Silly girl

Miss R has been a smiley girl since birth. She laughs, smiles and has a good old time. As she gets a little older she is learning what is funny and will do things to get a laugh. She loves playing peek a boo or putting things like a ball in her mouth and then showing you.

Her vocabulary is ever increasing and her favorite, FAVORITE word and thing is DUCK. Ducks are the most exciting thing in her tiny little world. When she sees them she starts to squeal and flap her little arms and just gets all worked up. It's hilarious.

Pre-School

Miss C started Pre-School yesterday. I am seriously not sure when that happened but it sure snuck up on us. It went pretty easy and I think that was because she goes to the same place she was going, just new teachers and a new class. Things in Pre-School are more structured and more "school-like" and so far, so good.

It's weird because Miss C seems so grown up in so many ways but even with starting Pre-School this week, she still is a little girl. Just like when she was first born, I want to bottle up her sweet, sweet innocence and carry it with me forever. I want to record all those times now where she goes, I love you Mommy and I haven't said it to her first. I want to take a mold of her tiny hand holding mine and capture that bond displayed so simply and yet so clearly.

I love that my little girl can be so independent and is enjoying her new class and Pre-School, but I hate that it means she is growing up.

Pacifier

Miss R loves her pacifier. LOVES it. Very much attached to the paci and it's a definite soother for her.

We try to keep the use of the paci to a minimum and reserved for nap and bedtime. That holds true at day care but at home some times we cave and give it too her if she seems overly worked up.

She is also pretty attached to her blankie but in the blanket arena it can really be any blanket not just a specific one. Still she does have a specific blankie (with back ups) that she sleeps with.

So tonight we tried paci-free bedtime with the blankie. There was some fussing but in the end she feel asleep without it so we'll see how it goes tomorrow.

Uh oh!

We've been pretty busy around here enjoying the Summer and finding time to write has been few and far between. The girls are growing up fast and if feels like I blinked and Miss C is heading into Pre-School and Miss R is starting to talk beyond MaMa and DaDa.

They are sisters to the core and one minute they will be rolling around making each other laugh and the next R will have a handfull of C's hair pulling it by the roots. It's a wild ride around here for sure. The two of them can wind each other up, but...one of my favorite things is when the girls hold hands. When the softer, gentler side of sisterhood shows up and I see C taking care of her Sissy. There is a bond there between my girls and I try to remind C that she has to take care of her sister.

Miss R is feeling out her vocabulary and is starting to communicate more and more every day. She knows who we all are and will point to us if asked. Duck is one of her most favorite words Her appetite is through the roof and we can hardly keep food in her. She's still pretty attached to her paci and will make any blanket her blankey. I love the way she pulls out a book and will sit and "read" the book outloud. She loves that almost more than anything else.

Miss C, well, that girl is hilarious. You can tell she is our child by her silliness. Today she was dancing to every song that came on the radio and singing her own version of Lady Gaga. She's learned that if she says, "hope you find your dad" from the movie Elf it makes people laugh so she says it over and over again.

July 4th Kentucky Lake

For the holiday weekend, and our 5th wedding anniversary, we went to Kentucky Lake with Dawn, Mike, Mia, Granny and Grumpy. We had a great time.

First Piggies

Give a listen

Miss R is a force to be reckoned with. She has fully inserted herself into our family and can hold her own. Despite not being able to talk using too many words, she can very clearly convey what she wants.

Those words that she can now say include...MAMA! DADA! Hi. Bye-Bye. Uh-oh! Something that sounds like Copper and random, but quite frequent gibber jabber.

One of my most favorite things she does is when she grunts for a book and then once she gets it, she gets all excited kicking and smiling while she "reads" it outloud to us. She'll turn the pages and point and speak her indecipherable language. I hope this indicates one day she'll be an avid reader or public speaker.

It's amazing to watch her grow. I love her independence. The way she'll sit by herself actively reading a book, or play with a toy.

I love the way she plays with her sister. They hold hands and laugh and R seems quite taken with everything about her sister and vice versa.