Zae is 18 months old. Still perfect. Has just started getting serious about talking in the past couple of weeks. She had plenty of words here and there, but is just now embracing verbal communication. A list of commonly heard Zae words and phrases:
Bottle (bah-woe) -- uses one to go to sleep every night, a habit we'll break at some point but aren't messing with for now since she's still the only one of the three kids who sleeps all night every night in her own bed.
Eat it! (will eat lots of anything)
Open
Up
All done
No! (was "Mo!" until recently, now more like "now")
Yeah!
Mama
Daddy
Papa
Mazie
Athena
Wiley (Why-yee... just lost him a few weeks ago. Zae adored him.)
Stop it (bop it!) -- said frequently to big sisters
Baby (look, there's one in the mirror!)
Meanwhile, Athena turns FIVE tomorrow. She is amazing... strong, fierce, loving, and curious. We're all so excited for her to start kindergarten. Recent quote: "I want to LEARN!" She's been starting to read and is THRILLED to begin cracking the puzzle of letters and words, and has also been enthusiastic about math and numbers. Not that I compare my kids... but watching Zae's language evolution has reminded me how remarkably articulate Athena was from a very young age. At five, she speaks incredibly clearly and confidently to friends and strangers (aka new friends). For this reason, I have deliberately NOT corrected the few words she mispronounces: my favorite is "veginning" (beginning). She'll probably yell at me when she reads it for the first time. Or yell at her teacher and insist that it's spelled wrong.
Mazie is a grown up. Practically. She flew home from Washington by herself today, after spending 4 days there on her own with Nanny and Papa (the other 2 and I also went for a week and came home without her).
As a rising 3rd grader, she is officially halfway done with elementary school. She also knows lots of words. A new one: fascinator, the name for the fancy hats that she and Auntie Catherine modeled on her WA trip.
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