Tyler has made the move from quadruped to biped, well close anyway. He is taking more and more steps and with this new movement is into more things. His favorite thing to get into is mommy's bathroom cabinets, and pull everything out. Dumping roller, hair dryers, boxes of soaps any thing he can lift is tossed out so he can climb in. He also enjoys pulling items from trash cans and the shredded! But its hard to get mad when he flashes that big toothy grin and giggles.
Matthew is great at the potty, a few oopses here and there but really likes the no diaper freedom. Matthew's poor tricycle has really been loved and used, and it really shows. He rides it almost non stop and rides it to get Amanda after school everyday, but he has worn the treads right of the wheels. So it looks like we will be bike shopping soon.
Amanda is very determined when she puts her mind to it. We (mom and dad) have been trying to get her to ride her bike more. But she didn't like to, it was to scary. Well that all changed when a friend down the street was riding her bike and with out training wheels! Amanda wanted to ride without training wheels too. We took them off with the warning of "they are not going back on". Well she pretty much taught her self how to ride, mom and dad tried the old running behind holding on, but Amanda would get scared and stop after a few feet. So we gave her some pointers and she practiced on her own and now she can ride down the street and to the park!
We got new back doors to replace the old leaky, paint holding things together doors. I love them but it has added to my UFO (UnFinished Objects). To prepare for the doors I took the wallpaper off around it, since I wasn't to fond of the existing wallpaper. It sounded easy enough, but after scraping off the 5 layers of paper liner, I have exposed the lovely drywall. What do I do? Scrape the rest of the kitchen and repaper? Scrape the rest of the kitchen and texture and paint? Hmmm, either way I think I have a lot of scraping to do....bummer. Oh, did I mention I have to paint the new doors (inside and out)! *sigh* And no I haven't finished the stairs yet, although I did paint most of the stair well, 3 out of 4 walls, not bad, right!
Matthew is great at the potty, a few oopses here and there but really likes the no diaper freedom. Matthew's poor tricycle has really been loved and used, and it really shows. He rides it almost non stop and rides it to get Amanda after school everyday, but he has worn the treads right of the wheels. So it looks like we will be bike shopping soon.
Amanda is very determined when she puts her mind to it. We (mom and dad) have been trying to get her to ride her bike more. But she didn't like to, it was to scary. Well that all changed when a friend down the street was riding her bike and with out training wheels! Amanda wanted to ride without training wheels too. We took them off with the warning of "they are not going back on". Well she pretty much taught her self how to ride, mom and dad tried the old running behind holding on, but Amanda would get scared and stop after a few feet. So we gave her some pointers and she practiced on her own and now she can ride down the street and to the park!We got new back doors to replace the old leaky, paint holding things together doors. I love them but it has added to my UFO (UnFinished Objects). To prepare for the doors I took the wallpaper off around it, since I wasn't to fond of the existing wallpaper. It sounded easy enough, but after scraping off the 5 layers of paper liner, I have exposed the lovely drywall. What do I do? Scrape the rest of the kitchen and repaper? Scrape the rest of the kitchen and texture and paint? Hmmm, either way I think I have a lot of scraping to do....bummer. Oh, did I mention I have to paint the new doors (inside and out)! *sigh* And no I haven't finished the stairs yet, although I did paint most of the stair well, 3 out of 4 walls, not bad, right!
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