Coffee shop, words, potty

Semina and I have been taking Sonja and Mikica to a toddler gym class at my gym, and afterwards we would spend some time outside Starbucks where they would play by bringing back and forth all free real estate magazine copies from the bin to our table, counting the magazines (one, three, nine--Michael, and one, one, one--Sonja), then climb a little tree by the curb, eat their snack... and to top it all off, drink they hot chocolate! They would wait inside the coffee shop while their 'coffee' was being made, yelling 'moja kafa/vruca kafa!' (my coffee/hot coffee), and then yell even louder and more excitedly once the hot chocolate was finally in their hands. It's a treat for us to watch them get their treat!

Sonja speaks a lot these days: 'Sonja cita', Sonja knjiga' (Sonja reads, Sonja book)..., 'beba spava', 'beba budi' (baby sleeps, baby wakes), 'Ne Sonja spava' (Sonja won't sleep), 'moj red' (my turn)...She counts: 'jedan, jedan, jedan'.. (one, one, one...), 'Sonja kaki WC' (Sonja poops (in the) toilet)

Mikica says: seklo (svjetlo=light), picila kola (police car, accompanied with 'oo-oo-oo-oo...siren sound), vechicha (vjestica=witch), pisem (I write), makaze (scissors)... He actually speaks in full sentences, like 'Ja prvi!' (I got there first!) when he fights for the best seat in the van, or 'Hocu jos meka!' (I want more milk), 'Daj mi to!' (Give me that!)

All three shout 'Ljubi!' to give me a kiss as I leave the house alone or when I drop them off at the gym kids' center. They still kiss me on the lips--it will soon be time to change that for Nikolas, he is getting too big for it.

Recently Sonja decided that she would go to the bathroom instead of peeing in her diaper--only not just in the potty like Michael--she wanted to go straight to the real toilet! She will actually take off her pants and diaper, climb up, sit without help, climb back down, flush and put back both the diaper (sometimes front side back, which is when I realized she was doing all this by herself!), and her pants (sometimes inside out). Amazing! She will not only pee, but poo too, all by herself, and just until recently she wouldn't even sit on the potty when she was standing next to it undressed, needing to pee.