Mary's writing and letter recognition is really taking off. Her handwriting is really developing thanks to some of the projects they do at daycare. It's so hard for me to help her with her writing though since she is left handed. Canaan can at least help her being a South Paw himself.
Ella is really starting to have things "click" with colors, shapes, letters and numbers. It's only a matter of time until she has caught up to Mary. The time Ella gets to spend at preschool three days a week helps a lot. Her speech is still improving. Some of the sounds she makes are almost funny. She tries to say sounds like SH, K, T & N and they usually come out pretty "juicy". She hasn't quite grasped the control inside her mouth so she often slobbers when she talks. I think it's kinda cute. You can tell she is trying though! She DOES still have the small hole in her palate so there is still some loss of compression in her mouth, not to mention occasional food or liquid that comes out her nose! I guess that will always be a characteristic that makes up our Ella.
Here are a couple pictures that we took while playing with my new camera phone. They always want to take pictures when I whip out my phone!
This one was taken at thier cousin's Court of Honor for Eagle Scouts. Ella was really BORED! Can you tell????
