Dear Maya and Savannah,
2012 is here! It is hard for me to believe. The two of you bring me so much joy everyday. With the new year comes resolutions. Last year I kept it simple ...so simple I forget what my resolution was about...could have had something to do with having a newish baby this time last year. This year one resolution is to get back to my blog. This next one is to make our small living space more live-able. One way is organization which makes me wish I has asked for IKEA gift cards. The other way is to become more green and have less chemicals in the home. I thought I was doing a good job, but I have been researching some products that I use and was so disappointed. The latest was stumbling upon some information about California Baby that made me less than happy about there formulation and I found bubblesandbees.com. Than I found this great blog called, Mama on a Green Mission. Click on the button and take a look on the right side of the blog.
So girls, I hope to instill in you a respect for our environment and to care for your health in as green a way as I can.
Love you both so much. And don't worry...though I haven't been blogging I have been writing down milestones and cute things you say in books and your memory jars. Now it is off to play I the snow with you!
Love,
Mommy
August 25th
Dear Savannah,
Wow, it is hard to believe you turned 11 months old today and next month you will be a year. You have six teeth and two more pushing though...giving you a little trouble in the sleep department, but you are your usual happy self. You are pulling yourself up consistently and cruising. Yesterday you almost got one leg up on the couch...uh-oh! You crawl incredibly faast especially when a gate or door is opened (even in the most silent fashion)....double uh-oh! You are full of personality and love. You laugh all the time, but your temper can peak through when you want something!
As a speech-language pathologist, I continue to be more and more fascinated with language. You say many things in imitation over the past month, "hi dada," "go," and I think even Maya "yaya." Your favorite song is most certainly, "If you are happy and you know it." As soon as you hear it you clap and say, "clap, clap." You love to hear music and do your little bouncy-bouncy-twist-twist dance. I think you are signing milk though not always in context and you definitely understand it receptively.
You are balancing a regular sized spoon in your mouth right now and it is super funny!
Love you lots,
Mommy
Dear Maya,
Where to begin. You have come leaps and bounds in your receptive and expressive language. Your sentences are amazing and it is cool to see you fixing errors in your speech (today you self-corrected "go" to the past tense "went." I can't believe some of the things I am explaining and that you are understanding. You have an inspiring curiousity! Right now you are intrigued by construction vehicles. Still love motorcyles of course! You asked me a couple of weeks ago if you could drive a backhoe when you get older though, so I thought your focus was shifting. Daddy is always saying how amazing your lexicon (fancy word for vocabulary) is. You are starting to challenge us a little with your will and negotiating your own way. It is hard for me to constantly stick to my guns, but I am learning how to give you more of the freedom and independence you crave. I am working on doing your bedroom over that you will eventually share with Savannah. I think this will help you to have more of a space.
It is fun for me to watch your articulation change and grow because I have a particular fascination in speech patterns in preschool children. Your clarity has always been great for familiar listeners. You are starting to add /l/ to you /l/ blends and it sounds so sweet. But, boy, you can say some pretty long words with incredibly intelligibility. You are always asking where people live and wanted to know today where your buddy Lucas lived. I told you Framingham and that it was a tricky word to say. You promptly said the word and said, "See, Mommy, that is not a tricky word to say." I still love the speech errors. You kept saying you wanted to go to Best Buddy the other day for Best Buy. I do miss you calling a hedgehog a "whorehog."
You are sweet as pie and I love to cuddle with you!
Love you lots,
Mommy
Wow, it is hard to believe you turned 11 months old today and next month you will be a year. You have six teeth and two more pushing though...giving you a little trouble in the sleep department, but you are your usual happy self. You are pulling yourself up consistently and cruising. Yesterday you almost got one leg up on the couch...uh-oh! You crawl incredibly faast especially when a gate or door is opened (even in the most silent fashion)....double uh-oh! You are full of personality and love. You laugh all the time, but your temper can peak through when you want something!
As a speech-language pathologist, I continue to be more and more fascinated with language. You say many things in imitation over the past month, "hi dada," "go," and I think even Maya "yaya." Your favorite song is most certainly, "If you are happy and you know it." As soon as you hear it you clap and say, "clap, clap." You love to hear music and do your little bouncy-bouncy-twist-twist dance. I think you are signing milk though not always in context and you definitely understand it receptively.
You are balancing a regular sized spoon in your mouth right now and it is super funny!
Love you lots,
Mommy
Dear Maya,
Where to begin. You have come leaps and bounds in your receptive and expressive language. Your sentences are amazing and it is cool to see you fixing errors in your speech (today you self-corrected "go" to the past tense "went." I can't believe some of the things I am explaining and that you are understanding. You have an inspiring curiousity! Right now you are intrigued by construction vehicles. Still love motorcyles of course! You asked me a couple of weeks ago if you could drive a backhoe when you get older though, so I thought your focus was shifting. Daddy is always saying how amazing your lexicon (fancy word for vocabulary) is. You are starting to challenge us a little with your will and negotiating your own way. It is hard for me to constantly stick to my guns, but I am learning how to give you more of the freedom and independence you crave. I am working on doing your bedroom over that you will eventually share with Savannah. I think this will help you to have more of a space.
It is fun for me to watch your articulation change and grow because I have a particular fascination in speech patterns in preschool children. Your clarity has always been great for familiar listeners. You are starting to add /l/ to you /l/ blends and it sounds so sweet. But, boy, you can say some pretty long words with incredibly intelligibility. You are always asking where people live and wanted to know today where your buddy Lucas lived. I told you Framingham and that it was a tricky word to say. You promptly said the word and said, "See, Mommy, that is not a tricky word to say." I still love the speech errors. You kept saying you wanted to go to Best Buddy the other day for Best Buy. I do miss you calling a hedgehog a "whorehog."
You are sweet as pie and I love to cuddle with you!
Love you lots,
Mommy
July 23rd
Dear Maya,
You amaze me everyday. YOu are so self-motivated to achieve. I hope that this never holds you back if you hold expectations too high as I tend to do! You have been potty training yourself since you turned two. I have given you independence, time, choice, and space. Sometimes you choose diapers, sometimes underwear. This week you have wanted to wear underwear everyday and no accidents. Dora is your character of choice these days. I think you would wear your Dora underwear and Dora pajamas all day everyday if you could. You picked out shorts to wear this morning and I suggested you go back down to get the green shirt with yellow and white flower and up you came with that shirt. You have dressed yourself for quite sometime, but I was so impressed when you came down to show me you zipped and snapped the shorts all by yourself! Today in the pool I was again amazed. You fell underwater and you didn't freak out, you were a little nervous but you came back up on your own and you didn't swallow any water in the process. Daddy started to teach you to put your face in the waater and some safety tips and you are already on your way. You put your whole face in the water and the look of pride you have when you do it fills me with Joy.
Love,
mommy
Dear Savannah,
You are pulling yourself up and standing for quite sometime. You are crawling so fast. I think I might be in trouble. I might have to take child proofing to a whole new level!
You amaze me everyday. YOu are so self-motivated to achieve. I hope that this never holds you back if you hold expectations too high as I tend to do! You have been potty training yourself since you turned two. I have given you independence, time, choice, and space. Sometimes you choose diapers, sometimes underwear. This week you have wanted to wear underwear everyday and no accidents. Dora is your character of choice these days. I think you would wear your Dora underwear and Dora pajamas all day everyday if you could. You picked out shorts to wear this morning and I suggested you go back down to get the green shirt with yellow and white flower and up you came with that shirt. You have dressed yourself for quite sometime, but I was so impressed when you came down to show me you zipped and snapped the shorts all by yourself! Today in the pool I was again amazed. You fell underwater and you didn't freak out, you were a little nervous but you came back up on your own and you didn't swallow any water in the process. Daddy started to teach you to put your face in the waater and some safety tips and you are already on your way. You put your whole face in the water and the look of pride you have when you do it fills me with Joy.
Love,
mommy
Dear Savannah,
You are pulling yourself up and standing for quite sometime. You are crawling so fast. I think I might be in trouble. I might have to take child proofing to a whole new level!
Food and Words!
Dear Savannah,
You are loving food! You of course, like your big sister, prefer feeding yourself than being fed pureed food. You love sucking food out of your mesh feeder and feeding yourself finger food like peas, pears, and puffs. You continue to have a cute growl and we call you tiger sometimes. You growl when you are happy and when you don't want something to be taken away. Crawling is official as of last week. You were moving around a lot, but now you have put all the coordination together for the crawl in time for July 4th! You seem to be saying "hi" in response to others. This has been happening for a couple months now, but now I am more convinced. Your babbling is so fun to listen to - you seem to be carrying on little conversations. Definitely have the /g/ and /d/ plus a vowel combination. You had your 9 month check-up yesterday and are just fantastic! You measure 27 inches long and weigh 21 pounds, 2 ounces with a head circumference of 44 centimeters. The doctor was pleased with how strong you are and how well you can support your weight on your feet....which also reminds me that you really love to pull yourself up and hold on standing up.
Love,
Mommy
Dear Maya,
You are not really a "why" kid (yet anyways), but you have always been curious and have asked questions for as long as I can remember. Your most recent is asking what words mean. Just today you asked, "Mommy what does splendid mean?" Of course, you disagreed with my answer and said that splendid means trouble. This is all related to the song about the Captain Brown song. I love listening to your sentences and vocabulary. When we went to Davis Farmland today you saw a sign with pirates on it and said, "Mommy, look a skull." Really..you know what a skull is? You are creative and continue to make up stories and songs. As always that smile melts my heart. You held a kitten today at the Farm and you were so instinctive and gentle with her. You also loved putting hair clips into the mane of a miniature horse! Oh and your love of motorcycles continues.
Love,
Mommy
Letters to my girls!
When I think about this blog and the purpose...I wanted to do it for two reasons. Number one to document milestones (because my memory is not always at its best) and two for the girls to have something for their earliest memories. I have decided to change the format to letters to my girls. That way when they read it, they will know it is coming from my heart!
Dear Savannah,
Your wonderful big sister is sleeping and we have been playing. You are such a happy girl. You are really interested now in putting shapes into the bucket of the shape sorter. You normally don't like ANYONE to take ANYTHING from you. Today you were passing the shape back and forth to me. You seem really interested in baby sign language and laughed as I said/signed please and thank you! If you dropped it you picked it up and put it in my two hands held out. You are moving all around the floor and getting better at coordinating your limbs for crawling. You have the motion and can move a couple of "crawls." Those two little teeth you have are sooooo sharp. You are loving most of the food you are eating - sweet potatoes, avocado, banana, nectarine...peas...not so much yet. You do seem REALLY interested in food everyone else has in their hands. Your hands are quick - Daddy calls it the "cobra strike." You love the swing at the playground and squeal in pure delight!
Love you lots,
Mommy
Dear Maya,
While you are acting a little bit "three years old," you melt my heart on a daily basis. We went on a really long walk today and you are probably one of the only toddlers who will happily ride in a stroller at your age...of course the "carrots" that I dangle in front of you help. We walked to Dunkin Donuts and you had chocolate munchkins (though you asked for plain), then we went to the pond and saw the mommy duck with her 9 babies, you happily sang as we strolled back home, and we stopped at a park that you loved at Coolidge School. Not that school is out for the summer we can play there during the weekdays. You are getting so brave at trying new things on the play structures. You love that big red swing and it is fun to watch you "chillin and uh-laxing." One of my favorite things about you is how you always want to include your sister in things. You make sure that you both get the same amount of attention (for the most part). I also love your pretend play. You have a wonderful imagination. Today you were acting out a story that we have been readind fromt he library about Doctor Meow and her helping Tom Cat after he fell out of a tree. You fell asleep in the stroller and are sleeping peacefully right now.
Love you lots,
Mommy
June 17, 2011
Yesterday...
Snipits of car conversation with Maya yesterday...
"Look a tractor. Mommy tell me if you see five tractors."
"Look a fire hydrant."
"A motorcycle (her favorite)." followed seconds later by "Look a Jeep!"
That isn't even the half of it. I don't even listen to the radio anymore because she keeps me entertained! However, I am deeply concerned about her love and motorcycles because there seems to be a gene in our family!
Today....
Ohhhhh....Mommy I love your pocketbook. It looks pretty!
Snipits of car conversation with Maya yesterday...
"Look a tractor. Mommy tell me if you see five tractors."
"Look a fire hydrant."
"A motorcycle (her favorite)." followed seconds later by "Look a Jeep!"
That isn't even the half of it. I don't even listen to the radio anymore because she keeps me entertained! However, I am deeply concerned about her love and motorcycles because there seems to be a gene in our family!
Today....
Ohhhhh....Mommy I love your pocketbook. It looks pretty!
June 3, 2011
Tooth number two for Savannah (bottom right)!
I made chicken tonight for dinner...exciting I know! I said to Maya, "I am going to make some chicken you will really like." Maya said, "Oooohhhh that sounds really yummy!" She has told me before I am a really good cooker! What will I do when she find out the truth!
I made chicken tonight for dinner...exciting I know! I said to Maya, "I am going to make some chicken you will really like." Maya said, "Oooohhhh that sounds really yummy!" She has told me before I am a really good cooker! What will I do when she find out the truth!
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