Growing up

It's always funny to see how toddlers and even babies see themselves as so grown up. I guess this never changes through teenagehood either. The kids think they are so big and a walking baby will call a non-walking baby "a baby". Do I have everyone confused yet? Here is a case in point:


At the same time, these children really are advanced beyond what we imagine most of the time. They are learning to talk and understand long before they have words to communicate. It's so fun to interact with Emora. She will make a noise and I'll make it back to her, then she will laugh and laugh and do it again. You can just tell that she understands that we are playing a game. Ivan and Dominique amaze me constantly with things they have learned without us making an effort to teach it to them. They just pick up things naturally through observation. It's hilarious to me what exactly they pick up and to what extent. In this video the kids are telling each other how to take a picture and while their camera no longer works, they even finish off the photo session by "looking" at the picture and commenting "awww, how cute!" I guess we say that a lot!