It is all going far too fast. I look at photos of just 4 months ago, and both Vin and Elsie look soooo much younger.
Vin in particular is just filling out, getting longer, getting all this hair. He is asking me for things, mostly candy. He pushes me and says 'Go' when I hold him too long. In the mornings he comes in, shuffling his feet in that over exaggerated, almost stomping way, with a huge grin on his face and says, 'Good Morning Mommy.'
We went trick or treating and got some good candy from a couple of local houses (of course I ran to all the local houses the night before Halloween and gave candy to the houses, in order for them to give it back to us the next night) and now he just wants to eat lollipops and sugar drops instead of real food.
The other night Andi and him had the following conversation:
Andi: Vinny it is time for dinner
Vin (going over to his candy container and pulling out a lollipop): How about lollipop?
Andi: No Vinny, real dinner
Vin (putting back the lollipop and pulling out a hard candy): Maybe this?
Andi: No Vinny, you need a real dinner
Vin (putting back the hard candy and pulling out a snickers bar): Maybe chocolate?
Andi: No no Vinny, a real dinner
He wants to play Andi's computer games more than anything these days, but I don't know how to play them, and he just kind of pushes the two main buttons, W for walk and spacebar - so the games are that exciting. He is really getting into books, which delights me. I don't get to read to him much at night these days because I am usually putting Elsie to bed at that time, but he will grab books for us to read during the day and even has started to insist on taking a book with us when we go out with the stroller. He is feeding himself really well, and mostly left handed. His hair is growing long and blonde and curly. He is starting to really hold on when we pick him up. He is really enjoying Elsie, now that she can hold her head up and smile and laugh, and even roll a ball every once in awhile. At kindergarten, he picks up his plate after meals or snacks, takes it over to the 'extra food bowl' dumps his food in, and then stacks his plate on the dirty plate stack. Such a good boy. He sings a lot now. Mostly, Alle Kinder rauhmen ein, das zimmer muss sauber sein - and Twinkle twinkle little star. There are a few others as well.
He still screams and throws quite a fit when things don't go his way, and he seems to always be a butt when we try to skype with my parents, but he is so sweet, and so soft and so smart and so, so wonderful.
Little Elsie, or Trixie May as she is knows as around these parts, is filling out really well, smiling and love love loves her Daddy and brother! They both can make her laugh like no other. She seems to be getting interested in starting some solid foods, she is eyeballing us a lot when we eat. She can roll over, but doesn't do a lot of rolling. She isn't interested in trying to crawl yet, mostly she just likes to be where we all are and likes to watch her family and luv up on us a lot. She is very very sweet and patient and very beautiful :)
I want them to just slow it down a bit.
