The last 2 weeks in the Atchley Home 7/28 - 8/10
As BJ said I have been very busy. Been working hard at my mom's since she is (mostly) out of commission due to surgery. She is doing better and when she is in the office I realize 2 are definitely better than 1 for the job! I have also started to rearrange things in the master bedroom and organizing things better. I also put up new curtains and the room is coming together nicely, but I still have lots of work to do. Spring cleaning the master bath, re-organizing, and packing away old baby clothes. I have also been working on Phoebe's wooden name board. I love crafts and really liked the idea of having decorative name boards for the girls. Phoebe's is not quite done yet but I can't wait to post a picture of it. I feel like I have started all these projects and have only accomplished half the work. I had done a 1 year hand print and photo frame for Phoebe these past 2 weeks as well, but that actually got finished. It has also been on my mind to finally paint the hallway too. I just can't seem to sit still. Plus we had birthday week and we hosted the party at our house. We celebrated BJ's 29th, Michael's 19th, Cindy's 29th, Jeff and Sherry's 3rd anniversary of turning 25! Lot o' birthdays!! I am not like my other wonderful family and friends by posting a sweet birthday note to my hubby. I am lucky to get this post done right now! BJ knows I love him and will take care of him in his old age! ;P
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As BJ mentioned in another post he went to OK this past weekend. I was tempted to go but didn't want to put the girls out too much. However, I felt like I was going to lose my mind this weekend dealing with the girls fighting and almost constant care and attention. Add a little exhaustion and I was VERY ready for him to come home.
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What Phoebe has been up to:
She has become such a copycat. Any noise or sound (or screech) that she can mimic she will. Some of it is really cute and some of it definitely not so much. She has added "wow", "whoah", "no", "ball" and "oh" to her vocabulary and uses them almost constantly throughout the day. She has also increased the amount of pointing she does and points at almost everything and exclaims her new words in the process.
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Phoebe has developed a temper and attitude as well. It used to be if we heard Phoebe crying or fussing it was because Sophia did something to her. Now it is due to her not getting what she wants, not getting where she wants to go, Sophia taking a toy, or not playing with her, etc etc etc. Or if she wants something or wants somewhere she will scream and yell at us. We know exactly what she wants but apparently we don't move fast enough! And obviously she has no other way to tell us what she wants, so yelling it is.
She is such a confident walker now and has tried to start running when she gets really excited.
Still only 2 teeth, but it doesn't stop her from eating anything she wants.
Latest compliments from strangers besides her beautiful eyes is that she looks like the Gerber baby. We sure think so.
Phoebe has never hung out with us in our bed before. One morning was really rainy. The girls woke up around the same time (which rarely happens) so we piled into bed with blankies and sippy cups and watched morning cartoons for a bit from our comfy, warm bed. As you can see the girls enjoyed themselves very much, and Phoebe even looks like she still wants to sleep.
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What Sophia has been up to:
She has started this thing when she wants to identify something. She waves her arm in a circle and repeats "It's, it's, it's it's....." and then I have to help. She has also started asking me "What's next?"
Sophia again identifies mommy as a girl, daddy as a boy, and then BJ asks Sophia if she is a girl. She assuredly says "No." BJ, shocked, then asks her what she is. She exclaims "I'm a cowgirl!"
I went shopping at Target one evening and come home with several bags. Sophia starts tearing into them saying each time "What's this?!" Getting tired of that I quickly pull out the new shirt and shorts I found on the clearance rack (the shorts were 98 cents!) and tell her she can have them. She grabs them up in her arms, hugs them, and says "Oh! I love it!" Then immediately has to wear the new outfit. Her 'before' hair picture is of her in the new clothes.
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Nursery was missing the chorister for singing time one Sunday. Sophia started singing in the middle of doing her coloring activity and some of the other kids joined in. She then led the rest of 'singing time' by picking the songs they would sing and singing the loudest.
Yep, we took her to get her hair cut. Don't worry, her bangs weren't touched, they clearly don't need it. We wanted to even her hair out and get rid of the tangly, thin hair in the back. We were nervous about her first 'major' haircut and didn't want to lose the curls, but it turned out very well and we can still do ponytails and pigtails. She looks a little more grown up too.
Sophia was jumping on her trampoline with Daddy watching when BJ comes in and tells me I have to come out and listen to what "my daughter" is singing. I go out and am greeted by the funniest thing. She is singing another random song that I sometimes sing around the house but that she has never repeated before. It is an Avril Lavigne song and she is jumping up and down singing "hey hey you you I don't likeurgirlfiend no way no way."
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Another wonderful Friday. We went to the Wiggly Play Center and met daddy for lunch where a little boy hit her a couple times within 10 minutes of being there thus crushing any excitement she had gained from being there. With lot's of hugs from mama and reassurance she warmed up to the place. Phoebe had a blast and loved every minute of it. We ended the day with swimming where Sophia was just as independent as before with swimming by herself.
As BJ mentioned in another post he went to OK this past weekend. I was tempted to go but didn't want to put the girls out too much. However, I felt like I was going to lose my mind this weekend dealing with the girls fighting and almost constant care and attention. Add a little exhaustion and I was VERY ready for him to come home.
What Phoebe has been up to:
She has become such a copycat. Any noise or sound (or screech) that she can mimic she will. Some of it is really cute and some of it definitely not so much. She has added "wow", "whoah", "no", "ball" and "oh" to her vocabulary and uses them almost constantly throughout the day. She has also increased the amount of pointing she does and points at almost everything and exclaims her new words in the process.
Phoebe has developed a temper and attitude as well. It used to be if we heard Phoebe crying or fussing it was because Sophia did something to her. Now it is due to her not getting what she wants, not getting where she wants to go, Sophia taking a toy, or not playing with her, etc etc etc. Or if she wants something or wants somewhere she will scream and yell at us. We know exactly what she wants but apparently we don't move fast enough! And obviously she has no other way to tell us what she wants, so yelling it is.
She is such a confident walker now and has tried to start running when she gets really excited.
Still only 2 teeth, but it doesn't stop her from eating anything she wants.
Latest compliments from strangers besides her beautiful eyes is that she looks like the Gerber baby. We sure think so.
Phoebe has never hung out with us in our bed before. One morning was really rainy. The girls woke up around the same time (which rarely happens) so we piled into bed with blankies and sippy cups and watched morning cartoons for a bit from our comfy, warm bed. As you can see the girls enjoyed themselves very much, and Phoebe even looks like she still wants to sleep.
What Sophia has been up to:
She has started this thing when she wants to identify something. She waves her arm in a circle and repeats "It's, it's, it's it's....." and then I have to help. She has also started asking me "What's next?"
Sophia again identifies mommy as a girl, daddy as a boy, and then BJ asks Sophia if she is a girl. She assuredly says "No." BJ, shocked, then asks her what she is. She exclaims "I'm a cowgirl!"
I went shopping at Target one evening and come home with several bags. Sophia starts tearing into them saying each time "What's this?!" Getting tired of that I quickly pull out the new shirt and shorts I found on the clearance rack (the shorts were 98 cents!) and tell her she can have them. She grabs them up in her arms, hugs them, and says "Oh! I love it!" Then immediately has to wear the new outfit. Her 'before' hair picture is of her in the new clothes.
Nursery was missing the chorister for singing time one Sunday. Sophia started singing in the middle of doing her coloring activity and some of the other kids joined in. She then led the rest of 'singing time' by picking the songs they would sing and singing the loudest.
Yep, we took her to get her hair cut. Don't worry, her bangs weren't touched, they clearly don't need it. We wanted to even her hair out and get rid of the tangly, thin hair in the back. We were nervous about her first 'major' haircut and didn't want to lose the curls, but it turned out very well and we can still do ponytails and pigtails. She looks a little more grown up too.
Sophia was jumping on her trampoline with Daddy watching when BJ comes in and tells me I have to come out and listen to what "my daughter" is singing. I go out and am greeted by the funniest thing. She is singing another random song that I sometimes sing around the house but that she has never repeated before. It is an Avril Lavigne song and she is jumping up and down singing "hey hey you you I don't likeurgirlfiend no way no way."
Another wonderful Friday. We went to the Wiggly Play Center and met daddy for lunch where a little boy hit her a couple times within 10 minutes of being there thus crushing any excitement she had gained from being there. With lot's of hugs from mama and reassurance she warmed up to the place. Phoebe had a blast and loved every minute of it. We ended the day with swimming where Sophia was just as independent as before with swimming by herself.
Let me know who that little boy was, and I will have Taylor beat him up! LOL (He would enjoy that..a little too much!)
ReplyDeletePictures of the new haircut, please!!
ReplyDeleteThe boy looked older than Taylor but he sure was about the same size as your big boy!
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