Happy Birthday William!

Happy Birthday William!


You're 1!

The Musical Prodigy

We went to Working Wonders, the Children's "Museum" in Bend the other day. Both Pippa and William loved it - William thought the sandbox full of colored rice was a riot, and Pippa found a guitar she didn't want to put down.



In addition to the guitar playing, Pippa is a FABULOUS singer! She knows nearly all the words to Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. The words she doesn't know she just improvises.



Also, an update on the new walker. He has pretty much stopped crawling as he has realized walking is the best. He follows me and Pippa everywhere practicing his walk. He has to keep it slow to catch his balance occasionally, but I think I only saw him crawl once today.

Well done, Illum (Pippa calls him illum, if you listen carefully in the video "play with Illum")! You are officially walking before your first birthday!

Will-ham Walker Talker

My little baby boy is walking.

Okay, so right now he crawls to get places, however about 50 times a day he stands up and takes some steps just for fun. He seems to think it is the coolest thing, but I guess it helps that I also think it is the coolest thing and just egg him on and clap when he tries. He so wants to be doing what Pippa is doing (which is everything), and he seems to realize that walking will be a crucial turning point in achieving this goal.

Baby Steps!

We have had another really busy week. We've been in Portland for a few nights with Nick as he had to go do some work there, we were at Kah-nee-tah for a night for Nick's work bbq, and inbetween we are searching for a new car. Tomorrow, Auntie Becky and Mort arrive for a visit from England, so lots still to do!

Pippa and William are still fabulous. Pippa continues to amaze us and William is loving his legs. He has been standing for a while now, but this week he decided to take his first unsupported steps! Now he keeps standing up in the middle of the room and stepping. I think he's at 3 steps before he lowers himself down. It looks like he may be walking before his birthday, which is in only 2 weeks. I can't believe he's 1 already!

I'll post some photos of all the fun we've had in the last week later. Right now I have no children who need my attention, so I'm going to use that time to clean up a little.

Spelling Bee

So, Pippa knows all her letters and numbers and whenever she see them (which is everywhere) she likes to read them out. This is a lot of thanks to WordWorld, the show where Dog, Ant, Duck, Pig, Sheep, Frog and Bear have adventures in spelling. In every show they have to build words, so they spell them out and then say the word. This is Pippa's favorite show and the only one she wants to watch.

Like I said, wherever she sees a word she spells it out and then says it. Or at least what she thinks it must say...

Here are a few of the spellings she did in the last few days:

Our TV is a Philips, and the logo is right on the front, so pippa says
"P-H-I-L-I-P-S... that says TV"
Then we were at Safeway and Pippa read out the sign for me
"S-A-F-E-W-A-Y... that says Store"
And the last good one was her reading my new license plate
"8-4-6-D-V-P... that says Car"

It was very cute. At least she gets the idea... "B-O-S-C-H... that says Washer"!