Can I Keep Their Lips?

I want to keep their lips. For.eh.verrrr.

But then they'd probably talk funny and then they'd get made fun of and their self-esteem would suffer and then I'd have all that guilt... *sigh* Fine! They can keep them.

Cabbage Patch Babies!

Emily
Avery

Very Curious

Avery is loving crawling around the house. We put up the baby gates again, to keep her out of the shoes in the entry way, the cat's food, and the kitchen. With all these fun places blocked off, Avery finds her own adventures. Like the cool cord that goes to my laptop...but guess what, that cord is attached to the laptop and when you pull on it, the laptop follows. Get my drift?

She pulled the laptop onto her face! Can you see the bruise? It starts under her right eye and goes up over her eyebrow. She had four bruises on her forehead last week. One from the laptop, then one from the ottoman, one from the entertainment center, and then there was one other one, but I don't know where she got it. Probably the coffee table.

7 Months!

Avery is cruisin' now! She loves to crawl and is getting really fast! She explores every part of the house she can get to. In fact, we blocked off the front hall with diaper bags and she scaled those rather quickly.

She's finally eating baby food. When she tried it the first time, she just made a horrible face and slobbered until the food came back out. Now she's excited any time I bring her bowl and spoon to her. She is, however, a lazy eater. She barely opens her mouth, so most of the food ends up on her face. So I shovel and scrape, scrape, scrape, shovel, and scrape. This method does take longer, but she seems to enjoy it. She growls the whole time!

Avery and her sister are beginning to play well together. Emily still tries to shove Avery out of the way when they're playing, but most of the time they do a good job of co-existing in the toys. And last night they took a bath together! Avery loved every second of it. She splashed and splashed and Emily pretty much played on her own while Avery splashed. I did have to tell Emily to get her finger out of Avery's crack. She said, "Nudey booty!" and pointed and stuck her finger in Avery's crack. Oh well, gotta laugh.

Summertime

We've been enjoying the pool this summer. The girls love the water!

Here are some more things Emily has said lately...

While looking at crayons, we came across a gray crayon. I asked Emily what color it was and she said, "It's old."

Now that Avery is crawling, Emily is interacting with her more. Emily said, "I want her to do a trick," and then she threw a toy and said, "Go get it!"

"Ladies and gentlemint!"

We found a trail of ants near the back door the other day and Emily said, "Aww, ants! They're so cute!" Ha. Cute? Not really. But Daddy did "help them outside" with some special spray.

Before I Forget...

Yes, I have neglected the blog. I keep getting further and further behind and the more I think about it, the more I put it off, so the further and further behind I get. Kind of a cycle, huh?

But, literally every time I sit down at the computer, someone needs something. Like just now, Emily needed some juice in her cup. So see? It's not ALL my fault. And sometimes when that happens, I don't even get back to the computer until a few hours later.

And guess who's crawling? For a while, Avery would do the "rock and launch" technique. She'd be on her hands and knees and sort of rock back and forth and then launch herself toward her target (usually Emily), and now she has incorporated moving her hands forward when she moves her knees forward! It's much more of a fluid motion than the rock and launch, plus, fewer bruised foreheads and skinned noses.

Yes, I have pictures of that.

Avery has two teeth now. The two bottom ones came in a couple of weeks ago. On the same day! And she now can sit on her own! She can put herself in a sitting position, too! So nice!

And now Emily wants me to help her with a puzzle. Seeeee?

I'm going to try to sit at the computer this evening and work on photos. I have lots. But to tide you over until then, I'd like to share some cute and funny things Emily has said and done lately.

Emily has discovered the movie Zathura. It played on TV and we recorded it on our DVR and she watches it often. This is how she asks to watch it: "I wanna watch the boys and the robot and the lizards and the green poop and the game! Please!"

"I can't eat that. I ate that yesterday." Or, "I can't take a bath. I had a bath yesterday." Apparently she did A LOT of things yesterday.

And there are so many things that are the best she's ever had/done/seen/played with. She had her first movie theater experience yesterday. Something we actually DID do yesterday... We saw UP and she loved every minute of it. I found myself watching her watch the movie. She sat there with her very own box of popcorn in her lap and her drink in the drink holder and she was leaned forward and taking it all in. During the movie, leaned toward me and whispered, "Mommy, this is the best movie I ever saw!"

Another thing she did yesterday was go to her first Little Gym class. It's a tumbling/activity class for 3-4 year olds and she had a blast! They walked on a balance beam and played with a parachute. I think it'll be a good opportunity for her to work with other kids and adults and learn to listen AND OBEY. There were many times during the class when she'd wander off, but what was good was she always went back to her group when asked. We figured the instructors would get to know her name very quickly because they kept calling her name. "Emily... Emily! Come back to the group!" I think she was so excited to be there and she was just so busy taking everything in. I'm excited so for her to take this class!

Oh, and today, she decided she didn't want to be in the clothes she was wearing and she took them off. Stripped naked! I said, "Emily, where are your clothes?" She said, "I'm nudey booty! See?" and then she stuck her bum out at me and pointed to it. I just shook my head and laughed. What a toad.