February....

February isn't one of my favorite months, it goes by too fast, is still too cold and it's over before I know it. But I do love Valentines day and this year we had a dinner at the Angeli's and I made a yummy strawberry cake with white chocolate frosting and yes I dipped the strawberries in chocolate and made them into little tuxedos (I know, I'm talented...LOL). Another reason this month passed so quickly is that I had my turn teaching preschool. 7 kids including Olivia for 3 hours, twice a week. Our curriculum is based on the ABC's and I had X, Y and Z. For x, we talked about x-rays (I'm so impressed that Olivia knew all the body parts that I had x-rays for, maybe she will become a doctor???), we drew our own x-rays, made x's with our bodies (jumping jacks)and for a whole day we were pirates (x marks the spot). For Y we did yoga, yodeling (we watched Julie Andrews on the Muppet's singing "The Lonely Goat herder" with the Muppet's)and yo-yo's and of course we ate yogurt. This week is my last week and for Z, we are going to learn about Zoo's, zippers and zebras.

Olivia: keeps me on my toes and my whole day is her either driving me nuts with her stubbornness or making me laugh with her silliness. She continues to be a budding photographer and is a great big sister to Malaki. Her latest funnies is a) she refuses to touch anything in the bathroom because she doesn't want her hands to be dirty and b)(as she's petting the cat) is counting off the ways to love a cat- 1, scratch her under the chin, 2, scratch her belly, 3, scratch between her ears, all demonstrated while talking. Speaking of talking, this kid talks a mile a minute and notices everything.

Malaki is getting bigger and bigger and I know this isn't impressive to some of you tall folks out there but he's in the 50 percentile for height, that's huge for my family of short people. Just this last week he's pretty much sitting up (doing the tripod sit) he just prefers to play and be on his tummy. He's not crawling but wiggles backwards (many times I find him stuck under a chair). He saw the cardiologist today and his echo shows the same numbers as he had 3 months ago, so she's pretty confident that it's not going to progress any further and we have our next check up in 6 months. He has really perfected his M and H sounds and quite often as he's babbling in his crib we hear "mama" and "ha".