Ouest has changed so much in just the past week or two that Ali and I can hardly believe it. Ali looked at her tonight and said, “It’s sad.”
What’s sad?
“She’s growing up.”
First off there is the little girl underwear. Underwear! We went all day long today without an accident. She’s really got this figured out now and is doing a great job of telling us when she has to go, as opposed to us asking her every three minutes. Although when we do ask her it is sort of funny. “Ouest, do you have to go potty?” A little crease forms between her eyes as she contemplates the question. “Mmmm, no.” Three minutes later same question. “ Same crease between the eyes, “Yap.”
That’s Yap. Not yes, not yup, not yep. Yap.
Then there is her playing by herself. All of the sudden she is totally cool with that. She especially likes to play with her cars. She lines them all up like they are in a parking lot, then moves them one or two at a time to the other side of the room and does it again. Or out on deck they get parked underneath the lifeline netting. It’s all very deliberately done, and also done with amazing regularity these days. Tonight we were on the beach and she was off in her own little world shoveling sand into one bucket and transferring that to another bucket. That’s when Ali said it was sad. She also turned to Lowe and told him he needs to grow up a bit so they can start playing together.
And while she is still a ways behind on the talking front she has taken up singing. She sings to herself all day long. “Morrow, morrow, love you, morrow.” Good ol’ Annie.
Oh, and her swimming. She does these swan dive belly flops all day long now. It seems she spends half her time at the pool with her head under water. She’s practicing floating on her back now too. Without any prodding from us. Good fun.
Then there is Lowe. He is inching ever so close to crawling. He can already get wherever he wants to go by rolling, but now he’s starting to push too. Roll, push, grunt, roll, push, get tired and plop face down into the floor, roll, push. Getting closer to sitting up unassisted too. Looks as if he’s going to have a big couple of weeks coming up.
On the boat front it’s slow going. Nap times aren’t coinciding very well these days meaning that it seems someone is always either asleep or in the midst of being put to sleep. And when they are up there is always a million things to do with them. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining, just stating the simple fact that the kids come first and boat work takes a back seat. Way back.
