Tonight we were eating watermelon (which Kaia adores, by the way...I think it is her favorite food, although squash is a close second), and Emma said, "I don't like the nuts in the watermelon, I like mine with no nuts". It was cute. She also had a gummy bear, which I don't think she'd ever had before, and she said, "I love this chewy bear! Chewy bears are so chewy and good!"
We got to hang out with Emma and Bucket's Auntie Kirstie and Auntie Scott last week, we had so much fun! I love that Emma has totally gotten to know them. She just thinks Scott is the best. (Your guess is as good as mine as to why...just kidding, Scott!) She follows him around, asks him questions constantly (What are you doing, Scott? What are you eating, Scott? Where are you going, Scott? What does your shirt say, Scott? What are you watching, Scott?), it's pretty cute. Em loves her Auntie Kirstie, too (as does Kaia, of course), and loves to paint her nails with her and do other girly things together. Kirst and Scott got Em a princess dress for her birthday, and I don't think she took it off for a week!
Kaia is really trying to crawl. She's definitely soldier-crawling at this point, and yesterday she got a little red spot on her nose from it...she plants her face in the carpet and raises up her butt and pushes with her legs and then lifts her head up and pulls with her arms...Anyway, it's so adorable and uncoordinated, but she moves pretty quickly! She kind of looks like a baby horse when it's first born and trying to stand up. Lots of wobbling, limbs everywhere, but somehow movement is happening. She's cruising, too, and quite well. Also, Kaia's vocabulary has taken off (I am using that term a bit loosely...but she's moved along from ba-ba-ba and has da-da-da, ma-ma, and tuh-tuh for turtle.). She has her 9-month checkup tomorrow at the doctor...and she's definitely grown a lot! She is wearing 12-month clothes now, and is much taller and heavier! I can't wait to find out the latest official stats!
Em is pretty hilarious. She's really into "rubber princesses" lately. She received a Belle princess set from her friends Kayla and Hannah, and it has a little doll and all these rubber dresses that slip onto it. She wakes up every morning and says, "Mama, I want to play rubber princesses!" It sounds so bizarre. She also received an older iMac computer for free from a guy locally that refurbishes them for kids, and it has a bunch of educational games for 5-8 year olds. She's been doing some counting and spelling games on there and likes it a lot. It doesn't go online, or do much besides games, which is perfect, because it's safe and easy for her to use with help.
We had a little at-home birthday party for Em on her actual birthday, and she wanted to cut the cake herself. She must have made 40 cuts in the surface of the frosting with her little plastic knife. The cake looked a little interesting after that, but it still tasted good!
Enjoy the new pictures!
Enjoy the new pictures!
Some details: the turtles started "tandem basking". So cute!! We all went on a bike ride recently--Kaia's first, and the helmet took some adjusting! Em did great and was quite the glamour girl in her fancy shades and tutu. Emma taught Kaia to make that funny face, and now she gets her to do it all the time...it's pretty funny to watch her contort her face like that. (I guess instead of laughing I should be telling her, "If you're not careful, your face will stay like that!", right?).
3 comments:
That was a great update. :) i loved the pictures too. it's nice to get to hear all the fun things the girls are doing.
oh, i forgot to say, what on earth is Zoi doing on Yoshis back? maybe she figured out he can't bite her if she's way up there huh!
and you got a cool pic of Emma cutting the cake. omg, that cake was soo good. Emma sure did slice and dice it good. ;) was so funny.
That was such a nice Birthday party, i had fun.
loves ya all
t.w.
oh, i forgot something important.
your blog isn't boring. you are a really good writer, and you make it fun to read about the new things the girlies are doing. it's not like you can call everytime they do something new, since they do it all the time, so i think this is sooo cool. it's funny about Emma and the chewy bears, and Kaia making that face reminds me of.......
YOU!
haha! you know, when you do that funny face? don't worry, i got pics to prove it. ;)
That was really nice of that man to give Emma the game thing. we played it yesterday, and she was adding. WOW! what a nice blessing!
i'm going to iron on a T-shirt that says, "I like free stuff too"
i'm sure that's what you did.... ;)
rotfl!
me being polish. ;)
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