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July 9 2009

Little miss Gabriella has had a LOT of firsts this week. She crawled the steps all by herself (with us right behind her, of course), she says “mom” (dada is still her favorite word, though!), She puts a blanket over her head and pulls it off to play peek a boo with Jase, and she gave her first high 5! It’s amazing how many things she is learning at this stage…I think that’s why Jase is doing so well at potty training. He likes to look like the “big boy” and he gets lots of applause and cheers from everyone when he goes!
My mom and I took the kids to their first movie today. I found online that the movie cinemas do kids movies for free during the summer on certain days. It’s a really awesome program to have, no one gets upset if your kids are loud or walking around because they didn’t pay to get in! We chose the week for “Madagascar 2”, I figured that would have the best luck to hold Jastin’s attention! Gabby slept the entire time, which was great, and Jase love it! He took a 20 minute break in the middle to go play skeeball with my mom (he was getting a little bored).

We all had such a great time for 4th of July. The kids have been staying up until about 10pm every night. They have been watching fireworks all week! They even got to play in the neighbor’s huge 2 story bounce house, which Jase LOVED! Jase got to hold his first sparkler this 4th of July and loved the smoke bombs and snap pops also.








Now on our nightly walks, Jase prefers to have Gabriella in his old “cozy coupe” car to be pushed around while he pushes his pooh lawnmower around. The first night we did this it took an hour to take our walk (it usually takes 20 minutes). I can’t believe he actually did that much walking! He loved being able to stop and “smell the roses”, it was a nice leisurely stroll (except Rob doesn’t have the patience and he kept saying “JASE! Come on!!” Jase didn’t understand why there was such a big rush J)
The kids have been playing with their new kitchen Grandma & Grandpa Speis got them. It’s a great height for the both of them. Jase loves the phone. Everytime my cell rings and I answer it, he grabs “his phone” from the play kitchen & talks on it. He also likes to play cook, wash the dishes, & of course eat. Gabby loves to play with the dishes, especially the spoons (I had to take the forks and hide them since they were her favorite) she usually has a spoon in her mouth while she’s crawling around.