August 2012

Time continues to fly!
Sean is beginning to run, not just waddle-walk around now.  We have had the BEST summer ever!  We have been enjoying our neighborhood pool a lot, as well as meeting up with friends and spending family time together. We went on two trips.  One to Caseville to see Stacey while she was up from Bama and hang with her family for the 4th of July week, and we also went and stayed at Cross Village on Lake Michigan in the Tunnel of Trees.  We had fun going to Mackinac, Charlevoix, Harbor Springs, and riding our bike into town to enjoy Legs Inn.  Sean enjoyed riding in the bike seat attached to my bike and Kyle had a third wheel attached to Adam's bike. 
Kyle and Sean are interacting more.  Sean wants to do everything his big brother does.  Kyle has gotten better about interacting with Sean, but still has to let it be known that he's the bigger one or the that Sean is too little to do the things he does.  Sharing is hard for Kyle as well.
Sean is now 16 months and is hitting Kyle to get his attention and is already throwing tantrums on the floor.  He gets frustrated when he can't figure something out and will slap his head or hit his head on the floor.  Where in the world did he learn that!?!  Mostly, he is a VERY happy, loving, cuddly, blue-eyed boy who loves riding his pink Cozy Coupe around.  He eats most things or tries them at least.  He loves to giggle at Kyle and still loves his pacifier.  He stacks blocks, is starting to do simple puzzles, and loves to get into cupboards, and twist caps to things on and off.  And he loves to follow his mom wherever she goes!  He knows only a few words (mom, hi, what, bye), and calls both Adam and I mom, which makes it a little difficult at times to know who he is talking to!  One of my favorite memories is of me calling his name from upstairs or a different room and he yells back, "WHAT?!?"  It's hilarious.  His receptive language is much stronger at the moment.
Kyle has enjoyed learning to swim more and now puts his head under water.  He loves jumping in and swimming mostly with his floaties.  He has become much more brave.  He is very helpful around the house and is reasonable to work with now that we are past the 3 year stage! He still has a hard time going to sleep at night, and still takes naps most days.  He still loves Pesto Pasta and Taco Salad and his favorite color is currently green, yellow, and black.  He has not needed an eye patch for over one and a half years, but when we went back to see Dr. Bohra, his left eye lost strength, so we need to patch the right eye for 2 hours each day.  He has been a good sport about it.  He continues to enjoy reading and learning how to manipulate the ipad.  He played soccer, but wasn't in love, but he finally saved enough money to get a real kid-sized drum set and he LOVES it!  I really need to sign him up for drum lessons!  He really, really loves music!
And, again, no pics.  The new camera software has not been downloaded onto the computer...hopefully soon, before school starts.