Today for the first time I noticed my youngest, A, at 20 months old, speaking in doubles. By this, I mean she is grasping that there are two words for everything. One in English and one in Estonian. K did the same thing when she started speaking! Today A was climbing on a pillow and [...]
Well, my oldest daughter, at 3 years and 2 weeks is finally potty trained. After 3 months of pull-ups, frustration, tears, Reese’s Pieces, stickers and messes we got there and it wasn’t at all what I expected. Here’s our journey. At 2 years of age, she was using the potty fairly consistently- for a month. [...]
Yesterday on the way home from school, K points out a little girl Gloria walking home from school with her uncle and tells me, “Gloria doesn’t know what words are.” It took me a couple seconds before I understood what she was telling me. K was telling me that Gloria doesn’t speak English very well [...]
For the past 8 days the girls, Daddy and I visited my parents. This involved 6 hours on an airplane each way. The good news is that we had the best flights ever. The girls were great and for the most part, the travels were painless and not unpleasant. A is picking up new words [...]
