Hellobee

They just keep growing!  It’s crazy!  Wonder Baby is 3/4 of the way through her little baby year.  Awesome, but sad.  Every night after her dreamfeed, she falls back asleep and I just have to snuggle her for a minute.  She’s just so sweet, and it’s pretty much the only time she stops moving these days!  I had to cut her bangs — they were in her eyes all the time.

So busy!  All the time!  She’s still army crawling most of the time, but she can crawl on all fours.  I think she just isn’t as fast so she gets impatient.  She moves the fastest when she’s chasing her kitty.  I have to keep the floors so clean, and the fronts of her onesies are still all getting stained. She’s quite steady sitting now, and can get 9/10 of the way up all by herself.  The other day I came in after her nap and found her pulled up on the side of the crib! And down went the crib mattress and out went the bumpers.  I put the bumpers in around 5 months because she was getting stuck in the bars and crying (even with a sleep sack on), but she hasn’t had that issue since I took them out.

She’s babbling a ton now – bababa’s and mamama’s.  Recently she’s learned how to make a crazy high pitched scream, which is slightly less endearing.

Wonder Baby is always moving; it’s like she has restless leg syndrome.  When we hold her she always has one leg swinging away and when she’s falling asleep in the crib one foot is kicking the mattress.  She’s steady enough to sit in the shopping cart now when we’re out and she loooves it.  Lots of shrieking, giggling and both her little legs just kick and kick and kick…

She’s so busy that it’s a real struggle to get her to take a morning nap.  Sometimes she’s fine without one, but more often she’s falling asleep in her lunch.  She falls asleep more often than not in the Ergo, and she’s big enough now to go on my back so we usually try that for her morning nap.  By her afternoon nap she’s tired enough to get drowsy or knock out while nursing.  She has to be a bit tired to settle to nurse well, and she has to nurse to hold still long enough to fall asleep.  At night she usually falls asleep easily but is always up at least twice and sometimes three or four times.  This week has been on the worse side again and I noticed that she’s on the beginning of a Wonder Week, so that will only get worse! Yay…. someday she will sleep through the night.  Hopefully before she graduates.

Toddler Girl is 32 months old.  She just gets more and more fun!  Her speech has taken a major jump forward again and her sentences are getting more complex.  She’s at that adorable stage where she says things like “I dooed it!”  While we’re on the subject of cute things she says, she calls her new tutu, her “tucan” and thinks it should be acceptable pajamas.  She knew most of the words to “Goodnight Moon” as she was reading to me for the photoshoot.

I’m so glad that it’s been a warm autumn. Toddler Girl is happiest outside and we’ve been making an effort to get out to the playground.  She loves interacting with other children — I need to get her out more.  Sunday school has started back up at church and she loves playing with the other kids.  She camr home from her first day and informed us that God made people and the sun.  It’s hard to get her out to organized activites as she still takes such a long afternoon nap.

I think she grew two inches at least over the summer.  Now that it’s cooled down enough for long sleeves and pants, I’ve noticed that none of them fit!  She’s no bigger around though, so her jeggings look like loose skinnies and are bunched around the waist.  She’s tall enough that we’re trying having her sit on the chair for meals instead of her booster.  I’m not 100% sure I like that she can get down on her own and wander off; we’re having to remind her to stay put until we’re done, and she mysteriously has to go potty a lot during mealtimes.

The girls started swimming lessons last week.  They are in the same class because it’s just a fun parent and tot class (Mr SH and I both go too!).  I taught swimming for 10 years, so it was very important to me that they get into lessons young.  Toddler Girl did so great and had a ton of fun and Wonder Baby was highly amused (it was her first time at the community pool).  I’m looking forward to the rest of the lesson set.

They’re playing better and better together, although we keep having to remind TG that the baby is little and doesn’t want to play horsey rides, for example.  I love listening to them giggle and interact.  Every now and then, Mr SH and I just look at each other and one of us will say “our kids are awesome!” and the other one says “Yeah… they really are.”