Now that he can walk without support, Leon spent all week walking. Every waking minute. Actually, that's not entirely true. He took breaks from walking to eat, and boy did he put away some food this week! He may be the littlest one in the family, but right now he is the biggest eater.
Michael's walking continues to improve, and he is getting where he too can fly through the house as long as he is pushing something for support. However, last weekend I moved the boys' books from a bookshelf where they were out of their reach to a basket on the living room floor, and he spent most of the week reading. My favorite moments were when he was truly "reading" by himself. The first came last Sunday. He pulled a book out of the basket that was filled with photographs of cats. As he looked at each page, he said "cat" and his eyes grew a little larger as he realized he "read" another page in the book. By the end of the book, he was frantically flipping forward and backward through the book, realizing he could "read" every page. A couple of nights ago, I saw him flipping through another book. It contains all the lyrics to "If You're Happy and You Know It," which is one of the boys' favorite songs. Michael would turn a page, bounce up and down, and then clap. Then he would do the same thing on the next page. You could tell exactly what was going on in his head. He was dancing through the words, and then clapping at the appropriate times. He didn't need someone reading it to him!
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