with the things she says. I usually try to give the twins positive feedback when they are playing nicely and I often say “that is good cooperation” when I see them working together to agree on how to play. The other day Alex and Chloe were working together to carry a huge sofa cushion out of the room and Chloe said to her father, “say ‘that’s good cooperation’, Dad!”. At the dinner table tonight I got the chills after drinking a lot of ice cold soda and after I explained what had happened, Chloe said “is that a pain your butt, Mom?”. I guess we’ll have to be more careful about what we say around her. We were visiting our friends Rob and Tina, and Tina said “Rob is being lazy” while he was out of the room. When Rob came back in the room Chloe said “Is Mr Rob being lazy?”. This week their Aunt Danielle brought over a motorized fishing game and Alex caught a fish right away. At first I wondered if it was beginners luck, but although Chloe and Natalie didn’t have much luck, Alex continued to catch fish over and over demonstrating both his visual/spatial abilities, and his love of imitating his father’s love of fishing. Just before Christmas we noticed that if Alex stands on his toes, he is tall enough that he can push up light switches to turn the lights on, although he can’t reach high enough to pull the switch down to turn the lights off.