What makes the video extra special is that just days before, Matthew lost his right front tooth that had been falling out forEVER. Now, not only does he have a huge gap where that tooth used to be, but the OTHER front tooth has migrated toward the center of his mouth, so now he looks like he has just one crazy snaggletooth right in the middle. I'm looking forward to seeing how the pictures of him that we take in Sri Lanka turn out!
I'm also looking forward to watching both of them read more and more over the holiday break. They both have started to read much more avidly in the last three months; Matthew was at first reluctant to read words he didn't already know, but his inhibitions have almost totally dropped away at this point. Chiara seems to realize that some words are SUPPOSED to be hard, but she doesn't let that stop her - she recently read a page and then told me "Kangaroo is a really long word!" They like to read just about everything around them, signs, labels, captions - it will be interesting to see what they make of the Sinhala and Tamil alphabets that, along with English, are on every surface in Sri Lanka.
We will probably not post again until we get back - which would be pretty frequent for me! Until then, Merry Christmas, and have a Happy New Year!
