Hannah has really liked books for a long time. She loves to have us read to her, she loves to listen to books on tape, and now...she's discovered the love of reading to herself. This has introduced Michael and I to the joy of monosyllabic or grunted answers from our usually-talkative 5-year-old. We figure it's payback for our childhoods, when we both really loved to read and answered our own parents in monosyllables and grunts. Naomi can't understand why Hannah isn't reading to her, because she doesn't really see the interest in sitting silently with a book...at least not one that doesn't have pictures!
Naomi, on the other hand, has discovered a love of her tricycle. We have a big porch where she rides for usually at least 30 minutes a day. It's wide enough that she can ride a turn and change directions on it, so she doesn't have to stop and turn the tricycle, she can just keep riding. We went to the park today, and Naomi requested that we bring her tricycle. She spent the entire time at the park riding on the tricycle, except when she was eating lunch...she stayed on the tricycle, but consented to hold still and eat for a few minutes. When we got home, she asked if she could...ride her tricycle.
Simeon has moved into mobility -- he can roll both front to back and back to front in either direction. It's not fast or particularly accurate, but it gets him somewhere else, and when your sisters have all kinds of fun toys, that's all that matters! He's started objecting to being put down in a container -- the bouncy seat and jumper are no longer much fun because he can't go anywhere in them. The other day I set him down on the rug and watched as he rolled all the way across the room, including over the folded laundry that I was working on. When he's not rolling, he's on his belly, waving his arms and kicking his legs. One of these days he's going to figure out how to get up and go...and then we're in trouble!
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