Language

Both kids are learning so much these days. Penelope has just a few words. Her first word was "Hi" and she would turn her head to the side and say hi like she was peeking around a corner, something we did with her that apparently stuck. Her second word was Kaya, "kay-kah." She sometimes seems to say Dada and also kind of says Micah, "Guy-ka." I was pointing to a car on the street the other day and she said "Cah." Michael says she says Mama, but I think he's just humoring me, I've never heard anything resembling it.

Otherwise, everything is just "caca" while pointing at whatever it is she sees. She does love waving at people though, and knows the signs for more please and all done.

The latest is that we think she might be having trouble digesting cow's milk, so this week it'll be breast milk and water only until we can reintroduce milk and see what happens. The hard part is convincing a barely one year old to eat enough food to get all her nutrition that way. My fingers are crossed!

In four year old news, Micah is learning to read and write like a champ. We haven't pushed it, but every time he sits down to color, he asks how to spell various things and writes all kinds of messages on his pictures. He's learned how to spell a few words without help now, Micah, Mama, Dada, Love. He's also getting good at reading, we've worked with him on sounding words out, but I think he's actually just learning to recognize what something will sound like as a whole. He sees the first and last letter and fills in the rest. He's read a couple pages of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish in the last day or two.