* Sophia is a complete chatterbox these days! Her vocabulary has gone through the roof this past month. She is talking in sentences and even asking questions! I remember the explosion with Evan, although with Evan it was right around his second birthday. Sophia is talking so much earlier. She asked Evan to get her a bowl of yogurt early this week, and she also was able to tell us what happened in the other room that caused her to burst into tears! (Evan swore he didn't know what happened, but then Sophia said "Eman kicked my eye". When we asked Ev about it, he said, "well, it was an accident!" He can't get away with anything anymore now!!! She calls him Eman and just started today calling herself "Bia".
* Sophia's three favorite things in life right now are milk, "Lella" (Cinderella) and her brother Eman. She is often cranky when she wakes up from her afternoon nap and she cries until she either sees Evan, has a cup of milk or starts to watch a Cinderella video. It's a funny combination! She has developed a slight obsession with the Disney Princesses; Lella and Belle are her favorites although she has been talking about Snow White a lot lately too. She makes me sing one of 3 songs before bedtime - forget about Twinkle Twinkle and the other lullabyes I used to sing. Now I can choose from "Bibbity Bobbity Boo", the "Work Song" (sung by Cinderella's mice) or "So This is Love" - the waltz that Lella and the Prince dance to. Oh, and she calls the Prince in the movie "Daddy" b/c I think she thinks Jeff looks like him. Quite a compliment, Jeff! If only she would call Cinderella "Mommy!" - I guess she sees no resemblance!
Here are a couple tidbits on Evan, as he turns 5 1/2 this month:
* School - Ev just loves going to school these days and is nearing the end of his preschool days, with just over a month left. He will be going to full-day Kindegarten next year and seems excited about it. We walked to his school one day last week and he was excited about his "new school" and to play at the Kindegarten playground. He even met one of his Kindegarten teachers who was in the parking lot as we were leaving (she was my first grade teacher if you can believe it!!!) He has a new preschool teacher who has been sending home lots of fun letter projects for us to work on - the change has turned out to be a very positive one and Evan really has responded well to her.
* Swimming - still one of Evan's favorite activities! I just love bringing him to swim lessons every week just to see that huge smile on his face when he jumps in the water! He is swimming without a bubble now, and doing the crawl stroke, the back stroke and diving and swimming under water. He has continued with swimming lessons at the "Y" all winter/spring and sign-ups for the Holden Pool are next month. He's such a fish!!
* Tee-ball - Ev's first season of Holden Tee-Ball starts this month. He and Jeff have been outside playing catch the last week or so and he is doing great! He has quite an arm on him already. Jeff is going to be his coach and has gone through "coach's training" so he is all set to play ball!
* Artwork - Evan's favorite activities besides swimming are coloring and drawing. Yesterday he colored pictures for a total of about 4 hours during the day. He just about went through an entire coloring book! He loves to sit and draw some of his favorite things such as trains, flowers, dinosaurs, and airplanes. He definitely has his father's artistic passion and ability!
That pretty much sums up life at the Pelletier household these days. I always try to keep it brief and simple, but let's face it, there's nothing brief or simple about life with a 5 yr old and a 20 month old! Always something new!!!!
Enjoy the pics and video!
NOT a great pic, but it's the only recent one I have of both! I guess Evan wasn't all that thrilled about the photo op before church!!
