Happy Tuesday!!!

Elise at the park with my girlfriend Kim's son Kale. I thought this was the sweetest picture.
I am trying to toy with the kids nap time.. Because Elise no longer wants to take 2 naps a day and Edward refuses to take an afternoon nap so I cut out the morning nap and put them down just after lunch.. when I finished feeding Edward I turned around to throw the jars away and get his face rag to wash is face and they were both sound asleep. They are now taking a good 2.5 hour nap from around 12 noon to 2:30 or 3:00 which is nice and Edward is not such a pill in the evening.. Before he was only taking his morning nap from 10:30ish to 12 noon and then up from noon until 8:00pm.

Elise loves to kiss her brother!!!

Sweet baby girl!!!
Edward climbing again!!! UGAH he is going to give me a heart attack

Well not a bunch going on at our house… We are awaiting a visit from my mom in a few weeks and the kids are growing like crazy and have such cute little personalities ( most of the time ) Edward is now running not walking anymore and still climbing on everything.. I guess that is part of him being a boy.. Elise never climbs anything… Elise is talking a ton more lately and now putting two words together like Mommy eat and mommy hold me and mommy help so we are making small progress. One of my friends that I met through the wonderful world of adoption told me earlier this week that when your child says like truck when you say something back to them add a word like big truck and if they say juice say Elise’s Juice.. So I started doing that with both of the kiddo’s this week. I think that Elise is a little behind on her speech but that is very common for internationally adopted children. Elise starts preschool next week. I am so excited for her. She is going with my neighbors little girl Avery they are in the same class. I think that since Elise knows Avery it may help her a little bit with feeling more comfortable.. We will see. She gets very upset when she does not know where I am or thinks that I am going to leave her. Hope everyone reading this in the Midwest is enjoying the beautiful weather we are having!!
Belinda