My Toddler + Big Kid

So my babies aren't quite babies anymore.  Kira just turned 3 this month and Will is a whopping 13 months old.  Here are some things I want to remember about them.

Kira:
- She has a really good memory especially for songs.  She loves music especially her "princess music" which is simply a Disney/musical station on Pandora.  She has memorized all of the princesses' names though she has only ever seen Tangled and Cinderella.

Kira with a little slug friend.

- Did I mention she is in to the princesses right now?  We were tired of her waking up in the night and asking for "mugasik"(music) to be turned on.  She had a little projector/white noise machine with a timer that would play music.  I came up with the brilliant idea of just getting her a night light so that it would stay on night.  I let her pick out whatever she wanted since they were all about the same price and I wanted it be special enough to replace her "mugasik."   She chose the princess one.  We don't have to get up as much at night.  Two birds, one stone.
-She has already memorized the first 57 questions in the children's catechism as well as several passages from Scripture.
-Just this past week or so she started to get interested in writing her name so we've started to work on that.
- Even though she loves princesses, her favorite part of just about any movie are the animals.  While watching Cinderella, she starting freaking out when the horses pull the carriage to the ball.
- She watched her first movie in theatres this past June.  We saw the new Cinderella for $1 each.
- She knows either the sound or the letter name of just about every letter of the alphabet.

Will
- He took his first step a week after his 1st birthday.  He still crawls more than walks but each day he walks a little longer.  He is relatively steady and probably walks about 25% of the time.

Observe the mess.  

- He know quite a few words including some, ow, go outside, come, hi, and bye.
- He understands a lot now such as "time to eat" or "go change your diaper" or "go get a book."
- He loves the outdoors including eating dirt.
- He is kinda the class clown in our house.  He hits his own head and then shouts, "Ow!" and then giggles like crazy.  Sometimes he does it to make us laugh but other times he does it when he hears us laughing about something else.
- He has already mastered going up and down stairs.