These two.

My kids are awesome. Here's a brief update on the two of them.

Henry is crawling. He started inching along a while ago. Then started conventionally crawling a week or two ago, and just in the last few days he has really taken off. I wouldn't say he's fast yet, but he's getting faster. It's so funny how different my kids are. Blakely started crawling and immediately was fast and efficient. It's taken Henry a little longer to enjoy crawling.

And with that...Blakely now has the annoying little brother. He crawls over to her, no matter what, to take her toy, her food, pull her hair, climb on her, and just pester her in general. She is actually a pretty good sport about it most of the time, but he definitely gets on her nerves. There is a lot of "Mom, get Hankie out of my way!"....."No! Hankie, that's MINE!"...."Henry drooled on my toy!"....etc. Ahhhh siblings. I have a feeling Blakely might get a little short sided with the sibling rivalry considering both Stephen and I are LITTLE siblings. Stephen especially will be able to sympathize with Hankie since he has a big sister who picked on him. :) But we will do our best to be fair, despite having terribly mean older siblings. Kidding. :)

Henry is also standing all the time. He walks around on the furniture, and just yesterday started standing without holding on to things. He is so proud, too. He will look at me and make sure I am watching, then let go and stare at me and smile while he shows off his "no hands" trick. I won't say he's close to walking cause I know he could easily prove me wrong and not walk for months, but he wants it BAD. So it seems like it won't be long.

He's definitely not lacking in courage. The poor guys injury count had skyrocketed since his mobility has increased. Lots of tumbles, pulling heavy objects onto his head, and crawling into objects- I guess cause he's looking down? Should I be worried? He currently has a couple of nice bumps on his head from diving off a chair yesterday (mom fail, I know...) and crashing into his music table as well.

Blakely is a little chatterbox. She has imaginary friends and animals, and also likes to pretend she IS various animals. She is always talking to herself, singing to herself, or talking and singing to her animals.

She is still obsessed with her "buddies"-all her stuffed animals. And insists on sleeping with ALL of them.

Although I am convinced she's a genius, she has some hilarious grammar issues that I am sure are normal, but are just too cute to correct. "Is your gonna go, mommy?" "Where he binky?" Etc. "what color sis it?"

And she's always "just" doing something. Have I already talked about this? It's adorable. "I'm just crying...I'm just watching tv....I'm just playing with this..." Speaking of just crying, she has really started to identify her emotions. She will tell us when she's sad, crying, happy, etc. I think it's really good cause I think she is learning to control her emotions a little better.

Don't get me wrong...she can be a total basket case. The girl is fragile. She is in tears if she can't get the lid off something, if she thinks you are going to tell her no, and many other random times. I don't know if it is just being tired or if she's just that sensitive. She also gets her feelings hurt by others VERY easily. It really breaks my momma heart. If someone takes a toy from her, doesn't want to play with her, or does something mean to her, she remembers every detail and will talk about it for weeks. And she will get upset all over again as she's telling me about it. We take her to a gymnastics place to play- no lessons or anything, just running and jumping on things- and a few weeks ago a kid took a toy from her and pushed her, and she talks about it and gets upset every time we go to or even talk about the gym.

We have also discovered she is a peacemaker/people pleaser like her daddy (NOT like her mommy...) if she has a toy and another kid is throwing a fit for that toy, she will almost always try to give it to them- even when she shouldn't (like if the kid tried to take it from her, etc) Conflict makes her very uncomfortable, and when she sees another kid throwing a fit she will, try her best to give them what they want. A good and bad thing I am sure. She also does her share of not sharing, but for the most part she wants others to be happy. She is sensitive to tension too. When Stephen and I have gotten I to "discussions" (we'll call them that...) we are not raising our voice, but they probably are a little intense, she will always come to us VERY concerned saying, "what are you talking about, guys?!"

She has started being scared. Who knows why. She will randomly be afraid when I put her to bed at night. She will just say she's scared and it will take her a long time to go to sleep. She almost always feels better when we pray and ask Jesus to take care of her and help her sleep. She had also developed a fear of sharks. We have talked a lot about how we are going to live on the beach this summer and she is always super excited about it. Except a few weeks ago she came to me in tears because she didn't want to live on the beach because she didn't want to get bitten by a shark. No idea where she got that.

She loves to pray. She always prays with us at supper, and likes to pray for people at night when she goes to bed. It's pretty sweet. One night when we were praying for her to not be scared she wanted to pray that her friend Hudson wouldn't be scared too.

I know there is so much else I want to document on my kiddos but for now this will have to do since Henry just woke up. :)