The joy of siblings....

Okay after so much lag between postings I thought I would make up for lost time :-)

I just had to share Anna. You can definitely tell she is blessed to be a third child in a chaotic household with siblings similar in ages.

For instance(s):

She has shown no interest in crawling, it's walking or nothing.

When she doesn't get her way, or one of her siblings tries to take something away from her she either hits or tries to bite, remember she's only 12 months old not 2 (needless to say we are doing our best to nip this behavior in the bud).

She will only eat food that we are eating (when she eats any food at all)

One of her first words was "mine!" (it is not hard to imagine where she learned this term).

And the funniest yet, has come as a result of Grayson and Eme in the process of learning their phonics (Grayson is actually starting to read!!). G and E are in love with a particular video (from the very limited library and TV watching allotment), called the "Letter Factory", by leapstart. It teaches the letters and their sounds to the tune of farmer in the dell. The 'A' says 'ah', etc. etc. Grayson loves to watch and then reenact as the characters. Eme loves to watch and sing the song over and over and over and did I mention over again? Any way where this long story is going. Yesterday I had the song stuck in my head and in the car asked Eme (in the sing songy tune): "hey Eme, the 'A' says ...? " and Anna out of the blue says 'ah'. My first thought is there is no way she really is answering, it must have been just random. So of course I ask again, and lo and behold she answered 'ah' again, and again, and again. And now it appears our littlest Dawes apparently knows the phonetical pronunciation of her first letter, not to mention her first vowel. We couldn't be prouder, and hope to remember to catch it on video for future prosperity.