Finally walking, sentences, and looks like - acts like

Sarah is now a genuine walker! After weeks of not really wanting to try walking except around furniture, she has gotten brave and taken off! She has been working at it every chance she gets and this weekend she started taking more than 2 or 3 steps before falling and walking across the room and between rooms. She still has that Frankenstein-like walk with her arms out in front of her, but her balance is really good overall. I will post some pics of her new skills!

Shelby is talking more and more all the time and in the past week she has been putting more and more words together. Last night she was eating jell-o and told Nate "Daddy come and get some jello, you will like it!" It's really cool to see her language developing so quickly right now. Her favorite new thing is the question, "What's that?" Which I hear about 20 times a day. Her temper, however, is maddening! She can be sweet and cuddly one moment, and then you ask her to come here or do something and BAM! She is running away or throwing things...ahhhh! I keep telling myself this has to be a phase, but I'm not quite sure when it will end.

Our children are just amazing to me...it's such an interesting mix of Nate and I and it produced 2 really different girls! They look somewhat alike we are told, but really Shelby looks much more like me (chubby cheeks, round face) and Sarah looks much more like Nate. However, when it come to how they act, it's just the opposite! Shelby has a TEMPER and needs to have what she wants when she wants it and she is FEARLESS. Guess who that is like? (One hint, it isn't me.) Sarah on the other hand, is very sensitive and gets her feelings hurt easily and she is more cautious about trying new things (case in point, walking). She is also somewhat content to sit still and play with a toy for a few minutes at a time while Shelby never was at that age. My mom says her temprament is much more like mine as a little girl.

Only two more days of school with students, and if all goes well, I will be done packing my room and moving out of it and into my new office by Friday. That may be a tall order, but I am ready for my summer to start. I have lots of projects for the summer including getting ready for a garage sale, exercising more, getting the girl's scrapbooks caught up, planting some flowers around the house, organizing my recipes which are a mess, and doing some reading (personal and professional). Is that all, you ask? Yep, that should do it, but I know I'll never get it done.