Cianna's revalations

Cianna is developing a great relationship with God and is learning that when someone is not nice she should pray for them. This weekend Justin said that he didn't want to go to church anymore, this has been pretty new to him anyways, but I couldn't get an answer why. Maybe just adolescence and he'll change his mind next week. Cianna's response was: "Why is Justin giving up on God? God won't give up on Justin." She amazes me with her wisdom. I received a really nice compliment about her from her teacher at conferences. She is often so helpful to others in class. Last week, a group left their station a huge mess during reading workshops. Cianna went back there and cleaned the whole section up without being asked and she wasn't even in that group. Yesterday, there was a substitute teacher and she led the whole class in making a card for her teacher signed by everyone to leave for her when she got back telling her what a great teacher she is and how much they like her.

Natalia communicating

Natalia has become such a great communicator in the past few months. I decided to teach her some baby signs, just for fun and to see how she would do with it. She picked them up so well. Her first one was please, and she quickly learned the word "please" to go with the sign, so she now uses that any time she asks for something. Must be one of the best mannered 14 month olds around. She has also learned milk (to ask for nursing time), eat (to tell us when she is hungry), more (to ask for more, mostly food), ball (to play with a ball), dog (to call the dogs or just any time she is around them), no (to tell the dogs no when they try to steal her food). She has several other words that she doesn't have the signs down for yet (momma, daddy, sissy, pot (for her teapot toy), hot, night-night, bye-bye, baby, stop, Peyton and my favorite is when I tell her "I love you" she blows a kiss in response. I have been amazed at how quickly she picks up the signs and her language development too. She is very bright and eager to learn.