Like all mothers, I am incredibly proud of my children.
Emily potty trained herself in a little over a week and has had only a few accidents since she started wearing her big-girl panties full-time. She's also made huge strides in her language and routinely makes me laugh with the funny things she says.
A small sample of the funny-ness.
- She has started prefacing some of the things she says with "You know what?". Like, "you know what? Emmy have pee-pee comin'."
- This morning, she was in bed snuggling with me when Lucy woke up. She slid over to lay on Mike's pillow and then told me to go get Lucy. Then she said "that would be helpful." So glad to know I can be of assistance, Em.
- She can identify all of her letters on the VTech computer we have for her. I honestly have NO IDEA where she learned this, as it definitely wasn't from me.
- She has started spontaneously saying "I love you" and doing the I love you sign, which makes my heart melt into a pile of goo. My favorite is when I tell her I am going to run downstairs or outside for a second and she says "OK, wuv you, bye."
Lucy is also a big source of pride around here. She is working so incredibly hard to crawl, it occupies her every waking moment. And around the same time that she started to be able to get up on her knees, she also started to use a pincher grasp to pick up cheerios and puffs. We can toss a small handful of puffs onto her highchair tray and she will happily pick them up and stuff them in her mouth.* This has made dinner time much less whine-filled, which is always a nice thing. I am also especially proud of Lucy's sunny-ness. She is one of the happiest babies I have ever met. Very little upsets her, and the few things that do (tired and hungry are big ones) don't even upset her for very long.
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