Thor -- Almost 4, Anna -- 2 years 2 months

Anna has been changing by leaps and bounds this summer. I guess there are so many changes around this time. Within the same month (about a month ago) she both weaned and potty trained. She still has some accidents but she does not wear diapers anymore. She also totally quit nursing, even though she wasn't doing it hardly at all anymore for the last couple months. I am glad for that because there will be another one to nurse here in a couple months! Not that I am not happy to nurse my babies, but two is a bit much.

Anna also wants to do everything on her own. She wants to get dressed on her own, walk on her own (NOT holding your hand), get into and out of her carseat on her own (even the buckles) and she will wander around seemingly not caring where I am. I swear, she'd wander away by herself in a restaurant or down a street without caring at all. She's very bold and not very shy -- very independent. Thor is actually more reserved than her, although he is older and understands more about getting lost or hurt or something.

Thor is awesome and still very imaginitive and excited about things. At our new house in Langley we have an apple tree in the back yard and he loves it. He climbs way up and picks apples and brings them inside and "stores them for winter" in the cupboards. He loves to read Thumbelina and loves any stories that are like fairy tales. He also got really into nursery rhymes for a while and now remembers lots of them and I'll hear him saying "Humpty Dumpty" or something like that. He's also a VERY fast runner. He can almost outrun me, and he loves to run around and race. He's just active all the time, even when I wish he'd stand still, he's doing weird things and flipping around. He needs to be in the circus or gymnastics or something. He has a ton of energy.

Thor is going to be in preschool this fall, 3 days a week. It's a coop so I will go some days too. I maybe will put Anna in 2 days a week. Not sure yet.

When both Thor and Anna get together and make mischeif they're like a couple gremlins. Or as Tony says, "It's like living with two ET's!"