Trains, Slides, and Ramps

We headed to the City Museum on Saturday with the cousins. We had a great time going down slides, climbing ramps, and riding the train. Conner even played with a few sponges in the children's section.

Lessons for older cousins

We decorated eggs with the cousins for Easter. Lexi liked the concept of dunking the egg in the dye, but she didn't want to let it go, so her one hand ended up with a lot of color on it. Cousin Mallory decided that looked fun, so she dyed both her hands in the pink to be "Pinkalicious." Alisa was not so impressed with the lessons Lexi was teaching her older cousin.

Hi

Lexi has started to make some progress on her speech. Her favorite word these days is "hi." She mostly uses this appropriately when we see people we know and greet them or when I let her call her grandparents on the phone. However, a couple times, she has decided to reach out and grab a stranger walking past us and say hi. Although we are excited about the words, we could do without those last instances.

Lexi pretty consistently says:

hi

bye

baby

please

mama

open

ball

book

We are hoping this list just continues to grow. In terms of her development, we just met with our school district's OT, PT, speech pathologist, and several other specialist to see what services Lexi will get through the school district at 3. They are very extensive in their assessment and will even visit her in her current preschool. Early indication is that she will go to their preschool next year to receive services integrated into the classroom, which we are very excited about. The more help she can get, the more we hope she catches up.

Trouble

Conner has gotten very good at the army crawl. He can get across the room in a very short time. That means his favorite activities are shoving the only non baby friendly toys off shelves and playing in the dog's water bowl. He also likes to try and eat the dog's paws. We're very lucky to have a very nice dog, as this boy is going to be into everything!