You know, I really do want to keep up with this blog. I really do. I think about it fairly often, it's just a matter of having two hands available and a few quiet minutes. That seems almost impossible to find these days unless it's late at night. At that point I really should be sleeping. I feel exhausted just about every single day. The babies are growing and changing so fast, sometimes I find it difficult to wrap my head around how much they change in a very small amount of time. I hope that I can remember all of these tiny miracles later in life. I hear "I hope you are writing this stuff down" a lot from other people. The truth is I have a hard time finding the chance to. Maybe it's worth it to have the thousands of pictures on my digital camera. Pictures have a great way of making you flash back to the very second they were taken. Anyway, I'm rambling and at this rate I'll never get this done. If you don't want to read about my kiddos, you are dismissed. My world revolves around them right now and I'm completely in love with them. In a way this serves as a journal so that whenever I do find the time to write in baby books and do scrapbooks, I might be able to remember a little...
Lillie-
I don't even know where to begin with her. Months 14-16 have been a blast. Now she seems to have jumped ahead to the "terrible twos". But, I'm getting a head of myself.
She has a very large vocabulary. At around 15 months she became a parrot and repeated anything that you asked her to. It became a fun game to think of the biggest word you can think of and have her repeat it. A few weeks ago she started saying multi word combos. The first one was "more kisses" (ahhhhhhhh!, go ahead, say it). A few days ago she started saying "I get it". Most words come out really pretty clear, others are a far stretch from the way they should sound.
Favorite words-
gorilla- pronounced wee-ta-ta
tortilla - pronounced tor-ta-ta
banana- mee-nana
oh yeah- stress on the oh part. ooooooh yeah. Got that one from Isaac.
all right
hold you - pronounced hoad-jou. she says it when she wants to be held.
Lillie-
I don't even know where to begin with her. Months 14-16 have been a blast. Now she seems to have jumped ahead to the "terrible twos". But, I'm getting a head of myself.
She has a very large vocabulary. At around 15 months she became a parrot and repeated anything that you asked her to. It became a fun game to think of the biggest word you can think of and have her repeat it. A few weeks ago she started saying multi word combos. The first one was "more kisses" (ahhhhhhhh!, go ahead, say it). A few days ago she started saying "I get it". Most words come out really pretty clear, others are a far stretch from the way they should sound.
Favorite words-
gorilla- pronounced wee-ta-ta
tortilla - pronounced tor-ta-ta
banana- mee-nana
oh yeah- stress on the oh part. ooooooh yeah. Got that one from Isaac.
all right
hold you - pronounced hoad-jou. she says it when she wants to be held.
Her comprehension and retention amaze me. She must have Paco's weird ability to remember stuff (except what I tell him :) ). For example, she brought me a toy guitar that we have the other day and says "hold tight" which is what they say on one of the songs it plays. It had been a week or two since she had played with it and had never said that before!
The girl is a dancing machine. I've been taking some flip camera footage of it that I promise to post soon. It's beyond funny. She dances to the beat of music she hears and will also randomly dance when she gets really happy or excited.
Food: she insists on feeding herself and is slowly getting better at it. Most of the time, she ditches the utensils and eats with her hands. She will tell you "hold it" when she wants to hold fork/spoon, and her bananas.
She has a strange fascination with hats. Will turn just about anything into hat.
Loves to talk about body parts. She has said eyes, nose, mouth, ears for many months now. She added lips, cheek, chin, neck, toes, hand, arm, leg, back, tush a while ago.
Randomly throughout the day she will go through a whole slew of words she knows. Including people's names that she knows. Usually this happens first thing in the morning or after waking from a nap.
I can now say "hand" and she will take my hand/finger and walk with me. So sweet, I love it. This really comes in handy when I need her to go with me and I'm holding Miles.
She knows every animals and animal noise that I can think of. dog cat cow goat sheep donkey monkey lion bear pig frog horse fish snake, even iguana. She sniffs her nose for a bunny and says long neck (with the sign) for a giraffe.
And the lovely and adorable Miles...
He's amazingly strong and holds his head up for small amounts of time. He smiles a lot and makes cute coo sounds. He smiles very big for Lillie, he seems to enjoy when she's around. She kisses him all of the time! She also loves to give him high fives (soooo cute!) and luckily he doesn't seem to mind. :) He's very long and so far fairly skinny, even though I'm starting to notice some pudge. His eyes are very light and might possibly stay blue or green (here's hoping)! Go figure, both of my girls get beautiful brown eyes and Miles gets my eyes. He sleeps really pretty well and always falls asleep in the car and when I wear him in my Moby Wrap. He's so super sweet and cuddly. Overall, he's a VERY good baby!
