Do You Hear It?

I'm not sure you can hear it in this video, but for the last few days, Lillian has been singing the first four notes of the Alphabet Song. The first four letters are A, D, D, D. She has also realized that letters are letters, even though they are currently all A. It's not as though we sit around and drill the alphabet or letters. It amazes me what both of these girls absorb casually. Even though Naomi is not as verbal, she quietly identifies the same body parts and pictures that Lillian does. They are starting to legitamately help with tasks and model simple things that we do around the house. All without 'teaching', just observing. Also, this week we graduated from the Help Me Grow program (the early intervention program the girls were enrolled in because of their prematurity). One their latest assessments, both Naomi and Lillian are scoring in their chronological age range in all areas. These include gross motor (walking, steps), fine motor (pencils, crayons, pushing buttons) social/emotional, cognitive (problem solving) and language (both hearing and speaking). All these measure of progress are so exciting, but they also remind me how fast time is racing. I spent some time looking at video from last September this afternoon and nearly cried over the tiny babies who were just starting to babble and scootch. Now, they use a railing to climb the steps out back and ask for cereal. Does it ever slow down?