The runt :)

This picture seems random but it's the most recent one I have of her.

I can’t believe how much Addison has grown up! She’s pretty much sitting up on her own now. Her two bottom teeth have come in too. We’re still waiting for her to figure out rolling though. She loves being on her tummy and has rolled both ways, but I don’t think she knows how to do it on purpose. She has an appointment later this month so I don’t think I’m going to worry until I talk to her doctor. I'm calling her the runt because she's so small for her age - 6 months and 12 lbs 7 oz, which is below the charts!

Addie has definitely found her voice – holy cow can that girl make noise! She’ll sometimes babble, but what she loves is this squawking squealing sound. It’s hilarious! We’ll be sitting at church and randomly she’ll squeal all long and loud. During piano lessons (if she’s not napping) she likes to “sing along.” Thankfully my students have several siblings and are used to noise in the background.

Even though she hasn’t rolled she can get around. She scoots backwards and rotates around when on the ground. I’ll leave the room for a minute and come back to find her under the love seat (just her head poking out) or on the hard floor in the dining room.

Love that kid!

ps-I have a post lower of Lexi too

Katy-linny

(Old jeans turned racetrack, idea stolen from pinterest.)

Kaytlin has been really interested in the days of the week. Usually the first thing she says every morning is "What day is it today?" followed by "What day is it tomorrow?" and so on. She's also wanting to learn how to write letters and her name so we work on that.

She has an active imagination – she can create whole scenes and sticks with them for days. Lately her favorite thing to play at home is “beach.” She gets her favorite animals dressed in swimming suits, packs a bag, we drive there together (and we can’t forget to buckle up), shower, get pretend swimming suits and goggles, sometimes change into mermaids, etc etc.

She's my good little helper who always seems to have a happy attitude.

Hair cuts

I got a haircut and then gave one to John. I thought it turned out pretty good and decided to ride that confidence and gave Lexi a haircut. Kaytlin was feeling left out so I cut her hair (only like 2 real snips but she doesn't know that) and while I was at it I cut 4 super long hairs of Addies' that were sticking up.One of these days I'll update our family picture at the top of the blog......

Lexi-lou

Lexi was talking with Kaytlin the other day and I overheard her talking about her "boyfriend" at school. ?!?! And so it begins....

She loves to chase him around at recess and joke around with him in class. I'm just glad I know him and his mom and Lexi's (barely) willing to talk about it with me. She now knows and agrees that she shouldn't kiss until she's 16, although the boys at school tease her that that's was too old.

Lexi is loving kindergarten! She has a fantastic teacher and is learning a ton! I'm still a little shocked that kindergarteners have homework everyday, but thankfully it' s not anything difficult or time consuming (examples: "name 10 things in your classroom" or "say the sounds for the letters A-M" or a paper that she practices writing a number or letter).

We call Lexi the baby charmer. She can just walk by and Addie will suddenly smile. If Lexi talks or smiles at her she can hardly contain herself.

I caught the girls creating a TP tower when they were supposed to be doing their Saturday jobs (Kaytlin's job is refilling the extra TP in the bathrooms).

It got me thinking - can you imagine how fun it would be to make a wall or house out of toilet paper? And knocking it over? Unfortunately I'm not that fun of a mom and couldn't handle the mess of it, but it does sound fun...