It seems like Emily and Thiago have both learned a couple of new things that have impressed me lately, so thought I'd share.

Emily has learned how to tie her shoes! Yay! We worked on this before (probly about a year ago) and it was giving her a lot of trouble, and I could see she just wasn't getting it, so I would just buy her those stretchy kind of tennis shoes that didn't need laces for her to wear to school and stuff. (Velcro bothers me. It make their feet look so blocky!) Well, she needed a new pair (don't they every other day?! sheesh!) so we got some with laces. I showed her how to tie them the same day and she caught right on! Just goes to show it's worth waiting til they're ready to learn before teaching 'em stuff!

Thiago is now putting his pajamas on all by himself! I was thinking to myself the other day how I can see how the "baby" of the family often ends up falling into that role forever, cuz they don't have anyone younger coming up behind them to force them to do things on their own cuz they're tired of waiting for mom to get done with the baby. I know Emily was putting her own clothes on at his age, and that was partly because he had come along and it helped me out by having her do it herself. So I asked him to try it himself and he did it! No problem except a little bit with the headhole of the shirt. lol He was pretty proud of himself!

Maybe not major milestones for them, but sometimes it's the little ones that actually make the biggest difference in mom's life!!