9.23.2012

The things Rhys does

Rhys' personality is starting to peep thru. She's a funny girl too!

She is walking / running everywhere! Really stable and sturdy. (Natalie hadn't even taken her first steps by this age!)

Last night at dinner she was flexing her hand like "come here", which meant she wanted more. As soon as I stood up, she looked at the pantry door. I gave her food from my plate and then she did it again. I figured out what it was - she wanted more fruit purée pouch from the cabinet!

She walks over and gives Natalie kisses when we tell her its night-night time.

She goes to the bath when we say its bath time!

Last night I asked her to bring me a book, followed by a baby and she brought both!

She loves to wear necklaces, tries to put on any shoes she sees, and will wear hats and bows for a while! Little fashionista in the making?

Today we were playing with Natalie's Monkey costume from last year. Rhys decided she wanted to wear it, so I let her and then took it off. She brought it back to me and tried putting it back on herself! (Kind of excited - they might both actually dress up this year. Natalie thought the Monkey suit was fun, and Rhys begged to out it on too...hope it goes as well next month!)

The things Natalie says

The things Natalie says these days is cracking me up!

This morning she was "helping" me do laundry. She pulled out a pair of her (clean!) underwear and said:

"Mmmmm, FRESH! 14 days"

Haha, as in, she must have seen that on TV because certainly no one in real life does that?!

We were in the car and I said something about it being a crazy day, so she asked me:
N: Mama, are you crazy?
M: (laughing)yeah a little bit. Are you crazy?
N: no, I'm not crazy. Not crazy at all!

She likes to point out Milk Mustaches, or what she calls "milk face" (or water face, or juice face...) so I thought this was fitting:

9.06.2012

Silly Girls

This is Natalie's "Silly Face"..quite appropriate for her mood tonight.
 

Natalie told us her first Knock, Knock Joke!  Totally out of the blue...guessing they have been practicing at daycare.  It went like this:
N: Knock, knock
M: Who's there?
N: Banana Pants!

And then tons of giggles and laughs. She (and we) thought it was pretty dang funny!  We spent the next 20 minutes practicing various knock, knock jokes.  We're on the look-out for simple ones that she can re-tell.


And this is Rhys' "Cheesy Face"!  Look at those teeth!

She does this in her high chair usually.  She thinks she is being so funny!

She can get on the horse all by herself now.

And tonight, David got the book out, and Rhys did all she could do to get into his lap to read!

Natalie came by to count the numbers on the clock.  She did 1 - 11 and then repeated 1 instead of 12.

It was nice to have a silly evening.  Things have been so chaotic lately, and we've still got another 5 weeks of craziness to come.  David did a work trip for 6 (!!) days to Ohio (aka oPie-o to our 2 yr old).  My dabble at single-parentness was tough and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.  Thank goodness for Grandma Luce who picked the girls up from daycare and fed them dinner for me.  David's work trip paired with my overtime for late tax season is a rough combo!  Not looking forward to the 10 day trip he has coming up! Yikes!

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