This week in the Atchley home 2/25 - 3/02

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Phoebe has been very busy this week. She always goes after Sophia's sippy cups if she leaves them lying around. She was actually able to drink out of the sippy cups this week. I think she rather enjoyed it.

With a little help from mama, Phoebe is now pulling herself up. Yay! She also stabilizes herself much better when standing at the couch. She is sitting up on her own and still has the occasional fall over but has gotten much stronger.

A couple weeks back she was babbling mamamamama, but only for one day. Now it is a consistent thing when she plays to go on "mamamamamama". It's nice to hear.

Phoebe has discovered a new, fun thing she can do. She gets up on her hands and knees and starts flapping her lips and spitting, but she likes to watch the spit as it falls to the carpet. Another fun thing --screaming at Sophia to try and get her to scream back. It works.....100% of the time.

'The wiggle' has progressed. Instead of only doing it on her back on the floor, Phoebe now wiggles when you hold her, in her car seat, when she is standing (with me supporting her at the hips), in the highchair, and while sitting.

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Well, I was so sure Phoebe would be crawling by now, but she isn't. She does everything else she possibly can--gets up on her hands and knees, hands and toes, or her hands and bottom of her feet (see picture). She continues to army crawl and seems happy enough with that. I guess as long as she is getting around that is all that matters.

For awhile Sophia was hooked on Finding Nemo. BJ and I were going crazy and have been letting her watch various shows to see what she is okay with besides that darn clown fish! She got hooked on Cars there for awhile too, but so far here is a list of what we have found she likes and dislikes:

Okay to watch:

• The Little Mermaid


• Finding Nemo


• Pixar Shorts


• Cars


• Kiki's Delivery Service


• Toy Story


• Toy Story 2


• Bug's Life


• My Neighbor Totorro


• The Cat Returns


• Porco Rosso

NOT okay:

• Monsters Inc.


• Spirited Away


• Howl's Moving Castle


• Tarzan

Sophia is getting better at repeating words accurately on the first try. She is stringing words together more often as well. Every week she is progressing and communicating more. When she wants something she will pull on our shirt, pants, or arm and tell us "Get up!"

She woke up from a nap the other day still a little loopy so I asked her, "Sophia, are you still drunk?" Her reply: "Yes."

Sophia's new, fun thing this week--putting socks on her hands and walking around and playing that way.

We really enjoy dance time with Sophia. We discovered this week that she has a preference. 'Peanut butter jelly time' from the internet, and club music. As long as it is loud, strong, and fast she will dance!

[audio:YTMND Soundtrack - Volume 7 - 17 - Buckwheat Boyz - Peanut .mp3]

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