Our thirty month photos are up on the site. This month Miranda is still in her diapers, though she’s been starting to show more interest in learning to use the potty. As of the writing of this entry, we’re in the middle of teaching her again.
A new phrase that the kids picked up from school is “don’t tell me no”. When we tell them “no, you can’t do that”, they respond with “don’t tell me no”. That doesn’t prevent us from telling them they can’t do something though.
Miranda has picked up a quirk in how she’s pronouncing things. She’ll repeat the last hard consonant sound of the last word of a sentence. She’ll say “What’s that-t-t?” or “hole starts with H-ch-ch”. Agnes says to not point it out to her, and it’ll go away on its own. Eleanor has been mangling Miranda’s name more and more recently. Instead of a two-syllable “mranda”, she’s been saying “mana”. I tried correcting her, but she just gave me the evil eye.
We rearranged the house a little bit. We moved the kids’ blue table into our room to make more room in the family room. It also allows the kids to play the piano more easily. The downside is that the kids now play in our room. They’ve also spread out to the other rooms in the house. If they put on our shoes and start clomping through the house, you can bet they’re heading to the stairs at the back of the house so they can go upstairs.
Miranda has been more aware of the camera. She’ll say “cheese” and then ask to see the picture. It may become more difficult to take candid pictures of them. Eleanor smiles for the camera as well, but she doesn’t seem to care to see the picture I just took.
This is the first month that I would say they’re actually running. Given the delay in walking, this late running isn’t that surprising. They still don’t manage to jump though.