O Pickles

This week we got Tyler a Thomas the Train. Since we lost his favorite red Hummer we had to get him something to replace it. Tyler was sooo excited to see Thomas at Toys R Us. He played with it the whole shopping trip, the whole way home and all evening...all before we even opened the package. See pics... http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellentee/sets/72157604003496248/show/

The other two things I remember about this past week (since they are still going on are) Lauren's new big-time attitude and Tyler's spoken vocabulary is increasing exponentially. Some of this is awesome and some of this is quite trying...you can imagine which. =)

Lauren first. She has currently replaced "Tiddlywinks" with "Oh Pickles" when she doesn't get her way. Her other little attitude phrases include "Never" and "I won't do it for one hundred years." She must get this from Matt because I know I was a perfect angel as a child. (wink)

She did write her name by herself for the first time this week. She was looking at it on her photo albums we have on the shelves in the family room and she did a great job. (Matt wrote Tyler's name while Lauren told him what letter to write.) I believe her R has a smiley face in it and her E is quite original.

And Tyler this week has been talking up a storm. He repeats things...of which usually come out of Lauren's mouth. And he will point at things and say them...i.e. eyes, nose, mouth, ears, wheels, airplane, train, and many more. He can also count to 10 if you start him out by saying one, two...he'll do the rest if he's in the mood. I think this jump in his vocabulary will help his tantrums. I can tell that he gets joy in knowing we can understand him and he's communicating.

I can't believe it's March already and I'm going to have a 4 year old and 2 years old by the end of the month. They grow so fast.