21 months and counting…

Yesterday our babies turned 21 months old. Holy cow!!!

William:

26.2 pounds

33 inches tall

Emily:

26.4 pounds

33 3/4 inches tall

These are just my measurements and are not 100% accurate, but they’re the best I could do. Days are fun in this house and can also be very trying at times. Emily is still going thru her '”phase.” The I need to be held every single second by my Mama phase…it’s endearing…but it’s exhausting. We have started doing time-out with her when she’s pitching a fit for no real reason and that is hard, just hearing her scream and kick her legs but I also want her to learn she doesn’t get her way just because she acts like that. If she goes to time-out for any other reason, hitting or throwing which she has recently started doing, she immediately says “sorry” and continues to say it over and over…it’s SO funny.

Miss Emily also continues to have stomach issues. Without going into too much gross graphic detail, we have been having some diarrhea issues with her for the last….6-7weeks I guess? We have been to the doctor several times, we thought she might be slightly lactose intolerant, but now…I’m not so sure. I’m trying to debate on whether or not to take her to a GI doctor. I don’t want to overreact, but I also want to make sure her tummy and “insides” are Ok. Verdict is still out on what Ill do about that one.

I guess that’s it for now! Happy Monday!

Knock, knock…

So last night we were playing, having a regular night. Typically we keep all of the doors shut in the hallway, and I thought they were all shut last night. So I’m piddling around in the living room with Emily and I knew that William was in the hall and I kept hearing him knock on the wall. This went on for a wall, me not paying too much attention, and so I wandered down the hall to see what he was doing. Lol – well apparently he had gotten himself into their bedroom, in the dark, and closed the door behind him, and he was knocking so someone would let him out! Lol – it was sooooo funny, I went and got the video camera and got a little of it on tape, him knocking, every so often, I guess he was seeing if anyone would come! He wasn’t crying or upset at all, just knocking….so funny.

Tonight was another ordinary night, which is just fine by me!

Emily looking at Jag

They really like to take timer pictures, even though you can’t tell from William’s face in this one!

And yes, we all look slightly homely in these pictures, BUT – it’s the end of the day. Emily’s hair had been in crazy pigtails that she’d taken out, so her hair was WILD! And – since they were getting a bath anyway, I didn’t bother to clean their faces off AS clean as they could have been…so sue me! ;-)

Happy Tuesday!

At 20.5 months

I'm a terrible blogger, I can admit it. I think about it, I think of witty things to write...but then I never take the time to sit down and actually do it. Not sure why, I guess there's no excuse really.
Anyway, just a short post to get some tidbits about what these babies are doing at 20.5 months:

1) William still loves doggies - imagine that. He says Doggie alllll the time, but it's very hard to tell between that and Daddy, they sound almost identical.

2) He is all boy, he climbs, gets into things, sits in time out every day and is also so sweet. He is the one that likes to hug Emily and rubs her back when she's crying. He will also bring her her blanket or kitty when she's crying, to make her feel better. It's so cute.

3) He loves to help do stuff. He helps Billy cook on the weekends. He helps me with the dryer and loves to help pull clothes in the laundry basket. He still loves to vaccum.

4) Emily is going thru a very....NEEDY phase right now. Only with me, only when it's just us 3 at home. It's pretty terrible. She wants to be held and carted around constantly. And while it's endearing, yes she loves her Mama....I cannot hold her all the time! She pitches fits and cries constantly if she's in one of her moods and I can't have her with me all the time. Nighttimes are a bit more challenging right now because of this. If anyone else is around, this doesn't happen, only when it's just us 3.

5) She still loves books and will sit and look at books for a long time. She likes to take all of them out and loves to sit in your lap and read. She still backs up and plops down, only now she says "sit."

6) Emily talks more than William. She can say pretty much anything. She is just learnign the word NO here in the last few days and has been saying it constantly. Anything you ask her, she says No.

7) Both love to brush their teeth themselves, but when I do it, they hate it! With a passion. They get so upset each night when I do their teeth first, and once they get the brush, they're fine. My friend that's a hygienist said we should do it that way, so that's what I'm going with for now.

8) Please don't ask about potty training. We'll do it. When the time is right. It's not right yet.

9) Emily has been having something going on with her GI tract, not sure what. I won't get into too much graphic details, but her poopy diapers have been very distinct for a few weeks now, and we can't figure out why. We are thinking it might have something to do with dairy products, so we are trying to take away yogurt and milk and see if that helps. So far we've had mixed results.

10) We now have a fish named Jag thanks to Aunt Christie and Uncle Chris. The babies love fish, and they like looking at Jag while they eat ( he lives on our kitchen table for now).

That's all I have time for now! Happy Thursday!