Hello girls!

This last month just flew by! We’ve been having a ton of fun being out of school and getting on each other’s nerves a bit, but still it’s great. Mother’s Day was this month and you guys made me a block tower and a card (on which Peanut wrote “I love you” about 50 times). We also spent almost every day this month confirming that we’re not going to the ocean quite yet (we leave at the end of June!). It’s been just grand.

Twig, you are just so amusing now. If I ask you if you want something (like food, for instance) and you really, really want it, you say “Yeah!” It sounds more like “Ah!” though and it’s super cute. You also started saying duck, in the context of playing Duck, Duck, Goose of course! Peanut has been begging to play pretty much since you were born and we decided a couple of weeks ago that you may kind of grasp the concept now. And you do! Well, for the most part. You were initially just amused that you could smack us on the head as hard as you could and yell “da!” Pretty soon though, you figured out the best part of Duck, Duck, Goose is that you get to run away from people! Now you almost always goose on the first person you come to (usually still yelling “da!”) and run away squealing. This has developed into loving to run and chase or run away from your sister all the time.

Really, you love to mimic Peanut in general. Is Peanut leaning against the couch? You must lean against the couch. Is Peanut dancing? You must dance. Peanut is playing babies? You must play babies (to be fair though, you quite enjoy playing babies without Peanut too). Quiet time (a mandatory hour of time where Peanut has alone time in her room every day), when it doesn’t coincide with your nap, is about your least favorite time of the day. What are you supposed to do without your big sister to mimic? Really, it works in my favor the majority of the time though. If you’re both outside and I need you to come in, all I have to do is convince Peanut to come inside. 90% of the time you’ll follow her. It can also work against my favor though when Peanut decides to do something really foolish (like trying to walk on the side of the railing the stairs are on), you’ll immediately decide you need to do it too. Then when she stops, you decide you need to keep working on mastering that new skill. Blerg.

Peanut, you’re pretty hilarious too. Lately you love to tell me how much prettier you are than me. If I’m putting on make-up (a rare occurrence out of laziness), you tell me about how you don’t need make-up because you are so much prettier than me. Or if someone gives me a compliment you immediately tell them that you’re prettier than me. I don’t feel offended by it. Honestly, I love how candid kids are at this age.

You’re also telling me lately all of the stuff you want to be when you grow up. For a while, it changed as often as you change your underpants (which is daily, thank you very much). Monday-bus driver, Tuesday-chef, Wednesday-lady at the recycling center that scoops compost into the truck, etc. Now though, it’s the same thing every day–astronaut. Your daddy couldn’t be more pleased. He’s mostly pleased because it means that you need to be an engineer, which he thinks is the only logical college degree. I pointedly bring up that I am not going to school to become an engineer. He’s a jerk like that (don’t worry, it’s in a funny way).

And again, I’m amazed with your memory. When we were trying to sell our van, we had to take it to Salt Lake for a company to look at it. Right when we got into the van, you asked me about the movie with the blue dog. You see, a month or two before this, we were looking through our few DVDs and you asked to watch a Blues Clues one. I told you we couldn’t because we had gotten the case out of the car, but had forgotten the actual DVD in the van’s player. You remembered from that long ago! And then when we did sell the van a week later, you were adamant that we get the DVD out of the player. Apparently it’s a good one! You’re also getting really good at reading your calendar. Every morning when you wake up you cross off yesterday (often before I’m even out of bed) with a big black marker. Then you tell me what date it is and, when asked, you’ll scan up to figure out what day of the week. You also enjoy that I put what’s happening on that day (and get pretty frustrated when I forget) so that you know what’s coming up. We drew on a car for when we leave for the beach and you love looking at it.

Until next month,

Mama

Hey Girls!

Once again, I’ve neglected to do a newsletter for a month. Hopefully it’ll be easier now that I’m out of school for the next four months, though I’m guessing it’ll be considerably more difficult when I have to go back to school full-time in the fall. Oh well, it’s all a part of life.

Peanut, you’ve decided that everything is a microphone. You will grab anything that’s relatively long and fits easily in your hand and sing into it while dancing. Your favorite song right now is I Knew You Were Trouble by Taylor Swift (don’t blame me, it was the radio!) and you’ll sing and dance to it like crazy. You love to grab the handle of the locked sliding glass door and swing back and forth. You’re also making up little dances for people. You told me last week that you were making a dance for Mema for Mother’s Day and actually followed through today by doing a dance for her when we saw her. Sure, it’s not quite Mother’s Day yet and I’m pretty sure it was a different dance, but it’s awesome that you remembered. It’s also awesome that you care enough about holidays to give people gifts. Makes me really curious what you’ve been whispering with daddy about.

Another favorite thing recently is doing your hair just like mama’s.

It’s amazing how much your imagination is blooming. I swear about every 5 minutes at home you try to get me to play a game. Generally it’s something along the line of “I’m the mommy, you’re the grandma, and Twig is the baby” or some other combination of familial ties. Often you spice it up by adding specific type of family, like we’re all cats or birds. I have approximately 30 minutes a day that I can totally engross myself in this type of play before I start to pull my hair out (I never said I was perfect), but when you’re with other little girls it can go on for hours.

And you cut your hair by yourself while mama was putting sister down for a nap.

Last week you ended preschool for the summer. I know you were pretty sad to say goodbye to your friends for the summer, or for some of them that are entering kindergarten next year, forever. We made cookies for your teachers who said they were sad to see you go and kept talking about how smart you are in the end of year parent teacher conference. We got a nifty little book with pictures of you and information on all of your emotional, physical, and mental skills. Your teachers are very happy with how you can write all of your letters (I think some of the kids in your school only write the ones in their names) and how you know all the sounds to the letters. They said that over the summer, we can work on writing lowercase letters (you mostly choose uppercase) where appropriate and sounding out words if you’re interested. They were also impressed about how much you love the science sections of class (and how patient you are about trying new options when your hypothesis doesn’t work out). You’re really a very smart little girl!

Playing with your bandaid after tripping and scraping your knee at the park.

Twig, you’re a little handful! I remember this being a tough age for Peanut too. You’re a determined little thing! After we finally got steady on crawling up and down the stairs, you decided that you needed to walk. Now every time that we go up or down stairs, you’ll say “Ma!” and reach for my hand to steady you. At least you’re doing that now though, because when you first started you really thought you could do it all by yourself, which scared mama quite a bit. Now you’re a bit more steady and walk up some stairs on your own, like the small stairs at our house (we live in a split level, so there’s only 5 stairs to each floor), but I make sure you don’t try to handle anything too scary on your own. This determination also extends to other things, like going on the biggest slide you can find over and over (even after hitting your head on it) or running down a hill over and over until you can handle it gracefully.

You’re also pretty possessive, which I can’t blame considering how much you girls take things away from each other. If I ask you for something that you don’t want to give, you whip your hands away from me and clutch it to you. In the rare cases that we really do have to take it away, you have an absolute fit, complete with flopping on the ground and thrashing around crying. I swear Peanut was older when she started to do that! But every kid is different and Peanut didn’t have a big fit-throwing sister to watch. Luckily though, we can generally get away with getting something away from you by asking you “a-way” in a sing-song voice like in music class, to which you’ll put whatever you have in your hand or mouth into the container I’m gesturing towards about 90% of the time. It’s super handy!

You love to do anything that big sister does. So many things that Peanut hadn’t even considered doing until she was about a year older you have to try because sister does it. You love the slide (like mentioned above), coloring, playing dress-up (though this one started about 4-5 months ago when you’d bring me pieces of laundry out of the basket and have me help you put them on), picking your own clothes, reading books (though for limited time periods before you request to nurse), and so many other things. It all makes you seem so grown up! I often have to remind myself that you’re only 15 months old, which isn’t too difficult when you start teething again (this time, it’s canines, so we’re almost done!).

Well girls, here’s to a happy summer. I’m sure we’re going to have a ball (and maybe mama will pull out just a little bit of hair) being with each other all day every day for the next four months. I’m excited for all the things we get to do, and especially all the things we get to not do, like leave the house! It’ll be grand.

Love, Mama

Hey girls!

Once again, I’ve managed to miss a month with your newsletter. Oh well, it’s just my season of life. We’ve been quite busy, as always, with school and fun. You girls certainly do your best to keep me busy too!

Peanut, your art is excelling with leaps and bounds! During the last newsletter, I shared your first drawing that looked like real people. Since then, you’re getting more and more detailed. Now you give them everything from torsos to ears. Actually, we had a bit of a funny incident when making your uncle’s birthday card last month. Since drawing Pop Pop on his birthday card, you’ve decided that you need to draw everyone on their birthday card. Well, on your uncle’s card, you decided to take it a step further. You drew him and then showed it to me saying “This is Uncle Jason and this is his penis!” Stifling a laugh, I asked you if we normally walk around with our private parts hanging out, to which you responded “Oh! I forgot his clothes!” and quickly drew some clothes over the top of him. You then drew your grandparents with their genitalia.

You’re really enjoying painting too. One day when we were at Target, we found a Dinosaur Train painting book on sale and I just had to get it for you. Since then, you’ve been painting with it nearly every day. I had to create a drying line in the kitchen with yarn and clothes pins just to avoid having paintings all over the kitchen table. You love painting at preschool too. From what I understand, you painted about fifty pictures of your best friend one day.

Really, you love preschool in general. I don’t think they could do any wrong. There has been a big of an upset though because your favorite “best friend” teacher is leaving. This is the teacher that you had last year too and I decided to put you in this specific time slot because it would mean you being in her class. She’s moving to Texas because her husband got a job there and you’ve been pretty upset about it, but you’ve calmed down since we decided to make her a going away gift. She mentioned that she liked the mittens I knit you, so I decided a while back that I’d knit her some at the end of the school year to thank her for being so great. Since she’s obviously not making it to the end of the school year, I decided to knit them now. I did them in purple so they’d match yours and you’re going to make her a card to go with them.

Twig, you’re a handful! You’re always on the move. The only time I can get you to sit still for even a second is while you’re napping. You’re very clingy at times and often just start screaming crying when I walk away from you, even if you could just follow me along. You’re also easy to upset, but I remember this being a rough age with sister too. You’re so on the move and still learning a lot, which has got to be tough.

You love to put on clothes too, especially shoes. You’re borderline obsessed with shoes. On and off and get some new ones and on and off. You think that a laundry basket full of clean clothes is just great because you can pull out random pieces of clothing (doesn’t matter if it’s mommy’s, daddy’s, sister’s, or your own) and try to put them on. After trying to pull whatever it is over your head a few times, you bring it over to mama so she can help you get it on. In the end you’ll be wearing daddy’s sock, sister’s jacket, your legwarmer, and mommy’s shirt. Then you’ll parade around the house showing everyone like you’re wearing the coolest outfit ever.

You also started to blow kisses, which is super cute. You’ve been waving bye for a while. Now you wave bye and then put your hand to your mouth and back out while making a popping sound. And you know when we’re getting ready to go to! You’ll go over to the door and start trying to open it, often getting frustrated that you can’t get it open. Then you start waving bye to everyone in the room, even the people who are leaving with you. You love to give hugs too. And your hugs aren’t just little pats, but these intense “Oh my goodness I love you SO much!” hugs. So after hugs and kisses, someone picks you up to carry you out and you start blowing kisses. I think you like the whole process of saying goodbye so much that you don’t even mind the fact that we’re leaving.

You girls are still doing great together too. Every time when we leave to go pick up Peanut from preschool, Twig gets super excited. And when Peanut stays the night at grandma and grandpa’s, you two act like you haven’t seen each other in months when we go to pick her up the next day. There’s still some sibling rivalry, of course, but it’s much more two sided at this point. Twig gets jealous that Peanut is in my lap at music and hits her. Peanut gets jealous that Twig runs up to me and has to run up to me too. Both of you argue over toys. This is all normal sibling stuff, which can be frustrating at times, but that’s just life. Walking in a room to see you two happily playing dress-up together makes it all worth it.

Well, until next month,

Mama

Hi girls!

We’ve had a fun December! It started with a bit of stress from mama finishing her finals, but then we got to spend the rest of the month at home with each other and it was lovely. All day together without going anywhere is sometimes stressful, but more often it’s just nice to be at home with you girls. It makes me sad to start my semester and Peanut’s preschool again next month!

Twig, you are such a climber. I honestly think your love of climbing delayed your learning to walk! You were just so interested in getting on higher and higher things that I think you could have cared less about horizontal movement! Step stools, tables, foot stools, couches, you’ll climb it all! And if you fall back down, you’ll cry for a second and then climb back up again!

Over this last month, you’ve gone from being totally uninterested in walking to a complete pro. You walk around constantly just because you can it seems. In circles, turning around in place, avoiding obstacles, walking on different surfaces, it’s all just cake for you. It’s like you were just waiting until you were developmentally ready to do it all before you tried to master the actual act of walking. You’re even convinced that you can walk down stairs, which has made them scary for mama again. You just can’t give me a rest on those things! You had a tumble again the other day, but you were just fine. Regardless though, you should just stop with the falling down the stairs thing.

Peanut, your new favorite thing is to mimic. You’ll pick a person and have to do anything they do. One day in music class it was one of your friends you know from preschool, dancing in all the same places she did and sitting next to her. Often it’s little sister, crawling around on the ground with her and touching all the things she touches. Even at times when I ask you to put on your jacket you say “Is mommy/daddy/sister wearing one?” before you decide if you’ll wear one.

Daddy, Mommy holding Twig, and Peanut.

You’re turning out to be a little artist too. For Pop Pop’s birthday, you not only wrote his card (Happy Birthday Pop Pop Love Dea written all by yourself), but you drew a picture of him on the front, as well as a picture of you on the inside holding the cake while Mema was next to you making sure you didn’t drop it. All your words! You also wrote and drew cards for all of your preschool teachers to go with the cookies we made them for your last day of preschool. You’ll start back up with preschool next month when the new school semester starts at the university, but the two student teachers will be gone and new ones will be there to replace them.

Hoping that next month can be as wonderful as this last month as been!

Mama

Hiya daughters!

It’s been a pretty stressful couple of months with lots of homework for mama, some sleep regression from Twig, occasional sibling rivalry from Peanut, Peanut starting preschool again, getting the flu, and lots of fun! Luckily, daddy stopped working 55 hours a week as of the first of October because his project was finished, so at least we had him around more often to help us with the stress.

This semester of Music Together ended at the end of November, but not before Peanut showed off her skills in class! Our teacher, Tiffany, was asking the parents to chime in with our own rhymes as part of a song. A few adults did so, but most of them were just twitching in their seats being nervous to sing. There you went chiming in with your own rhyme though! You’re so outgoing! Often you’re shy too, but when you warm up you’re really outspoken!

Speaking of how outgoing you are, you started preschool again at the end of October. You quickly made friends and from day one cried every time I came to pick you up. Considering you used to cry when I left you last year, I’m amazed! You always want to stay with your friends and you don’t like that your pickup time is right before snack! Luckily, your teachers don’t mind letting you stay for snack or take one home. Mama spends the time either getting some one-on-one time with little sister or doing homework. I often stay to watch you through the one-way window too so I can see how you interact with people when I’m not around.

You also decided to sleep in your own bed. One night I had already put sister to sleep and we were getting ready to read books. I suggested that we read them in your bed so we wouldn’t wake sister and you jumped on the idea! So we put you to bed and you sleep there until daddy goes to bed (he goes to bed quite late) and he comes up and sleeps with you for the rest of the night. You still usually wake up around 11pm-1am to come down and ask daddy where he is, but we don’t mind. You just fall asleep on the couch with daddy or he takes you upstairs and cuddles with you until you fall back asleep.

Twig, you love to mimic! It all started with Oma saying “aught-oh!” when you dropped things out of your highchair and you said it back! Since then, you mimic tones in music class (I would say music is your favorite activity) and other words. Sometimes it’s even spontaneous, like when you said “uh-ppppp” when you wanted to be picked up or when you saw a diagram of a testicle (I was taking human physiology this semester) that was orange and called it “bak-ball” (Yes, you say basketball, thanks to basketball-obsessed daddy). I don’t remember sister trying to hard to talk this early! I wouldn’t call these first words, as you generally say them after someone else has said them, but you’re certainly getting close to talking! I guess that’s what happens when you have mommy and big sister talking around you all the time.

You also learned the stairs sometime around the beginning of October. We spent a lot of time showing you how to turn around and climb down the stairs, but you for the most part avoided them until one day you just turned around and went for it. We had a nerve-wracking week or so where I didn’t trust that you wouldn’t fall, but you got the hang of it pretty quick. Then you started to get over-confident and fall down the stairs! You’d be crawling up and then decide that you need to stop and turn around to see something and tumble. Or you’d decide you wanted to hang onto the banister at the top of the stairs and try to walk up and lose your balance. Luckily, you also grew out of that pretty quick. Also luckily, we don’t have full staircases since our house is a split level.

You’re also waving bye-bye and giving kisses, which are the cutest things in the world. Of course the kisses are open-mouthed, but you love them! You’re so happy whenever you give a kiss though, since it’s been a couple months since you started, you’re not as interested in them anymore. Waving bye-bye is still really fun though. You don’t even mind that someone is leaving so long as you get to wave bye-bye! The walking is also coming along, but much more slowly progressing then it did with sister. With Peanut, it seemed like one day she wasn’t walking and the next is was her main mode of movement. For you, you’ve been doing little steps here and there, but you’re much more cautious about it. You also only want to walk when you want to and you often decide after a few steps to purposely sit down! You’re so stubborn! It’s okay though, because stubbornness is not a bad thing.

Taken right before Peanut started sleeping in her own bed.

For the both of you, the sibling rivalry has been sneaking in. Sometimes when mama picks up Twig, Peanut needs to be picked up too. Or when Peanut cries, Twig cries. Luckily you’re still pretty nice to each other, but there are sometimes squabbles where a toy gets taken or someone gets pushed over. We just keep working on being nice to each other, which works a great majority of the time. It’s great to hear silence, freak out because I realize it’s been silent for a while (and, as a parent, that generally means that someone is doing something very bad), and have it turn out that you two are happily playing tea party together. Peanut often tells me that Twig is her best friend and Twig makes it obvious that she feels the same way by her smiles when we pick up Peanut from preschool. Life is definitely more stressful with two of you, but just watching you two interact together makes it all worth it.

Until next month!

Mama

Hello Girls!

Sorry I missed last month’s newsletter. We were running around having so much fun that I forgot again! Trust me, mama forgetting things will become a theme in your lives. Actually, it already has. Whenever I turn the car around immediately after leaving the house, Peanut asks me “What did you forget?”

If I would have gotten last month’s newsletter, I would have been correct that Twig would be crawling by the end of the month. The day that I officially called it (since you started moving in a specific direction with determination) was August 16th. I know this because I took a video of it (see above). And 6 weeks later, you’re zooming around. You crawl crazy fast, pull yourself to stand, and even walk along furniture. You’ll be walking any day now.

Twig in Music Together

You also had your first real tumble. Last Friday you fell down the stairs. Well, you’ve actually fallen down the stairs once before, but that was back when they were carpeted and you toppled down the stairs. This time, since we have our banister removed to be painted, you actually fell of the side of the stairs and landed about 3 stairs down. On your head and everything. I felt like an awful mama, but we took you to the doctor and she said you were just fine. Luckily I caught you after the initial bonk, so that’s really all you hit.

You’re a big talker now too. Daddy says you yell way more than sister ever did and I don’t doubt it. It seems like you’re constantly screaming. Not in a mad or sad way, just screaming. You’re also trying out your pre-words like mamamamamama and dadadadadada and you even say up, but without context of course. You’re also laughing all the time now. So much so that if I hadn’t witnessed it, I would never think you could have been a stingy laugher.

You’ve started getting upset when people leave the room. Not just mama either. If you’re looking at someone and they walk away, regardless of if it’s somewhere you can follow, you just start to wail. I think you’re starting to get a bit of separation anxiety. Though when mama leaves, you generally don’t care too much. I think it’s partially that I’ve avoided leaving you very much thus far, but you stay pretty much happy while I’m gone from what I hear. The grandmas also say that you do the sign for milk a lot while I’m gone (though I’m not sure if you know that’s what you’re doing or if you even associate it with nursing). Then, of course, you always want to nurse as soon as I get back.

Peanut’s had a hard time this past month. Mama read everywhere that it gets hard again when baby number 2 can get into the older sibling’s things, but oh boy she didn’t really grasp it until it was here. You’ve been extra sensitive, to the point where the word “no” will set you off screaming crying, even if it’s not directed at you. Things have gotten better though since mama has figured out a game plan. When I just sit and hold you until the tears are over, you feel better faster and you have less outbursts overall. Too bad it took me so long to come to this confusion. Just goes to show that even the most well-intentioned mama can make mistakes.

You’ve taken up a sudden interest in writing. I tried to get you to write last year and you wanted nothing to do with it, but you suddenly decided that not only did you want to spell your name, but you wanted to write it too. Now every time that there’s a name tag (like music class or story time) you want to be the one to write your name. You also like writing your first, middle, and last name, but need help on the last name because you can’t remember how to write some of the letters. You also went on the boat for the first time (and were obsessed with it for weeks before and after), ran your first race (only 1K, but you loved it), and went rock climbing for the first time.

I’m constantly amazed at the things you say. The other day when we were driving in the car with daddy, you asked him if he knew what our “des-in-a-shon” was (destination), which was not only adorable since you pronounce almost everything correctly (which makes it that much more cute when you don’t), but also because you remembered the word destination! You also pronounce dinosaur names better than I do half the time and you’ve recently started saying “Sure. I don’t care.” when we ask you a question. I didn’t even realize that I say that until it came out of your mouth.

Even with the stress of sister getting into your things, you still absolutely adore her. About 90% of the time when she’s laughing it’s because of you. You love to play peek-a-boo with her and “train” (which is you getting in front of her and crawling, then she follows you). You love to play in the bath with her (and occasionally take her toys) and you think it’s the coolest thing in the world to feed her with a spoon yourself (for things that we use spoons for like yogurt). You’ve also figured out how to pick her up (which is mostly dragging her feet while you hold her around the chest), which doesn’t always turn out happy. It does come in handy when Twig starts messing with the receiver while you’re watching a show though.

Until next month!
Mama

Hello Girls!

Sorry I missed your newsletter last month. I didn’t realize until the month was half over that I missed it. Life is just a little bit hectic around here! We are getting into the swing of things though. We have our little rhythm in the day and it’s working out fine so far.

Peanut, you are my best friend. You tell me that every day and I am sincere when I reply that you’re mine too. That doesn’t mean that I don’t often want to rip your head off, but of course I love you too much to do that. I am happy to share my days with you even when you get on my nerves. That’s what a best friend is, right?

We’re still doing your preschool and you love it. You love to tell me what we should do the next day. You’re pretty creative too! Out of nowhere the other day you said that you wanted to ride your bike for preschool, which you literally haven’t touched since Easter day when you got it (and couldn’t figure out how to peddle it). I wonder if you were just too frustrated to go back to it until now, but that’s your way of telling me you’re ready? Throughout the day you’ll run over to your preschool board and tell me what thing you want to do off of it (you can’t read it, but you do remember what’s on it from me telling you in the morning).

Your favorite shows right now are Word World and Signing Time. You like to spell all the animal names from Word World on the fridge and even spell instrument names and pretend to play them. Since you were interested in learning signs again (out of nowhere in the car you showed me the letter R and told me what it was), we started getting you Signing Time from the library again and you love them. You love to sign along and then as we go about our day, tell me about the signs you learned.

You love your music class and go around the house singing the songs from it. You’ll even make up tonal and rhythm patterns for us to sing back to you. Sometimes you get overwhelmed in the class, but we just cuddle for a minute and then you’re better. You also love riding the train to the city and I think we’re going to start doing that for your music class every week.

I’m constantly amazed at the things you retain. Sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s bad! We’ve had a lot of talks about things that we don’t repeat, but you insist on continuing to repeat them. I guess small children have been known to say worse things than “dammit dog!” I still don’t like it coming out of your little mouth though! I thought I was being so careful about my language. Oops!

Sometimes the things you retain are for the better though. Like you’ll tell me Every. Single. Thing. we did the day before when you wake up in the morning. Or if I tell you we can do something after your quiet time (which has replaced your nap), you never forget it. You don’t even forget when I say that we can do something when you wake up in the morning. You’ll wake up and immediately start talking about it. Last week Mema said that she’d take you to the Treehouse Museum her next days off and you bothered me about it for days until we finally set a date. You finally remembering things makes you seem like such a little person.

Lastly, you love helping me. You’ve started, albeit inconsistently, doing chores. I give you a nickel for your piggy bank every time you do one and you told me you want to buy a soccer ball with it. Even when you don’t get paid though, you like to help me cook and clean. You even help me with sister. When I’m in the middle of something and she gets upset, you’ll go make “happy faces” at her and it often calms her down long enough for me to finish chopping an onion or unloading the dishwasher. You love your sister so much. Which brings us to…

Twig, you’re growing so fast! I’m not sure how big you are now because we haven’t been back to the doctor yet, but I’m sure you’re gaining just fine. You have so many rolls! It’s delicious.

You’re growing quickly developmentally too. You hold your head up like it’s nobody’s business and you started rolling over from back to front when you were only 2.5 months old. That’s even ahead of sister! If you walk as early as she did, I’m going to be upset with you. Babies are so much easier when they stay still! Mobility is over-rated, I swear. Don’t give into peer pressure!

You’re a whole bag of smiles. Every time a stranger sees you they comment on how you’re such a happy baby. You will smile at anyone that smiles at you and it’s a huge toothless grin. Literally you open your mouth as far as you possibly can as if you’re absolutely ecstatic. Even when you’re mad, you’ll often stop to smile at me if I smile at you.

Your favorite thing in the world is to stand on someone’s lap and your least favorite is to not get milk the instant you want it. You light up every day when daddy gets home and miss sister when she’s gone. Besides daddy, you’re not very happy with people who aren’t mama holding you for long periods of time, but that’s pretty normal for a little baby. So long as mama is close though, you’ll tolerate it. And, as I said before, you’ll happily smile at everyone while you’re in mama’s arms.

Love you both,

Mom