Good bye, Summer!

Here are some remaining pictures from this summer that did not make it onto any particular post. Enjoy!

Sophie is 18 months!

My 18 month old little girl!



Here she is less than a year ago- my 7 month old little baby!


Can't believe my little one is getting so big, so fast! Here is a little update of my year and a halfer!

Words:
Says too many to count and is really starting to combine words- she has quite a few two word statements. Her most recent phase consists of saying bye bye to everything as we're leaving the condo (ie- bye bye horsee. bye bye door. bye bye steps. etc) Here are a few other examples:

uh oh! appened! (uh oh! what happened!)- this one's my favorite

baby, where?

theretis! (there it is!)

one more! (usually speaking about food of course!)

heredo (here you go)

my turn!


Favorite food:
Its hard to pinpoint just one because she seems to take after her big sister, if you know what I mean:) She actually loves all vegetables (broccoli and tomatoes seem to be her favs). In terms of fruit, strawberries are definitely number 1- If I let her, she could probably eat an entire package! Of course, meats, cheese and noodles/rice are well liked too, but if I had to choose the item that makes her the most happy it would be poculculs(popsicles)!


Motor skills:
Getting harder and harder to keep up with her- not quite running in the true sense of the word (2 feet leaving the ground at once), but pretty darn close! Also, she can walk up and down steps without help- most of the time -and can go down some slides all by herself like a big kid, which makes her very happy! Finally, her own personal goal is to be able to jump. It is adorable to watch her attempt to jump because she puts such earnest effort into it!


Favorite activity:
Reading books while sitting in my lap! She could do this all day long! This can get sort of tedious for mama, but I just can't say no to my little bookworm walking towards me with yet another book saying "pease, pease!". Her new favorite book is 10 little caterpillars and she absolutely loves to count!- Very different from Lily who had much more of an afinity towards letters than numbers at Sophie's age. A close second favorite activity is basically doing anything that Lily is doing, much to Lily's annoyance!


Here she is showing off her skills at the playpark!

Preschool- week 2

Here is a brief overview of some of the activities Lily enjoyed during her second week of preschool:

Activities:

She created 2 books:



Lily's favorite activities were reportedly playing with playdough in the kitchen, playing outside at recess time, and getting to use a purple glue stick:)


Behavior:

Each day, Lily also reported very excitedly that she didn't grab and she shared. Way to go, Lily- I hope! Although. the teacher did call and say that Lily is doing great- listening, following directions, raising her hand, and playing nicely. So, maybe Lily's appraisal of herself is accurate- I just wish she would carry this wonderful behavior over to home when she is playing with Sophie!


Classmates:

She is beginning to talk about some of her classmates. This is what I've gleamed: Olivia has a new baby sister, Maia has pretty shoes, and Devon doesn't listen and had to sit in the thinking corner more than once I think- poor kid.


Singing:

She learned a few new songs:
Jesus loves me was the first song she learned. She's got the first verse down, but as for the second verse, your guess is as good as mine:)


She also says the pledge of allegiance and then sings a patriotic song after saying the pledge each day. However, when I asked her what song she sang after the pledge she replied, It sounds like "apatrician to me!" Hmmm- I scratched my head on that one for a few days until I finally asked her teacher and learned that it was "My country tis of thee". Oh now that makes sense- not! :)


Lunch:

I've packed her lunch everyday except for Friday when she got to eat Dominoe's pizza for lunch. This made her very happy! Next week she gets to have a mcdonald's happy meal in honor of classmate Tai's birthday. This will make her even happier!


Lily's school report:

Finally, I'll conclude with a discussion of what Lily has learned so far at preschool in her own words:

As we were driving home on Thursday Lily had a lot of new knowledge to impart (the following is only an excerpt to keep this post from getting too long!). She started her little report, which was a blur of words so fast that only a mother could understand some of them with, "Mommy we pushed our chairs in and were really careful and then the fire sound said bram, bram, bram! and that's how you don't get burned!"
"and mommy, Adam and Eve ate an apple from the tree, but they weren't apposed to and then God said, "why did you do that?" and they had to go away." "Mommy they can just eat an apple from a different tree." "Mommy, did they have to build a new house?"
"I suppose so."
"Mommy, did it have a kitchen?"
"Um, probably." . . . :)

Lily's first week at preschool!

Wow- Lily’s very first week of preschool has just passed and it went great! When I dropped her off on the first day she sat willingly in her seat in which a puzzle had been placed for each kid to play with before school started. She quickly went to work and soon forgot I was even there. Not exactly the scene I was expecting ;) All day I couldn’t wait to pick her up to see how her day went. When I finally returned after work, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that all of the things I was worried about were actually non-issues. I know, I know, I worry too much (it runs in the family)- I’m getting better though and I try to remember Luke 12 when I feel worry creeping back! Anyways, it turns out that Lily raised her hand to use the bathroom 3 times and did so without any help (flushing too!), was the first one to fall asleep at nap time, and didn’t want to leave when I came to pick her up!

The rest of the week went similarly. In addition, over the course of this week I transitioned Lily to underpants at bedtime too and she hasn’t wet the bed once! I think it must be psychological- now that she is in school she must feel very grown up and ready to ditch the pull ups- Yeah!!! Lily is growing up so fast. I can’t believe how time flies!

Here are pictures of Lily during her first week of preschool. I tried to capture a pic each day so that most of her uniform wardrobe is featured:)

Notice the cute lady bugs on the shorts part of the skort:)

Early career discussion

Lily and I have been talking a lot about the start of her preschool this past week (eg- how we say please and thank, never grab from our friends, always raise our hand when we have a question, and of course the fact that mommy will be leaving to go to work). This has sparked some new questions from Lily.

Lily's most recent thought about this was, "are you going to work at rubina's house?"

I responded, "No, I am a physical therapist. I work at different schools with kids who have problems with their bodies and many have a hard time walking or even a hard time sitting up by themselves. So, I help kids learn how to walk or how to use a wheelchair and things this this."

"Oh- When I get bigger I'm going to be a pisical terapist too!- I'm good at doing that, right mommy?"

"Well, I'm sure that if you still want to be one when you get bigger you'll be a very good one"

pause - Lily looked like she was deep in thought

"Mommy, why do their bodies not work?", she asked with a very puzzled look on her face.

"Well. . . many of them have boo boo's in their brains and this makes it hard for their bodies to work right." (not sure if this was the best way to explain it, but the first thing that came to mind)

another pause

Then Lily said, "I'm going to pisical terapist to Sophie- she doesn't walk very well!"

"Oh really. . ."

Then came the part that really cracked me up: "Mommy, does Sophie have a boo boo in her brain?" :)

"No, I said, "she is still little and just learned how to walk, so she just needs more practice and to get bigger and then she'll walk just fine."

Then Lily got this little gleam in her eye and said, "yes she does, Sophie's got a boo boo in her brain!- hahahahahha!"

Poor Sophie- I'm afraid I see much more of this in her future;)

Our visit with GG and PopPops!

We had a great time last week visiting my grandma (GG) and grandfather (PopPops). Despite PopPops being a bit older than when I was a kid, seeing PopPops and Lily goofing around really brought back memories (eg- Lily playing with PopPop's crutches, PopPops making up funny rhymes, PopPops pretending to put a spider in his pocket to "protect" Lily, and silly things like this). Sophie was right there imitating everything that Lily did with PopPops and GG, too- so cute how she tries to be just like Lily. Enjoy the pictures!
BTW- my grandparents names are Patricia and Gordon :)