I wanted to write this before I forgot...
This week, Brielle stood on 4 different occasions all by herself without holding onto anything. Two times for 6 seconds, one time for 7 and one time for 8. She LOVES holding onto your fingers and "walking" across the room, but her legs are definitely quite wobbly and unsteady. She's getting to be a much more confident walker, but I think it will be awhile before she walks on her own. (hopefully!)
Friday, October 11, 2013
Brielle is 8 months old!
Today, Brielle is 8 months old! Brielle, you continue to be an absolute joy and constant blessing to have around. We love you! Here's what you are into at 8 months:
-You're still in size 3 diapers. Clothes-wise, you wear anywhere between 6 (a stretch!) and 12 months. 12 month pants seem to fit you fine. I put a pair of shoes on you today for our outing to the playground and you were not a fan.
-Your hair is growing SO fast. Your bangs totally cover your eyes and it's hard to keep them out of your face. You have a lot of hair, but it's really fine, so it's hard to put up. We usually put it in a ponytail on top of your head or two pigtails on top of your head. Daddy got a headband to work the other day, and I got a headband to work for about 5 minutes on Monday.
-You LOVE squealing at the top of your lungs and are very loud when you do that! You've started saying DADADADA and today I also heard MAMAMAMA. You are not connecting the sounds to us, but I've at least heard you say both.
-It's very easy to make you smile... I just have to look at you and smile! Happiest baby ever!
-You eat solid food for breakfast and dinner and today I also fed you at lunch time. You really like trying to fit your thumb in your mouth in the middle of when we're feeding you, so we often have to hold your right hand. Yesterday, you were doing that when I was feeding you a bottle, too. You like most foods we give you. I finally found time to start making you a bunch of food this week and found that you really liked the squash/carrot/parsnip food I made you! Today, you surprised me by liking the green bean/squash/apple/pear combo. You also enjoyed pumpkin for the first time tonight. You definitely love your yogurt. You're not too keen on finger foods yet. We've tried peas, cheerios, pasta and puffs and you don't really like any of them.
-You are a crawling maniac! You can make it places so quickly if you want to. Your favorite places to hightail it to are the bathroom when you hear Eli go in there (you like going over to the bathtub to stand up) and the fridge when you hear me open it. You also really like hanging out by the stove, by the front door (there is a wire there you like trying to get and there is the ever elusive kitty litter box you love), under the TV (bunch of wires), by the bookshelf (you like taking them off, one by one), behind the couch (where your brothers often play) and in front of mommy's closet (always something to get into).
-Your favorite toys continue to be matchbox cars and trains. Your brothers have a little plastic ball you love chasing after. You love chewing on Sophie, though you don't put as many toys into your mouth as your brothers did at this age. You like standing at your music table and in the last few days, you've really been interested in your stacking cups. You like to try to grab books that I'm reading to your brothers.
-You love going to the playground. You LOVE the sandbox. You could (and do) spend hours in there... crawling around, standing up at the edges, looking for leaves, smiling at other babies, doing faceplants. You love standing up at the playground, holding on to bars. You can go up single steps on the playground structures. You like the slide but aren't crazy about it. You used to not be so sure of the swings, but now you love them and laugh and laugh when I push you, especially if I kiss you (or air kiss you) every time you come close to me. You LOVE looking for leaves at the playground and love crumbling them, putting them in your mouth and licking them. You aren't too happy when I take them away from you and are always in search of another leaf. You have many admirers when we hit the playgrounds.
-Your brothers ADORE you and now fight over who gets to hold/play with you more. If one of them is over playing with you, the other one will come over and put up a fight, saying it's HIS turn to play with you. They both really enjoy picking you up and putting you in their lap, over their bellies, etc, and you are such a great sport that you never complain, even if they are dragging you across the floor by a leg.
-You take two naps a day. Your first nap is anywhere from 45 min to 90 minutes and this week, I had to wake you up twice so that we could go pick up Eli from school. Your second nap has been longer this week... usually in the 2 hour range. You're still an excellent sleeper at night and never wake up. You're a very light sleeper in the morning and usually are awoken by daddy and/or your brothers between 6 and 6:30.
-You love when you get to "walk" around... when I hold onto your fingers and lead you around. You are very unsteady on your feet. You are an excellent stander, though, and even stood on your own for 5 seconds or so a few times this past week!
-You love when Daddy comes home from work and immediately start crawling over to him/squealing and laughing when you see him. It's very cute.
8 months!!!
-You're still in size 3 diapers. Clothes-wise, you wear anywhere between 6 (a stretch!) and 12 months. 12 month pants seem to fit you fine. I put a pair of shoes on you today for our outing to the playground and you were not a fan.
-Your hair is growing SO fast. Your bangs totally cover your eyes and it's hard to keep them out of your face. You have a lot of hair, but it's really fine, so it's hard to put up. We usually put it in a ponytail on top of your head or two pigtails on top of your head. Daddy got a headband to work the other day, and I got a headband to work for about 5 minutes on Monday.
-You LOVE squealing at the top of your lungs and are very loud when you do that! You've started saying DADADADA and today I also heard MAMAMAMA. You are not connecting the sounds to us, but I've at least heard you say both.
-It's very easy to make you smile... I just have to look at you and smile! Happiest baby ever!
-You eat solid food for breakfast and dinner and today I also fed you at lunch time. You really like trying to fit your thumb in your mouth in the middle of when we're feeding you, so we often have to hold your right hand. Yesterday, you were doing that when I was feeding you a bottle, too. You like most foods we give you. I finally found time to start making you a bunch of food this week and found that you really liked the squash/carrot/parsnip food I made you! Today, you surprised me by liking the green bean/squash/apple/pear combo. You also enjoyed pumpkin for the first time tonight. You definitely love your yogurt. You're not too keen on finger foods yet. We've tried peas, cheerios, pasta and puffs and you don't really like any of them.
-You are a crawling maniac! You can make it places so quickly if you want to. Your favorite places to hightail it to are the bathroom when you hear Eli go in there (you like going over to the bathtub to stand up) and the fridge when you hear me open it. You also really like hanging out by the stove, by the front door (there is a wire there you like trying to get and there is the ever elusive kitty litter box you love), under the TV (bunch of wires), by the bookshelf (you like taking them off, one by one), behind the couch (where your brothers often play) and in front of mommy's closet (always something to get into).
-Your favorite toys continue to be matchbox cars and trains. Your brothers have a little plastic ball you love chasing after. You love chewing on Sophie, though you don't put as many toys into your mouth as your brothers did at this age. You like standing at your music table and in the last few days, you've really been interested in your stacking cups. You like to try to grab books that I'm reading to your brothers.
-You love going to the playground. You LOVE the sandbox. You could (and do) spend hours in there... crawling around, standing up at the edges, looking for leaves, smiling at other babies, doing faceplants. You love standing up at the playground, holding on to bars. You can go up single steps on the playground structures. You like the slide but aren't crazy about it. You used to not be so sure of the swings, but now you love them and laugh and laugh when I push you, especially if I kiss you (or air kiss you) every time you come close to me. You LOVE looking for leaves at the playground and love crumbling them, putting them in your mouth and licking them. You aren't too happy when I take them away from you and are always in search of another leaf. You have many admirers when we hit the playgrounds.
-Your brothers ADORE you and now fight over who gets to hold/play with you more. If one of them is over playing with you, the other one will come over and put up a fight, saying it's HIS turn to play with you. They both really enjoy picking you up and putting you in their lap, over their bellies, etc, and you are such a great sport that you never complain, even if they are dragging you across the floor by a leg.
-You take two naps a day. Your first nap is anywhere from 45 min to 90 minutes and this week, I had to wake you up twice so that we could go pick up Eli from school. Your second nap has been longer this week... usually in the 2 hour range. You're still an excellent sleeper at night and never wake up. You're a very light sleeper in the morning and usually are awoken by daddy and/or your brothers between 6 and 6:30.
-You love when you get to "walk" around... when I hold onto your fingers and lead you around. You are very unsteady on your feet. You are an excellent stander, though, and even stood on your own for 5 seconds or so a few times this past week!
-You love when Daddy comes home from work and immediately start crawling over to him/squealing and laughing when you see him. It's very cute.
8 months!!!
More things about Liam in October
Liam in October:
-Sometimes, he has little conversations with himself that involve him telling himself to do something. He then says "Ok? ok." Super cute.
-Anything that he sees that is brown is "Poo poo cats!" Brown paint, rocks, basically anything that is brown. Today, he actually told me two times when he pooped. The second time, he came over and pointed at his diaper and said "Poo poo cats."
-He's been REALLY nice and sweet to Riley lately and she even lets him come near her now.
He pets her very sweetly, though he is still obsessed with feeling her ears...something she does not want him to do.
-Every morning, he likes to share a greek yogurt with me. We mix in granola and take turns taking bites. He is pretty much obsessed with yogurt... it has always been his favorite food. Today he had two yogurts plus shared mine PLUS threw a fit cause I wouldn't give him another one.
-He likes eating Cheerios and Kix. He really likes picking up a whole handful of either and putting it to his mouth like cookie monster, so most of the pieces fall. He says "cookie monster" while he's doing this.
-He somehow got a hold of a marker that I didn't see and somehow managed to color about 5 of his train tracks purple. Grrr. Every time he finds one now, he giggles and says "bad?"
-I once was having a hard time getting out the door with the double stroller cause the door stop wasn't working and I told the boys I was mad at the door. Now, every time we leave the apt, Liam turns around and says "Mommy mad? door?"
-Every day, he tells me he wants me to do "lots and lots of trains" while making his finger go in a circle. He wants me to build a train track for him and wants me to sit down and watch him play. He prefers that the basket of train tracks is completely dumped out each time. He knows the names of all of the trains without hesitating, even though I still have to check the bottom to see if it's Henry or Percy.... or Thomas or Edward (same colors). His favorite trains seem to be Toby, Henry and Neville.
-I discovered yesterday that he REALLY likes Elephant and Piggie books and will actually sit still for the whole entire book.
-He always asks to watch Iron Man or the Avengers or SpiderMan if it's his turn to watch TV. He's generally not that interested in TV... he pretends like he is, and occasionally he will sit there and watch something, but typically he just watches the first five minutes of a show and then asks me for the iPad.
-He really enjoys setting traps for things these days. He does it for Brielle and for a select number of his toys. The toy will be there and he'll dump out as many toys/books as he can to surround the object to make a trap. The other day, he surrounded Brielle with diapers and wipes and excitedly kept yelling "baby trap! baby trap!"
-He won't go to sleep in his own bed at night (with me in charge, that is. With mike, no problem). He wants to lay next to me and steam roll over me from side to side to side until he falls asleep. Either Mike or I then carry him off to his own bed, where he stays until about 6:15 when he hears Mike getting ready in the morning.
-He's been big into riding the little red motorcycle around while wearing his fire helmet the last few days. Two days ago, he rode like that to Eli's school when we went to pick him up.
-On our way home from school, nearly every day, we stop in a little restaurant Kolmaro and the boys get empanadas. They know us there and we love them. Eli goes up to the counter and asks for a cheese one and Liam always goes in yelling "BEEF! BEEF!" He eats only the edges off and then hands it to me and says "DONE, mommy!"
-Did I mention that he really enjoys dumping out every single toy he owns onto the floor?
-He gets REALLY, REALLY mad when Eli takes something of his. He screams and screams and closes his eyes and says "NOOOOO!" and pounds his fists and loooooses his cool and then goes over and bites Eli.
-He can now say "sticker" instead of "ack" and continues to ask for them every 5 seconds.
-He doesn't like it when Brielle puts her thumb in her mouth and comes over and pulls it out.
-If Eli is ever talking to/playing with/holding Brielle, he HAS to come over and do the same thing. They now fight all the time over who gets to be the one playing with Brielle.
-He LOVES taking baths. He always asks "Baff??" Eli has moved on to showers, so Liam gets the whole bath to himself and loves it. He likes to lay on his back and pretend he is swimming.
-Mike says he always asks for corned beef and runs around saying "BEEF! BEEF! BEEF! " on the weekends.
-He likes to ask "Kuya go?" or "Daddy go?" when he wants to know where they are. He calls Eli "Kuya" (Filipino word for big brother) all the time now.
-For the past two days, he keeps wanting to wear underwear. The first day, I took off his diaper and let him wear just that. That ended as soon as he peed all over the floor. Last night, he slept with underwear on over top of his jammies and was very mad at me for taking them off in the morning.
-He has buzz lightyear shoes and loves them. He calls them "Buzz shoes!" and always wants to be a big boy and put them on himself. He cannot do this and screams and yells and pitches an absolute fit.
-He loves going to the playground, especially when we go in the sandbox or when I chase him around.
-Sometimes, he has little conversations with himself that involve him telling himself to do something. He then says "Ok? ok." Super cute.
-Anything that he sees that is brown is "Poo poo cats!" Brown paint, rocks, basically anything that is brown. Today, he actually told me two times when he pooped. The second time, he came over and pointed at his diaper and said "Poo poo cats."
-He's been REALLY nice and sweet to Riley lately and she even lets him come near her now.
He pets her very sweetly, though he is still obsessed with feeling her ears...something she does not want him to do.
-Every morning, he likes to share a greek yogurt with me. We mix in granola and take turns taking bites. He is pretty much obsessed with yogurt... it has always been his favorite food. Today he had two yogurts plus shared mine PLUS threw a fit cause I wouldn't give him another one.
-He likes eating Cheerios and Kix. He really likes picking up a whole handful of either and putting it to his mouth like cookie monster, so most of the pieces fall. He says "cookie monster" while he's doing this.
-He somehow got a hold of a marker that I didn't see and somehow managed to color about 5 of his train tracks purple. Grrr. Every time he finds one now, he giggles and says "bad?"
-I once was having a hard time getting out the door with the double stroller cause the door stop wasn't working and I told the boys I was mad at the door. Now, every time we leave the apt, Liam turns around and says "Mommy mad? door?"
-Every day, he tells me he wants me to do "lots and lots of trains" while making his finger go in a circle. He wants me to build a train track for him and wants me to sit down and watch him play. He prefers that the basket of train tracks is completely dumped out each time. He knows the names of all of the trains without hesitating, even though I still have to check the bottom to see if it's Henry or Percy.... or Thomas or Edward (same colors). His favorite trains seem to be Toby, Henry and Neville.
-I discovered yesterday that he REALLY likes Elephant and Piggie books and will actually sit still for the whole entire book.
-He always asks to watch Iron Man or the Avengers or SpiderMan if it's his turn to watch TV. He's generally not that interested in TV... he pretends like he is, and occasionally he will sit there and watch something, but typically he just watches the first five minutes of a show and then asks me for the iPad.
-He really enjoys setting traps for things these days. He does it for Brielle and for a select number of his toys. The toy will be there and he'll dump out as many toys/books as he can to surround the object to make a trap. The other day, he surrounded Brielle with diapers and wipes and excitedly kept yelling "baby trap! baby trap!"
-He won't go to sleep in his own bed at night (with me in charge, that is. With mike, no problem). He wants to lay next to me and steam roll over me from side to side to side until he falls asleep. Either Mike or I then carry him off to his own bed, where he stays until about 6:15 when he hears Mike getting ready in the morning.
-He's been big into riding the little red motorcycle around while wearing his fire helmet the last few days. Two days ago, he rode like that to Eli's school when we went to pick him up.
-On our way home from school, nearly every day, we stop in a little restaurant Kolmaro and the boys get empanadas. They know us there and we love them. Eli goes up to the counter and asks for a cheese one and Liam always goes in yelling "BEEF! BEEF!" He eats only the edges off and then hands it to me and says "DONE, mommy!"
-Did I mention that he really enjoys dumping out every single toy he owns onto the floor?
-He gets REALLY, REALLY mad when Eli takes something of his. He screams and screams and closes his eyes and says "NOOOOO!" and pounds his fists and loooooses his cool and then goes over and bites Eli.
-He can now say "sticker" instead of "ack" and continues to ask for them every 5 seconds.
-He doesn't like it when Brielle puts her thumb in her mouth and comes over and pulls it out.
-If Eli is ever talking to/playing with/holding Brielle, he HAS to come over and do the same thing. They now fight all the time over who gets to be the one playing with Brielle.
-He LOVES taking baths. He always asks "Baff??" Eli has moved on to showers, so Liam gets the whole bath to himself and loves it. He likes to lay on his back and pretend he is swimming.
-Mike says he always asks for corned beef and runs around saying "BEEF! BEEF! BEEF! " on the weekends.
-He likes to ask "Kuya go?" or "Daddy go?" when he wants to know where they are. He calls Eli "Kuya" (Filipino word for big brother) all the time now.
-For the past two days, he keeps wanting to wear underwear. The first day, I took off his diaper and let him wear just that. That ended as soon as he peed all over the floor. Last night, he slept with underwear on over top of his jammies and was very mad at me for taking them off in the morning.
-He has buzz lightyear shoes and loves them. He calls them "Buzz shoes!" and always wants to be a big boy and put them on himself. He cannot do this and screams and yells and pitches an absolute fit.
-He loves going to the playground, especially when we go in the sandbox or when I chase him around.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Favorite Things
Thought I would take a minute to jot down the kids' favorite things... as of October 7, 2013.
Brielle at almost 8 months:
-absolute favorite thing in the world is eating leaves
-playing in the sandbox (and finding leaves to eat)
-squealing
-licking/playing with shoes
-playing with cords, especially mommy's computer cord, the cords behind the TV and the one near the kitty litter box
-making a beeline for the fridge whenever someone opens it
-making a beeline for the bathroom whenever the door is open
-chasing the cats
Liam, at 2 years, 4 months:
-crying
-whining
-crying AND whining
-having a fit if it takes me longer than 1 second to give him what he wants
-screaming
-throwing things
-coloring on things he's not supposed to (the table, his train tracks)
-getting into fights with his brother
-running away from me when it's time to change his diaper
-playing in the sandbox with trucks
-being chased on the playground
-riding his scooter
-playing the iPad
-reading a book called "Bi Bim Bop"
-taking all of the cushions off of the couch
-dumping out all of his baskets of toys
-playing with trains
-getting baths
-jumping on the bed/on mommy instead of listening to stories
Eli, at 4 years, 5 months
-whining
-poking his brother in the eye/pulling his ears/poking him in the face
-riding his scooter inside/crashing it into Liam
-holding/cuddling with/laughing with Brielle
-reading long books
-learning phonics
-rhyming words
-watching TV
-playing the iPad
-getting showers
-jumping/falling
-not sitting down when he eats
Mommy, at 35 years, 3 months
-quiet
-taking full showers
-times when everyone is playing and no poking or yelling is happening (rarrrreee)
-times when everyone eats their lunch (what would that be like?)
-times (HA) when everyone is sleeping
-times when everyone sleeps til at least 7am (rare. very rare. only happens for daddy).
-reading long stories to the boys
-frozen margaritas
-nights out with friends
-morning trips to the playground
-baby laughs
-feeding Brielle
-listening to Adele while cleaning/organizing/washing dishes/cooking.
-baking, preferably with no little tasters around
Brielle at almost 8 months:
-absolute favorite thing in the world is eating leaves
-playing in the sandbox (and finding leaves to eat)
-squealing
-licking/playing with shoes
-playing with cords, especially mommy's computer cord, the cords behind the TV and the one near the kitty litter box
-making a beeline for the fridge whenever someone opens it
-making a beeline for the bathroom whenever the door is open
-chasing the cats
Liam, at 2 years, 4 months:
-crying
-whining
-crying AND whining
-having a fit if it takes me longer than 1 second to give him what he wants
-screaming
-throwing things
-coloring on things he's not supposed to (the table, his train tracks)
-getting into fights with his brother
-running away from me when it's time to change his diaper
-playing in the sandbox with trucks
-being chased on the playground
-riding his scooter
-playing the iPad
-reading a book called "Bi Bim Bop"
-taking all of the cushions off of the couch
-dumping out all of his baskets of toys
-playing with trains
-getting baths
-jumping on the bed/on mommy instead of listening to stories
Eli, at 4 years, 5 months
-whining
-poking his brother in the eye/pulling his ears/poking him in the face
-riding his scooter inside/crashing it into Liam
-holding/cuddling with/laughing with Brielle
-reading long books
-learning phonics
-rhyming words
-watching TV
-playing the iPad
-getting showers
-jumping/falling
-not sitting down when he eats
Mommy, at 35 years, 3 months
-quiet
-taking full showers
-times when everyone is playing and no poking or yelling is happening (rarrrreee)
-times when everyone eats their lunch (what would that be like?)
-times (HA) when everyone is sleeping
-times when everyone sleeps til at least 7am (rare. very rare. only happens for daddy).
-reading long stories to the boys
-frozen margaritas
-nights out with friends
-morning trips to the playground
-baby laughs
-feeding Brielle
-listening to Adele while cleaning/organizing/washing dishes/cooking.
-baking, preferably with no little tasters around
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