Wheelin' Wheelers

Lately we've been testing out a wheelchair for Michael.  It's the cutest little thing.  It comes up to about my knee, but it has a long handle in the back that lets us push him around in it without having to bend over.  He's practicing pushing the wheels to help him go places.  We're still working on helping him learn to walk and hope that he'll be able to walk someday, but this may be a way to help him be more mobile without crawling or having us carry him everywhere.  After all, he's almost 3 years old and starting to get heavy!

His older siblings love the wheelchair even more than Michael does.  Spencer in particular will suddenly declare he has a broken leg, sprint over to the wheelchair, then go wheeling around in it.

Whitney has had several opportunities lately to share her talents with her school.  At the school talent show she and a friend sang "Let it Go" from Disney's Frozen.  What they might have lacked in being on key they made up for in their volume!  They sang their little hearts out and Whitney jumped up and down in delight when the song was over.

Whitney also had a role as a dinosaur in a show the first graders put on.  Liz helped make some of the costumes for the show.  And in classic first grade style, Whitney's dinosaur mask was too big for her and covered her eyes for much of the show.  At one point after reciting her lines, she couldn't see the microphone stand to put the microphone back.  She kept feeling around for it to the chuckles of the audience until the student next to her came to her rescue.  She was undaunted, however, and had a great time.

Brooklyn has been into climbing a lot lately and we'll find her in some interesting positions.  We found her upside down when she climbed head-first into a toy box, she can climb up a few stairs but can't climb back down them, or she'll turn other would-be obstacles into stairs.