Milestones
Brian’s post the other day about things they won’t remember about their kids growing up has inspired me to try something new. Like Brian, we keep this blog as much for us (and our poor memories) as we do for the people who come and read it. When Coral was younger we did a better job of keeping track of when she reached certain milestones. As Coral has gotten older, and with PJ, we haven’t been doing that as much.
So, I’m going to try and make a monthly milestones post which talks about how the kids are developing and what they’re up to. I’ll do my best to try and not brag about the kids!
This first one will probably be much longer than future ones because I’ll try to cover where we are right now.
Coral
Coral is 3.5 years old now. She occasionally takes an afternoon nap but those are becoming more and more rare - maybe once a week right now. Coral is in school three mornings a week and really enjoys it. She is also taking a gym class and a ballet class and she enjoys those as well. She recently learned how to buckle herself into her car seat, although she can’t unbuckle herself yet (probably good). She’s starting to sound out small words and can consistently write: Coral, Mom, Dad, and PJ. She can sometimes write cat and dog. She can write all of her letters although she tends to do J and Z backwards and sometimes claims she can’t write a V because it looks too much like a U.
Pearl
Pearl is 4 months old. She has pretty good neck control although it can be shaky when she’s tired. She’s able to sit propped up but otherwise can’t yet sit on her own. She has been smiling and laughing for quite a while now. She’s starting to grab things, mostly with her right hand, especially when in her bouncy seat on or her play mat. Her hair is still red but there’s still not much of it. Parts seem to have grown some but other parts have disappeared. At her last checkup, 2 days ago, she weighed 14 pounds 5 ounces. For the past couple of weeks she has been sticking her tongue out a lot and drooling more - so we suspect some teeth at some point but so far we haven’t seen any. She’s not on a consistent sleep schedule but it’s getting close. I suspect that as the second kid she won’t have quite the same rigorous schedule that we were able to keep with Coral. She enjoys her pacifier but not to the extent that Coral did, which is probably good.
