Developments

Marcus is rolling over! Today is his three-month birthday, and last night he rolled over (back to front) twice. The coolest thing is that it was deliberate. He totally knew what he was doing, and tried his darndest to to it. The first time, I laid him down on his butterfly gym thing, and a couple of minutes later, Alyssa said, "Marcus is rolling over!" We asked her over and over if she helped him, but she said he did it on his own. So I flipped him on his back, and sure enough, after a few seconds, he leaned to his side and started pushing with his arm. It took him a minute, but he made it from back to tummy!

Ethan is saying "Uh-oh" and "Ta-da!" He's also saying, "Ribbit." He's got the cutest little frog voice in the whole world.

Alyssa is finally reading! We've started working with her a while ago, and she didn't want to sit still for the lessons, and she would not look at the page, and she guess the letters instead of reading them. (Soon after this we discovered she needed glasses.) Normally when we ask her to read a word, she says, "I can't. I don't know how to read," even though she really does, and she just doesn't want to try. Last night she wanted to stay up and have me read books to her, and I told her that if she was going to stay up, she would be doing the reading. So I got out our reading lesson book, and instead of doing the lessons, just has her read the stories, and she did great!