Katelynn is our ball of energy. If you let her, she would probably run and jump and climb for 24 hours straight, barely stopping. I have found that although she fights sleeping, she does NEED sleep so the struggle has become getting her to relax enough to fall asleep and get some rest. She doesn't want to miss anything.It seems that everyday she comes up with new phrases, sometimes they are random ones we never hear again (still funny nonetheless) and sometimes they become a common thing. Her most recent phrase that she says constantly is, "Sure. I do dat tor (for) you." Whenever we ask her to please clean up her mess or help us with getting Justin a toy, etc. that is what she says to us. It is really pretty cute. Then there are the less common phrases that come from nowhere. Yesterday it was, "Mommy, you're a great girl." It was pretty cute, but it was also totally random.
Katelynn continues to attend playgroups regularly. She loves playing with
her friends. She also has quite an imagination of her own and is playing more and more on her own. Her top things to do are play with her dollhouse and her babies. She has taken a special liking to her very first baby doll she ever had lately. She calls her the "cheerio baby" because she fed the baby a cheerio several months ago and part of the cheerio got stuck in the baby's mouth for quite some time before I got it all out. Katelynn has also just started a creative dance class at one of the local children's gyms around here. She loves going, but we're still working on following directions from the teacher rather than just running and jumping (her two favorite activities). I think she did better at listening at her first class than she did at the second one.Katelynn has also become very good at trying to come up with excuses for everything. She tries very, very hard to get her way by making a reason why it needs to be that way. The best examples I can think to give are at bedtime. Of course, she tries everything to get out of falling asleep. She will say she needs her closet shut, a drink of water, ask for whatever baby or bear or bunny that isn't already in her bed, and when she can't come up with something specific but wants to delay things, she simply says she needs "something". Today as we were leaving playgroup and I informed her that it was naptime when we got home, she made a point of closing her eyes in her carseat on the drive home. When I went to take her out of her seat upon getting home, she said, "Mommy, I sleep all the way home." (She thought this might mean she wouldn't have to nap. Great try, Katelynn!). Little things like this make me realize how much she will keep us on our toes for years to come!
And now for an update on our little guy! Justin really is a very happy baby. He is so much fun! His very latest trick is blowing raspberries. He did it for the first time yesterday, and he thinks it is quite fun! He is also quite verbal, chattering and chattering at certain times during the day (especially really early in the morning when mommy wishes she could still keep her eyes closed and sleep!).
In addition to the talking, Justin is now really wanting to be mobile. In the last week, he has figured out how to move himself around on his playmat by arching his back (tummy in the air) and pushing off with his feet. He does this on his back and slowly will rotate his body 180 degrees on the mat. He has rolled over a few times, only belly to back, but he doesn't seem to be doing it consistantly yet. He will roll to his side and sort of try to spin himself, but he isn't often rolling all the way over. Some days we think he'll be crawling in no time with his motivation to get places. It's amazing how much more active he has wanted to become in a week's time!
Out of all Justin's abilities, his
smile and laughter is by far my favorite. Making him laugh seems to be getting easier and easier. Katelynn can almost just walk in a room lately and he'll laugh and watch her with so much interest. I know he's just itching to be as big as she is, and something tells me that he's going to be our little daredevil, even moreso than his big sister. I guess only time will tell.Sleeping is about the only issue we are having currently. Justin is still not sleeping very long periods at night on his own. I am just crossing my fingers that this improves in the next few months. For a while, he was sleeping a good 8 hour stretch for me, and I was able to pump and get some things done, but lately he is not giving me much time between wakings at all. Just today I told Jonathan our days of him sleeping in the car may be coming to an end. Two days now this week I have tried leaving when I know it's naptime for Justin and instead of him sleeping in the car as planned, he just skips that nap. Surprisingly, he isn't crabby while awake, but I have found skipping the nap means for a really hard time getting him down for bedtime. I suppose this means I probably have two kids that don't like to sleep. Can I blame them though? I'm always up all hours of the night! Ha,ha.
I am sure Justin will start hitting milestones left and right these next several months. It is both exciting and sad... exciting that my baby boy is learning new things but so sad that he's growing so quickly. Stay tuned for carseat pictures- we are about to switch him over to a big boy carseat this week!
For those of you that have just made it through my novel, thanks for letting me brag about the two little ones that bring so much happiness to Jonathan and I. I know we have our hands full with the two of them, but they are so worth it!
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