Dancing with my stars

We love to read!

We have been practicing Dannik's reading every evening with scripture study & having Dannik sound out and read the small words from the verse. Thursday night during story time, instead of me reading his story to him, he read the whole book to me! It was so amazing to watch him read it and figure out the words. He had very little help from me. I was also impressed at his comprehension of the book. I can't believe how fast he is growing up.
Not to be outdone, Markay wanted to read her book too. She had me read the words & she repeated them like she does during scripture study. I love that they are both so excited about reading!

I'm 1 today! June 11, 2008

Kieran turned 1 today! We are planning a very small family party for Saturday. He took his first steps on Friday! He's so funny, he will take a step or two towards me and then just fall forward into my arms. And he's so proud of himself! We will say, "Good job, Kieran!" and he gets a big grin and starts to clap for himself. In fact, any time you said good job, no matter who you are talking to, he stops where he is and starts to clap. Too cute.

Dancing Fools

One of our current television favorites is "So You Think You Can Dance", and the kids really enjoy it as well. Any time I put on music they get excited and dance around. A phrase heard often around our house lately is, "Mom! Watch my moves!" I took this video of them dancing together to the song at the end of a movie we watched. It was so cute. I was disappointed I didn't get my camera out fast enough and missed him twirling her.

Mommy moments from the week:

Dannik was fascinated while watching a show on Animal Planet this week about two-headed animals. Later on that day I heard him playing in his room and yell:"I am a two-headed super-hero!" Guess when fighting crime, two heads are better than one.

Another one from Dannik... I came into the bathroom to find the toothpaste out on the counter & toothpaste in the sink. I asked, "Dannik, were you playing with the toothpaste?" Dannik said, "Mom, I was fighting decay!"

Markay got out of the bath the other night, looked down at her hands and said, very concerned, "Oh no! Mom, my hands are ruined!" She was very upset until I convinced her that they would eventually go back to normal.