This is Korri. I hope to use the blog to record some memories before the kiddos get too old. Being a history teacher, I think it is so important to keep a journal and yet I am incredibly inconsistent at doing that. I want to write down the memories as they happen, because this old brain is going fast!
Sidota is doing so well in kindergarten. We are proud of our little man. He is learning at a fairly normal rate, I believe, which is pretty incredible for a kid who is on his third language and has only been working on English for 2 and 1/2 years! He can count to 100 in 44 seconds (he was working on that on the way to church this morning). Sid is also doing much better in the social skills category as well. Not in people's faces as much. He seems to be the life of the party with many of his friends. However, we wish he wouldn't take such incredible joy in bugging his sister. That seems to be the main goal in life right now for him. Aggghhh...will it ever end?!? Also on the down side, Sid is breaking things at a record pace. He has written 3 apology notes in the last month...broken borrowed train parts, broken Barbie jeep, broken mirror at childcare. God love him, he just plays so hard and is always pushing the envelope, it seems.
Our boy has such a tender heart, though. He loves his sister like crazy...he really does, and he is so good at playing with her. His smile can light up a room and melt the toughest of hearts. He LOVES to bring me the beautiful golden dandelions that he picks whenever possible. The latest ones were put in one of those little plastic cups that you take your medicine with...so sweet. He is passionate about playing tackle football with his dad in the living room. And he is amazingly good at wrestling with his sister and not hurting her. He has decided that he wants to be a policeman, and he is very excited about his birthday coming up in just 3 weeks.
Sophia continues to grow in stature and in beauty. It is hard to believe that she ever had legs that bowed so far out to the sides that you could fit a football between her knees! She is obsessed with dresses and picking out her outfits all by herself. She is consistent in putting her boots on the wrong feet. It is so precious. He privacy is very important to her right now, although she calls it her "private seat" (Sid does too, actually).
Soph loves to go on pretend adventures, and she loves to host parties in her room. She will sit us all on her bed and go to the closet to turn on the video. She is careful to make sure that we are all comfortable and that she chooses a movie that we will all enjoy. She gets us any snacks that we might want...the perfect hostess!
Sophia loves to sing and dance. After we put her to bed, it is not unusual for her to lay in their and sing for quite a while...oftentimes at the top of her lungs.
However, I think my favorite thing to do with Sophia right now is to let her read to me. She loves it, and she is the cutest thing. My goal is to get some of her reading on video, because it is so hard to describe. You would just have to see it. She looks at the pictures on each page and makes up her own stories. Honestly, it is the most precious thing, and she is so earnest and so serious when she does it.
Okay, hopefully more to come. God has blessed us so very much with these two lives,and I just pray for wisdom and patience each day to raise them to honor and glorify Him.
