3/4 of the way there…
So both girls are a bit more than 3/4 of the way to their birthdays… meaning that I will have a 3 year old and a 1 year old in the very near future… How crazy is that I figured this means I am long overdue on an update about what the girls are up to these days. So here goes…
Emilie
Emilie turned 9 months old this week and is in to EVERYTHING. If she can break it, bite it, rip it, eat it, chew it, feed it to the dog… she is on it! She now has six teeth and is eating anything and everything (except baby food… she would much rather have the real deal!)
She has recently learned the difference between Mom and Dad and will look at us if we say mama or dada. She can say both but uses them inconsistently. She does get Mama right in the mornings when I come in and get her from the crib and today she started crawling on to my lap and resting her head on my leg while saying Mama (might be the cutest thing I have seen recently!) It should come as no surprise that she says Mama since she is, without a doubt, a Momma’s Girl. Emilie’s favorite place to be is resting her head on my lap or shoulder. She spends a good part of her day in the carrier just so I can get things done.
Emilie also has learned to wave bye bye and likes to wave at the neighborhood kids. She watches them and definitely can not wait until she is mobile… which won’t be long as she is already cruising and starting to stand without holding on to anything for a second or two. Having said that, I am in NO rush for her to become more mobile as I am pretty sure that will mark the end of my sanity.
Lily
Lily is amidst the terrible/terrific twos and with that brings huge smiles, huge tears and huge tantrums. She will tell me, “I very love you, Mommy” and then turn around and hit her sister (Em has a bruise to prove it!). The good news is she is beginning to understand her emotions and has begun to verbalize frustration (“I am frustulated, Mommy!”) and anger. The hardest part is remembering she is only two since she often looks and acts so much older.
Lily’s favorite game at the moment is dressup and she often will dress up as a princess and dance for hours with her imaginary friends. She has, at last count, three imaginary friends, Mr. Emilie, Hip Hop Harry and “Friend”. She does a lot of role playing with them and often reenacts situations. For example, last night she pushed one of her friends outside and this morning she reenacted the scene with Hip Hop Harry and put him in timeout for pushing.
Lily is learning her letters and numbers and can identify the sounds that many of the consonants make. She likes to chalk draw “letters” and shapes and just learned how to draw her first person using our touchscreen computer. (Mom helped with the circle, but the rest is done by Lily!) She then proceeded to draw her best friend (the most patient 7 year old in the world!) Annabelle on the sidewalk, on a card, on my fridge and on the bathroom wall with bath crayons! I asked her if she wanted to draw me, she looked me up and down and said, “No.”
So as you can see, the girls are growing up way too quickly and time is flying by. (I can’t believe it is is practically August!) We will continue to put up pics of our adventures, especially Aunt Tiner’s wedding where Lily is going to be a flower girl!
