tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27095696638982498272024-02-06T22:19:23.114-07:00Happiness is Having TwinsHappiness is Having Twins:
Melody's experiences with her beautiful twin girls, and other stories.melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-62297023167994915982015-05-07T21:19:00.001-06:002015-05-07T21:19:55.227-06:00April 2015<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It always takes me longer to sort through and upload the pictures I want to post, so I'll add those when I have more time. Until then, here are my April memories!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-1-15 When I picked up
the girls from Mary's today, Violet was waving and whispering good-bye to her
friends. I said, say it louder so they can hear you! She said it in her
"loud" voice which is a little louder, but still softer than most
people's normal voice. “Bye friends.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily is back to
stuttering on certain words and it's hilarious! (By the way, I read it's normal
for this age. She does it off and on so we're not worried.) Today it was ‘what’
in a fast, high voice... "Whada-whada-whada-whada what's sissy
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-2-15 Today we went to
see Poppy Jay! We played with the blocks and danced to Glen Miller. This was
the first time I saw them holding hands and dancing together! It was so sweet!
Violet kept falling down and then were both laughing so hard! Great Grandpa Jay
thought they were funny too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-4-15 What a fun day!
We started out coloring eggs! I mean baby eggs! The girls colored on them with
crayons and then we had them stand at the counter on chairs so we could dye
them. They loved it! We went grocery shopping next and they were extra helpful.
It was so fun! They picked all the produce for us and put everything in the
basket. After nap we found our kite and went to the park! We sung <i>Let's Go Fly a Kite</i> about a dozen times.
They were totally in awe over the kite! They both helped daddy hold the string
and loved it! There were a couple people there with those big glider kites that
take two hands to control. That was fun to watch!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Easter Bunny comes
tonight! Tomorrow should be lots of fun too!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-5-15 Happy Easter! The
girls searched for their baskets when they woke up and Violet spotted them
both! They were very excited about their eggs and goodies in their baskets! The
Easter Bunny brought mini-kites, new jammies, sunnies, headbands, socks, some
quarters, and candy!!!! Violet went nuts shoving M&M’s in as fast as she
could! That girl loves her chocolate! We went outside on the deck to fly our
kites and Lily kept singing <i>Let's Go Fly
a Kite</i>! After nap we stopped at Yia-yia's to see her new house and then
went up to Poppy's for dinner and an egg hunt! They loved the yummy ham and
played with their cousins. When we were getting in the truck, Violet had a hold
of her big basket, hugging it. She started running toward the truck (down the
steep driveway) and then she couldn't stop! She was running faster than I've
ever seen!! I didn’t know her little legs could move so fast! I grabbed her so
she wouldn't fall. It scared her and she started crying. I'm just glad she
didn't fall! She probably would have been hurt pretty badly! Silly girl! It was
a fun Easter! They definitely got into it more than last year!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-7-15 The last week or
so they've been saying Mary instead of Meme. Today Mary said that she's kind of
sad they can say her name now! Lily's been saying, "Can't do
anything." I ask who can't do anything and she says mama! I don't know
where she got that but I don't like it! Lily sings the sesame street song
"Sunny day! Clouds away! On my way!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-10-15 We got a new matchy game! They've both been finding matches in stuff everywhere! They love turning all the pieces over and finding "Matchy Monkey" and "Matchy Turtle" and so on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-11-15 We went on a
little hike up City Creek this afternoon. We said we are in the mountains! Lily
said, “In the mountains! Say happy birthday moon!” They were fascinated with
all of the wildlife they saw. They’d crouch right down and intently watch until
we pulled them away, especially the big, black beetle. That was the first one
they spotted. They stopped for every ant too. It was a slow, but fun walk! We
also spotted a lot of different butterflies and moths, wild flowers, birds, a
squirrel, and a caterpillar! We all loved hearing the mountain stream as we
hiked. The girls said hello to every biker, walker, and dog we passed. They’re
so friendly. Lily got tired and rode in the carrier on Daddy’s back. Violet was
a trooper and walked almost the whole time! I finally put her in the carrier
too and then they held each other’s hands. So sweet!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-15-15 It snowed!!! It
was snowing all day today so as soon as we got home from school and Mary's, we
got all of our snow gear on and went outside! We made a snow daddy and a snow
mama that were as big as they are! Since the wind blew down a branch the night
before, we had arms for them and we found rocks for eyes and carrot noses! They
needed hats so the girls made hats out of snow. They were so cute patting the
snowmen with their mittened hands. Violet started worrying about the flowers
that were heavy with snow so she started gently brushing them off. Lily helped
a little too, but not so gently. We were outside for over an hour and it was
snowing the whole time! It was starting to get cold, but they did not want to
go inside! We had so much fun out there. I'm a little sad we'll have to wait
until next winter to play in the snow again! We only had 3 snowfalls this year!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-18-15 This morning we
walked around a little in Sugar House and walked along the nature path. The
girls want to pick every dandelion they see! We went to the Tracy Aviary in the
afternoon! That’s such a great place for the girls to walk around. It’s not too
big and they get to see cool birds up close. They love running around to see
the all of the exhibits! We were almost ready to leave when Violet found a ladybug!
She crouched down, right in the path, to watch this little ladybug. I overheard
a young couple talking about how sweet and cute she is! She yelled for us to
come over to see it too! Lily loved it, but decided to try to step on it.
Luckily she missed! Haha! After dinner, we went to Gateway. They were so cute
together, walking with their hoods on and their hands in their pockets. They
were singing <i>Somewhere Over the Rainbow</i>
in the car on the way home. Lily was so, so, so tired at bedtime. We were reading
<i>The Eensy-Weensy Spider</i>. The spider
gets into some kind of trouble on every page, but ends up ok on every page too.
At the end, Lily started crying hard, with her big sad frown. She leaned over
to hug me and said, “My ok.” I asked, “What’s wrong?” She said, “Spider,” and
pointed to the spider, and then started crying again and hugging and saying, “My
ok.” Ahh, so sweet! It was the first time I saw her get so emotional over a
character in a book!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-19-15 Violet was
bringing us "drinks" in the little cups. Ryan said, "It's
delicious!" She repeated, "It's delicious?" in her high voice
and sweet smile. Then Lily said, "No, it's BE-licious!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-23-15 Today my dad and
Mindy were married! It was a lovely, quaint ceremony in a big gazebo at the U,
Fort Douglas. We are all so happy for them! Afterwards, we went to dinner at
Tsunami and ate in the private room upstairs. It was perfect, fun, and so
memorable! The food was delicious and so was the champagne (Dom Perignon!!) and
wine! The cake was to die for! It was a layered vanilla cake with passion fruit
mousse/gel on top and fresh fruit. What a beautiful, exciting day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-26-15 We let Violet
pick out a box of Band-Aids at the store. She almost picked the Spider Man and
Ninja Turtles, but ended up with Snoopy! We’re going to let her pick the one
she wants for her thumb. Even if she only leaves it on for an hour, that’s one
less hour she’s sucking her thumb! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-27-15 They've always like the purple balls from the ball pit the best! They'll throw out all the purple balls, or put them all in their buckets. Today Lily put them all in their kitchen! Three in each side of the sink, on the shelves, and in the pitchers! She's so tidy and orderly (sometimes)! Ryan said he would have done the same thing when he was little, but with the red balls!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4-30-15 Violet’s been
pretty good about keeping her Band-Aids on all week! There were two days she
still had it on when I picked her up from Mary’s! The other days, she had a tan
Band-Aid from Mary’s. She didn’t take them off until almost 6:00 this week!
What’s really funny, is that she’s been sleeping with her “Noopy” Snoopy box!
We decided we’ll let her pick a new box every week or two and continue letting
her pick one out every morning. We know we probably won’t completely stop her
sucking her thumb, but if we can curb it a little, that would be great!</span><span style="font-family: Segoe UI, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-4-15 Violet is in the No! phase. It's never very fierce because she has such a high, feathery, wispy voice. At dinner she devoured the asparagus and ate lots of chicken and bread. I asked her, "Did you like the asparagus?" "No!" and "Did you eat chicken?" "No!" Then she'll point at me and shake a little and say Nooooo!! But it's still a sweet no.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-5-15 Lily has fallen asleep at the dinner table two nights in a row! It's not gradual at all. One minute she's being loud and silly, the next she's out, nodding her head like a bobble head! She won't be woken up either! Total power nap! After that, she's hyper!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-6-15 <span style="line-height: 107%;">We
went to dinner at Setebello in Farmington tonight. It was delicious and the
girls ate a lot of pizza! There was a cute little girl (10 months old) at the table
next to ours. They were so cute with her! Smiling, waving, imitating her
scrunched up nose! They are social butterflies! After that, we went to Ogden to
Union Station to see the model car show. I saw it on the news and we went on a
whim. The girls loved it! There were tons of nerds with their toy- I mean,
model trains. The girls were both fascinated! I held Violet and she kept
saying, “Wooo-wooooo,” and looking at the trains in awe. Lily was telling
Daddy, “Look, Daddy, look!” Then she’d want to get down, but couldn’t see
anything because they were up on tables, so wanted him to pick her back up.
They wore their Thomas hats and got lots of attention! </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">They
got a dum-dum sucker as a special treat (they haven’t had one since Halloween)
and Lily devoured it! She even ate part of the stick (oops)! Violet just held
on to hers and got sticky. She didn’t even eat the whole thing! </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Upstairs,
we saw Thomas and Percy! They were set up on toddler level and they watched
them go around about 50 times. Thomas and Percy's eyes moved back and forth
too. Very realistic! </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">They
waved at them each time they went around. </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">The man that had that set up also had quite a
few others. He brought one over to the girls and asked if they wanted to hold
it! Of course they did! </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Violet
had such a tight grip on it! She loved it! When Ryan said to let go so we could
give it back, she said, “No.” </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">To top it off, the girls got paper conductor
hat/headbands, and </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">we
got to see the big (real) engines outside! They were speechless! They touched
the big wheels and called it Hiro, from one of the Thomas shows. </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">On
our way back to the car, Lily shouted, "OLD MAN!" when this older man
was walking by. I don't think he heard us though! How silly she is!! </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">As we were getting them back in the car, the
Frontrunner train went by. Violet loved it! At home, Ryan was rocking Lily and
she looked up at him and said, “Thomas, Percy.” They had a great time tonight!</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">! I’m
sure they’ll be dreaming of trains!</span></span></div>
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to the zoo with Jack and Liz! All the kids had so much fun and were great
troopers. They wanted to walk a lot, almost the whole time! Lily ended up
pushing the stroller instead of riding in it most of the time! They loved the
seals, elephants, and lions the best! We rode on the Merry-Go-Round and Violet
rode on a big emu with mama! Lily was going to ride a red panda, but got a
little scared so her and daddy sat on the peacock bench. Everyone had a great
time on the Merry-Go-Round! They loved running through the log tunnel with
Jack. Of course the loved the train too!!! We got to sit right at the front and
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-10-15 Violet loves brushing my hair! I was sitting on the floor and she brushed it so gently! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-11-15 Every time I write anything, Lily comes over and says, "Write my name, Lily name!" Then she asks me to write Violet's name and then daddy and mama. Last night she asked Ryan to write Elsa! I can't believe she's asking that at just over 2 years old! Violet is talking more and more every day too. They both know most of their colors. I was surprised to hear Lily name orange today and Violet name green. Violet has been sucking her thumb less too. If you say, "No thumb, Violet, take it out," she'll say, "No, no thumb!" It's very sweet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-12-15 They wanted to wear my watch. I asked Lily what time it was. She said, "6-7. Bedtime." Violet said, "8!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-14-15 We bought some pansies today and the girls helped me plant them in the pots out front. Violet was thrilled! She's our naturalist and loves flowers. I made a little hole in the soil and then have her a flower to put in. She placed it in the pot carefully and then clapped her hands. She clapped after planting each flower. At one point she was so excited, she was literally shaking! Lily liked planting too. She sort of dropped the flowers in the hole. They both helped me water them too. I'm sure Violet will want to check on her flowers every day now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily started saying my-my at the beginning of her sentences. My-my wash my hands. My-my play with sissy. My-my watch MeMe Poppins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-21-15 Lily said, "Mmmm, mmmm, this is delicious!" at lunch today. Violet was feeding her rabbit and then herself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-25-15 Violet brings me a cup and we pretend to drink then she says, "licious!" Lily crouched down to check out an ant today. She also "wrote" all of our names on her doodle board!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-26-15 Lily came into my bedroom this morning and said, "I love you." That's the first time she's said it first! They always say I love you after we say it, so this was pretty special! Sweetheart!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-27-15 Today Violet said, "I love you!" before I said it! They sure do like to do things at the same time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-28-15 We had an awesome day!! We went to an Easter egg hunt this morning in Bountiful. We made it just in time and they had a blast! They each collected about 8 eggs before the big kids overtook the 4 and under side (greedy little bastards). They loved opening their eggs and finding their little toys or candies inside! I said, "Did you have fun finding your Easter eggs?" Lily yelled, "No! Baby eggs!" (All eggs are baby eggs now thanks to the books about baby penguins.) At home they kept opening and closing their baby eggs over and over again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After nap we ran some errands and then went to dinner at Mi La-Cai Noodle House. They were so happy and loved sharing my pho and Ryan's chicken dish. They were hilarious eating the long rice noodles! We went to the Poor Yorick art exhibit next. They liked looking at the paintings and other art work, but were nervous about walking into the different studio rooms. We saw Cheree, who is cousin Harper's mom, and her lovely paintings. There was a band playing outside and the girls danced and danced! They were so adorable! They'd dance in circles and then walk with their feet kicking out in front of them. They were always imitating each other. When Lily walked with her hands behind her back, Violet did the same. When Violet crouched down to look at a weed growing in a crack in the pavement, Lily did the same. When one stopped dancing for a moment, the other one stopped right next to her. They each put a dollar in the tip bucket and waved bye-bye!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We checked out The Music Man from the library. Lily calls it Superman. They were tickling each other and kissing each other before bedtime tonight. I love when they're so lovey and playful with each other!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-29-15 Lily noticed that Violet's eyes are blue. I told her that hers are blue too. She grabbed a blue ball, held it to her eye, and said, "Match!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet brushes her pony's hair with a tiny little brush. She's so gentle!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3-31-15 Lily won't give me a hug in the morning unless my sockies are on! She helps me put them on too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet likes to scrunch up her nose and lips when she says No!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily loves helping us set the table. She puts napkins, silverware, their milks, and anything else she can manage! Then she's ready to eat! She loves helping any way she can!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet wears her apron almost every day! She is always cooking and feeding her dolls and animals. She talks to them in that high, soft voice of hers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Whoa! That's a tall Statue of Liberty!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2-1-15 Lily and Violet
haven't been interested in the potty lately which is totally fine. The last 2
days Lily has been taking her dolls to the potty and today she sat on the potty
without her diaper! I gave her 2 mini M&M's for sitting there like a big
girl!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If Violet gets too tired
before lunch she will not eat! That happened today. Hopefully she'll eat a
snack and a lot at dinner tonight! We went to my mom's house for dinner tonight.
She made eclairs for dessert. Violet loved them! Well she loved the chocolate
on top and pretty much just ate that. She had it all over her face! As I was
holding Violet waiting for Ryan to get Lily buckled, Violet and I were looking
at the moon. She waved to the moon and said, “Night-night,” and I thought about
how sad I'll be when they're too big to wave at the moon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2-4-15 Now they ask to
watch Meme Poppins!! Lily said to me today, “See you later!” then she left the
room with her stroller. Violet loves the purple hippo with wheels! She says “Hippo!”
and “Voom voom!! Cash!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily will usually roll
up her sleeves at meals if you ask her too. Ryan rolled them up for her so of
course she rolled them down and said, “No sleeves up!” I told him he just needs
to ask her to do it, but it's too late now. He said, “Lily, will you roll up
your sleeves?” She answered, matter of fact-ly, “Too late.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2-9-15
They stack up any blocks and call it a birthday cake!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They
still request Mary Poppins and at the end where Dick van Dyke is the old
banker, they say, "Santa! Santa's comin'!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2-10-15
Violet was sitting on my lap and I started stacking our hands, one on top of
the other. We started moving the bottom one to the top faster and faster. Then
she would laugh and say “Again!” Lily loves the new song we've been singing, <i>Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree</i>. She
says, "Popcorn, window song, mama?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2-12-15 My mom watched the girls today. When
she left, Lily stood at the window, waved, and said, "Bye yia-yia. Love it
comin play me, sissy."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet usually doesn't sing quite as much as
Lily. At dinner we were singing popcorn popping on the apricot tree, and Violet
knew every word! We've only been singing it a couple of weeks and I haven't
heard her sing any of it! That just shows how smart she is, always taking
everything in, even if she's not always as vocal as Lily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2-17-15 Lily has been pretty sick the last
two days so I stayed home with them today. We started watching <i>Singing in the Rain</i> last night and Lily
was holding the case. When Gene Kelly came on she'd say, "That's
him!" She kept asking me to sing <i>Rain</i>
to her over and over. She's usually not snuggly at all, but yesterday she
napped in my arms for a little over an hour! It was sweet. Violet snuggles with
me every day, so it was nice to have some Lily time, even though I hate when
either of my babies are sick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2-19-15 We use the head swipe thermometer to
take their temperatures and always say their temperatures out loud. When Lily
takes my temperature with her toy thermometer she says, "6, 7, 8, 9,
mama!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2-22-15 We got the girls pillows for their
beds! They love them and were so happy at bedtime. They know a lot of the
letters in the <i>ABC song</i> and they love
C<i>hicka Chicka Boom Boom</i> too. I've
heard them sing the ABC song, "...q r s, loose-tooth t!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2-25-15
They are so adorable at bedtime! They both sit on Violet's bed for story time.
They each choose one or two books to read and are so excited and into the
books. They read along at times and fill in words they know. They point out
things in the pictures and laugh a lot! It's so much fun! When it's time to go
to sleep, Violet lies right down every night. She loves sleep like mama. Lily
always whines for one more book no matter how many we read. She usually takes a
few minutes to get settled and sometimes needs to rock or be sung to. Sweet
dreams, my darling daughters!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2-26-15
We asked if they had fun with Yia-Yia and what did they do. Lily said,
"EAT!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2-27-15 Violet loves sneaking my phone and
playing with the lock screen. It does little bubbles where you touch it and she
gets the biggest kick out of it! Then she swipes and unlocks it and really
starts laughing! It's hilarious! The only app I have for them right now is
toddler paint. They like to "color" on my phone. Lily likes to sit in
the ball pit and throw out all the purple balls! Today she got out and held up
two balls and said, "Purple balls!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My Valentine's Day flowers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet loves flowers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She wore her sunnies all through dinner!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1-4-15 Violet threw her
first strike with the bowling set they got from Jack for their birthday. She
waved her arms and screamed, then clapped her hands and screamed, and then
looked at me and said, “Yeah!” and gave me a huge hug!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet loves chocolate
chip pancakes!! Daddy makes them on Sunday mornings. She gets the chocolate all
over her face!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily has started asking “Why?
Why?” and saying “Help!” (Sounds like halp!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They love “cleaning” the
floor with the big flower. It's as tall as they are! They’ll put it upside down
and sweep and vacuum. Lily says, “I ceen up.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily gets so concerned
if you cry. “You ok mama? You ok?” Serious face and all. Also, she puts ie’s on
everything... silly goosie, bibbie, shoesies. Tonight Lily is rolling around on
the floor saying, “I funny! I funny, Mama!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet loves her
pennies! She counts them and puts them in her little bag or a cup and shakes
them up! Somehow one ended up in the bath with her too!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They both love their
dollies and strollers!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1-4-15 I thought I’d try
to play hide and seek with the girls. I started counting and covered my eyes
and they both stood up and looked at me weird. I thought maybe they’d had
played it at Mary’s. I guess not! Soon they started covering their eyes and
counting with me. I decided to be the one to hide then. I’d try to sneak away
before they noticed, but two year olds peek when they count! I did manage to
hide a few times. Once behind the table and once in the kitchen. They laughed
so hard when they found me! Then they’d shout, “Again, again!” If I managed to
sneak away before they could peek it was quite amusing! Once I hid in the front
living room. They couldn’t find me! They started saying, “Mama? Mama?” getting
more and more concerned! They were relieved when I popped out from my hiding
place!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1-6-15 Lily repeats
things until she knows it! Ryan said, “I'll give you a bubble bath tonight!”
She then exclaimed, “Bubble bath!" 17 times!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mary said that the girls
are so good at reading books and so expressive! They are always pointing to
things and making animal sounds. They were in the kitchen eating, and Mary was
in the other room reading Old MacDonald and asked what animal is that? Lily shouted,
“Cow!!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1-7-15 Violet still sits
on the potty almost every day. Today she sat right down and peed! Hooray! We
want every potty practice to be a positive experience! I give them mini M&M’s
if they sit without their diaper on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet wore her owl
sockies today. When she took off her shoes, she pointed to each sock and said,
“Owl, owl!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily's been saying “Love
it!" If you say, I love you, Lily, she says love it! She'll sing or make
something or draw something and ask you, love it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We've definitely had at
least one temper tantrum per day lately, but most don't last long and are
getting easier to deal with. She's so independent. If you are in her business,
trying to help with anything, she'll often freak out. Other times, much more
often than the tantrums, she's kind and sweet and helpful. She loves doing
things and getting things for all three of us and is still so lovey. Kisses and
hugs, but not too much snuggling! She's too busy for that!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1-13-15 I say, “Violet,
tell daddy thank you!" She says, “Gal-come!" (for you’re welcome!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1-14-15 Lily wanted to
watch a show, but I said that it's not working. She put out her bottom lip and
frowned. I did it too. She said, “No Mama, my do that."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Their mylar birthday
balloons are still floating. Violet points to them like she's never seen them
before, and says, “Elmo! Co-Co!" (for Cookie Monster).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1-16-15 They love seeing
buses when we drive home from Mary's house. They're always on the look out! They
ask me, “Another one?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They still love their
“lip” (chapstick) and can put it on themselves, but Violet likes putting it on
her cheek!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1-20-14 Lily makes a
pile-tower of magformers, takes a step back, throws her hands out to the side,
and says, “Ah-da!!" Ta da. Mary said that as soon as she says it's time
for yoga, Violet goes into down dog!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1-24-15 Violet loves
singing Twinkle Little Star. Her high little voice sounds so sweet!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1-27-15 Lily saying,
“Dolly, juuust right!" in bed tonight before she fell asleep. Violet was
hyper after dinner! She was singing and making her dog dance! She was lifting
up the lion and bear chairs and “vacuuming" with the big flower. They took
turns and Lily said, “I ceenin up!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I want to get them a little
broom set for Valentine's Day, maybe a little vacuum too!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1-28-15 The first thing
Lily told me this morning was, “Mama, my sleepy well me!" Violet still says
you're welcome when you tell her to say thank you. She says “gal-gome!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1-29-15 We took them to
the doctor today for their two-year-old well visit appointment. They did
great!!! They only had to take off their shoes this time for weighing. Violet
weighs exactly 20 pounds and Lily weighs 22.4 pounds! We had to undress them
down to their diapers and wait for Dr. Cox. They had some pink blanket/sheets
that we wrapped them up in and they thought that was so fun! Lily brought a
bear and Violet brought a doggy. When the doctor came in, they showed her their
dollies. We’ve been practicing doctor stuff with the doctor set Mary gave them
for their birthday. Dr. Cox showed them her little light and let them put their
finger on it to turn it red. Then she said, “My light has a hat!” She looked in
the doggy’s and bear’s ears, and then the girls. They had no problem with that!
With the stethoscope, she said, “Here’s some peas, strawberries, I hear some
oatmeal and blueberries!” as she listened to their heart and lungs. At the end
she said that only about 15% of kids this age let her look in their mouths and
usually they have an older sibling show them how to do it. First she looked at
Violet and she had her tongue out, but was wiggling her fingers on her tongue.
Then she looked at Lily and she had her tongue out ready for Dr. Cox! Then she
looked back to Violet and she had her tongue out too! After she looked at their
mouths, she said, “Wow, girls! High fives!” She only had good things to say
about the girls’ health! And lucky us, no shots this visit! Just a little check
for lead. She left and the girls played Peek-a-boo with the blanket/sheets
until the nurse came back in for the lead test. They got little Tweety Bird
band-aids and are lead-free. Yay! At home all afternoon, they both had one sock
on and one sock off so they could look at the birdy on their band-aids. I took
the whole day off and we just stayed home and played all day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1-31-15 Lily’s been
saying “sweet dreams!” to us today! The girls and I have had a cold the last
few days so I was lying on the couch. She came to me and said, “Sweet dreams,
Mama. Close eyes!” Then at bedtime she said it to both of us!</span><br />
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melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-40048339644408164032015-01-14T21:53:00.000-07:002015-01-22T20:47:25.187-07:00Happy Birthday!! We're TWO!!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>January 3, 2015 <span style="background-color: white;">Happy Birthday, Violet & Lily!!</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We had a very fun second birthday for the girls! For a
few days we’ve been singing Happy Birthday to get them excited and getting them
to say, “Two!” when we ask how old they are. Their birthday was on a Saturday
and we invited family and a few friends to come celebrate with us. On Friday I
took the girls to get birthday balloons and a few party supplies. Violet picked
the Sesame Street balloon with Elmo, Cookie, and Big Bird, and Lily picked the
Thomas balloon. I got 10 more colored balloons, so a dozen all together! The
only place they fit was in the back seat with the girls and they LOVED it! They
were laughing and kicking and hitting the balloons and pulling the strings. That night, Ryan
made chili and I made the carrot cake cupcakes! Yum, yum! I finished up making
the punching game too!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the morning, Ryan and I were rushing to get
everything ready. Before we knew it, it was 11 o’clock and our guests were
arriving. After everyone got here, we had the kids play the punching game. It
was so fun to watch! Little Violet made a good fist and punched right through
the tissue paper! They all ended up with a smiley face bracelet and a little
toy. Time for lunch! Grown-ups had chili and kiddies had sandwiches and finger
foods. I found some fun sandwich cookie cutters online so they had penguin and
elephant sandwiches! Everyone loved Ryan’s chili and the kids ate quite a bit
of food too. I had to cut up more apples and bananas! I wasn’t sure if we
should do cupcakes or presents first, and someone said presents so that’s what
we did. The girls got a lot of GREAT presents! With their birthday only a
little more than a week after Christmas it’s kind of hard to know what to get,
but they received wonderful, thoughtful gifts! Books, pajamas, bowling set,
hair accessories, keyboard and guitar, owl piggy banks, a few clothes, shoes,
puzzles, backpacks, Percy trains, Andrea sewed an amazing fishing game for them
to learn colors and numbers (it’s truly amazing!), but their absolute favorite
gifts were their baby dollies and strollers! My mom gave them the dolls and we
gave them the strollers. I knew to give them the strollers last because once
they had them, they were off! We still had to sing and eat cupcakes! We got
Violet back to the table ok, but Lily only wanted to play with her dolly and
stroller! She had a tantrum and Ryan held her near the table while we sang
Happy Birthday. She didn’t want to sit at the table or eat a cupcake! Violet blew
out her candles and loved her cupcake. She gobbled it up! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Soon our guests
started leaving, and everyone was gone at five to 1! We were so happy everyone came! It was a great group! In
addition to my family, Liz, Rusty, and Jack came, Sarah, Maddie, and Charlotte
came, and Kim and Amelia came. It was great to see everyone! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The girls had a
nice long nap, and then played with their new toys some more before we went to
dinner. We went to The Dodo, the same place we went on their birthday last
year! Afterwards, we stopped for gelato for one more birthday treat! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s amazing how much Violet and Lily have grown over
the past year! They are talking so much and are so smart! Every day they learn
something new, make us laugh, and remind us of how lucky we are to be their parents.
We love you little ladies!! Muah!</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After nap, we headed over to Yia-Yia’s house for our
Christmas Eve party. There were a lot of people and it was a lot of fun! My mom
throws great parties and cooks delicious food! Our favorites are her Italian
sausage and meatballs. They’re baked in her homemade pasta sauce and delicious
on a roll. There were quite a few kids because Ted’s grandkids came too. His
daughter’s boyfriend’s daughter was so sweet with the girls! She said, “Violet
is just like Cindy Lou Who!” which is so funny because we say that all the
time. The girls even point and say, “Violet!” when we watch the cartoon Grinch.
The girls loved looking at all of the beautiful presents under my mom’s little
tree. Before we knew it, it was time to go! The girls were excited about Santa
coming tonight!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Santa came! And it snowed!! The girls must have been
good this year! Santa brought new coats, mittens, shoes, coloring books and
crayons in a train box, and the big gift was train tracks with circus trains
and two Thomas trains! They got a bunch of smaller stuff on their stockings
like Thomas socks, maracas and whistles for their music set, “canny” m&m’s
in a candy cane, and a few other things. Santa found these cute owl and bird
bags and put a Burts Bees chapstick inside. They always want mama’s so I’m glad
they have their own now! Lily says, “Lip, Mama, lip,” when she wants some. We
gave the girls Magformers, a peg puzzle block train, a multi-sided puzzle, and
a little fishing game! Violet loves the fishing game! We knew she would. They
opened the presents from Mary and Val, too. They gave Violet the mouse from <i>If you Give a Mouse a Cookie</i> with the
book attached and Lily got the bear from <i>Brown
Bear, Brown Bear</i> with the book attached. The books are soft, made of
fabric. They are so cute! They’ll love snuggling with those! Mary knows them
well!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By 8:30 we were on our way to my dad’s house! We
decided to make it a jammy day and not get the girls dressed. We just didn’t
have time! We are happy we have four-wheel drive. When we got to my dad’s
street, Grandpa and Neil were stuck in the snow. Matt was trying to help and my
dad came out too. My dad started driving his car and almost ran over Ryan! He
fell and bruised his hip pretty badly. Eventually we all made it inside! The
girls and Addy helped pass out all the presents. We opened a few presents and
then went in to eat breakfast. Mindy set the table beautifully! We have our
traditional Christmas morning breakfast of frittata and Mindy bought pastries
from Gourmandise. We had mimosas made with hand squeezed orange juice! Mindy is
amazing!! After that we went back to the living room to finish opening
presents. The girls made a haul, of course! They got a mini-trampoline and sit
and spin thing. I gave everyone their blankets! I had everyone open them at the
same time and they loved them! Yay! Mindy liked her scarf I made too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Back at home, my mom came over and they got to open more
presents!! They got little leapfrog ABC laptop things and velvet track suits.
My mom loved her blanket! She wasn’t feeling well, so they didn’t stay too
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After lunch they were READY for a nap!!! We needed one
too! What a morning! It’s been so fun and the girls have loved every minute of
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last year, we didn’t really plan a nice dinner for
Christmas day. We didn’t make that mistake again! We brined a turkey the day
before and put it in the oven in the afternoon. We had asparagus, bread, and
gravy with our turkey. It was delicious! We hope to do the same every year. I
love new traditions! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One last Christmas gift for the girls, we put their
toddler rails on their cribs! We were really nervous, but it went very
smoothly! They don’t nap in cribs at Mary’s anymore, so they were used to it!
When we went back in to check on them, they were sleeping so peacefully, but in
awkward positions! Violet laid sideways with her head against Elmo, right on
the edge of the toddler rail. Her feet were sticking out the rails on the other
side! Lily was laying on top of all of her blankets. First night was a success!
We hope naptimes go just as well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All the cousins on Poppy's and Mindy's laps!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sweet cousins! Addy and Violet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yia-Yia and Ted gave us fun books!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ABC Laptops! Lily likes dancing to the music!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12-2-14 When I pick up the girls from Mary's, I ask
how was your day? Lily says, “Sammeli.” (Sammy, Eli) Who did you play with?
Sammeli. Any question about Mary's the answer is Sammeli! When we get home, she
pretends to talk on the phone. Sammeli.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They both say a rooster says, “Cock-a-doo!” Lily finds
the Grinch on the Dr. Seuss blanket and makes the Grinch face. If we watch The
Grinch, they both make the Grinch face! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love how Violet scrunches up her eyes and nose when
she laughs. It’s so cute!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12-3-14 I have the sweetest, funniest girls! Violet
had owls on her sockies and she would look down, say "Whooooo," look at me with a
surprised face like she didn't know there were owls on her socks, and then
smile her giggly, scrunchy smile! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily is always the last one sitting at the
table. She is sloooow like daddy and she doesn't want to get down! She'll often
sit there a while with daddy even though she's done eating (or not done)!!
Then, she leans her head all the way to one side to see me in the living room and
says, “Hi Mama!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12-5-14 Violet peed on the potty!!!! We were all so
excited and jumping around! All night, we said, who went pee-pee on the potty?
Lily said, “Sissy!!” and Violet smiled her proud smile! She was dry when we got
home this afternoon, so I sat her down. She read the special bathroom books and
when she stood up, there it was! Wahoo!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12-6-14 Daddy's been gone for work the last 2 days,
but he's coming home tonight! Yay! The girls have asked about him a few times.
I’m glad it’s only a short trip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Earlier today we went to see Santa at Jack's house.
They wanted nothing to do with him! (Yesterday we saw Santa at Discovery
Gateway and it took them a while to even look at him!) Jack’s parents throw a
fun party. It’s too bad Ryan wasn’t there too! He has an epic playroom so they
were plenty busy. At one point I looked up and saw Margaret, the girls’
dietician! She’s been a neighbor to Rusty’s family (Jack’s daddy) for years! It
was great to see her and catch up. She said the girls look great and healthy!
When it was time to eat, despite all the toys, the girls sat at the kiddie
table and ate lunch. Of course Margaret noticed how well they ate! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That night the girls and I went to dinner with Demi
and Danny at a pizza place in Sugar House. It was a lot of fun and the girls
behaved and ate well. It’s nice when restaurants provide crayons and something
to color on, but if not, I’m always prepared! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12-10-14 When I picked up the girls this afternoon, Mary
gave them a nice compliment. She said that she loves how the girls are so good
at exploring their toys, and playing with musical instruments. They’re always
reading books or playing with blocks and they love the tricycle outside. It was
nice to hear they play so nice and are inquisitive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily dumps the blocks out of the bucket and puts it on
her head. Then she comes to me and says, “Knock,” and I do and say, “Who is
it?” She pushes up the bucket and says, “Lily!!!” Violet likes to play that
game too! They also like us to tie blankets on their heads like old lady
scarves. It’s actually pretty sweet!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12-13-14 This is going to be the last sequential date
in our lifetime! Kind of neat!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We went to see Santa at Trolley Square. The line was a
little long so we walked around a bit first, looking at the craft market they
have there this time of year. We were upstairs looking down and we were talking
about Santa and how the kids are so happy sitting on his lap. We asked if they
wanted to go down and sit on his lap. They said, Yeah! When we got down there,
we had to wait in a short line and we kept saying, “Look at the little girl!
She’s sitting on Santa’s lap! Is she happy? (yeah) Is she crying? (no)” When it
was our turn, did they want to sit on Santa’s lap? NO! They wanted to climb
into his sleigh, but not sit with him! We got a few pictures standing near
Santa. He said that kids don’t really like sitting on his lap at this age,
until they’re 27 months. I guess he would know!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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night. Violet was protecting Lily from a boy stealing her balloon. She was whacking
him with both of her balloons, and shouting, “Noooooo!” hahahaha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12-15-14 Lily grabbed some of my yarn and said, “Come
on sting (string)!” She was pulling on it and getting frustrated because it was
caught and then she was just pulling on a short length of it and getting
frustrated that the rest wasn’t moving! I was laughing so hard!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12-16-14 They are both starting to sing <i>Somewhere Over the Rainbow</i> with me. It's
the sweetest thing ever! They'll sing meeee or hiiiigh. They love being rocked
and sung to at bedtime now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are many things I want to record: reading <i>123 to the Zoo</i>, reading th Elmo pet book
with hidden sheep (they point to the sheep and belt out baa, baa, baa!), bath
time, how quick they are going up and down the stairs, and doing their favorite
puzzles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12-19-14 They made jingle bell bracelets at Mary's
today. They love them, especially Violet who put them all on one arm! They were
singing Jingle Bells pretty good with me too. I guess they were practicing it
all day at Mary’s!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12-20-14 They love singing!!! They sing anything with me
all the time. They catch on to the last sound of the line and then sing it.
Violet often hums along with her thumb in her mouth. Silly girl! They'll sing
anything with me, but especially love Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Jingle Bells,
Twinkle Twinkle (Lily requests that one), Doggy in the Window, Wheels on the Bus
(Lily says, "Move on back!" and Violet says, "Beep, beep!"). Lily belts out
“someWHEEEERE over the rainBOOOWW,” and closes her eyes and shakes her head a little. She really gets into it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">12-23-14 Lily will do something silly, like stuff her
doggy in her dollhouse, then say, “Ta, mama!" (Ta da!) </span><span style="background-color: white;">They are so different at breakfast. Violet eats one
puff at a time and bites them in half with her front teeth first. Lily grabs a
handful and stuffs them in her mouth. They love the purple berry puffs the
best!</span></span><br />
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something a lot. (Daddy sometimes does that too!) Sings “Happy!!” (Pharrell
Williams song)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12-26-14 <span style="line-height: 115%;">Since
it snowed yesterday we’ve been dying to go outside! After nap we got all
bundled up to go outside and play in the snow! They loved it! They ran around
and Daddy built a snowman! The girls had fun with Bella and then it started to
get dark. Time to go in, but no, they laid down and made snow angels! Did they
really know that’s what they were doing? Probably not, but it was so cute to
see them laying in the snow together, giggling!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12-27-14 Happy Birthday, Ryan! After breakfast we went
to the Natural History Museum! We always start at the top and make our way
down. After we left the Native Voices room, Ryan said, “There’s Ty Burrell.” He’s
Phil in Modern Family and we love that show! We knew he lived in Salt Lake, but
didn’t expect to ever see him. He was there with his family so we didn’t bother
them at all; we just went around the museum like they were any other family. It’s
funny because we pretty much went through the whole museum with them. Sometimes
we were ahead of them, and sometimes they were ahead of us. At the end I thought
I should ask for an autograph because I’d regret it if I didn’t! He happily
signed Ryan’s ticket and told him “Happy Birthday!” We went to have a yummy
lunch at Toasters and then headed home to get the girls down for nap. Ryan chose
to go to Bombay House for dinner. We stopped at Nordstrom Rack on the way and
Ryan found the boots he was looking for! Yay! At dinner, the girls were really
good and Lily ate soooo much! She loves the veggie biryani! After I put the
leftovers in the box, she got the big spoon and cleaned the rest of the sauce
out of the bowl! She would have kept going if we would have let her! Overall,
Daddy had a lovely 33<sup>rd</sup> birthday! We love you!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12-28-14 Violet must have rolled out of bed onto the
pillow and then onto the floor. When we went to bed she was all curled up on
the floor. I picked her up and put her in bed. I love them in their toddler
beds now. I can give them kisses when they are asleep!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We’ll be sad when we have to take the tree down. Probably
after their birthday. The girls love the tree, and so do I. They say, “Tee on!”
for us to turn on the lights, and at night they say, “Bye, tee!” Violet
carefully pulls the soft bird ornaments off the tree and wears them on her
wrists like bracelets. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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11-1-14 When Lily hears Bella
barking she says, “Bella, Poopy Bella.” Once she saw Ryan scooping in the back
Bella has her new name! My dad and Mindy came over today. Lily calls him Poppy
which is very cute. After they left, Violet got the hiccups. I said, “Where’d
you get those hiccups, Violet?” Lily said, “Poppy.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Violet stopped biting, which is a
relief! Lily says a lot of words with the /u/ sound, like pullow and Bulla. She
says, “Bulla barkin’!” They now do raspberries for the bee sound! It’s so
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All of their incisors are coming in! Eight new teeth
all together!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11-3-14 In the morning we can hear the girls singing with each
other while in their cribs waiting for Daddy. Violet loves her new coat and her
new jammies! She loves putting her hands in her pockets! Lily has to have her
hood on when she has her jacket or coat on. She says, “Hood, mama,” and, “Zip.”
They use the Halloween baskets/bags Mary gave them as hats and they can barely
see! They also put their dollies in them and carry them around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">They have grown out of their jammies and are ready for the next
size: 18 months. We have lots of fleece ones from Quincy that are sooo cute!
Violet wore the leopard print one that has a hood, pocket, and little cat ears.
She came up to me with her hands in her pocket and said, meow!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11-4-14 Lily won't hug Ryan when he gets home until he takes off
his jacket. She says, “Daddy, jacky.” If he picks her up she'll hold her arms
stiff so he can't hug her. As soon as the jacket is off, he gets a big hug!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11-5-14 Violet is a great little yogi! She does a beautiful
downward dog. Lily does the splits and pretty much goes all the way to the
ground. Yoga babies!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11-7-14 We've been reading Dr. Seuss' The Eye Book and one page
has a man on it. They always say, “Daddy!” and point to the picture, then to
Ryan. It's funny because it is a picture of an old black man with a white
beard!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11-8-14 Lily is so funny in the morning. Ryan gets her up and
changed then she comes to our room to say hi to me. She says, “Lip,” for some
chapstick, and, “Sleepy, me,” so she can pretend she’s sleeping in our bed. She
won’t cuddle with me at all. I can’t even touch her without a, “NO, Mama!” She
has to lay on Ryan’s pillow, too. Then Violet walks in with her hand in her
pocket, hood on, and her thumb in her mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Lily likes putting her blocks in a straight line. Her new favorite
phrase is, “Look, mama!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The burp cloths that were put away in a basket are now blankets
for their dolls. They’re the perfect size for sleepy Elmo!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Violet is so funny at restaurants. She’s always busy watching
people and smiling at them. She’s a little flirt! We had gelato after dinner at
Settebello tonight. The girls were hilarious! I wish I would have been able to
record it! They have wide, benches at Capo and the girls were busy getting up
and down until they had a taste. Then they were on their tummies with their
mouths open as wide as they could go. They reminded me of baby birds. Violet
would shake a little bit too! It was so funny! Usually Lily is jabbering about
something nonstop, but as soon as she swallowed her mouth was open again as
wide as it would go! She didn’t make a peep!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11-10-14 Lily counts to 2! One, two!!! Tonight Violet told Lily to
sit down! She did. :) It’s usually Lily doing all of the talking and telling
all of us what to do!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11-12-14 I made some yummy roasted zucchini and squash to go with
our pasta tonight. I hid one of each color under their noodles and sauce. We
asked if they can find the yellow one or the green one. They didn’t get it at
first, but then they loved it and wanted more!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11-13-14 Violet has been sitting on the potty!! At first we'd just
pull down her pants, but the last few days she's had her diaper off too! No
action yet, but she loves sitting on the potty and reading her special sound
books!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11-15-14 Violet throws a ball really well! She loves throwing it
back and forth with you. Lily is so silly. She puts her stuffed animals on her
head in the car then says, turtle hat, monkey hat, or doggy hat!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11-19-14 Violet has been our little wrestler the last few days!
She loves piling on top of Lily! They laugh, run to the pillows, and then
either fall down next to each other or on top of each other! Lily loves to get
her bag or basket and then say, “Bye! I shoppin!" They love puzzles,
blocks, balls, books, dollies, and cooking in their kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11-23-14 Violet is counting to two, too! Sometimes they both count
to three!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11-26-14 Violet says I love you, “Ahloo.” She likes to sit on my
lap at night and help me crochet. She holds the end of the hook while I am
crocheting or she'll hold the hook side and poke the other end in and out of
the blanket. I was raking leaves after I picked them up from Mary's today. They
loved running through the piles. Lily picked up leaves and threw them in the
air. Violet sat down in the middle of the pile looking at individual leaves and
then I looked over and she was laying in the leaves on her tummy! So fun!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11-27-14 Thanksgiving was really fun this year! We went to my dad’s
and Mindy set the table beautifully! The food was all delicious and the girls
ate well and had a great time. Mindy brought construction paper and we made
feather hats for the girls. They were so cute!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">11-29-14 </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Lily proclaimed it an “Elmo Socky Day" today!! Violet woke
early from nap and talked a ton, lied on her tummy playing with the doll house,
chatting away!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We bought a Christmas tree today! We got it from the
family from Montana that sells them at the Nibley Park Golf Course. I love our
tree! It’s beautiful! We chose one that isn’t as full as most trees. I didn’t
think to ask what kind it is though. It smells so good too! We turned on
Christmas music and the girls danced around while we got it all set up and
plugged in the lights. The girls loved it, especially Violet! They helped us
put on the ornaments and were able to put on the candy canes by themselves. When
we were done, we went in to watch “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and Violet
went back to look at the pretty tree again. We have the baby gates up still so
they can’t go right up to it unless we lift them over it, so Violet was
standing at the gate gazing at the pretty lights on the tree. So sweet! We put
on the cartoon version of the Grinch and they loved it! They were so into it!
We remembered putting it on last year and they couldn’t care less. Lily made
the Grinchy face and Violet kept saying, “Uh-oh,” when things were going wrong.
She was very concerned about Max! Violet is just like Cindy Lou-Who with her
blonde hair, blue eyes, and mousy little voice. I said, “Is that Violet?” and
Lily said, “Ya.” Then I asked, “Violet, is that you?” and she said, “Ya,” and
smiled. They watched the whole thing and didn’t want to go to bed! Then they
both wanted to look at the tree some more instead of going to bed! We are
definitely in the Christmas spirit now! Tomorrow we will put up their
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mouse to find on each page. She roars like a lion, but it sounds like the noise
you'd make for static! She wants to read it over and over again! Lily says “pillow”
and “blankey” now and takes them to various places to go night-night! She lays
still for about 5 seconds before she's up and moving again! She says pullow. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-3-14 Lily yells,
DADDY! When she needs him or when he walks in the other room. It's like she's
singing it, DAD-DEEEE! And she’s soooo loud! haha<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-4-14 Our sweet
cousin, Abi, lost her battle with cancer this morning. We are heartbroken. She
will never be forgotton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-6-14 Violet is so
funny when she's really happy. She'll get so excited that she'll shake! She has
done this with her doggy in her mouth and tonight it was at The Dodo restaurant
with a crayon in each hand! She's also done it when she finds a particularly
great flower or leaf. It cracks me up!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-7-14 Lily is a parrot!
She copied me saying damn! Not just once, but 4 times!!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily loved the Indian
food tonight! She's doing really well with a spoon!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-8-14 We can't believe
how many words the girls know, especially Lily! We started writing them all
down and Lily knows 115 words and Violet knows 55!! Lily is a chatter box and
is ALWAYS talking. Violet knows a lot of words but doesn't say them all day
long like Lily so it was harder to get a count on hers. Lily knows quite a few
phrases, the funniest being “it's working" or “it's not working" and
she's always touching the bottom right corner of the TV. I asked Mary if she
picked it up there. Yep. If the TV remote isn't working the kids tell Mary that
then she turns it on (it's up where the kids can't reach) and tells them it's
working. Mary thought it was so funny that Lily picked up on that! Violet knows
a lot that Lily knows plus a few that are her own words. She says elephant and
the snake sound, hiss, and Julian from Olivia. Oh yeah, she also says off, as
in take off my special thumb bracelet because I want to suck my thumb! Lily
tries to say Hoggenmuller, the teacher in Olivia. It's pretty funny! They are
learning new words every single day!!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-10-14 Lily is so
funny with the cat ears headbands we got at Target. She puts them on her eyes
like glasses and walks around! Violet is always finding the smallest fuzz or
little piece of grass on the floor, picks it up with thumb and finger, then
brings it to me. Thank you, Violet! She pays so much attention to details!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-11-14 Violet got
Lily's jacket for her. We said, “Lily, tell Violet thank you!" She said,
“You're welcome me."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We went to The Tracy Aviary
after nap. There was a little hay maze and the girls loved it! Violet tried to
pick up every pumpkin in the maze. Lily ran around like a wild woman! Great
fun! There were stuffed scarecrows that you can sit and pose with and the girls
weren’t scared of them at all. They kept looking at their pumpkin heads with a
confused look on their faces.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-13-14 My mom watched
the girls today and they had a great time! She brought the dress up bag and
they got to be Hawaiian princesses today! They must have had a lot of fun
because Violet was so hyper all afternoon! She was playing with Lily and kept
saying Lily, Lily in her sweet voice! Lily was saying, “I got it!" when my
mom was here. We went out to swing and we saw a cool bug, probably a beetle, on
the slide. They were both fascinated by it!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-17-14 Lily has been
saying “Here you go" to everyone. It's so cute! Violet has been saying
“Lily!" in her high, sweet voice. Sometimes it's when they're playing, sometimes
it's when she's upset, usually because of Lily. Violet will walk around and
sing quietly to herself. It's so sweet!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-18-14 We went to a
Halloween party at Nina's house. The girls were Elmos and everyone loved their
costumes! They had a keyboard on their fireplace mantle that was the perfect
height for them. Violet was in love with it! She was having so much fun and dancing
to the music she was playing. She was bending her knees and bouncing around!
Lily came over and liked playing the piano too! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-20-14 I had the day
off, well my last of 6 days off, and I wanted to do something special. At first
I thought the park, and then I thought, “We do that all the time.” I took them
to the zoo instead! It was mostly a lot of fun! We saw the lions at the perfect
time. The trainers were giving them a check up on the other side of the fence.
We were all in awe at the lions when they went on their hind legs! Those are
some big cats! When we went over to the polar bear area, I let them out to walk
a little. Lily just wanted to push the stroller! I have these great handles for
them to hold on to when walking next to the stroller and Violet did a great job
holding on to it and walking! It’s great because I have a hard time pushing the
stroller and holding their hands. The bad part is that Lily didn’t want to get
back in the stroller. She had a fit or two when we got to the hill to go see
the tigers. Before we left, I wanted to take them on the train. I brought one
of the carriers so I could strap one on and then hold the other sitting next to
me. Violet loves the carrier so I strapped her on facing out. Lily was so upset
when we didn’t make the first train. She was starting to get kind of cranky and
tired. I thought we were going to miss the next train too, but there was one
bench left so we got it! Lily did not want me to hold on to her at all on the
train! Of course I did, but she wasn’t happy, that little stinker! Next time
we’ll do the train first before they’re tired, but overall it was a fun morning
and I’m glad I tried out taking them to the zoo myself!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-21-14 Violet calls
all crayons “lellow" and roars (her static lion sound) like a dinosaur.
Lily is so independent. She can put her own shoes on and is really good at
eating with a spoon. They are both pretty good at cleaning up and putting
things away. I think we might try out the toddler rails on their beds soon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-25-14 We went to a pumpkin
patch this morning! It was really fun! There were rows and rows of pumpkins.
Violet kept saying, “Apples! Apples!” Lily walked around with a purpose like
she was searching for the perfect “punkin.” Soon she was pushing the
wheelbarrow. We bought two toddler sized pumpkins that the girls picked out.
Mama picked a cool white pumpkin (I’ve never seen one before!), and Daddy
bought a dark orange, almost red, flat pumpkin! Once the pumpkins were in the
wheelbarrow, the girls had to get in to! When we left, we drove around
Farmington Bay a saw a bunch of awesome birds and a few big bullfrogs. We had a
very busy and fun morning. As Lily says, “Busy day!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After nap, we put on their
Elmo costumes to take some pictures outside. They are soooo adorable in their
costumes! They really look like little Elmos running around. We went to
Charlotte’s second birthday party and then to Kristi’s house for the India reunion
party. It was so fun to see most of the people we traveled to India with! The
girls were in my tummy at the time! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet calls every
pumpkin she sees apple! There are a lot of little pumpkins around and pumpkin
decorations. She points every one of them out and says, “Apple!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-27-14 Violet has been
biting. Mostly she’s biting Lily. Let’s hope this is a short phase! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet loves wearing the
teething necklace I used to wear when they were little. She puts it on as soon
as she wakes up or as soon as we get home. It has a quick-release closure so I
feel ok with her wearing it all the time. She’s a very fashionable girl! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The girls have been playing
together so much lately! They make each other tea, cook in their kitchen
together, throw the balls back and forth, and love stacking blocks together. It
just melts my heart to see them play so sweetly together. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-28-14 They can go up
and down stairs only holding on to the railing now! We like holding their hands
unless Lily says, “No help!" She's so independent! Her bottom left incisor
is coming in and Violet's bottom right is coming in. We are so excited for
Halloween! I’m thinking about bringing them to my school for the parade!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We decided to wait on
putting up the toddler rails in their cribs. They’re not trying to get out
anymore! We’ll keep the pillows on the floor around the crib though. We’ll wait
on potty training too. Sometimes they seem ready, sometimes they don’t! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-29-14 They are so
funny! They pick up so much cute stuff from daycare. Now when we say, “Let’s go
to the table for dinner.” They say, “Me!!” and raise their hands! They’ll do
that for other things too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-30-14 Lily took the
last step down with no hands today! She was so focused on getting where she
wanted to go that she didn’t even realize she wasn’t holding on to anything!
She’s also saying sentences like, “No mama, not Lily turn!” when it’s her turn
for a diaper change. She’s been saying, “Book sit, book sit,” when she wants to
read a book. It took us about a day to figure that one out. It sounds a lot
like bullshit!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10-31-14 It’s Halloween!!!
We had a super-fun day today! As Lily would say, “Busy day!” First Daddy
brought the girls to my work and they stayed for the parade. I took them to
Mary’s and they had a blast with their friends eating donuts and playing all
day! At home, the trick-or-treaters starting coming before Daddy even got home
from work. We ate some chili and then went out trick-or-treating! We went to
our new neighbors first and they did great with knocking on the door. They got
their candies and then wanted to go inside! They did that at the second house
too and after that they got the hang of it! After the first house, Lily stopped
to look in her bag. She took out the candy with a look of, “what is this?” on
her face! Priceless! They had so much fun walking up the stairs, knocking on
the doors, and getting their treats! Everyone loved seeing two cute little
Elmos! Before we were done they both stopped on the sidewalk and started taking
everything out of their bags! Once we got home, they dumped everything out of
their bags and then put it in and then dumped it out again! We gave them their
first sucker and they loved it!!! Their reactions were so funny! Violet was
super-hyper and kept putting her sticky sucker back in her bag. Lily pretty
much devoured hers and wanted another one. They are so funny! They ran to the
door when the doorbell rang and greeted the trick-or-treaters. When it was
bedtime, they were at the banister looking down and smiling at the
trick-or-treaters. What a fun, busy day!</span><span style="font-family: Segoe UI, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9-1-14 The girls are getting really good at walking up and down stairs by just holding on to the vertical railings! It's nice that I don't have to take two trips carrying them very often!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9-2-14 Violet is definitely teething, but I can't tell which teeth are coming in. She's been chewing on her fingers, has had a small appetite, and a fever. Lily might be teething too; she's a little crankier than usual. Poor things! It must really hurt!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On our nightly walk up and down the street, Lily has been stopping, turning around, and walking backwards! It's so funny! She'll go a few feet and then turn around and go forward. Now she says, walk!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9-3-14 Lily says “I la la!" for I love you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I just found out our girls are sororal twins! "Sororal Twins" is another and more accurate term for fraternal girl twins. Sororal stemming from the Latin word “soror”, meaning “sister”, where fraternal stems from “frat”, meaning “boy” in Latin. I think it sounds nicer too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9-5-14 Opa! We went to the Greek festival tonight! The girls ate really well! They ate chicken souvlaki right off the stick! They loved watching the dancing and would dance right along with the music. After we ate, we walked around a little and Lily wanted to help push the stroller. Suddenly, it feels different and I looked down to see Lily hanging on to the stroller, but being dragged! Luckily it was just a few steps. She wasn't crying at all! It's a good thing she didn't let go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The girls have been saying things are "hot" and they don't want to eat them. Now we say, "Blow on it!" and they do then eat it right up! I'm glad that works!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9-10-14 They love chasing each other around the column by the living room and the front door. They giggle and smile! I love hearing them play together and laugh together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9-12-14 Violet was talking to Lily today. I can only understand a few words, but Lily must really understand her because she kept saying, “ya."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9-15-14 Daddy was playing with the girls and Lily said, “Silly Daddy!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We usually wash the girls together in the tub, but tonight Ryan washed Lily first. While they were upstairs, Violet was cooking me all sorts of stuff in her kitchen! She was talking up a storm and bringing me mushrooms, cabbage, apples, and a drink. It's so cute to see her walk over to the little cabinet and squat down to find her play food. Then she tries to balance it on a plate and laughs when it falls off. She bends over and grunts while she's reaching for it. When it was Violet's turn for a bath, I gave Lily two books to read in her crib. When I came back 5 minutes later, she had the Olivia book open and she had her head resting on it with The Going to Bed Book under her arm! She stood up and I read her </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Going to Bed Book. It has a nice rhythm and she was rocking back and forth. Then she read her Olivia book again before she went to sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They loooove books! In the car! On daddy's lap! After work with mama! At bedtime! Books! Books! Books!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9-18-14 The Happy song by Pharrel Williams came on and the girls loved it! They were dancing and singing Happyyyy. Lily kept singing happyyyy the rest of the day! (and weeks later!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9-20-14 Violet has been saying “Ya" a lot like Lily does! Lily says “I want more!" all the time! It sounds like “ahwah more!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9-24-14 Lily is quite the character! She can now pull a chair out and sit up at the table. She wanted her water and said wawa. Ryan said it's on the table (their little table), and she sighed ah. She got down, pushed in the big chair, got her water and took a drink, put it back on the table, back to pull out the big chair again, and then sat on it at the dining room table!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the mornings she'll get her clothes when daddy says it's time to get dressed and then sit down in front of him and flops back! Ryan has to catch her! When it's Violet's turn, Lily kisses her head! If I'm standing in the kitchen she'll come up to me and kiss each of my legs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet gets so hyper at night! It's hard to describe, but she goes a little crazy! She jabbers and climbs up her slide, and giggles like crazy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stairs.....oh my, they're getting fast! Up and down. If they want to go really fast, they'll snake down backwards on their t</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9-25-14 My mom watched the girls again today. They had so much fun! She brought jewelry for dress up that they loved! This afternoon BOTH girls started saying “mine!" Uh-oh. Yia-yia said she didn't teach them that! Lily started saying “why" and daddy admits to teaching her that one! Violet says “book" all the time because she loves reading!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9-27-14 I was sitting on the couch crocheting when Violet came over to sit with me. She was happy sitting on my lap watching me work and then she grabbed my hook and dropped it between the couch cushions. I said, "Shit Violet!" and I hear it again from Lily across the room! Uh-oh, we now have a parrot on our hands. We better watch what we say! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was a rainy Saturday so we went to the big library downtown for some new books. I was happy because I was one of the winners for the summer reading program and won a gift card to the Natural History Museum. We went downstairs to the children's section and Violet was super excited! She started squealing in excitement to see all of those books!! It was so sweet! We read and then checked out a sack full of board books to take home. We often go to the library near us, but it was such a different experience going to the big one and riding the glass elevators. What a perfect rainy day outing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9-28-14 We went swimming today at the rec center! The girls had a great time! They've got a nice kiddie area that's shallow and fun for the girls to play around in. There were only about 5 other people there other than the water aerobics people. Sunday morning is a great time to go to the pool! Violet loved playing in the bubble/water jet things and Lily loved being chased by Daddy and going down the hippo slide! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet started saying no today! Ahhh!!! The girls were making the funniest faces at dinner tonight! I love it when they're being silly girls! Even though I thought they were teething earlier in the month, no new teeth have come in. I think I can see some getting close though. I hope when they do come in, they come in quickly. I'm sure that really hurts!</span><br />
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melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-70136351021260914962014-10-07T20:01:00.000-06:002014-10-07T20:01:55.906-06:00Great sadness<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My sweet cousin, Abi, has been battling brain cancer for over a year. Things were looking better, but then an MRI showed that the tumor was growing and spreading to other parts of her brain and her spine. After many chemo and radiation treatments, ups, downs, hopes and fears, Abi earned her angel wings this past Saturday morning. She will be greatly missed. It's hard to understand why this happens to a young girl, but I'm glad she no longer has to suffer and be in pain. That's just too much for a ten year old to bear. From Abi's diagnosis until now, I try not to, but can't help thinking of my own precious girls. I know I can't think about the "what ifs" and I need to focus on the fact that they are healthy and happy and growing. My heart aches for Abi's parents, grandmother (my great aunt), and her little sister. Even though I'm not religious, I strongly believe we will be with our loved ones after we die. As my friend said to me, "There's either nothing or there's something. If there's nothing, we won't know. If there's something, it's got to be good." I hope it's more than good for you, Abi. We miss you and love you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-65299893512107914472014-09-06T22:44:00.002-06:002014-09-06T22:44:40.367-06:00Sometimes I'm crafty<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've always loved projects. I stayed busy with my girls all summer, but I think I was missing something for me. I needed my brain to be working a bit harder. I read a TON of books this summer, some really good ones too (<i>The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry</i> was my favorite), but I just needed something else. I needed a project or two. Lately I've been working on a few that I'm really excited about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I started making a growth chart for the girls a while ago and I made a lot of progress on it this summer. I stitched the numbers and the measurements in black thread that I got from my Grandma Joyce (she loved working on projects too). I wrote their names out on paper first, in cursive, and then traced it on the fabric. Then I stitched their names. I love how they turned out! My next step is to sew up the sides, hang it with a dowel, and then add a whole bunch of crocheted flowers up the entire chart. I have about a dozen flowers done and I'll be able to attach them as I make them. In my mind it looks awesome, but it's not quite there yet. I think I'm going to buy some oval shaped wooden buttons for writing their heights and ages, then I can sew them on as they grow. I found a bunch of fun colors of yarn, I just need to get those flowers made!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I found some really soft, chunky yarn and thought, "I should make a blanket out of this!" Well, I ended up making TWO blankets so they can each have one! It's only been the last few months that I've been getting back into crochet. I think the flowers for the growth chart got me hooked. Ha! Hooked! (You crochet with a hook, in case you didn't know.) I've never crocheted granny squares, but wanted to try them. I ended up going a little crazy and now I'm making two blankets! I have all of my squares finished, and I finished sewing one together today. Now it needs a border. I'm very excited to be done with these and hope the girls love them for many years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm just barely starting another blanket, but this one I'm going to take it slow, especially now that I'm back in school. I bought a crochet book a while ago that has really helped me with stitches and techniques. I made some funky coasters from the book and I've always wanted to make the blanket (afghan) on the cover. It's similar to granny squares, but the shape of the "squares" are hexagons. I found some amazing acrylic/wool blend yarn that I absolutely love. The colors are so vibrant and just perfect for this project. It's called Sheep(ish) since it's 30% wool. What a fun name! The colors are red(ish), plum(ish), robin egg(ish), etc. I've made two hexagons so far and I can't wait to make more. I'm going to try not to get too obsessed and rush. It's actually quite relaxing to work on these after the girls have gone to bed and Ryan and I are just chillin on the couch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now my mind is going crazy with other project ideas: scarves, gloves (with that sheep(ish) yarn!), baskets, pillows, gifts. We had a funny idea that I should crochet a cactus and take it to my class. I should have students "water" it and every few weeks make it "grow" and even add a cactus flower one day. It could be pretty hilarious, especially if they buy into it as a "magic" cactus. Maybe they're too old to have fun with that, but it might be fun to try!</span></div>
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melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-81639413090569793902014-09-06T21:05:00.001-06:002014-09-06T22:48:19.936-06:00August 2014 - 19 months old<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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over! We’ve spent so much time together, and it will be hard to adjust to going
back to work. We’ve spent many mornings at Liberty Park walking and swinging,
and we’ve visited the Tracy Aviary and Hogle Zoo several times. We’ve visited
Great Grandpa Jay a few times, too. We’ve been to the aquarium and went on a
few hikes. We’ve played outside and gone on walks. We’ve been going to the
library every Wednesday for Book Baby/Toddler Time. I will miss doing all of
these fun things together, but will look forward to spending quality time
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-1-14 When we went to
check on the girls before we went to bed, Lily was lying on her back on all her
stuffed animals and she was up against the side of her crib with her arm out. I
moved the animals and Ryan touched her hand to move it. Lily opened her eyes,
clapped her hands, said, “Yaaayyy!" and then went right back to sleep!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-3-14 We scheduled our
pictures to be taken this afternoon in the mountains. The skies were dark and
as we were taking the first family shot, it started raining! It didn't let up
so we went to Murray Park instead. We had so much fun! Violet had to hold a
flower, in fact every time we are outside she looks for flowers! At one point
Lily had a flower too, and when she was done with it she dropped it and stepped
on it! We hope the pictures turn out!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-5-14 We love playing
with the chunky Lego blocks! We have a base with wheels and they stack the
blocks as high as they can. Then they say, “Choo choo!” Violet especially loves
the blocks and says, “I did it!" every time she adds a block! Lily loves
dumping the blocks out of the bag! Luckily they both help clean up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-7-14 They are talking
so much! Lily says Bu-bu for blueberries, and Violet says Uh-puh for up. Lily's
good with animal sounds. She says Mau for cats, moo for cows, and woof for
dogs. She says Bi-bet for Violet. Also cookie, Ah-no for I don't know (or Oh
no), hat, pees for please. Violet says down, and she'll try to say a lot of
words if you ask her. She gets really close on them too! She's said thank you,
bird, flower, and she says woof every time we see a dog! Both say all done,
swing, outside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Park again to play with Grandma and Caryn and the kids. Violet found the one
dried leaf on the playground and held it the whole time!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-12-14 Violet said “I
love you" today! It was so sweet! I just got them home from Mary's and I
told the girls that I was happy they were home and I love them, then Violet
said I love you in her sweet little voice. Before we got in the car at Mary's,
I asked how their day was and Lily immediately started jibber jabbing away in
baby language! I said, “Really!?" And she just gabbed some more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet has been talking
so much! A lot of it is jibberish, but even that is more frequent now. We've
been putting her thumb bracelet on so her mouth is freed up to try new words!
Lily has been cracking us up, as usual. She’s talking up a storm, and dancing.
When she dances she tilts her head to one side, looks slightly down, and spins
in circles. Sometimes her hands are behind her back. It’s adorable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-13-14 I've been
reading a little about potty training lately and found it interesting that many
cultures train for poop first because people usually go at about the same time
every day. When we got home this afternoon, Lily hadn't gone yet so I thought
I'd try it. I stripped her from the waist down and brought her potty out to the
main, uncarpeted area. She was eager to sit on it, which is great because she
hasn't been interested for a few weeks. I had a bunch of new books from the
library that kept her engaged. Violet sat on her potty a little bit too! The
last book was a train book and they LOVED it! I read it three times in a row!
There's a big picture of the conductor on one of the first pages and Lily kept
going to that page shouting ductor! By this time I was making dinner, she'd
been there on the potty about 30 minutes, but still happy about it. She kept
kissing the conductor and it was so cute! I grabbed the camera and was
recording when Ryan got home from work. She stood up and we were surprised to
see a lot of pee pee in the potty!! Yay, go Lily!! She was so proud of herself
and we were very proud too! She sat on there with daddy a little longer, but
still no poop. Ryan and I talked tonight and decided we're going to try
training her over the next few days, at least for daytime. It would be crazy to
train them both at the same time so we're glad Violet isn't quite ready,
although she is comfortable sitting on the potty which is a good sign. We have
the girls' 18 month appointment tomorrow so we might ask the doctor what she
thinks, although we might change our minds considering our experience with her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been wearing her bracelet most of the time, and I've noticed that when she's
not wearing it I can tell her to take her thumb out and she will. I think she
doesn't even realize she's sucking it so the bracelet has helped her do other
things. She's still talking a ton and said I love you again tonight, this time
to Lily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-14-14 This morning
Lily was not interested in sitting on the potty. We went to the girls' 18 month
appointment and the doctor thinks they are doing really well! Violet weighs 18
lb. 5 oz. and Lily weighs 19 lb. 10 oz. Violet is a half inch taller than Lily!
It's funny that Lily was taller when they were born, then Violet passed her up,
then Lily was taller again for a while, and now Violet's in the lead! Dr. Cox
said most people don't potty train until 2-3 so we shouldn't try, but Ryan and
I know Lily and we think she's ready. The girls just got one shot each and
didn't cry at all! Amazing! They had silvery Band-Aids and each got an Elmo sticker.
That made their day! Ryan had to go to work and I took the girls to the store
before we went home for lunch. At home, I said, it's time to go pee-pee on the
potty! When I got her diaper off, it was dry! It was from first thing in the
morning before breakfast! She sat right down and peed! After lunch, she sat
again, and this time went poopy! We all get so excited when she goes. We take
it to the toilet and they both wave bye-bye as it flushes down. Then they wash
their hands and turn off the light, which is their new favorite thing! I have
to turn it back on for the second baby to turn off. After nap, she was wet and
wasn't too interested in the potty. She sat on it, but not for long. We went
outside to swing and had puzzle time. Violet is really good at the shape
puzzles! I got dinner ready and just sat down when she started screaming, “I
pee pee, I pee pee!” and was pulling at her bib. I quickly got her down and she
peed! I think going 3 times in one day is a great start! We'll see what
tomorrow brings! If she's not interested, that's fine, we don't want it to be a
power struggle, but if she's willing and it's a positive experience, we're
going for it!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-15-14 Lily said “I
love you" to me today! J Violet is so funny when she's hyper. She’s been getting hyper and
so silly, mostly at night! We went to The Dodo restaurant tonight. They always
eat really well there. Anyway, I thought Lily had a big piece of cheese in her
mouth and I asked Ryan to get it so she didn’t choke. He pulled at it, but it
wasn’t cheese, it was the wadded up straw wrapper! Ryan pulled it out of her
mouth like a magician pulls on a scarf! It was hilarious!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-17-14 Today we took
trax to my mom's house for dinner. The girls were super excited to ride the
choo-choo! We waited at the platform for our train. The girls were in their
stroller. We watched one or two going by before ours came and the waved at
every one. The platform was under construction so we didn’t have to pay on the
way there! Once on the train, they kept saying choo-choo. The train operator
came out of the front at one of the stops and smiled and waved at the girls.
Then they kept saying ductor, ductor. My mom met us at the station and we
walked to her house. It was hot and uphill, but we made it and were relieved to
have a yummy picnic dinner outside on the deck. The ride home was nice too!
They were so good all night!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-18-14 Lily gives lots
and lots of kisses to everybody and everything. She was kissing Daddy through
the glass on the back door while he was out grilling. She clicks her tongue
when she gives a kiss so she opened her mouth and clicked her tongue against
the glass! Violet was busy “cooking” in her kitchen and serving it on a plate.
Sometimes she’ll bring it to us to try!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-19-14 Lily calls Mary
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After bath I was holding
Violet and we were looking in the mirror. I said, “Who's that?" and she
said, “I-let!" She said her own name! Now they can both say Violet, but
not Lily yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-22-14 They loooove
books!! We are reading every chance we get! Animal books, Elmo books, baby
books, train books. Board books are still preferred. They've ripped a couple of
paper books, but nothing too much. They love their Olivia books!!! They are
always asking for those! They say, “O-lia!” Those are paperback too, but they
love them! Lily's favorite is the last page where Olivia is going to bed. She
says, “night, night.” She points to Olivia's family and shouts mama, dada,
baby! Violet loves Olivia just as much!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This was my last week
off! I worked 3 days and was home with the girls for 2 days. They were perfect.
Monday we went to the park and played in the backyard. Wednesday we went to the
library and shopping with Grandma and Andrea, Addy, and Harrison. I'm ready and
not ready to go back to work. I think that's just how it should feel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-24-14 Today is Sunday,
I start school tomorrow and I'm in bed with a cold!! Yuck! Violet has it too
and Lily has sneezed a few times. I have a feeling it's going to be a long
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily has been walking on
her tippy toes. When we read the peekaboo book, Lily says all of the animal
sounds. At the end there’s a mirrow, we ask, “What does Lily say?” She says, “Ya.”
She really does say that a lot! Haha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-27-14 They both learn
so many new words every day! Today Lily said her own name! She sticks her
tongue out and says it! So funny! Now at the end of the Peekaboo book she says “Lily.”
They both know A LOT of animal sounds too! They love the animal magnets on the
fridge and they'll pick an animal and say the sound, but Violet's favorite is
the gold fish! She always brings it to us to show. Maybe because Elmo has a
goldfish named Dorothy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-30-14 I wore my Where
the Wild Things shirt today and Lily pointed to the monster and said,
“Dada!" When I told Ryan, he said that she points to the monkey in Eric
Carle's book From Head to Toe and says, “Dada!" I asked, “Lily, is Daddy a
monkey?” and she said, “Yeah.” Violet said Apple today at lunch and continued
saying it this afternoon. She likes practicing her new words!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8-31-14 We got our
pictures back and they are soooo cute! There are over 150 of them! It’s funny because
Violet has the same unsure look on her face for the first shots and you can see
her slowly warm up to Natalie and start smiling more and more. I can’t wait to
get the disc in the mail so I can print some and share them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now they both know a lot
of animal sounds! We have a Clifford book that has animals on a farm. They know
all of the sounds except the mouse. They both know eyes, ears, nose, mouth,
hair, head, and belly button, and they say them all too! I really think they
are learning one or two new words every day! It’s so hard to keep track of them
all!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elmo says, "Ah, help me!" Lily ALWAYS gathers up her dollies and sleeps on them.</span></span></div>
melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-11043740648821543652014-08-16T21:23:00.000-06:002014-09-06T22:22:47.377-06:00Ten Year Anniversary!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ryan and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary on August 6th! We went out to eat to celebrate at Sapa for sushi the Saturday after our anniversary and Demi watched the girls. The food was sooo good and we ate a lot! We had spring rolls and soup, four plates of sushi, and a delicious chocolately dessert. It was a beautiful night and very romantic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I couldn't think of what to get Ryan for the longest time. I finally decided to get two tickets to a Red Butte Concert. Ryan likes Conor Oberst and he's playing there in September. I asked Demi if she'd babysit that night and she said she would! Ryan was totally surprised by his gift because he thought I didn't get anything since he didn't have any ideas. I got my new ring the weekend before and couldn't wait to start wearing it! I've been wearing my titanium band a lot, but I'm a little sick of it. I don't wear my diamond wedding ring every day. I just wear it about once a week and it always feels more special when I wear it. I wore it to the jewelry store when we were shopping for my new ring, and the jeweler looked at it and was shocked it was in such great condition for being 10 years old! (I guess 11 because we were engaged for over a year before we were married!) It hasn't worn down at all! Anyway, I've been wanting a new every day ring for a while, and found one I love that's the same brand as my wedding ring, Simon G. I decided to get rose gold with white gold details and my birthstone (alexandrite) in the center. It has 22 little diamonds too. My birthstone is color-changing depending on the light. It can be red, green, or purple. Usually it's purple, which I love, but all of the colors look good with the rose and white gold. Sometimes it even looks teal! So cool! It's fun to get new jewelry! I told Ryan I don't want to wait 10 more years before I get something else! Haha! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ryan and I have had an amazing ten plus years together! We've lived in three places, each had two or three jobs, and traveled a lot. We've been to India, Paris, Australia, Portland, New York, Connecticut, California, Las Vegas, and Hawaii. I have so many memories of our years together. Now we have two beautiful, smart, perfect daughters! I couldn't ask for a better partner in life. Ryan's an incredibly caring and nurturing father. Happy anniversary to my one and only! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-62742167364696599232014-08-01T13:58:00.004-06:002014-08-01T14:14:47.100-06:00Movies!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are half way through our movies! I have them organized alphabetically, and we started at the beginning, only skipping holiday movies. Last night we watched <i>Life is Beautiful</i>. It is so funny and so sad. I think they call it a tragicomedy. I just finished reading <i>Unbroken </i>so any WWII films/books/stories are more powerful to me now. We also watched Roberto's speech on the Oscars. He's hilarious!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our next movie is <i>A Life Less Ordinary.</i> It's one of my favorite movies!!! Soon we'll be onto the <i>Lost </i>series. Apparently it's the 10 year anniversary so there's a lot of articles online that have been getting us excited about it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Speaking of 10 year anniversaries, our 10 year wedding anniversary is next week! Wow!</span>melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-73506405582841956432014-07-31T13:08:00.000-06:002014-08-01T14:15:44.285-06:00July 2014 - 18 months old<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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from Sesame Street! She's always saying, “Emmo, Emmo, Emmo!" We bought
them each a small Elmo doll and now we hear Emmo even more! Haha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Last weekend we went to
Gordman's looking for one thing and left with two new toys. Lily got a little
choo choo train with a little conductor. She loves that thing! Choo choo,
choo choo! We put up their kitchen last week too and she puts her choo choo and Elmo in the cabinet on the left. It's her spot. When she wakes up from nap
before Violet, I'll bring the monitor down with us. She wants to hold it and
then put it on the shelf in their kitchen. I'll ask her if Violet is awake yet
and she'll get it out look at it and show me, then put it back in the cabinet.
First she usually gives Violet a kiss through the monitor though!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">I was watching the
weather forecast and I said, “It's going to be hot, hot, hot!" Lily ran
into the kitchen and pointed to the stove and said, “Hot, hot, hot!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">We usually walk up and
down the street after dinner and tonight Violet was walking without holding my
hand! We always have the girls walk for a few houses then they get a little
tired so we'll carry them for a few houses. They like to look at the flowers,
bugs, rocks, and see the doggy barking at the window.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-2-14 The girls and I
went to Book Baby/ToddlerTime at the library today. Lily is so funny. She gets
so excited to sing and listen to stories that she claps her hands, smiles, and
says “yeah” or giggles a little. The librarian said, “Well you can just stay
with me all day!" This time we played with a parachute at the end. They
loved that! I bought a water table today and we tried it out after nap time!
They loved it! They were splashing around and giggling! It's a great way to
cool off on these hot summer days!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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no no." It's so funny because her little lips go in a round little o and
her voice is a little deeper. Now we use it on her when we want her to stop
doing something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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months old today! It’s hard to believe a year ago they were only 6 months old
and starting solid foods! Now they eat pretty much everything! They’re working
on using a spoon on their own. It’s fun, but messy!! When we pull out any fruit
for dessert, they get so excited! They scream and Violet waves her arms around.
They are such good eaters!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-4-14 Lily is an escape
artist! She was having a hard time falling asleep at nap time. I walked back in
to check on her and she was standing at the rocker footrest reading <i>Goodnight Moon</i>! I looked for Ryan, but
he was outside washing Bella, so Lily must have climbed out on her own! I
didn't want to put her back in without lowering her crib all the way (it was on
the second lowest), but since Ryan was outside I decided to rock her and then
put her back down when she was sleepy. She was pretty much asleep when I put
her in the crib. Five minutes later, I hear a loud bump/crash and scream. That
nerd! I ran in and she was fine. It scared us both so much! Ryan came up and
lowered the crib. It was a surprise she could even get out of it because the
top rail was up to her armpits! Now her mattress is lower and we have a pillow
on the floor. She's quite determined sometimes!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lately, she's been blowing raspberries when she's mad or irritated or doesn't
want to do something, like wash her hair. Imagine her in the tub blowing
raspberries while daddy is washing her hair!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-8-14 The girls are
getting some attitude! Lily whines a lot, “ah noooo, ah noooo,” especially when
something doesn't go her way. They'll pull toys out of each other's hands then
Violet hits. Mostly they are really sweet, but these attitude moments are tough
on me. They really wear me out some days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-11-14 Lily peed in the
toilet twice today!! We're not really starting potty training, but we have
their froggy potties in the bathroom. They usually sit on them fully clothed.
Today Lily told me, “I poop.” I said, “Do you want to go to the bathroom?” and
she said, “Yeah.” She already pooped in her diaper, but I thought I'd put it in
the toilet so she sees where it goes. I took off her pants and diaper and she
peed! She was happy to dump it in the big toilet and flush her peepee and poopy
and wave bye-bye. At bedtime, Ryan was putting on her jammies and noticed that
she was dry and didn't need a new diaper. It had been a few hours since we
changed her. I suggested that they go in the bathroom and sit on the toilet. He
said as soon as she sat down, she peed! Wow! Maybe we should start potty
training this girl!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">I bought a little cloth
thumb-guard bracelet for Violet to stop her from sucking her thumb all the
time. Already in the few days we've had it I think she's talking more! She
actually likes it because it has pretty butterflies on it. We mostly use it in
the car and stroller. It's funny because she'll be sucking her thumb and I'll
show her the bracelet, and she pops her thumb out for me to put it on. I want
to use it for naps and bedtime too, but I think I'll wait and increase the
amount of time she wears it slowly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-13-14 Lily pooped on
her potty!!!!!!!! She told daddy that she had to poop so he asked if she wanted
to go to the bathroom and go on the toilet. She said, “Yeah, yeah, yeah,"
as she ran down the hall. She sat down and went right away! Wow!!! We are so
proud of her! She's so adorable. When she flushes, she always waves bye-bye as
it goes down. In the tub, she waves to the bath water too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-14-14 I bought some
kitchen stuff for the girls at IKEA and they love it! Violet stirs in the pots
and pans and Lily tells us all about the banana and kiwi (kiwi is her new
word). She still loves her little train and the “duc-dor” (conductor). They
both love <i>Choo Choo Soul</i> and get so
excited when we put it on!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-17-14 Now Lily says
“kwiwi" for kiwi! She thought the limes at dinner were kiwis. Violet has
the cutest sound she makes when she's concentrating! It's hard to describe, but
it's part grunt and part total cuteness! She loves flowers and rocks. It's hard
to get her to walk when we go out after dinner! Today a neighbor had a
sprinkler on and Lily went right up to it and was giggling and having a great
time getting wet!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weaning the girls from nursing. For the past week we've been doing every other
night and it's going well. I think I'll nurse just once or twice more and then
we'll be done. It's definitely bittersweet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-19-14 We went to Brighton for Kris' wedding tonight. It was so nice to go up to the mountains and get out of the heat! (Our AC broke on Friday night! New one comes on Monday!) Violet is such a great walker now! They were both going around and around, through the kitchen and dining/dance area, outside one door and through the outdoor patio, and then back into the kitchen. Ken was having a great time chasing Lily around! They had yummy Greek food and the girls loved it! They especially loved the falafel! Violet is walking so confidently now! What a big girl!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-22-14 We went to Red
Butte Garden for the Tedeschi Trucks Band concert! We went with Grandpa Doug
and Mindy, Demi and Danny, and Liz, Rusty, and Jack. The girls had a great time!
They were dancing and running around, getting lots of attention. We almost made
it to the end and left at 9:30. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-23-14 Violet has only
been down the little slide on her own a few times. She'll sit at the top
looking nervous, and then go down the stairs or down the slide with help.
Tonight we were playing and she was holding my fingers as she went down the
slide. After 4 or 5 times she'd go down by herself. I'd pick her up and plop
her at the top again. She was laughing and being so silly! She probably went
down the slide another 25 times! At first her legs would be stiff and she'd
plunk head first into my lap! Then she got the hang of it and landed on her
bum. Her laugh is so contagious!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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holding Violet, we'll hum together, always in the same breath. It's kind of a
cool connection we have!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lily's been somewhat of
a stinker with all the No's and attitude, but then she'll run up and hug you!
She is so good at sharing and taking turns! She's always looking out for Violet
and sharing her water out getting her shoes. They've both fed each other a few
times. It's so sweet! Have some bread, sissy! I'm so glad they are sharing and
not fighting over things (too much)!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tonight was my last
night of nursing. I had them on for about 5 minutes and I just knew that this
was it! It was easier than I thought it would be! I guess we were all ready to
be done! I made it to 18 months. That’s crazy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-25-14 We have a fun
midday routine to get the girls down for nap. We eat lunch and I always serve
veggies first, followed by their protein and starch, and then fruit for
dessert. I get them washed up and down to play while I clean up. Then I change
diapers and open the gate to the stairs. Once I see them give signs that they’re
ready for nap I sing <i>Somewhere Over the
Rainbow</i> and they head straight for the stairs! It works every time! They
know that song means nap time! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-28-14 Sometimes Lily's
hair goes in three long ringlets down her back. Boing! They both have such long
hair! People can't believe how long it is for their age. Violet's will curl and
flip out to the side when it's a little wet or she's sweating. It's been so
hot, we've all been sweating!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the bathroom and sit on the toilet, but Lily hasn’t been going on it too much
lately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-29-14 Lily grabbed a
wipe and washed her hands and face, which is pretty much licking the wipe! Then
she wiped her feet with it, then right to her mouth again before I could stop
her! Then she wiped Violet's feet! I tried to grab her, but she's too quick!
Back to her mouth again! Ew! Then I said, “All done! Take it to the
trash!" and she said, “Ah done!" and put the wipe in the trash!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;">When Violet is tired,
like she was today after Mary's, her favorite spot to rest is in my arms with
her head on my right shoulder. I could hold her there all day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">7-31-14 Violet put the
sock to her foot and said, “Sock, sock!” Her favorite spot is at the lion
pillow chair. She leans back and then puts her right ankle up on her left knee.
We got a play set last week and they love going out back to swing. They don’t
want to come back in! They could swing all day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-4-14 Today is mama's first day
of summer break! We went on a hike with Auntie Demi up Millcreek Canyon. I took
the carriers and Lily rode on my back and Violet was on Demi's. The girls were
great! We saw some doggies and some pretty wild flowers. We heard a lot of
birds singing and sang a few songs ourselves! It was super fun!!! At dinner, we
had asparagus, pork, and quinoa. Violet looooves asparagus! I cut the top and
bottom off of the stalks and she ate about 10 of them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-5-14 We went to Liberty Park
this morning to walk with a friend who is moving to Georgia. We went to the
playground too and Violet liked the swing but Lily wanted nothing to do with
it. She was interested in the water spraying and got a little wet!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-8-14 Swimming! We went swimming
for the first time this morning! I found some super cute swim suits at Old Navy and we were
given two floaty saucer things. Some friends invited us to a relative's condo
to swim. It was a little cold with the breeze, but the water was nice and warm.
Violet held on to mama and Lily to daddy. After some time, we tried the
saucers. Lily hated it, but Violet was chill with it as long as I didn't let
go! After swimming, we went to the condo and had a lovely picnic on the balcony
facing the warm sun and the mountains up Emigration. Mimosas for the parents
made the morning complete!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily loves dancing! I sing,
“Dance, Lily, Dance!" and clap my hands and she dances in a circle. Then
she'll get a little dizzy and stagger and laugh! Violet is talking so much!
Most of it is baby babble, but she says baby all the time! A few weeks ago I
bought the girls sandals. Of course Lily loved them and wanted to wear them all
the time (still does). She got a little blister on her left foot. She must have
learned “owie" at daycare because now, weeks later, she points to it and
says, “owie." It's almost faded. I wonder if she'll keep saying it after
it's gone! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The girls have had allergies and
runny noses. They actually don't mind when I wipe their little noses! Lily will
even take a kleenex and try wiping her own nose!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-9-14 This morning we went to
Liberty Park to walk with our friends Kim and Amelia. After we walked, we went
over to the playground. This was our third time trying out the swings and
Violet loved it! She was smiling the whole time this time! I tried to put Lily
in and she screamed so we'll try again another day. I held their hands while
they each went down the slide and they really liked that!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-11-14 Lily will shrug her
shoulders a few times when she walks around. This morning, Ryan was holding
Violet's hand and bringing her to me for morning mama milk and Lily walked over
and held her other hand! So sweet!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet's been saying uh-oh! She's
really been talking a lot the last few days!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily is very task oriented. She
likes taking her diaper to the trash, putting on her shoes, turning on the air
filter in their room, and taking things to mama or daddy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I put a little froggy potty in the
bathroom because they've been following me in and acting a little interested,
even though it's probably too early to start potty training. They can sit on it
with their pants on to get used to it. Lily sat on it twice but now is unsure
about it, but Violet loves sitting on it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-12-14 Violet said bye bye today.
She's still talking all day long! She waves hello and bye bye with her silly
wave. Her hand is pretty limp. Lily walks around with her bear under one arm in
a football hold. It's so funny!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the car Lily is always taking
off her shoes. Then I hear her say, “OwieOwieOwieOwieOwieOwieOwie.” She is
hilarious!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They've been great eaters all week
for me at lunch and snack time. We always start with a veggie, usually a purée.
We've had carrot & strawberry, spinach & zucchini, and broccoli &
golden beet. Those are all homemade. We had some soft whole wheat pita bread
left so I gave them small pieces of that with yummy hummus on top. We've also
had turkey meat and cheese, one of their favorites! For dessert this week,
we've had small pieces of kiwi, plum, banana, and pear. They are such good
eaters!! Even when they don't like something, they usually try it. Sometimes
we'll start with small pieces of tomato. Lily doesn't really like it plain yet
(she loves cooked tomatoes in sauce), but she loves it in cottage cheese!
Violet loves veggies! Asparagus, peas, green beans, tomatoes, all soft and cut
up small.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We went to Grandma’s work this
morning and when I got home I had an email from her. It said, “The girls are
delightful, full of life, energy and happiness. I love them to
pieces! My family makes me the happiest.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We'll be heading to Chicago in a few days. We're really excited! We hope the girls have fun and do well on the flight. I've been continuing to nurse just for our trip. It might come in handy on the plane and at bedtime. After that, I'll probably start weening them completely. It's bittersweet, that's for sure. I NEVER thought I'd go this long! I didn't know if I'd last 6 months when they were born! It's more special than I ever imagined it to be. I'm sure it will be harder on me than them to finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-15-14 We got up early to get to
the airport and fly to Chicago! The girls were pretty good on the flight. Violet
got a little fussy so I nursed her a little and she napped. Took the train into
the city and Lily slept for a while on the train. A woman at the train station
said, “Gorgeous! You have the president and vice president all in one
basket!" That was so sweet! Were able to check into our hotel early, which
was a relief because normally check-in isn’t until 4:00. After we settled in
our room a bit, we went to Trader Joe’s for some breakfast and snack foods and
whole milk for the girls. Violet and I had a quick nap while Lily and daddy
went out and explored a little. We had snack in Grant Park which is right
across the street from our hotel, and then we walked around the city. We ended
up at Millennium Park. It was really crowded! We saw “The Bean” which is a big
stainless steel sculpture, and the Ghery Amphitheater. We shopped a little around
the park and had a quick dinner. The girls had their own little playpen/crib to
sleep in. They did well! We brought sheets from home so at least they’d have
that familiarity. It took Lily a little longer than usual to go to sleep since
we were all in the same room. So far the girls have done amazing! We hope the
rest of the trip goes this smoothly!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-16-14 This morning we took the Metra
train to the Museum of Science and Industry. They have a lot of cool,
interactive exhibits. The girls’ favorite was a big incubator with about 30
baby chicks! Violet was making all sorts of cute noises and they were both
smiling and pointing at the chicks! It was so adorable! We also saw a Disney
exhibit which had a bunch of original Mary Poppins movie stuff. That’s our
favorite Disney movie! Afterwards, we walked over to see the beach and then
took the train back. If the girls were older and didn’t need a nap, it would be
a fun day to go to that museum and then hang out on the beach. They were pretty
tired though. They both napped a little at the museum. We missed the train back
by about a minute! We waited at the station and they got a little antsy.
Luckily Ryan has Choo Choo Soul on his phone! That saved the day! Once we
finally got back to the hotel we decided to rest for a bit. I wanted to go to The
Art Institute of Chicago, but they close kind of early and there wasn’t enough
time so we'll definitely go tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-17-14 This morning we went to
the Shedd Aquarium! It was so fun! The girls were great and loved seeing all
the marine life. They had lots of opportunities to get out of the stroller and
walk around, which was nice. As we were walking back, we started talking to a
woman who lives in Chicago and loves it. She took her little boy to the
aquarium. He was a little younger than our girls. She said the restaurant Yolk
would be a nice place for lunch and she was right! It was delicious and the
girls were well behaved and ate really well. We planned today a lot better and
made it back to the hotel in time for nap. Yesterday we got back later than we
wanted to, so they didn’t nap as well. We then went to The Art institute of
Chicago. There is so much great art in that place! One of their special
exhibits was on glass paper weights. It sounds silly, but they were so
incredible! The whole time I thought of my Grandma Flo because she collected
paper weights. They were so intricate and displayed vertically so you could
really see the details. We decided to take the subway up to Chicago Avenue
where there’s the Magnificent Mile shopping. We had a great view of the river
and enjoyed the other end of the city. We’d have loved to take a boat tour, but
we’ll have to do it next time when the girls are older. For dinner we went a
pretty fancy place! Again, we were pleased with how well the girls were at
dinner. We think a lot of passerbys were surprised we took kids there because
Ryan said he noticed people’s faces and they seemed surprised we took kids to
this restaurant! I was oblivious to that! I was just enjoying my wine and my
yummy Mahi dinner. We sat outside and got rained on for about 30 seconds!
Luckily no more than that. Today was a pretty perfect vacation day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-18-14 We went out this morning looking
for a park for the girls to play on. With all of our exploring we hadn’t seen
one around! Google maps showed a few that looked closer than they really were. It
was too hot and humid to search too far so we didn't end up finding one. We packed
our bags and had to check out at noon. It started pouring rain when we checked
out so waited in the lobby for about 15 minutes until it let up. We walked to
the Field Museum, which is next to the aquarium (both about a 10 minute walk
from our hotel). We thought this would be a nice place to hang out for a few
hours since we had to check out at noon and our flight wasn’t scheduled to
leave until about 8:00. There were lots of fun things to look at and the girls
walked around a lot. Violet walks well when she’s holding one of our hands, and
now Lily goes to her and hold her other hand. Violet likes it as long as Lily
doesn’t pull her along too fast! At one point we sat down to rest in a big lobby
area downstairs. They had four big comfy chairs and lots of space for the girls
to toddle around. Plus not many people go down that way. There was a woman
pregnant with twins right there with us! She was nervous but excited and asked
us a bunch of questions. She seemed less stressed when she left so hopefully we
gave her some peace of mind about having twins! It’s pretty great, if you ask
me! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We then walked around the pier and
the lake. It’s so relaxing by the water. Daddy had a polish sausage and I had a
chocolate ice cream cone that I shared with the girls. They were so funny!
Usually they have ice cream with a spoon so this was new to them! They ended up
with chocolate ice cream all over their lips and a little on their noses. When
we got back to the hotel to get our bags we found out that our flight was
delayed 45 minutes. Luckily the girls fell asleep in the stroller so we hung
out in the lobby for a while and they slept. It was a nice rest for all of us! It
started raining again, but not really hard. We got out the umbrella and the
rain cover for the stroller because it was time to head to the train to go back
to the airport. The girls said, “Choo choo,” the whole way there! Check-in and
security was quick, but the food court was super busy! I finally found a table
after waiting for someone to stand up and leave! I had a delicious chicken gyro
with peppers and zucchini and yellow squash. I’ve never had a gyro with all
those veggies and I loved it! We put the girls’ jammies on at the gate. Lily
was screaming and we were worried. Luckily, we sat next to some sweet black
ladies from Ogden that sang soulful baby songs to her. We didn't take off until
almost an hour after our delayed time! Those two women saved us by entertaining
the girls so much! She didn’t fuss at all! Once we were in the air, she had
some mama milk and slept on daddy the whole time. Violet fussed just a little,
trying to get comfy. She had some milk too and then slept. Wow they were good!
Demi picked us up and we were in bed by 1:00!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-19-14 Today we were recovering
from our trip, and trying to get back on our normal schedule. They napped well,
but early, before lunch. By dinner time they were so tired. Violet took a 10
minute catnap before dinner, and Lily fell asleep at the table in her
highchair! We tried to wake her up, but she was out like a light! Violet was
super hyper at dinner! She was being a little goofball!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-21-14 Lily loves Violet so much!
As soon as she wakes up she stands up and looks for Violet in her crib, she
gives her hugs and kisses all the time, and says her name, Bi, holding out the
I sound. When we are walking with Violet, Lily walks over and holds her hand.
Violet loves Lily so much too. She smiles and laughs with her and touches her
hair. She’s usually gentle and doesn’t grab it. She holds her hand at the
table. She doesn't say Lily's name yet, but when you say, “Where's Lily?"
she points to her sissy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Violet let me paint her toenails
on her big toes. They're purple, like mine. Daddy loves them! Lily wouldn't sit
still long enough for me to even try!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-23-14 At bedtime, they always
blow me kisses and wave night-night. I don't even have to ask them to! Such
sweet girls! How did I get so lucky!?!? They are both starting to wave by
opening and closing their hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-24-14 We had an appointment with
Margaret, the dietitian today. Violet weighs 17.2 pounds and Lily weighs 18.5
pounds. They’re still making good progress and following the curve. They’re
both in the 2% for height! They’re way under the curve still for weight, but I
really don’t care anymore. Margaret is so pleased with their progress that we
don’t need to see her anymore! She is so sweet, I will miss her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-25-14 I love being home with my
girls!! They are so sweet, so smart, and so funny! We have a blast every day!
Today Lily was scooting down the stairs on her bum. Violet got some of her
confidence back and was walking quite a bit. We went to Book Baby at the
library today! It was a lot of fun! We read books, sang songs, and danced
around! I hope I can take them every week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-26-14 Lily's been telling us
when she has to poop. She says, “I poop," or “poopy." So today I took
her into the bathroom and took off her pants and diaper, and then put her on
one of the froggy potties. She peed a little and pooped just a little! Then
Violet came in and sat on the potty too! I'm not sure if I can start toilet
training before they can pull their pants up and down and before Violet is
walking steadily! I am looking forward to being done with diapers though!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We went to the park earlier today
and of course Violet loved the swing and didn't want to get off. It's just like
when she was really little and loved the baby swing. My parents said that I
loved it too. We would both be in there for hours if we could. Lily even helped
me push Violet a little bit! I think Lily thought about how much fun the swing
is because after Violet got out she walked over and started touching it with
her fingertips and then pushed it a little. I picked her up and she didn't
fight me this time. She just sat there a minute, not swinging then I pushed her
a tiny bit. That was ok. Then I pushed her a little more. That was not ok so we
stopped. She liked it a little and was even smiling!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-27-14 Lily is definitely right
handed. Violet seems strong with both hands. She always eats with her left, but
today was throwing balls better with her right! We think left is her dominant
side though. Ryan and I are both right handed, but I can do quite a few things
with my left. Violet's a lot like me! Lily's a lot like Ryan!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This week I put the slide we
bought them for Christmas out in our living room. I needed something new for
them to play on to release energy when it's too hot outside. I put balls in the
splash area and there's a little ladder and a red slide. They absolutely love
it! Lily is fearless on the slide going down on her bum or feet first on her
tummy. Violet loves climbing in and out of the ball pit and tossing out the
balls one at a time, or climbing to the top of the stairs and looking out,
standing at the top. They bring their stuffed animals in the ball pit and then
lie back, relaxing in the balls. They have such a great time playing together!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6-28-14 Violet finally decided
that she's brave enough to walk! She was walking all afternoon! I called my mom
to tell her and she said that she's just like I was. Cautious and likes taking
her time. She said, “You weren't in any rush!" I also called her to tell
her that Violet loves rocks like I did as a child. We went out back to play
with Bella and Jimmy, and Violet played with the rocks almost the whole time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Later I showed Lily a picture of
Sarah's daughter, Charlotte, on Facebook. They are friends and go to Mary's
together. She said, “Jibberish, jibberish, Char-wotte. Jibberish, jibberish,
Char-wotte,” and didn't want to give me back the phone! I think she misses her
friend! We went upstairs for bath time and Violet was still walking after bath!
She was walking down the hall naked and I said we'd better get her jammies on
so she doesn't pee in the hall! She wanted to walk more and more with me on one
end of the hall and daddy on the other with Lily walking too. She paused and
even totally turned around without falling! She fell down and then stood up all
by herself!!!! That was the first time she’s done that! She was able to do that
over and over again! I think we've made a lot of progress today! Lily has been
so supportive of Violet. She holds her hand and helps her up and gives her hugs
and kisses. Ah, sissy love!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Giulia. At the playground Lily loved the swing! At first she didn’t want to
move that much. She was happy to just sit in it, but soon she was swinging
almost as high as Violet! Both girls were smiling and laughing! They didn’t
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I can’t believe they will be 18 months old on Thursday!
They are growing so fast!!! </span></span>melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-61484336328917146282014-06-30T21:27:00.001-06:002014-06-30T21:48:19.088-06:00Not an update and a few pictures!<div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well, I'm not doing so well at updating this little blog. Every day is so full and by the evening, I want to crash on the couch. Luckily, I'm great at writing little notes of happenings on my phone, and then I email that to myself and put it in a word document every few months. For their first year I have 18 pages of memories! I'm planning on posting those here once a month. Then I won't be doing two separate writings; just a copy and paste. It might be boring and repetitive, but I guess it's better than nothing! As for pictures, I'll try, but I'm pretty good about posting a few on Facebook every week. Here are a few from earlier this week:</span></div>
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<br />melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-71869248183925737732014-04-19T22:07:00.000-06:002014-06-30T21:28:26.293-06:00What did I just say?!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When you're a mom, you get a whole new vocabulary. You say words and phrases you never thought you'd ever say. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">poopy diaper</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">washed her twice!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"DON'T TOUCH MY NIPPLE WITH YOUR POO HAND!"</span>melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-19090675600052150922014-01-30T20:37:00.000-07:002014-01-30T20:37:26.697-07:00Doctor Visits and Milestones<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We took the girls to their one year appointment last Monday. They only cried a little when they were jabbed! Shots are no fun! We are always so nervous about getting their weight checked. We work so hard at feeding them a lot and fattening them up, but they are always so small. Violet weighed in at 14 pounds and Lily at 14 lbs. 11 oz. We were sure Lily would weigh 15 pounds, but she's pretty close. They've pretty much tripled their birth weight, which is expected at a year. Dr. Cox wanted us to take them in to see a dietitian and wanted us to take Violet to physical therapy since she's not crawling. We also want to check her head shape. That's a lot for this mama to take in! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We went to the physical therapist two days later, on Wednesday. She showed us a lot of ways we can help Violet strengthen her arms, many of which we were already doing. She also measured her head because it's a little flat on one side (only I notice, of course). She thinks it will round out as she grows so we don't need to worry. She wants us to go every week, but with insurance not covering until the deductible is met, we'll see how she progresses and then go from there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We worked on the play/exercises and so did Mary at daycare. By Friday, Violet was able to go from her tummy to sitting up! Woo hoo! She's been so close for so many days, and now she's finally done it! I'm so proud of her!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We started a food journal on Sunday because we had an upcoming appointment with a dietitian on Wednesday. It was hard to figure out how much food they actually ate! We had to subtract what was left on their face, in their bib, on their tray, and on the floor! Their appetites were a little smaller too, we think because they're both getting their top teeth in. Oh well! We took the girls to the dietitian on Wednesday, and she started by weighing and measuring them. Violet is still 14 lbs. and Lily is 15 lbs. 4 oz.! We think the old-school scale at Dr. Cox's office was wrong on Lily's measurement! Margaret, the dietitian, compared their weight to their height. I really liked this comparison because it doesn't take into account their age, just their weight and height. Lily is at 91% of her target weight (90-100 is the goal), and Violet is at 80% of her target weight. We knew she was a string bean! We always offer her the same, or even more food, as Lily. She eats slower and is a little pickier. Margaret made a lot of good suggestions to help them gain weight. We're already doing a lot of things we should! That's nice to hear. The biggest change for us will be to make sure they do not have any milk between meals and to wait 3-4 hours between meals so they're really hungry. I'm going to try to wean from nursing in the next month or so, too. They need to fill their bellies on high-calorie foods and drinks, and I don't think the milk I produce is very fatty. We're going to put some heavy cream in their cups of milk and butter on their crackers! We'll keep trying to fatten these girls up! We have a follow-up appointment in April, but Margaret said we can call her anytime we need to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After school on Thursday, I went to Mary's to pick up the girls. Mary was thrilled to tell me that Violet crawled to a toy! I started jumping and screaming, I was so happy! All the kids stopped playing and looked at me a little scared. Haha! I'm just so proud of my little Vi-Vi! At home she showed off her crawling skills some more! She's pretty slow and careful, but she is definitely crawling. She'll go about two paces and then sit. That's a great start. She's also able to pull up to her knees, almost to standing! We're pretty sure we're going to cancel the other physical therapy appointments now. She's met most of her goals in 8 days! I'm not so worried any more! </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We're so lucky Mary and Val are on board with everything. They've been working with Violet on her arm strength and tummy time, and have always supported us with any diet changes we've needed to do for the girls. They always say how much they love Violet and Lily. They spend so much time with them each day, they're like family! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm so proud of both my little girls! Today they were standing at the coffee table, playing side-by-side, and I couldn't help but think how lucky I am! </span>melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-10595867381679950332014-01-05T21:04:00.000-07:002014-01-10T21:47:37.287-07:00First Birthday Girls!<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Wow! We all made it to ONE! We had a fun birthday weekend. Ryan took a half a day off on their birthday. After the girls' afternoon nap, we went to the planetarium. Violet and Lily loved standing at the ball contraption and watching it send the balls all around, even on the ceiling. We looked at all the models of the planets and at the meteorite samples. Our favorite part was walking on Mars and on the Moon! Violet LOVES walking (holding on to mama or daddy) and she did great over the bumps and rocks! Lily wanted to crawl all over, but it was not the best place for crawling! </span><br />
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The girls ate a big lunch of avocado and banana, some chicken noodle soup, raspberries, and grapes.
We opened presents, well I opened presents and Violet sat on my lap while Lily crawled around. They got some clothes, books, toys, and puzzles. The card from us has a
mirror in it and Lily kissed herself just like we thought she would! Then it was time for cake!
Violet cried when I put the birthday hat on her. (They had the hats on earlier and didn't cry, so I thought I'd put them on again.) We sang the birthday song and blew out
candles. Lily dug right into the cake and loved it! Violet stopped crying when I put some
cake in her mouth! Haha! (Ooo, this <em>is</em> good!) They ate A LOT of cake and were so happy! Grandma was cleaning
the floor and Lily threw cake on her head! Twice! Naughty girl! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After everyone left, they had some milk and went down for a nap. They only slept a little more than
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We went to The Dodo for dinner. We usually take our purple high chairs that hook onto the tables, but this time we tried the wooden ones. The girls were so good! Lily ate so much! She at some
of my bruschetta topping, tomato soup, turkey from my sandwich, some wheat bread with avocado
on it, plus the food we brought for them! We used the pink place mats that have
a pocket hanging over. A puff rolled into that and she laughed her little laugh. Ha ha. Violet
ate about half as much as Lily, but still tried everything. She was more into
being social and smiling</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> at EVERYBODY around us! She kept turning in her high
chair away from daddy. She was entertaining everyone at the tables around us. They were soooooo good! What a great day! Now they are officially one!!</span></span>melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-77174329625026670932014-01-02T21:12:00.001-07:002014-01-02T21:23:40.002-07:00First Birthday Eve<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tomorrow is my daughters' first birthday! I can't believe Violet and Lily are going to be ONE! They are my sunshines and light up my life every day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The last few days Ryan and I have been reflecting on our year and talking about what life was like for us a year ago. I was super-huge pregnant, and we were so excited and scared about our new adventure. A year ago, we didn't know what would happen after delivery since our little Violet's growth had slowed and we couldn't get a good reading on her cord or placenta. We were sure she'd be in the NICU and thought her twin sister, Lily, would be there too since they were coming a month early. We were worried we'd be leaving the hospital without them. After all the doctor appointments, non-stress tests, and ultrasounds we finally knew their birthday would be Thursday, January 3rd. I'd be having a cesarean delivery since Violet was breech and Lily was transverse. I've never had a surgery before and I was terrified. There were so many questions racing through my mind about how healthy they'd be, about the surgery and recovery, about how I was going to nurse and care for TWO babies! I didn't need to worry though. The delivery went smoothly and my girls were so strong and healthy that they didn't spend one minute in the NICU! Unbelievable! They weighed in at 4 lb. 11 oz. and 5 lb. 2 oz. Hearing their first cries changed my life. I became a mom! Me! A mom! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The past year has been incredible, overwhelming, exhausting, amazing, full of smiles and milestones, and most of all, full of so much love. I never thought I could be so happy! Tomorrow we celebrate your first birthday, my beautiful ladies!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">One year ago! The day before their birthday. Whoa belly! I measured 43 weeks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On Sunday, we went to Great Grandpa's house for dinner with my sisters, my dad, and his brothers. It was fun for the girls to see everyone and meet their cousins. Mark and Kathy gave Violet and Lily Mickey and Minnie stuffed animals and board books. It was the first present they've got to open and Lily loved pulling out the tissue paper!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For Christmas Eve, we went to Grandma's house for a party! The food was DELICIOUS and the girls especially liked the meatballs! My mom throws great parties! Lily was crawling around like a crazy woman and decided it was time to figure out how to climb up stairs! She made it to the top and we all clapped and said Yay!!! Then she did it again! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Santa came to our house! Santa brought the girls a stuffed animal pillow chair. Violet LOVED hers! She was lounging and checking out her new toys and sucking her thumb. We opened presents, which Lily was sort of getting the hang of, and then headed out the door. We went up to Grandpa's house and had our Christmas morning omelets. Yum, yum. Great Grandpa held Violet while I fed her and she loved the eggs! When it was time to open presents, the girls made a haul! Toys, books, clothes galore! We went back to my mom's house after that for more gifts and lunch. Later that night, we watched Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas together (cartoon version). Our little Violet is so much like Cindy Lou Who! She even looks like her!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We had a wonderful first Christmas with our girls! They are so precious and sweet. Just think, a year ago I was pregnant and huge and so uncomfortable! I'm so happy our little ladies are so healthy and happy. That's the best gift I could ask for. </span> </div>
melody0601http://www.blogger.com/profile/07581064171250284513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709569663898249827.post-29739406863431859432013-11-20T19:34:00.001-07:002013-11-20T19:34:28.108-07:00Time Flies<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Where does the time go? Violet and Lily are 10 1/2 months old! Updating my little blog has been on the back of my mind for quite a while, but every day is so full. When I do have down time, the last thing I want to do is write! Some find peace or relaxation in writing, but not me! Regardless, here I am. Let's do this!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Violet:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sits up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Squeals in delight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Purrs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Says "Mama"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Has beautiful, fine, sandy blonde hair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Is very ticklish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Has a squeaky, high-pitched laugh</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Is a monkey (loves bananas)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Can pick up and eat small things like puffs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Has one tooth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Baby hyperventilates when she's upset</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Waves if she feels like it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Still loves the swing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hates being on her tummy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Loves standing (with help)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Content to sit on your lap and chill</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Started sucking her thumb at 8 months (nerd!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sucks only her left thumb with her palm up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Loves reading books</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sleeps like a rock (on her tummy)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Lily:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sits up </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Crawls all over the place</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Gurgles and sings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Says "Mama", "Baba", and "Dada"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Likes to whisper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Has crazy long, thick brown hair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Laughs and giggles at everything</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Eats everything! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Especially loves spaghetti sauce</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Slaps the table when she wants more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Can pick up and eat small things like puffs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Smiles and squints her eyes at the camera</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Has two teeth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Waves at everyone (even people on the news)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Is on the go (wild thing!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Won't sit in your lap longer than about 30 seconds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pulls herself up to standing and has started to inch around too</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Loves bath time with Daddy (splashes, kicks, plays with toys)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pulls the DVDs off the shelf</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Loves reading books</span><br />
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