I think Natalie's 4 canine teeth are coming in all at once! One has definitely poked through.
Stay tuned!
May 2, 2013
April 18, 2013
Such a Smart Girl!
Natalie continues to just soak in things and it is so fun to see what she picks up one.
She knows when we go to Lexi's school to pick her up in the afternoon that we have to push a button to get the door to open. She trots up to the button with her arm up in the air..still a little short to reach it on her own, but boy, is she ready to.
Natalie knows how to ring the doorbell at daycare so that someone will come and let us in.
She follows instructions at home - when she wants to. :)
Lexi had a very good report card for the 3rd quarter of kindergarten. They say she is reading at a 1st grade (mid year) level. It's amazing how easily she has picked up new words. She enjoys reading every night before bed.
Lexi is also learning a lot at her dance class and feeling more confident there. When that class ends, we have signed her up for piano. More our idea than hers but I am hoping that she won't protest too much. The lessons are at a home in our neighborhood.
She knows when we go to Lexi's school to pick her up in the afternoon that we have to push a button to get the door to open. She trots up to the button with her arm up in the air..still a little short to reach it on her own, but boy, is she ready to.
Natalie knows how to ring the doorbell at daycare so that someone will come and let us in.
She follows instructions at home - when she wants to. :)
Lexi had a very good report card for the 3rd quarter of kindergarten. They say she is reading at a 1st grade (mid year) level. It's amazing how easily she has picked up new words. She enjoys reading every night before bed.
Lexi is also learning a lot at her dance class and feeling more confident there. When that class ends, we have signed her up for piano. More our idea than hers but I am hoping that she won't protest too much. The lessons are at a home in our neighborhood.
April 1, 2013
Lexi's spring break
For Lexi's spring break, we are having a staycation. I am staying home with her the entire week. Makes me glad that I work full time.
We went to the zoo because it was a lovely day to spend outside. All Lexi wanted was to buy something -some toy. She didn't seem to care what animals we say and just wanted to look in every gift shop we passed. I have no idea where she gets this desire to buy things. I completely do not understand it; the activity for her is nothing, buying something is the important part.
And she still has lice. AAAAHHH! We went to get her hair cut again - and the stylist found a another bug ( a juvenile, not an adult). So no hair cut again. Her bangs are driving me nuts. I might have to cut them myself. She absolutely does not want me to comb through her hair.
Hopefully, Tuesday will contain more joy and less annoyances.
We went to the zoo because it was a lovely day to spend outside. All Lexi wanted was to buy something -some toy. She didn't seem to care what animals we say and just wanted to look in every gift shop we passed. I have no idea where she gets this desire to buy things. I completely do not understand it; the activity for her is nothing, buying something is the important part.
And she still has lice. AAAAHHH! We went to get her hair cut again - and the stylist found a another bug ( a juvenile, not an adult). So no hair cut again. Her bangs are driving me nuts. I might have to cut them myself. She absolutely does not want me to comb through her hair.
Hopefully, Tuesday will contain more joy and less annoyances.
More on Natalie
I took Natalie today to the doctor for her 18 month check up. She weighs 29 lbs, 2 oz! No wonder she is so heavy. That is the 97.71% percentile. She is 34.75 inches tall (99.51%) which has less meaning for me except that she is able to reach things on the table quite easily.
She also said what I consider to be her first sentence yesterday - I want more. Not that clearly but I feel pretty confident that is what she was saying. She is definitely getting more articulate.
She also said what I consider to be her first sentence yesterday - I want more. Not that clearly but I feel pretty confident that is what she was saying. She is definitely getting more articulate.
March 31, 2013
So grown up at 18 months!
Our baby is a year and a half already! She is making great strides physically and cognitively.
Today is Easter, and we had an Easter egg hunt with the girls in the living room, dining room and kitchen of the house. Yesterday, Sarah had taken the girls to another egg hunt at a park near our house, and Natalie was more interested in eating her snack than finding eggs. But today she understood what she had to do and was delighted to find a lot of eggs (with Daddy's help). In one of the eggs Sarah and I had put a couple of clothing items for a very small plastic doll of Lexi's. This was the best prize for Natalie. She squealed with delight several times. The simple pleasures of a child. That's what is making Natalie a delight at this age.
March 17, 2013
Lice!
On my way into the office on Friday, the school called. Lexi has head lice and I needed to come get her. So I got on the train going the other way while I tried to remember who would be in early at the office so I could call and cancel my 8:15 phone meeting with Myanmar.
When I picked Lexi up, I could see a bug crawling in her hair. The nurse gave me some literature and said that I had to show the receipt that I purchased the treatment to get her back into school.
We headed off to CVS and were soon home washing her hair with the special shampoo. There were definitely lots of adult louse in her head. Yuck! We spent a fair amount of time combing it out of her head.
I then proceeded to wash everyone's bedding, all Lexi's clothes and Natalie's,too, all the blankets and several pillows. Luckily, the daycare checked Natalie's head and said she didn't have them so I could leave her there while all this was going on. Stephen, lucky guy, was in MSP for a board meeting. He missed most of the fun.
I also vacuumed and sprayed the furniture. It made for a long day.
I think I washed Lexi's hair 3 times total on Friday and then twice on Saturday. I decided I hadn't used as much of the treatment shampoo as I should have so did repeat that. Even though I couldn't see my own head, I decided I had better wash it as well as it had been itching for a while. I only found a few bugs in my head.
I re-washed Lexi's bedding and ours on Saturday morning as well as today. I feel itchy all over!
When I picked Lexi up, I could see a bug crawling in her hair. The nurse gave me some literature and said that I had to show the receipt that I purchased the treatment to get her back into school.
We headed off to CVS and were soon home washing her hair with the special shampoo. There were definitely lots of adult louse in her head. Yuck! We spent a fair amount of time combing it out of her head.
I then proceeded to wash everyone's bedding, all Lexi's clothes and Natalie's,too, all the blankets and several pillows. Luckily, the daycare checked Natalie's head and said she didn't have them so I could leave her there while all this was going on. Stephen, lucky guy, was in MSP for a board meeting. He missed most of the fun.
I also vacuumed and sprayed the furniture. It made for a long day.
I think I washed Lexi's hair 3 times total on Friday and then twice on Saturday. I decided I hadn't used as much of the treatment shampoo as I should have so did repeat that. Even though I couldn't see my own head, I decided I had better wash it as well as it had been itching for a while. I only found a few bugs in my head.
I re-washed Lexi's bedding and ours on Saturday morning as well as today. I feel itchy all over!
March 6, 2013
Natalie is actually speaking to us
We learned recently, thanks to some help from Stephen's mother, who was here for a week in early February to watch both girls while we went on a cruise, that Natalie actually knows and is speaking some words. Granted, they are still baby talk, but we are actually starting to communicate with her and understand each other.
The words she says:
ha = hat
ba = bottle
ma = milk
ma/mama = Mommy
da = Daddy
Words/sentences she understands (she can identify or do these things when we say them to her):
hat
bottle
milk
nose (can point to her nose and other people's noses)
Get your jacket on.
Take your jacket off.
Get your hat.
Put your shoes on.
Take your shoes off.
Let's brush your teeth.
Take your food to the table.
Take this to the garbage.
What does the doggy say? "Woo, woo."
She can do the hand signs for "more" when she wants more food.
She is also nodding her head fairly frequently these days, and sometimes it means the right thing, but just as often she is saying "no" when we think she really means "yes."
The words she says:
ha = hat
ba = bottle
ma = milk
ma/mama = Mommy
da = Daddy
Words/sentences she understands (she can identify or do these things when we say them to her):
hat
bottle
milk
nose (can point to her nose and other people's noses)
Get your jacket on.
Take your jacket off.
Get your hat.
Put your shoes on.
Take your shoes off.
Let's brush your teeth.
Take your food to the table.
Take this to the garbage.
What does the doggy say? "Woo, woo."
She can do the hand signs for "more" when she wants more food.
She is also nodding her head fairly frequently these days, and sometimes it means the right thing, but just as often she is saying "no" when we think she really means "yes."
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