A possible new approach to the blog

I'm so far behind here and so busy getting ready for our move, so I am just going to try to write some shorter entries from time to time so that I don't forget all the super adorable things Vivian is saying and doing every single day now. And all the amazing changes and growth that Stella is experiencing as a Kindergartner. Like Stella can pretty much read now. She told me in a taxi yesterday that she can read. So last night I brought out an I Can Read Book for our nighttime reading. She read it really well. Then she told me she was actually tricking me when she told me she learned to read. But she really has.

And yesterday morning, Vivian opened one of my makeup compacts that has four colors in it. When she peered inside she asked, "Where little thing?" I asked her what she was talking about and she said, "Where pen?" She was looking for the makeup applicators that are in one of my other compacts. She does love to put on make-up.

She has also started carrying her "teptool" (step stool) around with her quite a lot. One day David found her standing on it with her hand in the silverware draw. When he asked her what she was doing she replied, "I getting a 'poon for Luke." All her babies and dolls are called Luke these days. Anyway, she picked out a spoon and then proceeded to pretend feed 'Luke' oatmeal. This evening, as I was reading books to her, she suddenly got up. I asked her where she was going and she told me "to get my teptool so I can turn off the light by myself." It was quite an effort but she pushed her step stool all across the apartment and into her room where she proceeded to turn the light on and off for awhile.