address labels

28 November 2007

Kayla has figured out what to do with all those address labels I’ve been getting in the mail. Now why didn’t I think of that…?

give thanks

23 November 2007

We drove down to Longview for thanksgiving celebrations. We decided to try and drive down Wed. night at bedtime. It worked great. The girls slept the whole way, we didn’t need to stop once! The girls (as did we) loved all the company. They especially loved the musical reindeer and Julia couldn’t get enough of hearing it sing.

It was super cold while we were there – in the mid to low 20’s at night. When I woke up Friday morning, all the cobwebs looked like Halloween decorations they were so white from the frost. It was pretty neat.

It warmed up enough (mid-high 30’s) to take a walk around the lake and hit the playground. Kayla was shivering by the end of it though. It looks pretty with the sunshine, but don’t be fooled.

daddy's girl

10 November 2007

Julia hasn’t been signing much. She stopped signing “milk” a while back for some reason. She is pretty effective at communicating without the signs, but it sometimes involves screaming. (Not so nice) Othertimes she is good at pointing to the object and saying “this”. (Not so bad) She is doing this sign though, which we believe to be “daddy”. She sort of smacks the side of her head with her hand. It’s pretty funny. She also very cleary says da da when she sees her sweet daddy. True love.

stand and sit

4 November 2007

Julia pulls herself up to standing more often now. This time it seems that the snack on the table was the motivator. A couple times she has taken a step while she’s held my hand, but she seems to be enjoying crawling regular style, and is really fast. She likes to copy Kayla and other kids too, joining in using her own way. She has blown kisses a handful of times, and still loves to wave to people. Julia also has a shy side to her, and will often turn her head in to me after waving or smiling at someone, and then looks back at them. It’s cute.

Kayla had me take her picture with these bears in this chair, for several days in a row, so we now have several versions. She’s taken a liking to these two bears lately. Kayla has been singing more, and carrying tunes better. She is back to incessantly asking “why” which is loads of fun, but she is certainly curious. Kayla helps us in the kitchen a lot too, and has started putting her dishes into the dishwasher all by herself.