All about Mika:
- She weighs 16.5 pounds and is 26" tall, so hardly grew this month, but I'm not sweating it. She's still fat :)
- She doesn't crawl yet, but she scoots backwards and in circles and she rolls around a lot. She can sit for a long time and play with her toys.
- I didn't give her real food before she turned 6 months.
- I know she knows her name and Jackson's name. She coos a lot but doesn't babble yet.
- She loves blowing raspberries, and I think it's the cutest thing in the world to see her tiny tongue poking out of her mouth doing it.
- She's so sweet and smiley and just an overall happy baby. I just love taking care of this girl!
I had just taken out her hair tie.
Her favorite things to do are
- going for a ride in the stroller
- watching Jackson
- watching the vacuum cleaner go
- sitting and playing with toys
- standing while holding on to my hands
- chewing on everything
- listening to me attempt to sing
- nursing
- flying in the air
- tickles
- peekaboo and this little piggy
My big girl in her cheerleading outfit!
I wanted a picture of how long her hair is when wet.
tons of curls
All about Jackson:
this kid loves painting
The terrible twos are killlliiiiiiiiing me. His whining is so annoying, but it's getting better since we taught him to say "please." I pretend like I don't know what he wants and ask him to show me or use his words, which (most of the time) instantly stops the whining. I know most of his problems stem from having a younger sibling, so I try so hard to be patient and give him extra hugs. He has regressed a lot and wants to be carried around like a baby.
His verbal skills are a lot better. He's been saying 1-5 new words a day for the past two or three months. I don't know how many words he can say, but ballpark it's about 150-200. His favorite word is, of course, "No!" He is also using two-word sentences more often.
He is almost potty trained! He only wears diapers at night, during naptime, and when we leave the house, so about 80% potty trained. It's probably better to go cold turkey, but I'm too lazy to clean up night-time messes. When he understands that he can take off his diaper after waking up and go in the potty, I'll stop using diapers for sleeping. As for being out in public, he has used a public potty before. If he's been to the store/restaurant before and knows there's a bathroom, he'll ask to use it instead of going in his diaper. He really started going diaperless in the house a few weeks ago. He would go in the potty sometimes, and we would give him a gummy bear and let him wear underwear for a few minutes and then put him back in a diaper. I think one day it just dawned on him that he got a gummy bear for going potty every. single. time. and he just started going in the potty all the time after that. I think he could've been at this point six months ago if it weren't for Mika and moving. He's been showing signs of readiness for a long time, but
potty training + new baby + moving =
Other random tidbits:
His favorite book is The Belly Button Book by Sandra Boynton.
He has started biting, but it's not that bad.
He knows most of his letters and likes to point out letters on everything. He just started trying to spell.
He still only knows numbers 1-5.
His favorite activities are watching TV, making tall Mega Bloks towers, reading, puzzles, and painting.
He loves doing what Mika does. If I'm kissing her feet, he'll run over and stick his feet in my face for me to kiss. Or if I'm playing baby games with Mika, he'll run over and stick his feet in my face so I can wiggle his toes too.
I was informed that "41T80O-q2" spells "sister" (he thought the 2 looked like an S and he was spelling backwards?). And then he told me "vH1PyA1t5Jj9I312KmnWwfhD" spells "Dad."
