Excitement Abounds. For One Child.

We went to a place called House of Bounce yesterday. It's a big room that has blow up slides you have to climb up to, and you bounce around and different things. I dont' know how to describe them if you've never seen them, but if you have kids, you probably know what I'm talking about. Alexis was fearless. Micah? Not so much. We were there a little over an house (Alex got tired after that), and Micah spent almost the entire time clutching to my arms if we tried to do something. It made it very tiring for me, but still lots of fun. We spent a reasonable amount of time watching ALex go down one of the slides while MIcah just at in my lap. He was pretty overwhelmed. But Alex just went right in and did it all, which was really fun to watch.

We've been working with her on being more involved when she does things and telling us about them afterwards. (For some reason she never wants to tell us details about different activities that she does.) We went to the Smithsonian a few weeks ago, and she spent most of the time being really uninvolved, which was very disappointing. I mean, it's the Smithsonian! We're working on that. She did go to music camp last week, and she had a show on Friday morning that was so cute! She sang with the other kids, although I ended up being only a few feet from her and served as a distraction for her at times! It was a thirty minute show, and towards the end she started to step back and just watch all the other kids and not really want to sing, but overall she did a great job and we have some really cute videos of her singing and doing motions.

Micah got stung by a bee at the playground the other day, and when we brought him home at one point he was saying really, really fast over and over again "go away bee go away go away bee go away go away bee go away" while shaking his head to get it off his ear. It was so sad but so funny all at the same time. He's completely fine though. He is actually starting to recognize some colors now.

Oh, and Alex is officially beginning the reading process I think in that we sat down with some three-letter words and were working on sounding out the letters and putting them together. She's getting so old!