For the Love of Daddy

It really is amazing how the more time you spend with a kid - the harder it is for them to be apart. (at least until you are way out of sight and they have moved on to something more entertaining) Since Dan started watching the kids 3 days per week a few weeks ago, it is obvious to tell the kids are responding. Avram often looks at him with that baby love glow smile and cries when he walks out the door. Kade also doesn't want him to leave for more than a few minutes. They both love their Dad a lot.

Avram is cruising around the furniture very well now. He continues to let go sometimes and stands, wobbling for a second or two before he finds his grip again or falls, plump on his behind. He now says yet another B word "bath". As soon as we enter the kid's bathroom upstairs and the water starts to run, he gets really hyper. He crawls over to the tub, pulls himself up and literally jumps up and down. Over and over, he pounds on the side of the tub chanting "bath!! bath!! bath!! bath!!" until he gets plopped inside. He sits very well in the tub now, playing with the toys and grabbing the bubbles.

Kade is steadily learning to recognize more numbers and letters. He can't quite identify the letter with it's sound but he will get there. He is practicing writing his name. He still has not decided whether he is left or right handed which is kind of odd at this point, at almost 4 years old. He still seems to use them almost equally although he seems to have better fine control with his left. He uses his right hand often for gross motor skills and seems to kick with his right. I know true ambidexterity is extremely rare so he is probably "mixed deterity" which are people who can use one hand better for some tasks and the other hand better for other tasks. It will just be interesting to see which skills, particularly writing, is better with which.

We are getting ready to go back to Florida in a couple weeks. Kade is very excited to go to Disney World for the first time.