As we enter into this new year of their life we are excited to face new challenges. One of those being able to handle three new people in the world and their thirst for knowledge. We love to let the kids explore the house and explore they do. They are constantly in drawers, playing with toys or digging through the pantry. It seems that every night when we come down after putting them to sleep we spend about 20 mins picking up all the objects of their curiosity. While they all really like to get into everything we have found a couple things that each child seems to revolve around. In other word, objects that they always seem to be looking for.
For Kade its the remote control. It is the first thing that he looks for whenever you put him down. He will look high and low for the remote. That's fine that he likes it but its not good for our guests when he actually gets his hands on it. Why just the other day I received a urgent (J/K - I was just a regular call but as Katie says I have a flare for the dramatic) call from Katie while I was at work asking me where the remote was. While I didn't at the time remember Kade walking off with it, that actually was the case. I thought it was on the couch where I usually leave it and he can't reach it. However, he somehow was able to get to it and now it was MIA. Katie's dad and Jean were over helping out with the kids and trying to watch the Olympics but were unable to change the channel without the remote. So, after several mins of searching they were able to find it under some obscure piece of furniture. We even have two dummy remotes for him that don't go to anything but he always seems to end up with the real thing.
For Maggie its a few things. Her hairbrush, mom's watch, her stuffed dog or her bunny blanket. She isn't as much into the playing with toys as she is into power walking. As long as she has one of the aforementioned items all is good in her world. She will literally walk for two straight hours if you let her. If you are sitting on the ground when she walks by its almost like you aren't even there. She just blows by you whilst on some internal course around the playroom/den/kitchen that only she is aware of. You will ofter hear her just laugh out loud for no reason as she walks around. No one has done anything funny or anything its just like she has remembered something amusing from the past and it made her giggle. :)
Larkin loves anything and everything. He does have a great love for the radio in his room but since he is in his crib the majority of his time in there (When awake he is in the playroom or downstairs with us) he doesn't get to play with it very often. He seems to be the most interested in electronics. He is always trying to get to the sound machine or fan. We have a toy basketball goal the lights up if they make a basket and he will just sit there and try to figure out how they work. It appears that he has a little more natural curiosity as to how things work. He has figured out how to turn on toys before the other two on numerous occasions. Not only that but he also seems have a knack for pushing objects around. Whether its one of the walking toys, his little pop walker, a box or even his sister in her radioflyer. I guess he just likes to see what will happen if he pushes this toy over here and that toy over there.
We received a great gift (All gifts are great btw) from Katie's friend Laurie for their bday. It is a wagon that you can hook up like train cars and pull the kids around it it. The kids love it. I was for sure as soon as we sat them down and started pulling them around it was going to be a mayday call for multiple man overboards. However, quite the opposite has been true. Every time we put them in they just sit there on their best behavior and enjoy the ride. In fact, we decided to take them out this afternoon for their first wagon ride around the block. I've attached a video below. Enjoy!
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| Oh yeah, and we are selling our car. Please let us know if you or anyone you know would be interested :) |
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