2.5 and 6

Lilly - 2 1/2 years old!

My firstborn, my beautiful, sweet, loving little girl! You are getting to be such a soft hearted person. You run to us and give us the best hugs all while telling us "I love you so much". Melts.our.hearts.
You are potty training and just in the last week it has gotten so much better. I am hoping that pull ups are on their way out the door!
Last week at the doctor’s office, I got a tear in my eye when you graduated to the stand on weigh machine. No longer do you have to lie on the baby scale :(
You love your sister so much and tell her all the time "I so proud of you".
You have a wild imagination and play well with others and by yourself. I hear and see you all the time recreating a scene in a movie. I think you may be a drama major :)
Your dance class is going well and you really enjoy it. You especially like to tap.  You performed this past weekend at Budafest and you were one of the only ones who actually completed the dance.  Again, you love the stage and audience!
The only way to get you to sit still is to turn on a movie which you will promptly ask "You wanna lay with me"?
You are very funny as well. While we were on our Thanksgiving trip your dad caught a load of fish. When you saw them you asked "Are you going to cut them"? And then you said "Yum, so good"!
Food has become your friend and you frequently will only eat meat now. Quite the change from just a couple of months ago when all you would eat every night was mac-n-cheese. You still constantly drink milk but now you will tell us if you want it hot or cold.
I love the little person you have become and the conversations that we can have. But girl, slow down...



Dela - 6 months

There have big changes with you this month. You are sitting on your own, trying to hold your own bottle and you have begun to try real food. Back up, we have started working on your pinching skills with puffs.
You have used your knees to lunge but I do not think you will be crawling anytime soon.
You got your first nasty cold this month and although the urgent care people called it croup, I was hesitant to believe it. Sure, enough your real doctor called bullsh*t when she heard your cough. Definitely a case of rsv (which is what this momma really thought it was). Nothing we can do except what we were already doing and she said you will be fine.
The biggest change of all is that you are sleeping in your own room. AND, you actually sleep! I decided when we got home from Thanksgiving that I was not even going to set you back up in our room. I am guessing that you liked that decision because you have slept thru the night except for one night in the last two weeks. HALLELUJA!
Yesterday at the doctor, your stats were 25% in height, 25% in weight (14.4lbs) and 50% in head.  Doctor told us you were perfect but we already knew that!