Ezra
Ezra has been wanting to do "school work" every single day for the last while, in order to prepare himself for school. As much as I encourage him he is ready he insists he needs to keep practicing. He can now count by 2's, 5's and 10's, tell time to the half hour on an analog clock, add and subtract numbers to 20 and write each letter in upper and lower case. He can read chapter books to himself, count way past 100 and understands rhyming and basic parts of speech. He also knows life cycles, food chains an habitats. Like I said, the kid is READY for school. Ezra may as well begin school in grade four. He's also been doing really well at soccer but is definitely exhausted at the end of each practice. He recently asked me for a very hipster haircut and wears it well. Ezra also recently started having showers instead of baths. So grown up!
Silas
Silas has only had two bathroom accidents in the last month, and they were both during his nap. He is both day and night trained. Silas still likes having a "pee teacher" but can go independently. He has recently started showing interest in learning his letters and numbers and he can recognize a few of them. He is definitely left handed and I am struggling with teaching him how to hold a pencil and scissors properly, but he's only 3 so I'm not worrying about it too much. Silas has a made up city called, "Novawind" in which all of his pretend play occurs. Usually someone needs rescuing from a catastrophe or bad guy, but occasionally things are just fine in Novawind. Starting mid-September Silas will begin preschool- he is enrolled in the same program Ezra was in when he was 3.
Philip
Philip has crawled and can walk along furniture. He can get to sitting from laying down but cannot pull to standing (no matter how hard he tries but he's getting close). He has tried all sorts of food but has been refusing anything off the spoon. The only thing he's hated so far is rice cereal and oatmeal. His favourite thing is water; he goes crazy for the cup. When he is hungry for breast milk, he cries "mumumum". It's the only time he says that, and he says it every time.
Pip's been sleeping in the crib in the boys' room since we came home from our trip and it's been going great. He nurses and has his only bottle for the day at 7, listens to the bed time story and goes to sleep sometime around 7:30. He wakes around 5:30-6 for another nurse and goes back to sleep until 8-8:30. He has also finally been having one long nap a day. Normally he has a 45 min nap in the morning, a 1.5hr nap after lunch and another 45 min nap close to supper time (either before or after he eats). He is basically a dream child.
