Sunday, October 26, 2008
Pumpkin Pumpkin
We braved the arctic winds yesterday to venture out to get a pumpkin for Halloween. Ok, it was probably in the 50's but it sure felt cold. Anna picked out a big round pumpkin and for David? A little yellow gourd. Today he decided it was time to carve both pumpkins. I had read about a pumpkin carving technique for kids D's age so we tried it out. After scooping the guts, he took a golf tee and a hammer to the gourd. The result is a pretty cool lamp with lots of little rays of light coming out. He was also head designer for the Jack-O-Lantern face. He decided that it should be a happy pumpkin. I asked him if a triangle was ok for the nose and he said "no, it look like this" and pointed to his own nose. He prefered oval eyes to circles and insisted on straight eyebrows and hair. I must say it's the cutest pumpkin I've ever carved and we had a great time doing it.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
One!
Ok I better do Anna's one year old update before she gets any older. So she's actually getting pretty close to 14 months now.
She is a huge talker. She got started with mama around 9 months, quickly adding dada and dayday. Dog and cat (dah/daa) came next. Recently she has just been exploding with words... ball, more, milk, juice, bath, bubble, wow, flower, Dottie, night-night, book & down are just some of the words that she regularly uses. And although they don't sound near perfect they are consistent enough that we know what she's saying most of the time. I almost forgot NO! For a couple of weeks it was her very favorite word and we heard it all the time. She has stopped saying it so frequently lately with the addition of so many new words. Uh oh is also a favorite - how does every baby learn the "game" of tossing a sippy cup from a booster seat and calling out "UH OH?!?"
Little princess started walking the day before she turned one. She just took a couple baby steps at a time for about a month. Just recently she decided it was time to walk! She went from taking a few steps and falling down to being able to walk from room to room practically overnight. She prefers walking to crawling now and only falls down when she gets going too fast. The only thing she likes better than walking is climbing! Little girl is part monkey! She spends too much of her time trying to climb on the kids' table in the living room. Even a pretty big fall from it has not deterred her. I had to put a tent over her bed for fear that she might try to climb out the crib. She is fearless at the playground, going up steps and down slides without caring where I am.
To my joy she has recently started to enjoy listening to books. Her favorite books are I Love Cats and Goodnight My Duckling. We read Goodnight My Duckling nine times before nap today! How can I resist her though? She gets a book, says "Boooo, booooo," walks over to me, turns around and backs up into my lap. It is the sweetest thing.
She is a huge talker. She got started with mama around 9 months, quickly adding dada and dayday. Dog and cat (dah/daa) came next. Recently she has just been exploding with words... ball, more, milk, juice, bath, bubble, wow, flower, Dottie, night-night, book & down are just some of the words that she regularly uses. And although they don't sound near perfect they are consistent enough that we know what she's saying most of the time. I almost forgot NO! For a couple of weeks it was her very favorite word and we heard it all the time. She has stopped saying it so frequently lately with the addition of so many new words. Uh oh is also a favorite - how does every baby learn the "game" of tossing a sippy cup from a booster seat and calling out "UH OH?!?"
Little princess started walking the day before she turned one. She just took a couple baby steps at a time for about a month. Just recently she decided it was time to walk! She went from taking a few steps and falling down to being able to walk from room to room practically overnight. She prefers walking to crawling now and only falls down when she gets going too fast. The only thing she likes better than walking is climbing! Little girl is part monkey! She spends too much of her time trying to climb on the kids' table in the living room. Even a pretty big fall from it has not deterred her. I had to put a tent over her bed for fear that she might try to climb out the crib. She is fearless at the playground, going up steps and down slides without caring where I am.
To my joy she has recently started to enjoy listening to books. Her favorite books are I Love Cats and Goodnight My Duckling. We read Goodnight My Duckling nine times before nap today! How can I resist her though? She gets a book, says "Boooo, booooo," walks over to me, turns around and backs up into my lap. It is the sweetest thing.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Three Year Old
Catching up with David...
At 3, here are some of his favorites:
Food - fruit snacks (boot nacks, as he would say), juice, candy, doughnuts
Animal - dogs
Color - yellow
TV shows - Caillou, Clifford
Toys - train tracks, anything Anna has first
Books - No David, Astair the Bear, Batman versus Joker
Movies - Making Tracks to Great Destinations (Thomas), Where the Garbage Goes, Finding Nemo
Silly Stuff - playing Peek-a-boo, building lego houses for his puppies, saying "you bad news"
Places to Go - any park, outside in general, grocery store, Avery's house
D is potty-trained now. He loves reading books and building train tracks with his Thomas set. He loves being around adults - he was the life of the party at his Uncle Jeff's wedding. Sharing with his sister is still a challenge though the "no baby"s have definitely decreased. He is learning soccer and basketball through our local park district. This is an interesting experience for him - his first structured anything. He is learning to follow directions and stay with the group. Oh yeah and maye how to dribble a ball. D still loves to help cook, recycle, feed the animals. The other day he was so excited to be allowed to watch me clean the toilets while Anna was napping. He talks all the time and inquires "why" all day long. He is a sweet little man - he asks about his friends and family when they are not around and will say "Me love you!"
At 3, here are some of his favorites:
Food - fruit snacks (boot nacks, as he would say), juice, candy, doughnuts
Animal - dogs
Color - yellow
TV shows - Caillou, Clifford
Toys - train tracks, anything Anna has first
Books - No David, Astair the Bear, Batman versus Joker
Movies - Making Tracks to Great Destinations (Thomas), Where the Garbage Goes, Finding Nemo
Silly Stuff - playing Peek-a-boo, building lego houses for his puppies, saying "you bad news"
Places to Go - any park, outside in general, grocery store, Avery's house
D is potty-trained now. He loves reading books and building train tracks with his Thomas set. He loves being around adults - he was the life of the party at his Uncle Jeff's wedding. Sharing with his sister is still a challenge though the "no baby"s have definitely decreased. He is learning soccer and basketball through our local park district. This is an interesting experience for him - his first structured anything. He is learning to follow directions and stay with the group. Oh yeah and maye how to dribble a ball. D still loves to help cook, recycle, feed the animals. The other day he was so excited to be allowed to watch me clean the toilets while Anna was napping. He talks all the time and inquires "why" all day long. He is a sweet little man - he asks about his friends and family when they are not around and will say "Me love you!"
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
The last 6 weeks...
Where to begin? On May 17th we left our home in Hoover with all our belongings in a UHaul truck to start our new adventure. Chris and our stuff went to Ohio for him to continue his job search there while the kids and I, along with both cats and Penny came to Michigan to enjoy summer on the beach. It has been stressful and crazy but we have sold our house in Alabama, put a house in Cincinnati under contract and Chris is a month into a new job.
Little Miss A has made some serious changes in that time. She says mama and nanna (Anna). She waves hi and bye-bye. She has started signing - all done, more & milk. She responds to her name and the word no. Just recently she can stand by herself for a short amount of time and loves to "walk" while I hold her hands up. She is always moving and squealing. A very happy baby during waking hours... Nights have been a challenge for her but she's getting better.
The little man will be 3 in just a few weeks. I'm hoping that the terrible twos will expire at that time but I doubt it as he came into it a bit late. Listening and eating continue to be a fight with him (and I can't even think about potty training) but he is still delightful much of the time. He loves playing at parks, anything related to trains and making friends at the beach. His vocabulary continues to improve all the time. He speaks in sentences much of the time and continues to ask why at least 50 times a day. He has had so much fun getting to see more of his family... So much more that he had to refer to everyone as "that guy" til he started putting names together. He loves his guys and insists on having Grandpa put him to bed every night.
Little Miss A has made some serious changes in that time. She says mama and nanna (Anna). She waves hi and bye-bye. She has started signing - all done, more & milk. She responds to her name and the word no. Just recently she can stand by herself for a short amount of time and loves to "walk" while I hold her hands up. She is always moving and squealing. A very happy baby during waking hours... Nights have been a challenge for her but she's getting better.
The little man will be 3 in just a few weeks. I'm hoping that the terrible twos will expire at that time but I doubt it as he came into it a bit late. Listening and eating continue to be a fight with him (and I can't even think about potty training) but he is still delightful much of the time. He loves playing at parks, anything related to trains and making friends at the beach. His vocabulary continues to improve all the time. He speaks in sentences much of the time and continues to ask why at least 50 times a day. He has had so much fun getting to see more of his family... So much more that he had to refer to everyone as "that guy" til he started putting names together. He loves his guys and insists on having Grandpa put him to bed every night.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Shoes
My little girl is developping her love for shoes at an early age. The only problem is that right now she'd rather chew them than wear them. She can spot them from across the room and takes off in her fastest crawl, squealing with glee. So of course David has made it his mission to keep all the shoes (hoos, as he says) away from her. Yesterday he worked so hard to put all the shoes he could find into a laundry basket. Shortly after he finished his project, Anna saw the basket and seemed to think it was the world's greatest treasure chest!
Another tooth!
Anna's second tooth poked through yesterday. Hopefully we will soon be getting more sleep!
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