After reading a comment on my last post from my sister-in-law, Tami, I've started to realize how much my little girls are really growing up. Allie, in fact, is looking less like a toddler and more like a little girl. I never really noticed it until I read the comment.....but I am with her every day so things start to blend together (if that makes sense). She must still look enough like a toddler to get flight attendants to think we're crazy for buying a ticket for a child under two though! {on our trip to Idaho the flight attendant was going to give Allie's seat away and we were like, uh no, we paid for that seat......why? b/c you made us, she's 2........if you want to give us our money back we would gladly put her on our laps!} And she must still look young enough for people to think that her and Avery are a lot closer in age than they really are.
Not only is she looking more like a little girl, but she's acting more like one too. Her FAVORITE thing to do now is to play school. Every time Avery goes down for a nap she'll ask, "Wanna play school?" in a very excited voice. We're going over the alphabet, numbers, colors and shapes. I try to get her to write them but she's not quite there yet. I've been trying to teach her some sign language (just one or two things a week) and she is soooooo good at remembering them! She knows: I love you, music, hat, cup, more, all done, cat, help me, and rainbow. She also loves to do crafts. Here are some of her latest projects (with Mom's help, of course):
Now on to Avery........I can't believe she is going to be a year old this summer! These past 8 months have gone by way to fast. She seems to be progressing at about the same pace that Allie did when she was a baby. Looking back at things, I think I'm babying Avery way too much! She should be ahead of pace since she has an older sister to watch...at least that's what I think. I do spoil her rotten though by running to her every little cry and holding her way too much.
She can get around now mostly by scooting backwards along the floor or by rotating in circles and eventually moving forward/backward a little bit. She says da da although I'm not sure she really knows what it means. She'll say ma.....again don't know if she knows that's me. I'd like to think so though! The other day I tried to get Avery to roll a ball back and forth to me......and she did!! She was doing it a lot and then Derek got the camera and she was more interested in the silver shiny camera than the ball then......but did manage to roll it a few times ;)
