The Weekend is Here

-I hope everyone has a good weekend. I have to work, so Mike has daddy duty. He's excited beyond belief! :)

-The kids are getting really naughty. Mia has learned a couple of new phrases. She now tells Riley to, "go away." I have to admit that I laughed the first couple of times I heard her say it. I was wondering where she learned it when Elsa tried sitting on my lap and I told her to "go away." Oops. I'll take the blame for that one!

-Do you want to know what her second new phrase is? Shut-up. I couldn't believe it. We were sitting in the living room last night and Mike was making some noise, and Mia kept chewing him out and saying, "stuck-up." Mike said to me that he thought she was telling him to shut-up. Well, today, I was trying to get Mia to talk more (she hasn't been talking as much as she used to) by pointing to her nose and eyes and asking what they were. She looks at me and says, "stuck-up." I looked at her and asked her if she just told me to shut-up, and she said, "stuck-up" again. I then told her to say shut-up, and sure enough, she says, "stuck-up." Wonderful! That is one word that I really don't want her saying.

-Riley is a little instigator. Her new little trick is taking something away from the twins and running away as fast as she can. Ethan had his speech session yesterday, and Mia was quietly playing with one of Laura's ball toys. Riley grabbed two of the balls and took off running. Mia threw a complete fit. She started screaming, threw herself to the ground and started lurching around like she was having a seizure. Laura turns around to see what the commotion was and saw Riley running away with the balls. She started laughing and I said to her, "welcome to my day." Laura said that she was surprised that Riley does stuff like that. She figured that it would be Mia doing it.

-Ethan's speech therapy went well. He still wants me to sit right there. If I try and get up, he follows me out of the room. I think he's making a lot of progress. He talks more than Mia, which has me worried about Mia. Will I ever stop worrying about them? :) They will be doing his 3 year old evaluation soon to see if he still needs therapy. I'm hoping that he scores well enough and we can stop. It's been a good experience, but I'm sick of making sure my house is clean! And those with little kids know exactly what I'm talking about!