Da-da And Sunny Spirit Rainbow

John has been so busy -- he is still his happy go lucky self.  But he is working on talking, crawling, and pulling up. 

And in keeping with his sister, he tries to do all of them at the same time and gets pretty frustrated at moving nowhere.  Despite not being able to talk during this process, he sure conveys his frustration.  This is lead to some predictable naps everyday after a few hours of working out his muscles. 

Because of John's mobility, we moved Abigail's small toys upstairs to her room this weekend.

When John is napping we play upstairs with all her tiny toys. 

 Abigail has enjoyed some one on one time with Alicia at Trinity Park -- while I hang out with John at home.  She has also been enjoying role playing as a teacher, Mrs Deem, primarily.  I am usually her co-teacher, Mrs. Townsend, and I have a baby class and she has the kid class.  She names our stuff animal children, and we have circle time and teach shapes, alphabet, animals, etc. Mrs. Deem is Abigail's teacher at SAS.  She is very creative and has a wonderful creative curriculum.  They have studied camping, bugs/spiders/snakes, nocturnal animals, and recently indigenous people of North America.  In studying native Americans, the kids created their own native American names based on nature and their personality.  Matt and I were to help -- we came up with Sunny Spirit Dancer, as Abigail was going through a big phase of dressing up and dancing to Abba for hours.  She changed it to Sunny Spirit Rainbow -- the Indian Princess, complete with stamp tattoos of butterflies on her face and arms. 

John is continuing to teeth -- here he is gumming an apple slice.  No teeth yet.

We have also enjoyed some breakfast and lunch picnics. 

John is truly mesmerized by his big sister.  His face lights up in the morning when she wakes.  He looks captivated by her perpetual motion, giggles deeply when she dances, tickles and entertains him, and is longing to reach out and eat her food, drink her milk and play with her toys -- haha, hope she likes to share real soon.