A Hungry, obsessed mini-me or divide by three?

Hungry, Hungry Matthew: This week Matthew started expand his eating the past two weeks. Yogurt, banana, and sweet potatoes have been tried so far! This is on top of his oatmeal eating. Matthew is a hungry dude! I have a bad feeling that he is going to eat us out of house and home. Matthew is also trying to use sippy cups. The straw ones are all he has tried so far but he sure can get some liquid out of them. As a warning, if you are holding any food or a cup, he will try to steal it from you.


Sophie is a mini-me. A mini-me of Grace. Anything that Grace can do, Sophie can do better. Wait. Sophie catches onto EVERYTHING that Grace does. I show Grace how to hit play on the DVD player. The next thing I know, Sophie is hitting play. Sophie is singing most of her ABCs. Sophie talks in complete sentences. Sophie is working on potty training (and doing amazingly good!) Most of the time, Grace's mini-me doesn't bother her so I will enjoy this while it lasts. I know it will end since I too have a sister!=P

Grace's obsession. Grace is obsessed with Dora right now. Specifically, Dora TV shows and movies. She can seriously sit there with Dora on the TV all day. If you try to tell her Dora isn't on, she goes for a movie. When you want to get something done, this obsession is nice. At any other time, this obsession is enough to drive to insane. I am thinking The Little Mermaid obsession was better since at least it was a decent length movie. If you hear Grace "No swiping Buddy. No swiping." This is thanks to Dora and her constant "No swiping Swiper. No Swiping." Cute the first time, not the one millionth.

Hello 2010!

I made it a year! I admit my last several posts of 2009 are still in the draft mode but I will finish them here soon. It is great to look back over my posts from last year and see how the kids have grown.

This year will be exciting, well that is what I keep telling myself. For the first time, Brian won't be staying at home with the kids full time. He will doing his student teaching semester that he put off doing a year ago due our finances. Thankfully, my mom will be watching the kids during this short time frame since it would near impossible to find a day care to only take them for that time or someone to watch them during that time. We are so thankful for her doing this already and it hasn't even started yet.

Grace is still loving school. She was really excited school started back up this week. Brian has started to work on some crafts with her (a snake and a mask) and she loves them. She does get very upset if Sophie "breaks" her crafts though!

Sophie is flirting with wanting to potty train but isn't committed to the cause yet. She is a full blown two year old with the attitude and tantrums to go with it. Some days we want to send her back and get our 1 year old back. Sophie loves Matthew and is a really good big sister to him when she shoves his pacifier back into his mouth!=P

Matthew is a growing boy. He is 5 and half months and is fitting in his 12 month clothes perfectly. I have learned that when this happens he has a few more weeks left in them. It is a good thing I have a stash of 18 month clothes already. He is doing good with his eating oatmeal. That is he is doing good if Brian feeds him. He still won't eat much of it for me which is expected. Brian told me the other day that Matthew will eat us out of house and home if he keeps up his levels of eating.

A family moment: The girls, Brian, and I had a game time for the first time the other day. We played Hi Ho! Cherry-o. Sophie didn't fully get it but enjoyed it. Grace will run around asking to play the "cherry game". We are looking for to more family game nights as they get older!

Their Favorite Things ...

I did a favorite things post awhile back and I really love thinking about the kids favorite things. Maybe because that is one of my all time favorite songs from The Sound of Music? Maybe because I see so much of them through the changes in their favorite things? At any rate, I love them and am excited for this post. I am going to try to remember favorite things that have gone by the wayside already and the ones that are in the limelight right now for each of them.

Gracie ...
Back in the day: Sleeping Beauty Disney movie, breakfast (she isn't into it these days)
Lovin' it right now: school, drawing, princesses ... any Princesses!, Dora, games, asking for TV shows such as Mickey Choo Choo, Dora, and Phineas and Ferb (so we have to record them on the DVR)
Good ole standby: her blanket (a.k.a one of the Gerber cloth diapers that we use as burp cloths), jumping on our bed, the doll houses, baby dolls, Little Gym

Sophie ...
Back in the day: Lady and Tramp (a.k.a. "Dog Movie"), Little Gym (she isn't getting into it)
Lovin' it right now: reading books, singing songs, Disney movies, princesses, baby dolls, her new car seats that have a cup holder like Grace's
Good ole standby: her pink blanket, her pink bunny, still my dancin' queen, jumping on our bed

Matthew ...
Back in the day: sleeping all night, sucking his hand (not his thumb, but the part between his thumb and first finger)
Lovin' it right now: waking up once in the middle of the night, rolling over on his back (wait, he HATE that but he still does it!), pacifiers, football on TV (not sure what we do when football season ends!), a nightlight in his room, his Melissa and Doug snail toy
Good ole standby: walking ... he still loves be held if you are walking around, being held