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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

13, 14, and 15 months

Holy Cow!  Where did the last 3 months go! Sophia is almost 15 months old.  So crazy.  I feel like she has grown a ton over the last few months.  Her list of words gets longer by the day. She talks a ton, but a lot of it is chatter with a couple recognizable words here and there.  We are so happy to watch her grow at her own pace and see all the things she learns and soaks up from us.  She is such a sponge!  She'd rather show you what she can do, than have you ask her. So we are constantly surprised with the things she knows.  The last 3 months have been amazing.  I am ok with my breaks from blogging, because it means that more of my time is spent with my girls.

Words: Mommy, Daddy, thank you, dog, woof woof, more (mo), here go(when handing us something), baby, Bodhi (Bo), Uh oh (most used word ever), shoes, book, Abby, please (peas), Emmy (memmy), night night (nye, nye), meow, kitty, cow, moo, quack quack, bubble, no (no, no, no. Can't be said just once).

Signs: more, all done, please, eat, milk, water, sleep and thank you.

Stats: 12 month tops and bottoms, Size 3 diapers, Size 3 shoes. She weighs 20 lbs 10 oz and is 29 inches tall at 15 months and is in the 15-20 percentile for weight and height.

Things she loves:
  • Pat-a-cake and pointing at everything in sight.  
  • Dancing and music. She is a dancing fool.  She especially loves some car dancing.
  • Reading a good book
  • Yoga
  • Climbing up the stairs and very cautiously back down
  • Snuggling and kissing her buddies
  • Running around. She's getting super fast
  • Food: Favorites are string cheese, cut fruit, especially blueberries, mac n cheese, sliced turkey/ham, hot dogs and chicken nuggets.
  • Sleeping. She is still an amazing sleeper.  Never fusses, just goes right to bed, usually not later than 7:15.  On the weekend she will sleep in till about 8. Love her. 
What's New:
  • Sophia is about a week away from being breast milk free.  I can't say enough how happy I am that my experience breast feeding was such an amazing one with her.  It was with Emily too, but I produced so much more and was able to offer it to Sophia for much longer.  She started transitioning about a month ago by us giving her one sippy cup a day of half whole milk/half breast.  She didn't seem to have any problems, so we eventually stopped taking the milk to school and she got a mixture at home and strictly whole at school.  It was such an easy process.
  • With that we also ditched bottles for good.  She was only getting two day till about 13 months and then down to one a day till 13 1/2 months.  She gave it up, no problem. Dropping bottles also meant a change in our morning and evening routines and Sophia picked them up seamlessly.  She is such an east, go with the flow baby.  
The good stuff:

Crazy Hair, Don't Care!



Noni is so proud!

Loving Sushi



Little Stinker

She got a hold of a marker.  You can't tell but her mouth and hards are  dark blue

Sweet Girl

Daddy did my hair




Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Ballet

Emily had her ballet recital two weeks ago, and while she didn't dance for the group, she looked super sweet and super happy.  She has only been in the class for about a month and I would say more kids stood there smiling, than those who actually "performed." I don't blame them.  There were about 20 parents staring at them and I think they all got a little stage fright. I think as she continues with her classes, she will become much more comfortable.  She talks about ballet a lot at home and I am glad she has found something to be interested in. . Even the instructor said she was surprised at how shy Emmy was.  She said she normally dances around the entire class and is very outgoing. Here are some pictures of my sweet girl! Looking forward to watching her many performances to come.



Friday, May 17, 2013

Easter

Two months late...Better than never...I scheduled this to publish and then noticed that never happened.  Dang it! I have a terrible habit of not pulling pictures off my camera in a timely manner.  I am also having issues with blogger and uploading pictures from my Mac.  It's part of the reason I don't blog, like ever.

Anyway, we had a nice relaxing Easter.  The day before we took Emmy to a hunt in our parent's neighborhood.  There is a big park and every year they do a big hunt for the kids.  I would bet there were over 100 kids there.  It lasted all of 3 minutes, but Emmy had a great time and got to see the Easter Bunny.


Yeah, he as terrifiying.





On Easter, we woke up early, got dressed for church and went to explore what the Easter Bunny left for the girls.  When we were little the Easter Bunny would hide treats around the house (at least that is how I remember it). Apparently my mom was better at picking up our stuff because it was obvious what the Easter Bunny had left.  Not so much the case at our house, but the girls loved it.  We may rethink our approach next year.  Haha.




















 After breakfast we went to Church and came home to get the girls down for an early nap.


We have gone to my Aunt Corine's house for Easter every single year, since I was little, and this year was no different.  Lunch was at 1, so we made sure that both girls got at least a little nap before we went over.  They both did great.  We haven't had smaller kids in the family for  a while, but this year, my cousin brought her kids over and we hid a bunch of eggs all over my aunt's yard for them to hunt.  Sophia had absolutely no desire to hunt, which Emmy loved, because it meant more eggs for her!  We filled the eggs with mostly healthy, kid friendly items, but some chocolate snuck it's way in.  Like good parent's, we hid the chocolate (to later be eaten by us) and the girls chowed down on the Teddy Graham and Goldfish filled eggs.  Both girls were pretty worn out after that. Basically Easter was a success and a wonderfully blessed day!




Wild woman


Soph made a buddy



 

Family photo-as good as it gets. :)
Some outtakes




Thursday, May 2, 2013

Emmy says.....

Emmy's version of Grace to last nightDear God. Thank you for food and friends. Thank you for putting food in my belly. And the animals in the oceans belly. But we need more and more and more food in our bellies so we can be as big as elephants. Bon appetite, now you may eat. Amen. 

Emmy on going to see Auntie Koley this year"Mommy when we go to California to see auntie Koley we aren't taking a plane. We are going to take my flying horse. And Sophia will go on her flying donkey"

Emmy's First World Problems
Mommy, my back really hurts from coloring all.day.long. 

There is no way to preface this one....
mommy when I go to jail will you come visit me?

I am pretty sure she doesn't know what actual jail is.  Explanations we received were about germ jail and some game they play at school.

Emily has also become quite the little fibber these days.  She doesn't out right lie.  She will just take what you said and turn it around.  Most of the times its something like:

Me: Emily, maybe if you clean up your toys, we can read 3 books tonight instead of 2. 
Emily to Daddy in the next room: Mommy is going to clean up my toys, so you can read me more books tonight.  

She also signed herself up for ballet at school.  I received an email from the Stretch and Grow (a program that you pay extra for and they come to the school and do a sports class, which Emily participates in, and then another day they do ballet) organizer called to tell me she couldn't find Emily's paper work for ballet.  She informed me that Emily told the Coach that I signed her up, and she continued to line up with the girls every week since.  She had been doing it for several weeks....Needless to say, Emily now does ballet.  Her first recital is next week.  It's pretty cute actually.  Little Miss Independent sure knows what she wants. I am glad she can make decisions like this for herself, but I would like a little heads up sometimes. :)

Emmy is so silly, funny and independent.  I can't wait to hear what she comes up with next!