sugar and spice and everything nice...: May 2009

What to write, what to write? I'm (obviously) getting quite bad at the whole blog-writing thing, but I thought I'd try my luck at posting while all three kids (I'm watching Jordyn) are napping.

Not an incredible amount is new in our lives right now; we're still working on getting the basement finished (we need to get our butts in gear and finish the painting, because then all the rest can get done!), dreaming and planning out our backyard, snapping photos of our cute little girls and trying to get some sleep!

Ok, so I just stopped typing and took what I meant to be a "2-minute break" and it turned into a 2 WEEK break. Yikes.

Anyway, aside from being quite busy with a whole lot of mundane nothings, our lives are quite wonderful! Our two little girls are so precious, we usually lay in bed every night and just say over and over again how much we love them and how wonderful they are!

Adelyn has discovered her imagination! Or at least, we've discovered her imagination. She's coming up with all these great stories and sayings and just the other night she was roaring and acting like a dinosaur (after watching Diego and the Dinosaurs) and I said to her "Adelyn, are you pretending to be a dinosaur?" to which she roared and said "I AM a dinosaur!" and kept on playing. It was so funny!

Her musical and auditory memory is out of this world! I've been really noticing lately that anything that's said (as in poem form or in lines in a TV show/movie) or sung is brought back up again hours later nearly perfectly! She watched (for the first time ever) a new potty-training movie with kids who sing "Oh, oh, oh, I gotta go." and do this little dance move. Well, the next morning she starts singing and dancing the potty-dance song! It was crazy as she'd only seen it once! Very impressive!

She's still very much in love with her "little sis" and is pretty happy with herself when she makes Lauren happy and all excited! It's pretty cute and I'm so blessed to have a "big sis" on my hands who adores her "little sis" so much!

Adelyn's behaviour (listening skills, tantrums, etc. etc.) has improved dramatically since our parenting course ended as well. We've REALLY focused on changing the way we speak and interact with her and have seen great changes. Things (of course) are still not perfect, but she's morphing back into the little angel we used to have! And I can only imagine (and hope) that things will continue to get better and better!

As for little Lolo, she's the immunization champ! She got her 6-month shots last week and again (as she did at her 4-month shots) SMILED after getting them! She's just the best little baby you could ask for! She's just under 18 lbs (90%) and 25 " long (75%) so she's growing quite nicely and while she's still a "big" baby, she's so small compared to how Adelyn was that we're just loving our tiny little baby girl!

She's now sitting up completely on her own and very securely (since about 5 1/2 months) and can roll over no problem, although she's yet to do it in front of us and seems to refuse to! She's been eating rice cereal for dinner every night and has tried yams and bananas, but doesn't seem to particularly enjoy either. And she's learning how to use a cup as well! Every morning and afternoon she gets a sippy cup of water so she can learn how to drink from it and is doing pretty well! I didn't introduce a cup to Adelyn until much later, but seeing as how Lauren would rather starve herself than take a bottle I figured I needed to try another way of getting milk into her! So it's going pretty well so far, so I don't think it'll be a problem for her to take milk that way by this time next month when we'll be at a wedding and she'll be with a sitter. Fingers crossed anyways!

As far as sleeping goes, she's getting MUCH better! Waking once (or maybe twice) a night as opposed to every few hours every single night, and she's also learning to self-soothe, so sometimes she will wake up more but will put herself back to sleep.

Anyway, I know I say it a lot, but we love our little girls so much and couldn't imagine (nor would we want to) life without them! We're truly blessed!

Here are some more pictures for your enjoyment...