Our family is still doing what we normally do: hanging out, having fun, cleaning up lots of messes. Nothing big has happened yet (still job searching, still praying) but I felt like doing a couple kiddie updates.
Gwen is growing smarter, cuter, and ever louder. She seems to be learning a thousand words a day, and yet I still have to strain my ears and my brain to understand what she's trying to tell me most of the time. She is just dying to speak in sentences. For every word she doesn't know, she replaces with "wa wa wa." The other day as we were sitting down for dinner, she said, "Prayer!" folded her arms, closed her eyes really tight, and before I could get to the table with the food, she started blessing the food all by herself! It went something like this: "Dear Hebbly Fater, Bless wa wa wa, please wa wa wa. Christ. Amen!" We were so proud! She loves to say the prayer now, and she never lets us forget to bless the food.
Phoebe is still as sweet and precious as ever. She's a big momma's girl, and she wants to do everything like me and with me. She's started giving me kisses. We have a game that we play together. I kiss her cheeks really fast, and she laughs and laughs. Then she opens her mouth really wide and plants a big wet kiss on my cheek, then laughs and laughs. She's also learned how to get to the sitting position all by herself. She hasn't attempted to crawl yet. She doesn't have much interest in mobility right now. Gwen usually gets her what she needs to play with and Phoebe is happy to be served. Whenever I put her on her stomach, she immediately pushes up to sit. Not much tummy time, so she doesn't try to crawl. I'm sure it'll happen. Maybe she'll start walking first. She certainly loves to stand with mommy's help! Maybe she'll just skip the crawling stage all together.
Our family is still doing what we normally do: hanging out, having fun, cleaning up lots of messes. Nothing big has happened yet (still job searching, still praying) but I felt like doing a couple kiddie updates. 
Gwen is growing smarter, cuter, and ever louder. She seems to be learning a thousand words a day, and yet I still have to strain my ears and my brain to understand what she's trying to tell me most of the time. She is just dying to speak in sentences. For every word she doesn't know, she replaces with "wa wa wa." The other day as we were sitting down for dinner, she said, "Prayer!" folded her arms, closed her eyes really tight, and before I could get to the table with the food, she started blessing the food all by herself! It went something like this: "Dear Hebbly Fater, Bless wa wa wa, please wa wa wa. Christ. Amen!" We were so proud! She loves to say the prayer now, and she never lets us forget to bless the food.
Phoebe is still as sweet and precious as ever. She's a big momma's girl, and she wants to do everything like me and with me. She's started giving me kisses. We have a game that we play together. I kiss her cheeks really fast, and she laughs and laughs. Then she opens her mouth really wide and plants a big wet kiss on my cheek, then laughs and laughs. She's also learned how to get to the sitting position all by herself. She hasn't attempted to crawl yet. She doesn't have much interest in mobility right now. Gwen usually gets her what she needs to play with and Phoebe is happy to be served. Whenever I put her on her stomach, she immediately pushes up to sit. Not much tummy time, so she doesn't try to crawl. I'm sure it'll happen. Maybe she'll start walking first. She certainly loves to stand with mommy's help! Maybe she'll just skip the crawling stage all together. 
