Enssle Family

Jumping bean

Anna’s jumping!

It ain’t no long jump, and it ain’t no high jump, but both feet leave the ground simultaneously. We’re extremely excited.  Jumping has been a major goal for all of us for at least the past six months, and it’s great to see her doing so well in the gross motor realm.

Heck, the girl’s doing great generally.  The twos are terrible and wonderful all at the same time.  Sure, lots of boundary-testing, plenty of wailing and whining when she doesn’t think she’s getting her way, but most of the time she’s a total charmer.  Talking up a storm, with an ever-increasing vocabulary, longer and longer sentences, and she’s discovered the power of “why?”.  She’s as social as ever, except when she announces she “wants to be shy”, which I never complain too much about because it usually means she “hides”, snuggly-fashion, in Daddy’s arms for the first 10 minutes until she warms up to a new social situation.

The next big deal is trying to get her to actually run, but I’d be willing to bet there’s some correlation between developing enough confidence to let both feet leave the ground in a jump and moving faster than just a quick walk.

Meanwhile: We’re both doing well, just trying to keep up with it all.

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Big sister, little… brother!

Yes, we’re pregnant!  Sorry if this is the first you’re hearing about it, but it’s been a crazy summer, okay?  We know it’s a boy, due sometime in late January.  It’s not surprising, but this pregnancy has been flying by.  (Easy for me to say, no?  But Tara’s fortunately over the worst of the nausea by this point).  The panel’s green, all signs are good, and we’re starting to try and come up with names.  For his part, the little guy is apparently pretty busy and moves around in the hottub a lot more than Ms. Anna did. People tell us that’s a boy thing?

Anna’s starting to get a little excited about being a big sister.  She’s very excited to meet her new baby sister — er, brother (she alternates between the two…), but also clearly a little confused by the whole affair.  Here’s to hoping she’ll treat her little brother better than she’s been treating poor Max of late (”No Max!” is a common refrain).

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