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
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!
Favorites
Maya is starting to understand the word "favorite" more. When asked her favorite color it is often blue which puts a big smile on my face. However, it is also sometimes purple, green, yellow, pink...oh and the other day blue and black! Tonight we were reading a book with pictures of animals and it asked her favorite animal. She said, "Two favorites" which surprised me and she told me the horse and the rabbits. Then she saw the cats...and the dogs...and said that they were favorites, too. Then she decided they were all her favorites...I think she loves animals.
She is asking more in depth questions, too. Today she asked, "How did that happen" when she made a mess with her food (on purpose I presume as I was cleaning up spit up from Savannah). I am starting to think she has a sensitivity to dairy because she hasn't spit up in a while like tonight and I had a LOT of ice cream. There are just too many flavors to choose from at yummy Rota Springs in Sterling and I thought Maya was going to share more than me. Anyway...back to Maya's questioning skills...she has never been a "why" kid, but she is starting to answer "why questions" which is so cute. I wish I could remember some of the answers she gave me today. She is starting to ask them, too, and I have trouble answering some on her level! I am in trouble!
We had a fun day at Davis Farmland. I decided though today that the library should have not been on our list of places to go today. We stopped in the morning to return books and I had the smart idea of getting the discount pass to Davis. When I got to the counter I realized I dropped it (or with my mind the way it is these days stuck it somewhere). Dan went back to the parking lot to look and I searched my bags and the stroller...no luck. All of a sudden the woman behind us was using the pass!!! Long story short she continued to lie about it even when confronted from a letter from the library that stated that I was the only one who checked out a pass today. I am so naive...I can never believe that women with small children lie...it is disheartining to see the example people set. Though I can also understand that things are so expensive an it was $5 off each ticket. People should need to get a license and take an exam to have children! To top the day off, on the way home we were headed to the library to return the pass...while stopped at the light we were rear-ended. The Traverse seems minorly damaged...we shall see. Another thing on the to do list!
She is asking more in depth questions, too. Today she asked, "How did that happen" when she made a mess with her food (on purpose I presume as I was cleaning up spit up from Savannah). I am starting to think she has a sensitivity to dairy because she hasn't spit up in a while like tonight and I had a LOT of ice cream. There are just too many flavors to choose from at yummy Rota Springs in Sterling and I thought Maya was going to share more than me. Anyway...back to Maya's questioning skills...she has never been a "why" kid, but she is starting to answer "why questions" which is so cute. I wish I could remember some of the answers she gave me today. She is starting to ask them, too, and I have trouble answering some on her level! I am in trouble!
We had a fun day at Davis Farmland. I decided though today that the library should have not been on our list of places to go today. We stopped in the morning to return books and I had the smart idea of getting the discount pass to Davis. When I got to the counter I realized I dropped it (or with my mind the way it is these days stuck it somewhere). Dan went back to the parking lot to look and I searched my bags and the stroller...no luck. All of a sudden the woman behind us was using the pass!!! Long story short she continued to lie about it even when confronted from a letter from the library that stated that I was the only one who checked out a pass today. I am so naive...I can never believe that women with small children lie...it is disheartining to see the example people set. Though I can also understand that things are so expensive an it was $5 off each ticket. People should need to get a license and take an exam to have children! To top the day off, on the way home we were headed to the library to return the pass...while stopped at the light we were rear-ended. The Traverse seems minorly damaged...we shall see. Another thing on the to do list!
April and May
The weather has been hot and sticky following a long stretch of rainy days. Things have been busy here. We had a wonderful vacation in the Carolinas. The girls are growing too fast!
Maya:
Maya loves to draw and use her imagination...this is a picture of Uncle Mikey with pigtails according to Maya (insert her little devil laugh here).
Talking up a storm, saying complete nursery rhymes, increasing independence, and being sweet as always. She loves to tell people her name and that she is "two years old." Of recent, she wants to now do EVERYTHING herself. Rumor has it that I was a little like that as a girl her age. She is understanding more abstract ideas and we have to be careful what we say. Although she went through a spurt of really fighting naps, she mostly goes down easily again so I am glad that I didn't give them up yet. She has a few days that she doesn't take one and goes to bed earlier. We got her a tricycle and a helmet (which she has been telling me for months tha she needed). She is doing great at pedaling.
What a great big sister - she can love a little rough, but would do anything for Savannah! She is a great help and I am cherishing that because I am sure the time when she doesn't want to help is not that far away!
You never know what will come out of her mouth..."Oh, man" just a few moments ago with such expression. One of the cutest is her joke that is similar to "Jack and Jill," but instead of fetch a pail of water it is fetch a pail of Daddy or something she thinks is funny. This originated as we were driving down a hill to meet Daddy. I love when she does something by mistake and she says, Sorry Mommy, that's not an accident!"
Savannah:
The fun is really starting now! Around 6 1/2 months she was able to sit up on the floor by herself without any props. Now she is that much stronger and rocking back and forth on all fours plus scooching backwards. So crawling must be not that far away. She just turned 8 months a few days ago and her first tooth has appeared at last! She is happy and loves to "chat." Oh and she just started to clap and wave this past week, too!
Savannah just started eating solids I don't think eating will be a problem with her. We have gone a little slower than with Maya because her digestive system seems to be a little slower in maturation. Sweet potatoes and bananas were her first two foods and they were a hit. I put little frozen banana pieces in a mesh feeder and it is nice and cold for teething! he also loves little rice rusks. She loves attention, but also just loves sitting on the floor or in her exersaucer playing with toys. She also LOVES her big sister!
They take a bath together now...this won't last longer in the little tub I suppose but it conserves water - a little.
Maya:
Maya loves to draw and use her imagination...this is a picture of Uncle Mikey with pigtails according to Maya (insert her little devil laugh here).Talking up a storm, saying complete nursery rhymes, increasing independence, and being sweet as always. She loves to tell people her name and that she is "two years old." Of recent, she wants to now do EVERYTHING herself. Rumor has it that I was a little like that as a girl her age. She is understanding more abstract ideas and we have to be careful what we say. Although she went through a spurt of really fighting naps, she mostly goes down easily again so I am glad that I didn't give them up yet. She has a few days that she doesn't take one and goes to bed earlier. We got her a tricycle and a helmet (which she has been telling me for months tha she needed). She is doing great at pedaling.
What a great big sister - she can love a little rough, but would do anything for Savannah! She is a great help and I am cherishing that because I am sure the time when she doesn't want to help is not that far away!
You never know what will come out of her mouth..."Oh, man" just a few moments ago with such expression. One of the cutest is her joke that is similar to "Jack and Jill," but instead of fetch a pail of water it is fetch a pail of Daddy or something she thinks is funny. This originated as we were driving down a hill to meet Daddy. I love when she does something by mistake and she says, Sorry Mommy, that's not an accident!"
Savannah:
The fun is really starting now! Around 6 1/2 months she was able to sit up on the floor by herself without any props. Now she is that much stronger and rocking back and forth on all fours plus scooching backwards. So crawling must be not that far away. She just turned 8 months a few days ago and her first tooth has appeared at last! She is happy and loves to "chat." Oh and she just started to clap and wave this past week, too! Savannah just started eating solids I don't think eating will be a problem with her. We have gone a little slower than with Maya because her digestive system seems to be a little slower in maturation. Sweet potatoes and bananas were her first two foods and they were a hit. I put little frozen banana pieces in a mesh feeder and it is nice and cold for teething! he also loves little rice rusks. She loves attention, but also just loves sitting on the floor or in her exersaucer playing with toys. She also LOVES her big sister!
They take a bath together now...this won't last longer in the little tub I suppose but it conserves water - a little.
Nearly 19 pounds of cuteness
Savannah just had her six month check-up and she is healthy as can be! She is 26 1/4 inches long, her head is 43.5 centimeters, and weighed 18.8 pounds.
March Highlights
St. Patrick's Day: It was the most beautiful day we saw for a while. We went to storytime at the Library (after Mommy got pulled over -apparently my foot was as happy as I felt about the weather - so embarassing - luckily it only got me a warning). Then we met Daddy at Dean Park for a walk and to walk on the playground all sporting green of course!
Trip to Connecticut:
We enjoyed our first weekend away as a family to gear up for our long trip next week to the Carolinas. It was such a fun weekend with friends! Plus Maya has started to learn her chess pieces. She fell in love with the dogs and it was just a beautiful weekend all around (despite some sleeping difficulties).
Trip to Connecticut:
We enjoyed our first weekend away as a family to gear up for our long trip next week to the Carolinas. It was such a fun weekend with friends! Plus Maya has started to learn her chess pieces. She fell in love with the dogs and it was just a beautiful weekend all around (despite some sleeping difficulties).
Time flies by!
Wow, so I am seriously behind in posting on this blog. My main goal is for the girls to have something to remember cute and wonderful things when my memory fails me...as it already does most of the time! So, I hate that I am behind. I wish time didn't fly by and I didn't need to do thinks like clean and do laundry in my little free time.
It is hard to believe that Maya just turned 2 1/2 and Savannah is 6 months tomorrow. Maya is talking up a storm and I can't help but marvel when she says things like, "Oh no. I forgot to show Daddy's friends my little sister." This was after Dan's hockey game, which she of course loved watching and cheering her Daddy on. She is sweet and helpful with only a few moments of challenging behaviors here and there...which is usually more because Mommy is tired and impatient sometimes. She is loving coloring and currently drawing these amazing faces with eyes, a nose, mouth, hair, legs, arms, and ears. She often says who it is or she will say, I don't know who that is." I love her little speech errors like "puddle muds" instead of mud puddles. I love when she imitates things I say like, "Ya, Mommy, my teeth ARE bugging me." She loves people and animals and remembers so many names. Best of all she loves her little sister to pieces. Her memory is so amazing to me.
Savannah is a joy just like her middle name. She can sit up independently on a few surfaces and is so close to fully meeting that milestone. She coos, shrieks, gurgles, and does anything she can to get your attention and to communicate. It is so fun to watch Maya and Savannah communicate with each other. So much love...I hope it stays that way always. Savannah is pretty even tempered it seems so far. She seems to be getting ready for a tooth or two...so much drool and mouthing things. Toys are fun for her now and she loves to hold them, play with them, and eat them of course. She has the best laugh and smile...she is so ticklish, too. The legs...so deliciously rolly and chubby...best I have seen yet!
Two best things to happen to me....after Dan of course!
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