1. carter has figured out that if you feed rose triscuits from the high chair, it is ridiculously funny.
2. rose has been trying to convince him of this since the day he was born.
3. ava is up to her eyeballs in that weird surreal existence of toddlerhood where dreams and waking are confluent, and her daily conversations reflect this--most notably, she kept asking me about the dragon i caught the other day and why did he like those itty bitty oranges. i was truly stumped for an answer, since i was not there. but this has repurcussions, in that she is a lot more fearful these days. she panicked in dance class today, and would not return. and bugs are just awful. she shot off the floor the other day like a little firecracker lit by the presence of a spider. i tried so hard not to laugh, but it was so funny. not funny, but still funny.
4. she and carter are neck and neck for their physical development when you control for the 2 year age difference--i figured out today that she was doing the same EXACT stuff he is doing when she was his age--down to the appearance of the first tooth. so, despite their differences in physique and personality, they are similar in development. that means he should be clapping and waving soon.
5. their is one exception: he bangs things, and she never did. if he can make it make noise, he will. as loud as he can. all boy.