Things they learned/mastered this year

• Besides the physical skills that they have mastered this year (running, jumping, spinning on 1 foot, balancing, etc.) we are amazed at their mental and fine motor achievements, especially the past 3 or 4 months.
• Saying the alphabet, recognizing some letters and remembering words that start with that letter
• Counting to 10 consistently (sometimes we hear them saying thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, etc. but it is not consistent)
• Putting together puzzles. We started out with 9 piece puzzles about 1 month ago and they picked up on that very quickly. Kaleb can now put together a 24 piece puzzle with no problems (and does so a couple of times a day)! Kendall is more than capable of doing it, she just doesn’t always have the interest to finish the job!
• Singing nursery rhymes (or anything else they might hear on the radio). Kendall’s favorite right now is “I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus”. Kaleb’s is “Are you ready for some football! A Monday night party!”
• Dancing!
• Reading books – they will pretend to read back to us. Kendall can go back and read/say almost word for word back. Her memory is amazing!
• Kaleb can ride is bike very well/very fast. He is coordinated enough to go zooming around in circles around our house between the living room, dining room, around the island in the kitchen and back. Kendall likes to go on her bike, but she doesn’t like to use the pedals yet.
• They gave up their pacifiers in June (gave them to their friend Baby Evie when she came to visit from Minnesota this summer).
• Potty trained in June

They've grown so much since our first Christmas with them in 2007!