Milestone Update:

Patrick:
- can put on and take off boots; take of jacket and mittens too!
- can now count up to 99! He's troubled by the number "100" but I'm sure he'll get the concept of that soon enough.
- can count backwards from 30 - 0. He counts down the numbers while the microwave is running.
- has started to count objects and is right about 70% of the time
- notices numbers everywhere - loves to say what isle we're in at the store - knows our house number is "6-7-5", tells me what 'day' it is when I'm writing in the journal.
- sings the alphabet song at mach speed without missing any letters; recognizes upper and lower case letters.
- knows that letters make up words and has begun to spell out numbers when he sees them printed in a book.
- has started to 'think outside the box'. Notices that numbers in his puzzle are the same/different colours to eachother.
- can tell me the 'time' on his digital clock although I dont' know if he has any concept of what time really is.

Kathryn:
- can run!
- can almost jump off the floor with both feet without holding onto anything.
- loves walking in the snow in her big-girl boots
- has graduated to a straw cup to be just like her big brother and is finally drinking milk!!
- is eating about 80% adult food and 20% baby food.
- knows all the body parts for the song "head and shoulders"
- knows the colour Yellow and uses it correctly
- has a really big vocabularly and uses signs for "all done, more, ni-ni"
- is learning to walk down the stairs (still needs lots of hand holding!)
- can show you something in a book if you ask where it is