Things just are happening at lightning speed! Wade just got his first tooth and is working on two more. I thought his first tooth would be on his right side- his gums are bloody and he is always sucking his thumb there, but his first tooth was bottom in the middle. In typical Wade fashion he will now probably want steak for dinner. We are working on it….
He eats oatmeal, rice cereal and had banana for the first time last night and LOVED it. All organic and non dairy/ soy etc for his sensitive stomach. I tried to give him some of my frozen breast milk a couple of weeks ago and thought all was fine until about three days later when all heck broke loose. He is super fussy, poopy and looks extremely uncomfortable after he has dairy. I think my breast milk will all be expired soon so all my hopes of giving it to him are lost. He could really use it in the winter when all these sicky germs go around. Oh well I failed (haha).
Wade is also about to be sitting up. His teachers say he loves to sit up when all his buddies are- but only for about 3 sec. He is also the youngest and biggest baby in his room. Go figure. He laughs a lot and loves to be tickled under his ribs. He LOVES to watch his sister. The greatest thing in the world is watching them laugh at/ with each other. It makes it all worth while!
Sylvie is on her way to being a talkative girl. I heard it would never stop- and now I have lived it. Constant. Chatter. She has learned the word ‘not’. So she will eat oatmeal for breakfast ‘not cereal’. Her pants are clean ‘not dirty’. She thinks that heavy means hard, and doesn’t know the word hard- I am trying to teach her the difference. It is crazy how these little people grow up and their brains start functioning fully (I am always amazed!). When I was on maternity leave Sylvie, Wade and I hung out with my friend Katie and her daughters Emma and Sarah a lot. At that point Sylvie was talking and taking things in, but I had to remind her a lot of the time who people were. So last weekend Sylvie and I went to Emma’s 5th birthday party (where btw, Sylvie kept saying ‘my happy birhtday’). Sylvie was watching all the older girls play and Emma wasn’t around, But Sarah was. One little girl asked where Emma was, and Sylvie pointed to Sarah and said ‘There’s Emma!’ (Emma and Sarah look a little bit a like). I explained that Emma wasn’t here right now and Sylvie said ‘that’s Sarah!’. Not only did she remember our play dates from the Summer but she remembered the girls! I think about how amazed I am at these little people and wonder if when Sylvie is 30 I will still be amazed at her, or if at that point it will have sunk in that she is a functioning human being, and I made her ;)
Sylvie loves the merry go round, or as she calls it- the up and down. Every time we go to the mall I have to take her on the merry go round. She is so enthralled with it -and it makes me super sick (I’ll stick with the bouncy super high slides, thank you). I have to concentrate on one spot the whole time and can’t wait for it to be over. We went on a real horse last weekend at the birthday party. I think she is in love with horses! Daddy will have to get her a pony for her third birthday.
I am sure I will think of more and update soon…..the hits just keep on coming!
