Now that I have two, I often refer to Lucy and Emma as "The Girls." I never imagined that I would be a mom that could use the term, but now that I can, I find it addicting."I am going Christmas Shopping for The Girls."
"I can't because The Girls are being outrageously difficult."
"The Girls are driving me crazy."
When I talk about how much I love them, it becomes "I love My Girls."
Lately, they have been quite entertaining:
Emma
Since I have had a second child, I spend more days at home where I used to drag Emma with me everywhere. It has been interesting to see some of the things that she has done to entertain herself on these lazy days. I have been trying to incorporate her into my life of neat-freakiness:
And one day she found a drawer that she really shouldn't have been in and decided that one of mommy's slips was now her "Cinderella Dress." It was a struggle to get her to take it off before we had to go to the store (sorry, sideways. Just turn your head a little):
And now that she is old enough to understand Christmas a little better, she has really taken to Candy Canes. She found one at Deseret Book that she wouldn't detach herself from so we had to buy it and she immediately hung it on her door. Occassionally she will sleep with it. She is obsessed with the ones on the Christmas Tree, but has been a really good girl not to touch them. She loves the stocking I bought her with her initial on it. She would probably sleep with it as well, but I am a stubborn decorator and it is essential to the overall look of our Christmas decor.
She is a movie nut and would watch movies all day long if I let her. When Lucy was born, I bought her the new Tinkerbell movie and she has watched that to the point that she will quote lines from it when she isn't watching it and pretend to say the lines with the movie when she is watching it. She has learned every word to the song that plays during the credits and loves to sing it to the point that we bought it on iTunes and made her a CD so she can sing with it in the car. On occassion she has refused to exit the car if her song is on, until she has sung every word to the very end.
Though her drama quotient has increased since her little sister has come and she has suddenly become a very clingy mommy's girl, we love her and are entertained by her to no end!
Lucy
Lucy is getting bigger and bigger by the second! Her two month check-up was on Friday and she was 11 lbs. 4 oz. She is in the 75% for her height and 64% for her weight (I think - I may have that reversed). We feel a huge difference compared to her big sister who was always in the 90th or 95th. She loves to go on outings all bundled up in her carseat:
She is extremely resourceful about getting food to the point that she nearly devours her hands while she waits:
She loves sleeping with her long arms stretched out above her end (which amuses mommy to no end):
And she loved being talked to and cooed at to the point where we can get an occassional smile and sometimes a near laugh (she is best at smiling in the morning and she smiles the biggest for her Daddy):
Though she still gets us up at night and insists on sleeping in her Daddy's arms all of the time, we adore her and love watching her grow bigger everyday!
Don't you just adore "The Girls?"
