My girls these days

Julia is getting so very very big! She's crawling everywhere like a maniac, and these days (she's just freshly turned eight months) is clapping her hands gleefully, and smacking our faces. Anything that makes a clapping noise! She is such a loving baby, and is in love with her sister. The two of them love playing together already!

Maya just had her first hair cut, and she did very well. She sat pretty patiently, only squirming when she got her new bangs cut and all her hair was tickling her face. Didn't hurt that they had tv's for her to watch, bubbles to blow, and the whole thing only took about 10 minutes!

Miss crazy pants before:




Julia hanging out in one of the seats:












And after! Much better, she looks adorable with her new bangs. They gave her sparkles and everything!

Maya silliness...

Maya has just stripped all the furniture from her new dollhouse, and piled it all in this play tunnel we have. She's pretending to be the dolls: "Ahhh! Dinosaur scare you! Monster scare you!". And somehow Mister Potatohead has come to save them all. She's saying "great job potato head! great job!"

Shortie...

A few things...i really need to blog but have neither the time nor the patience!

Julia - is crrrazy!!! In two weeks she popped two teeth, learned to crawl, pulled herself up on stuff, had to have her crib dropped, and unfortunately stopped falling asleep on her own booo. But is still so cute it's hard to stand sometimes! In the middle of the night she grabs at my face and sticks her fingers in my mouth as if to check that it's really me, although my breast is in her mouth so who else could it possibly be??

Maya - is crazy too hah. She's started saying "good job mommy!" or "good job daddy!" She also says thanks! and you're welcome! all the time. And "i wub you mommy!" with great big kisses. God I love these kids!

Rolling machine

So Julia is now rolling back to belly, go J! So much harder than belly to back. Only a matter of time now before she figures out that she can roll to get across the room, or coordinate limbs to crawl. Then I'm REALLY in trouble!

Speaking of trouble, Maya's been up to all kinds of no good lately! Yesterday I had some music on for Maya to dance to, I look over from the kitchen to the living room and Maya had pulled Julia to a sit and was trying to dance with her! AUGH! I spazzed out and ran over, hoping that Maya wouldn't just let go of Julia and let her little head clonk on the floor. I went out the other night with some ladies, and was texting with Ian to find out how the girls were doing. Well Maya decided she was going to climb into the crib with Julia! Guess she thought she needed some company. :P

Maya is still off and on with the napping. The days she DOES nap are happy days for mommy, the days she doesn't are long and exhausting. She's also getting her two year molars, and has a little cold right now. She's had a rough time each morning, today she screamed when Daddy went to work and carried on crying for a long time. Sadly I had to resort to tv to get her to calm down, Ian sometimes gives her a soother but then she doesn't want to give it up. She'll be three in May, and still has a soother, lord help us. And also needs to be potty trained still! Which reminds me of another Maya silliness, the other day when she was supposed to be sleeping, I heard her still up so I went upstairs and found she had stripped all her clothes and diaper off, with a pair of leggings on, trying to put on tights as well. Turns out underneath the tights and leggings she had not one, but two pairs of underwear on, backwards though. I think she's ready to ditch the diapers! :P

Getting bigger every day!

Julia is giggling! She had her first giggle this past weekend, just shy of three months. I brought home Sophie, the giraffe teething toy every mama has to buy for her kiddo these days, much to Ian's chagrin. (the thing is twenty bucks!) Ian was holding her, i squeaked the toy and she let out her first giggle! Since then she's giggled a bunch more times, mostly when Ian tickles her. Today he was holding her standing so she could dance with her sister, and she laughed some more. These days when I go to kiss her she opens her mouth wide like she's going to eat me. Man, she is one cute baby! I'm so in love with my kiddos.

She rolls!

At two months, 2 weeks and 6 days old, Julia just rolled for the first time from her tummy to her back! She's a really strong little girl, who doesn't mind tummy time too much. Right now it seems like she's trying to roll back from her back to her tummy! She'll get it in no time, I'm sure!

Julia's two month shots

The shots went really well! She cried of course and was quite angry about the needle pricks, but all in all it went fine. She nursed, then fell asleep, woke up, and went about her night as usual!

She's in the 90th percentile for weight, and 97th for height, big healthy girl! The nurse was telling us of the risks to little babies with siblings at this age; being pulled off a bed or out of her swing because they want to help and hold their sibling (check! well Maya has tried), trying to feed their siblings something they shouldn't have (check! Maya tried feeding Julia sesame seed bagel yesterday), and siblings throwing stuff into the babies crib. At which point we said well, Julia is co-slept, so we have to worry more about her sister rolling over on her...I mean, um...oops? The nurse just laughed though so it's all good, child protective services won't be visiting any time soon!