*original post, January 14th 2010*
i think part of being a parent is becoming a student of your kids. i love unraveling the mystery of what makes each of my children their own person. that's why along the way we have learned that loving them, raising them, feeding them, disciplining them, encouraging them, teaching them, is a specific art. no two are alike. if we carbon copied the way "we did things" with katie and tried to implement it with julia... YIKES! (trust me, we tried this for like 3 seconds and it blew up in our faces) this brings me to today's email. i love how different my kids are from one another. there are things about each one of them that drives me a little crazy... but the flip side, there are things in each of them that i just adore and can't imagine life without.
the following is an example:
katie was playing with the fantastic marble tree uncle matt made. soon i heard only silence (i.e. no more marbles slip sliding down the tree)... "hey, katie what are you doing babe?" i inquired... "come look" she said. sure enough she was sorting the marbles into family colors. it was beautiful to behold! ah, my little van gogh.
it has taken julia a little longer to refine her motor skills. her writing has only begun to spring forth in the last 4 months. today, however she wrote her alphabet and "Poppo". i don't so much care about this little writing mile stone as much as i care about the sheer excitement that was resounding through the walls of our home as we celebrated. katie and lucy jumped up and down telling julia what a fantastic job she had done and how great her letters looked. all the while i knew that katie saw the crooked "M" and the imperfect "W".. she didn't even mention it..she just praised julia. katie denied her great gift of detail and correction, and simply celebrated the beauty of julia's hard, hard work! as they grow old together i hope they can jump for joy through every success, and sob tears of drama til the day they die.
lucy. she must be a vegetarian. over the last several weeks lucy has chosen the following.
a cookie or a cucumber?.. cucumber
sprite or water?... water
ckn nuggets or carrots?... carrots
mac-n-cheese or spinach?... spinach
please don't think i am trying to toot my own "health food" horn. trust me, my kids have ingested plenty of fast food. i just find it TOTALLY interesting that she picked those foods. no wonder she is weighing down the scales at a whooping 22 lbs.
anderson. well, after nearly 10 months of watching, listening, and probably losing parts of his ability to hear.. he has started to warm up that voice and tell us like it is. i love hearing him scream, babble, and say, "da-da"!! he talks to himself while he watches his movements in the oven door. he uses his "smokers voice" when he talks on the phone ;) finally, a voice. a little man voice!! soon i hope to hear him say, "katie, stop holding me like an infant. julia, stop dragging me around. And Lucy, leave my darn pacifier alone ;)!!!"
happy thursday!
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