1 Month and 15.5 Months

Hello Everyone, long time no write! It's been a bit more difficult to find the time to do a blog, understandably! Hands have been a bit more full this time. Currently everyone's still sleeping but about to wake up, so we'll see how much we get done!

Miriam has been growing so fast! At her first weigh in she was gaining half a pound a week, not bad for a teeny tiny baby - well not so teeny anymore. She's working very hard on outgrowing her outfits - not that she doesn't get to try them all on with how much she spits...

Miriam has been having a little bit of trouble with gas, she's working so hard on chowing down she forgets to let out some burps and such regularly so gets a bit fussy sometimes, but seems to be getting better with that.

She's also been working on sleeping well at night - successfully most of the time! She does sleep at night for the most part, granted she sleeps most of the day away anyhow. But generally not too tough to get her down, occassionally it takes an hour or two, but once she's down she'll last a few hours and then when she wakes up she'll go back down to sleep without too much difficulty. Last night she went to sleep for the first time shortly after her sister, so about 8pm, and got up 3 times at 9pm, 2:30am and 7:45am going back to sleep afterwards and is still snoozing as we speak...so not bad at all! Mommy and Daddy got to have a nice social evening with some friends, it was wonderful!

Naomi has been taking her role as big sister seriously and making sure to keep learning and growing as well. She's gotten up to 12 teeth now and her vocabularly is steadily increasing. Some new words are "Nanook", well "Nanoo" would be more accurate, but the dog still comes when called. Has been using "all done" regularly for various uses now, from finishing eating or having her bottle to being finished her nap and wanting out. She had up before and tries to use up when she means down, but if you correct her she says down, or "doo" rather. Anyhow, words have been cute!

She's also starting to use more of her toys in fun ways. Her ride on/walker toy car has has actually been used to walk behind and push, working on walking! Still thinks she can't do it by herself without a finger or some furniture though. She's also played pretend with a lunchbox we got pretending to take food out of the lunchbox and eat it and of course sharing it with others who also have to eat it. Super cute!

Well sounds like the little ones are waking up so should go for now, catch you again in a bit when I find another spare moment away from kids, laundry and house stuff!

Anna signing off while Adam, Miriam and Nanook catch a few last 'z's and Naomi starts singing in her crib...