More Smiles!

Tristan is still smiling today! This morning our little snack with the kids was apple slices. They are just as excited about this as the cookies the other day. They don’t get fresh fruit very often. We brought little wooden stamps and ink pads to use with their notepads. However, they totally did not get it! We tried to show them how to do it, and they just tried to peel off the rubber and play with the ink pad. :) We decided those will have to wait for another day.

After we played for a while we gave them some animal crackers and peach juice in a sippy cup. At first they weren’t sure how to use the cups. We had to take the valves out for them to get any out, and then Maya drank her entire cup in one sitting. She had drunk her entire strawcup of water earlier as well! We practiced signing “more” and counting with the animal crackers. They LOVE to eat! :)

They both loved looking at a little board book we brought, and at one point Maya was walking around holding it reciting something. We don’t know what she was saying, but it sounded like a poem. We found out Tristan likes to climb today, as he climbed up this tall ladder structure. This surprised us because he has seemed scared of heights—like on the swing or when we would try throwing him up in the air. When we saw him, and Jeff went toward him, he immediately came back down. It looked like he thought he was in trouble. Later Jeff swung him around and he had this huge smile on his cute little face!

When we were getting ready to drop the kids off to their gruppas, Maya said she needed to go pee. I wonder why! ;)