An Eliana first: She crawled.

Another Ethan first: He remodeled a Lego forklift.

Ethan asked me to make a forklift for him out of Legos. He wanted a roof, so I added one, leaving the sides of the cabin open. Ethan was concerned that the operator might get wet in a rainstorm with high winds. The next time I saw the forklift, it had doors to protect its interior.

An Eliana first: She picked up her toys while being held.

Eliana likes holding onto toys at church, and of course dropping them too. Today we were both be entertained while I lowered her down hands first, while she picked up her toy.

An Eliana first: She pulled a ball off a stone ledge.

Eliana uses more a careful and steady style than her brother. This served her well when she reached up on the fireplace ledge to pull down a block puzzle ball.

An Eliana first: She put a ring on a spindle.

Watching the trees shake

Ethan has learned that if he shakes his head, it looks like the objects he sees are shaking. He was watching the trees outside a window “shake” this way and wanted to share his excitement with me. “The trees are shaking! Do you see it?”

Literary bedtime request

Ethan’s bedtime stories tonight came from a different bookshelf than usual. One of the characters was the Abominable Snow Monster. When Ethan asked what abominable meant, I didn’t know well how to describe it. I told him that I should look the word up. Then I subsequently forgot all about it, but half an hour later when I was walking by Ethan’s room, he reminded me from his bed, asking if I could look up abominable and tell him about it when the sun wakes up.

An Eliana first: She went sledding.