In other news, he’s slowly working on his walking. He takes a few steps here and there, but he doesn’t seem very motivated to learn how right now. But today, he was pushing Ava’s doll stroller around all by himself. This is not as sturdy as a walker, and he’s always needed my help to keep it from tipping over because he would lean on it so heavily. So it’s really awesome that he has enough balance to do it on his own now. I’m pretty sure he’ll be a pro at walking before we know it…then I’m really going to need the wrinkle cream!!

The last few weeks have been slow for us…which is a welcome relief! I keep feeling like there’s a big trip coming up that I need to be preparing for and there isn’t! Not even to orlando villas (though I wouldn’t complain if there was!). We don’t have any trips planned until the Feast (there’s a possibility we might go up to WI before that, but there isn’t a date planned).

I’m getting ready to start Ava on some preschool curriculum this year. I found a program for 2-year-olds that looks like it will be perfect. I know she’s pretty young, but she really enjoys doing worksheets and we’ll be working at her pace. At this age, I really don’t want to push her. If she only wants to work on it for 15 minutes, that’s fine with me. We probably won’t start getting more ambitious about it for another few years. I’m really excited about it, though.

I think she might be getting close to being ready for potty training…and I mean it this time! She’s been telling me sometimes when she needs to pee and she never did that on a regular basis before. She still pees in her diaper sometimes and she never poops in the potty, but it’s progress!

Kelvin is growing like crazy….both physically and mentally! He’s 23 pounds now and he crawls on his hands and knees (he still does his army crawl sometimes, though) and pulls up to standing all the time! He’s talking like crazy, too….he says Mama, uh-oh, yuck, go go go, and there’s a few others that I can’t remember. I really need to write them down in his baby book…tonight! I also think he might have said Ava this morning, but I’m not sure.

I’ve been thinking about getting a dehydrator for awhile now. I’ve been freezing as much produce as I can, but we don’t have a chest freezer and both of my above-the-refrigerator freezers are full. So I thought a dehydrator would be a great way to preserve more produce without taking up freezer space. They’re about $40 at Walmart, though, so I hadn’t bought one yet. But yesterday my mom found me one at Goodwill for only $5 and bought it for me!! I’m so excited!! She said it looked like new and had the instruction manual and everything. She was going to try it out today to make sure it works and if it does, she’s going to mail to me. I can’t wait!!!

OK, blogging time is over, I guess. Kelvin just woke up after 10 minutes and I need to go put him back to sleep…*sigh*

He also pulls up to standing now. The only time he ever does it, though, is to get into the toy box! LOL I guess that’s the only thing that motivates him enough!

He claps now, too. And he watches everything we do and tries to imitate it. Tonight I was holding him on my lap next to Chad on the couch and I patted Chad’s leg. Of course, Kelvin had to reach over and pat Chad’s leg, too. LOL

He has 6 teeth now and I’m pretty sure he’s working on more, too. It seems like he’s been teething non-stop since he was 2 months old! I’m ready for a break in the teething and I’m sure he is too!

That’s about all I can think of for now! I’m sure there will be plenty more things to update on in the coming weeks….it’s seems like he’s changing every day!