Hellobee Boards

She points at everything now, and when I asked her where the light was she pointed at it. I'm definitely realizing that she understands a lot more than I thought she did! I need to start watching my language =)

She also took 2 steps on her own the other day.

I guess I'm amazed at the level of understanding and directions-following. I told Lorelei this morning that if she wanted to look at one of Ellie's legos she had to go sit on her butt on the carpet. And she repeated "carpet" several times and sat down expectantly on the carpet (even though the hard floor was right where she had been standing, so she understood where to go as well as that she had to sit). Then this morning she said, "me do" without being prompted when I was trying to feed her yogurt. Ellie has been surprising us with her reading and spelling. She's been reading over my shoulder when I post to Hellobee on occasion if she's up and Lorelei's down for nap, and she gets pretty much all of it. I have to watch carefully now to make sure it's all appropriate stuff!

I keep looking away for a few seconds and finding DD in places that I didn't know she could get to on her own. -- Sitting proudly in a rocking chair, sitting in the laundry bin having climbed in on her own. DD is a turning into a little monkey! I have to look out!

He surprised me today by standing for quite awhile on his own!

She's playful and sometimes makes fart noises with our faces. Today she was sticking out her tongue while trying to lick my face and I was laughing while moving my head left and right to avoid it. she grabbed my face and tried to hold it still! It totally shocked me because she's never done that before!

Yesterday my mom came to our house and she was really wet from the rain, when J touched her hair and made it face because it was wet, she said, "it's wet!"

5-10 minutes later he touches her head again and says clear as day, "wet!" And said it a few more times haha!

He also just learned the word hat and will pay his head and say hat, then go get one of his Or my hat and put it on. It's so funny. I love hearing him learn to say so many new words!

@Mrs. Jump Rope, @Mrs. Pen; isn't that the best? Lorelei was nursing the other night and started petting my eyebrow and saying "eye-bough" over and over in this sweet little lovey voice. First time she had ever said that! And we were looking at baby robins today and she kept saying "beak, beak" and trying to grab its beak. It is too cool to watch the words get added. Ellie had a horseback lesson today and Lorelei was saying all of the horses names, "Shay, Dance (Dancer), Sadie, Dixie, Roper" after I would say them to her.

Popping out a tooth at four months was a bit of a surprise. And now learning to bite while nursing....

My 20 month old just shocked me yesterday. She was sitting in the bath, and said 'bebe very hungry'. Ok, she says that, that's normal. Then she says 'bebe hurt, bebe need eat medicine'. She wanted to eat the liquid tylenol because she was hungry, so she tried to tell me that she was hurt and needed it! I was totally shocked and amused.

He's taking tiny cruising steps! He refuses to crawl but loves to stand holding onto the couch and shifting his weight from foot to foot.

He's also really fun now. He used to cry more easily and stay upset longer, but he's smiling and laughing a lot more than he used to - at least around us.