Jump ... Up!

My Sophie Moment: Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons are crazy here at our house. I get home from work a little early so Brian can immediately leave to go to work. This past Thursday in the few minutes when Brian and I passed the girls off, Sophie had a first. She was running around after I got home saying "jump". She was trying her best to jump but we don't expect her to jump seeing she isn't even 15 months old yet. All of a sudden her little feet came off the ground at the same time and she landed back on them! She was so proud of herself. Brian and I both managed to catch her doing this and stood there in shock with huge smiles on our faces. She managed to jump two more times that afternoon but landed on her butt both of the times. She hasn't been into the jumping idea since Thursday but it was great to see her accomplish something she has been trying so hard to do!

My Grace Moment: Grace's new favorite phrase is "Up we go!" She loves to say this as we go upstairs or get in car seats. She has also learned "Up and Down." When she says "up" she puts her arms up in the air and when she says "down" she puts her arms down. I think this her new dance move.

New Baby Update: I haven't provided one in awhile. New baby is starting to move. Ok he or she has been moving but I am now starting to feel movements. I was also blessed with my first moment of morning sickness (after dinner of course!) last night. At 16 weeks 5 days, I figured I made it through the sickness stage and was counting my lucky stars. Think again. Cravings are still meat and cheese sandwiches. I have decided that this baby better love meat and cheese sandwiches because I think that will be their packed lunch for all of their school years as payback to how many sandwiches I have been eating. Oh what I would give to have that milkshake craving back. That was a craving worth having! Oh well. Meat and cheese sandwiches it is.

We bought big girl furniture last night. I found a great deal online that we couldn't pass up! We now have two twin beds (with mattresses), a smaller dresser, and a night stand that will go into the room that currently Sophie's room but will become a shared bedroom for Grace and Sophie. Seems to be getting more real that our family IS growing again now that we have more furniture to arrange and evidence of a growing belly for the world to see.

I love you and kisses

Sophie's new thing: Sophie will offer up kisses if you ask her for them. You hear her little lips smack but she doesn't actually kiss most of the time. I have found her kissing her "bebe" and Grace too.

Grace's new thing: Brian tucked Grace in to bed last night. He told her he loved her and asked her if she could say I love you, daddy. To his surprise, Grace told her daddy "I love you, dada" in response. He must be a special to get his little girl's first ever "I love you!"

Our house continues to be as crazy as ever. Some random updates about what the girls are up to these days ...
Grace loves to grab my hand and drag me out to the kitchen to "d" ("d"=dance to the Leap Frog Fridge DJ). Grace loves reading her Elmo seek and find book and picking up objects off the pages. Grace still loves to "cook" stuff in her play kitchen so any snacks she is given becomes fair game to be added to the play pots and pans. The play pots and pans seem to end up in our kitchen sink to be cleaned out on a regular basis these days! I spotted one of Grace's two year old molars finally coming in the other day when I brushed her teeth!
Sophie desperately wants to jump at only 14 months of age. (Jumping is a skill generally learned at age 2 or so.) Sophie loves to read the animals book and has added "pig", "turtle", and "sheep" to her growing number of words. Any animal name that Sophie doesn't want to say becomes "sheep". I guess she likes sheep? Sophie has become attached to a blanket her Grandma Williams made for her baby cradle. She looks like a doll carrying it around. Sophie now has six teeth and will still eat anything you give her.