Becca discovered markers, and loves to sit at the small table and open a marker, place a few dots of color in her coloring book, put the cap back on the marker and then repeat with a new marker. One morning she saw the bin of markers and pile of coloring books on the counter and started asking for them by grunting and pointing at them. She was not satisfied until I pulled them down for her to play with. Becca still isn't talking, except for saying Mama, Da-Da, and night night on command.
Ben talks to Becca as if she can understand and respond. He asks her questions and relays her answer to us by interpreting her head nod. He will tell us "Becca said she doesn't want any".
Becca observes everything and tries to do what the big kids are doing. Yesterday morning she insisted on sitting in the back seat in between the two car seats, because that is what she saw her cousing Kelly doing at the farm on Sunday. She was so pleased once she climbed into the spot by herself.
Yesterday, Ben's teacher allowed him to pick out a dum-dum lollipop after school. When we got to Becca's classroom to get her, she wanted to try the lollipop. Ben eagerly shared his lollipop with her but Becca was reluctant to give it back. By the time we got to the van, they had switched the lollipop back and forth and few times. Becca had it in her mouth and wasn't giving it back when Ben announced to her..."Becca, sharing is caring". I asked him where he learned that from and he said "Ms Sasha".
On Saturday, Ben went to his first movie. We went to see Madasgascar 3 with Lara. Ben did well overall, but did complain a bit about being scared by the dark and by the tiger, who wasn't nice like the rest of the animals in the movie. I was able to convince him that he was okay. Becca did well for the most part too, but got interested in leaving our ailse and walking the stairs, so I took her outside to the lobby. Apparently once Ben realized I'd gone, he wanted to leave too, so Lara brought him out about 20 minutes before the end of the movie.
After their movie, they both played in the backyard at the small playset that Ben is very proud he can climb the wall and into it by himself. Becca can climb the short ladder into it herself too, and slide down the slide by herself. Both really enjoyed playing at the sandbox, building a river by dumping buckets of water filled with the hose, with Lara manning the hose. They both got soaked, with Ben doing his usual stripping down to nothing and me grabbing his swim trunks so he wasn't totally indecent in the backyard! Becca go soaked because she inadvertently dumped more water on herself than what made it into the sandbox.
Later Lara and I took the kids to Target where Ben pulled his normal "I need to show you something", which was how he wanted to get me to walk down the toy ailse with him. I told him he wasn't getting any toys, but he did ask if he could buy a Scooby/Bat Man movie which I said yes too, and a Scooby t-shirt which he begged for. While in the check-out line, Ben saw the clerk at the next aisle wearing a bright purple turban. He said, "Look Mommy, a genie!". And it was true, the man looked like what Ben would believe was a genie!
After Target we went to pick up Daddy at the bourbon festival. The kids slept all the way there, not having a nap yet. But they were ready to go again once we got home, heading back to the sandbox to continue building their river and get wet again! Yes, Ben stipped out of his clothes again requiring me to run get his swimtrunks!
On Sunday, we all went to the farm, where Ben had a great time playing in pool with Kelly and the rest of his cousins (except Chase who was at a golf tournament). Ben wore one of Kelly's small donut intertubes, and used it all afternoon to swim everywhere in the pool and enjoyed racing Kelly, sometimes to get a ball and other times to just go from one end to the other.
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