more words

I think Sylvie said 'prettyful' today instead of 'beautiful'. Interesting how she came up with that- She knows that pretty and beauty mean the same thing?

In other news, I think Wade is ready to roll over. But at night he is cocooned into his bassinet, so there is not room for him to roll over. Poor big guy. Tonight we will move him into the pack n play. I am still not ready to move him into the room with Sylvie and into his crib- I am worried he will disrupt Sylvie's sleep ( and I need her to sleep!).

Any suggestions?

Words

We had Mexican last night for dinner. On Mexican night Ralph and I hear a lot of 'more cheeze. more cheeze. more cheeze pleeze' from Sylvie.

Last night was no different. But we also heard

'oh....how did cheeze get in there?' as Sylvie looked into her big girl cup of water, where she had dropped cheese.

Sylvie also says 'apple. cado.' instead of advocado. love.

OCD

I have created a monster.

I put my shoed foot on our coffee table this mornign, while I was feeding Wade. Sylvie looked at me with disgust, pushed my foot off the table and grabed her paper towel from breakfast.

'Mama diiirrrty. Mama diirrty.' she repeated as she vigoursly scrubbed where my shoes had been.

The Little Man

Wade

11 weeks and three days old

He is smiling lots and laughing sometimes!

His eyelashes are growing longer

Lays in his bassinet quitely in the morning, awake

LOVES Sylvie

is 15lbs and 8.5 oz

26" long

is a new baby since he started eating formula

gets cranky around 8pm for about an hour

goes to bed around 9-10pm

still wakes up once a night for food

eats about 5 oz in his bottle at a time

looks amazingly different than Sylvie did at this age (I am not sure why this surprises me)

I am convinced he is older than he his- I feel like I have had him forever! (this is meant to be a good thing, not bad!)

has beautiful dark blue eyes right now, doc said they will mostly likely change

I have already noticed them changing a bit

reminds me of my grandfather- poppy

looks like my side of the family

has light light hair

has beautiful creamy pale skin, esp next to Sylvie's super summer tan skin

I love the way his eyes wrinkle when smiling. and the cute dimples in his cheeks.

sweet sweet boy

No used correctly

I am not adverse to bribing my child to make her behave better (don't judge). She loves this hair detangler and always plays with it (she can't get the cap off) while on her changing table. After her bath I tell her if she is good and doesn't whine and complain while getting ready for bed she can have the hair detanlger in her hair.
Sylvie had a rough day on Sunday. She had a fever on Saturday and was extremely tired. After her bath she was whining and complaining and just over tired.
She grabbed the detangler bottle and ordered me to put it in her hair! I said:
'Sylvie, you know only good girls get that in their hair, right? Have you been a good girl?'
With her eyes down she sadly responded:
'noooo'
:(
I let her have the detangler in her hair. I mean, she used 'no' and the correct form for once!

Sylvie's 2!

I met the most amazing person two years ago today. She changed my life, as any child would change anyone's life. I am constantly staring at her. She is amazing in every way. She is smart, extremely beautiful, polite and kind off a tomboy. She plays by herself but has so many (forced -hehe) friends already.
I cannot believe the look of happiness on her face when she see’s me! This little person thinks I am the world. Little does she know how much of the my world she is to me.

Some of my favorite things about you are:

The way you are so excited to see me when I come home after work- ‘hi mama’. The way you love baked beans and always ask for more. The way you use utensils so well. The way you cry over spilled water when drinking from a cup. The way you love elmo. The way you love your brother. The way you kiss and hug your brother, even when I don’t ask you to. The way you tell me you love me, when I don’t ask you to. You sweet little voice. Your Sylvanian language. The way you read books to us. The way you wave bye to your friends at school. The way you cry when I leave you at school, and seek comfort from Miss Olga. The way you get concerned about wade when you and I go out together, alone. The way you help mama pick up wade. The way you run everywhere. Your dancing. The way you look when Twinkle Twinkle Little star comes on the radio. The way Music makes you stop and listen. The way you love commercials with children in them. The way you say ‘r’ instead of ‘l’s in some words ‘ mama ray down!’. The way you say ‘durder’ instead of color. The way you only let me ‘durder’ with one color- of your choice. The way you only get to color in your sesame street coloring book- dada and I get the worn out Arthur coloring book. The way you love your dolly’s. The way you want dinner right at 5 o clock, and pull your hairchair out to sit in. The way you love fruit. The way you ask for apple juice all the time. The way you love your oatmeal every morning. your love of all things shoes. The way you love your family members (esp peter). The way you say ‘nena, opa’ and run to the front door. The way aunt chelle is annsell. And you ask for Sassan constantly. The way you are so happy after a day with grandma and grandpa. Every baby, except Wade, is peter. I love that you cannot say the ‘k’ sound for the word color- but Twinkle is ‘kinkle’ and tickle is ‘kickle’.

I always say this, but I just could not love a little girl more. She came into this world with a smile on her face and bossiness in her bones. She has sweetness in her heart and giggles in her stomach- and I love her for it all! Sylvie know what she wants, and she will achieve all her goals (as a two year old I am not sure she has any other goal than watching Elmo all day. and now that I think of it, she will NOT be achieving that goal J). Mama and dada believe in you!