The Murphy Boys

We made a pretty cool fort today! It was complete with a cot, sheep skin, lantern, stuffed animals and sesame street CD. Does life get any better? we don’t have a tree house yet, but just wait!

When I asked Ayrie if he liked staying home with mommy (no more daycare),he scrunched up his face, shrugged his shoulders and said ‘Sometimes.’ Nothing like honesty!

Ayrie’s drawing skills exploded out of no where! We was using the water doodle board on the wall to draw smiley faces, fish and tigers that had stripes and legs. Before this he has only ever drawn one recognizable thing, a sock!

Shiya walked 25 steps today!He definitely prefers to crawl, but he’s getting the hang of walking. He seems to walk more at night, and when he’s not being watched. Right now he’s walking little laps around the office while I type. Oddly, he’s even learning to jump! He was jumping on the couch, with his feet leaving the ground. He was also free standing and bouncing on the trampoline.

Shiya is starting to communicate with words!  He can say: that, Shiya, hot, mama, dog and uh-oh

Ayrie and Shiya can be tremendous helpers. We had friends over the other night and Ayrie cried when we cleared the table without him! Here’s a video of Shiya sweeping.

“The typical young preschooler picks up new words every single day and will soon be able to string them together in sentences from two to four words long.” Are you kidding?  Ayrie talks in paragraphs!  He can talk in the past and future tense, undestands the conditional, crafts if/then statements and has pretty decent reasoning skills.

so says Ayrie as a practices his developing sense of humor!

i love how shiya forces a laugh, it makes me laugh, ayrie asks me why i’m lauging, when i point out how Shiya is fake lauging ayrie starts to laugh, shiya loves when ayrie laughs so he joins in with real laughter… and we are all laughing… those small moments are so precious

that’s what ayrie said as he dreamily watched the first real snow of the season from his bedroom window. He’s been able to talk for 2-weeks now, the first time since June, and I am so happy to hear wonderful thoughts like these.