25 and 8 Months

Happy 25 months (Okay, I know I promised to say 2 years from now on...) and 8 months to my two little ones! Wow, look how much little man has grown. And sissy too for that matter.

Just think, Johanna was JJ's age now, or a month away I can't figure out the math, when we were first pregnant with him. Nope, not pregnant again ;)

Although I must say I love these two being so close in age, they are such good buddies! It has been tons of fun and I can only count on one hand the number of days resulting in tears. And that's on my end, I don't have enough hands to count their tears, ha!

Such love :) And yes, that's Ernie in the background getting into more mischief.

"I love you, Momma! I love you so much!" -Johanna

"Hi Em-a-wee!" Me: "I'm Momma, silly goose!" Johanna: "No.... Em-a-wee, your name is Em-a-wee!...hee hee hee hee!!!"

There isn't much new to report for miss Hannie besides her usual expanding vocabulary. Potty training has been our biggest project for the month and I'd say she's pretty much daytime trained! She goes all day telling me when she needs to go and does great in public. She can't stay in the car for too long though or she does have accidents. 30 minutes or so is as far as I like to push it. She wears pull ups at night because although she was able to stay dry if we tried, it wasn't practical for us to cut out liquids past 5 with dinner at 6 and wake up at 2am to take her to potty. We have cut our bedtime milk though so that was an accomplishment! I sent her to school in her pullup since I knew it would be too hard for her to tell her teachers she needed to go. Her teachers are great with accommodating them though and made sure to take her to the potty several times. She had no problems and even went poo on the potty at school! Not that you needed to know that.

JJ is crawling crawling and more crawling. He is desperately trying to climb the stairs but hasn't figured it out quite yet (thank goodness). He stands on everything possible including furniture, people, animals you get the picture. As soon as he gains the strength he will be walking that's for sure, it's way too hard to be the youngest sibling and cousin he knows he's missing out on all the fun! He loves to make silly noises especially raspberries. He has also figured out how to clap and loves it when we cheer him on. Oh and he loves to dance! He will bop up and down to different beats, particularly the theme song to Jake and the Neverland Pirates and the Fast Food song from Johanna's music cd. And yes, there is an actual song about fast food and it is hilarious. He is still nursing tons and I don't mind at all, can he stay my baby forever please? He eats 3 solid meals a day and has been experimenting with different textures and various finger foods. He can make a "I want that" grabbing motion by squeezing his fingers to his palm when he wants something. Oh and there's this little problem with biting. His top teeth are coming in and he likes to get those chompers on anything. Just yesterday he crawled up to Daddy and bit his toe. Little stinker! Even though you like to bite you are still the sweetest little baby I've ever seen.

 

Dear kids: stop growing! Love, your Mommy