Toddlers

I think my favorite age so far has been between 12 and 18 months. Kids that age are just so dang cute and they don't yet have the attitude that just gets right under my skin. Usually they're walking and they pretty much understand most of what you say to them, so they aren't quite so high maintenance. This is the time when my kids start engaging in conversation as well - mimicking our inflections and the sounds we make. Peter likes to just babble at us and is pretty content just to have us acknowledge that he's talking, even if we have no idea what he's saying.


Peter has also discovered books and will spend long stretches of time just sitting and looking at the stories that we read him at night. His favorites so far are the Sandra Boynton books. The other day he found one that he hadn't seen before because it was on a different bookshelf and he came running to show it to me so we could read it.



I'm sure their cuteness factor at this point is a huge part of the reason so many siblings are about two years apart. They just make you want to have another one....