Rebekah Joy - 35 Months

It is hard to believe that Rebekah is going to be 3 in just a few weeks! 

Sleep - No real changes here. 

Eating - Still a great eater.  Loving ice, even in her milk!  She has moved out of the highchair and into the bumbo seat at the table.  She is able to get in and out of it by herself, just not to push the chair in :)

Skills - Rebekah has started turning on and off the lights, with the aid of her step stool.  She has been climbing up the bunk bed ladder for a several months but now she is able to climb down on her own. 
This month she has become a self-dresser!  It is super exciting to watch her get dressed on her own.  She tends to put the socks on with the heel on the top of the foot and occasionally her panties are on backwards but she does her shirt and pants all by herself with very minimal issues.  Rebekah has also taught herself how to write the letter R.  One day she called me over to the craft table saying "Mama, look at my R" and I was taken aback at how awesome it was!  It looks great and she learned to do it all on her own. 

Play - Rebekah and her sister have been playing "baptizer" for a few weeks now following several baptisms at the churches we were visiting when we first arrived in Alabama.  She has always loved to read and be read to but she has really taken up with telling stories from a book based on the pictures.  It is really sweet to listen to her telling these stories to her "kids" (AKA stuffed animals).  It is still really really hot here in Alabama.  The pool was closed on Labor Day and unfortunately Fall did not arrive the next day.  Prior to the pool closing, we went everyday.  There is a splash pad next to the pool and Rebekah was never a big fan until one day I brought a couple of plastic cups .  Those gave her a new found love for having water spraying around!  We did some sock puppet snakes for our S week and Rebekah just LOVED it.  She continued to play snakes for weeks after that, just about every time she put a sock on, it ended up on her hands and she was chomping someone!

Education - I am starting to do more independent work with both girls during school.  I've been trying to work with Rebekah on her counting and letter recognition using some Montessori activities I've found on line and she is doing well with it.