Malone Genius and random tidbits

I know everybody thinks their kid is a genius...however, ours actually are!

Luke is saying Mama, Dada, and Bekah!!! He also does a passionate (mad) "more" that sounds like ("mah!") and sometimes clasps his hands together as a sign for more- also fairly angry. :) For a boy and second-born, we are quite pleased! (To the undiscerning ear- read that anyone but us :) - everything but Mama might just sound like gibberish.) I am also guessing that all this brain power is distracting him from his physical abilities, which is why he's delaying crawling- doesn't want to overwhelm us with too many new tricks.

Rebekah found a toy today that the boys who lived in this flat left that we also had in Iowa. She picks it up, and I kind you not, says, "I recognize this toy! I had this toy in the blue house! Do you recognize it, Mommy?" (Josh and she have been talking about the blue house in Iowa :) ). RECOGNIZE?! When did she learn that- and in context?

Side note- it's crazy fun and a little bit sad that Rebekah's frame of reference isn't based off just us anymore. By going to creche a couple times of week and creche at church, she learns things that we do not teach her. Case in point: a while ago she started talking about "strangers" and saying "That's not my daddy!" We still don't know where she learned that. Today, she started singing "He's got the whole world in his hands" and a new song to me, "I will make you fishers of men..." My heart melted- to hear my little songbird (even if it was at the top of her lungs while supposedly napping) with a new tune slays me. :)

Another random one- one of R's tubes from her ear fell out last week- it was sititng in her ear- yikes!! Hope she doesn't need it! Josh says it's normal for them to fall out...?

Sorry, no pics! I'll do better next time...