32 Weeks Already?

Sophie has officially been a part of our family for 32 weeks--well, outside of the womb that is.  WOW!!!  Where has the time gone?  There are times when I don't even remember her not being a part of our family. 

She continues to grow more and more each day.  Sophie pretty much sits up by herself now, but we do keep pillows around her--just in case.  She stills gets pretty excited and will flail her arms or legs which usually ends up with her hitting the ground.  We have started putting her up on her hands and knees.  She does a good job balancing on all fours and will even rock back and forth from time to time.  She can go from a sitting position to a standing position when she is holding our hands.  I'm really wanting her to crawl because there is some research out which says how important crawling is to reading.  I don't know though--this girl really wants to move!!!!   She has figured out how to pick up cheerios and put them in her mouth.  She was so cute as she was learning how to do this.  She could pick up the cheerios and get it to her mouth, but she didn't know how to let them go.  She has mastered drinking out of a straw sippy cup and when she wants her cup, you better watch out!!!!  We introduced turkey to her this week, and she did really well with that.  There isn't really anything that she doesn't like to eat.  She will be playing nicely, but as soon as she sees her food, we can't get her to her chair fast enough.  She will get to fussin' (it's not crying, it's a lot of yellin') and then part way through her meal she turns into the sweet Sophie--we think the food must of hit her stomach.  So as you can see, Sophie keeps us on our toes, but we are sooooo thankful that she is a part of our family. 

Josiah continues to amaze us each day.  He is such a little sponge.  I have started doing school work with him a couple of days out of the week.  Often times, he asks me if we can do school work.  Right now, I'm just doing a workbook with him, but I decided that in September we will have a little more structure with our school.  I don't want him to associate school with doing a workbook, so we will be doing some more hands on activities.  We will have school on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays--if he wants to--later on it won't be an option, but he is just two, so I'm not going to stress about getting each lesson done.  During our school time, we will have a calendar time where we will say the date and track the weather for the month. I will also be doing a Bible time with both of the kids.  When Sophie goes down for her morning nap, we will have a Language Arts time when we will learn a letter of the alphabet and do an activity.  In the afternoon, we will have a math lesson, read a story and do a craft.  Our themes for the month are apples and farm animals.  I plan on taking the kids on a couple of field trips---one to an apple orchard and the other to a farm.  So we shall see how this goes.  I'm way excited to have this time with him and look forward to teaching him many new things. 

In the middle of September, the  Greenwood Family will be going on our first family vacation.  Yes, we have been on trips to visit family in the past, but on this trip we will be staying in a hotel and it will just be the four of us.  We will be heading to PA to go ride Thomas the Tank Engine.  Thomas is a life size train that pulls passenger cars.  We have made a chain to count down the days until our Thomas Trip.  Josiah is way excited and looks forward to tearing a link off each day.  We will also be going to a children's museum, so we're pretty excited about that---OK, maybe I'm pretty excited about it!!  I have fond memories of a children's museum that I used to go to when we lived in NH, and I want Josiah to have some of those same memories. 

Well, that is all for now.  I do go back to the doctor on Monday, so we shall see what he says about the ol' foot.  I've tried walking on it without my boot---well, let's just say it hurts.  I can put weight on it, but the motion of walking just doesn't feel right.  I'll put a post up if there is anything new.  Keep us in your prayers, and we will update soon