Four, Five, Six

The little guy is 6 months old today. Where does the time go? Obviously not toward this blog. Sorry.

Jeremy has gotten a lot more interesting in the last 3 months. At 4 months he started greeting Mommy & Daddy with a great big smile. At 5 months he started babbling. At 6 months he's saying what sounds like "I wah Mama", flirting with big grins and giggles, blowing raspberries, and stares at his hands from time to time. He hasn't mastered rolling over or sitting up yet, but he's getting there.

Jeremy loves to watch his sister. And Cathleya, in turn, loves playing with Jeremy's toys. I suppose its a type of regression. But Jeremy doesn't seem to mind yet. He'll just pull her hair if she gets too close. She loves kissing him and askes to hold him once in a while. If he's napping she'll tell you, "Shhh, baby's sleeping" as she proceeds to scream at the top of her lungs for no good reason.

Jeremy's growing like a weed. Well, maybe not quite that fast. Clothes seem to always need washing, even after we've spent the weekend washing everything... it all comes back the next day. He 's outgrowing his 6 month clothes already and we're dipping into the 9 month already.

Cathleya has been growing too. But she's more in line with the standard sizing. Still fits 3T clothes. Although her brain is a different story. She's always been advanced for her age. She's got the mind of a 5 year old. We try hard not to compare her with other kids, but she is coloring in the lines, successful with dot to dots, she can count past 50 and loves her tracing letters game and her Leapster 2. She knows her first and last name, can name all of the Beatles, and loves to invent new dances and sing made up songs consisting of blending together lyrics from other songs. She's expressed disintrest in daycare and wants to go to school. She doesn't really know what school is, but her daycare alumni has been in and out of daycare to drop off her little brother and talks about going to school. So we took her cues and have been touring preschools. Daycare isn't a challenge for Cathleya anymore. We'll hoping to find an affordable preschool that will test her brain.

Jeremy has started going to Cathleya's daycare since the new year. He's fairly easy to read so Auntie Et enjoys the predictability with Jeremy. He's made daycare a bit crowded making him kid number 6 so we really need to get Cathleya into a new school or montesorri.

Cathleya and Jeremy spent the holidays in Murrieta. That was Jeremy's first road trip. He handled it well and slept most of the way. I had to remind him that back home, winter is never over 70 degrees like it is at Lolo & Lola's house. It was also Jeremy's first time in a motel. We decided to extend our stay in LA and stay in SLO overnight so spend time with our college friends that still live there. They both got a great haul this year. And as I mentioned already, Cathleya has lots of fun playing with Jeremy's toys.

This year we're hoping to finally break ground in our house expansion which is 2 years in the making already. Why its taking so long, sometimes I don't even know. We're hoping for a snow trip in the next few weeks. At least to build a snow man and go home. Cathleya has never been and Daddy doesn't want to break his promise again to take her to see snow. We're also going to attempt Yosemite over Labor Day. Not sure what else is in store for us this year. A marathon, some halfs, and a relay or two for Chris. He's hoping for Comic-Con as well. Mom and the kids can visit Auntie Janice and Uncle Zach in San Diego with Auntie Lisa. Maybe we'll hit up Disneyland sometime in between.