I know, two pictures from the same sitting, but they're both so cute! I love how in the first one Naomi is entertaining Miriam and the second one you see that Miriam is really being entertained, awarding Naomi with a huge smile. They, well Naomi primarily, have been having lots of fun together already. Naomi is very excited about having a new playmate, but I don't think she quite understands why she doesn't move much, but it doesn't seem to bother her. Seeing them interact is very cute. However, Naomi currently has a fascination with pointing out facial features such as mouth, nose, eyes, etc, which has unfortunately meant she's poked Miriam really good in the eye a couple of times. She does feel bad though when her sister starts screaming...then she realizes (temporarily) maybe it wasn't a good idea. So interactions still require much supervision!Naomi's walking still has not come yet but she is so very close! There have been many times where she's let go of furniture and stood by herself for a moment, looked like she was going to take a step and then crouch down and crawl. There's also been a couple times where instead of crawling from standing she kind of lunges forward...so we'll see what happens. She still has a month and a half to be on track for where her mom started walking.
Naomi's vocabulary on the other hand is rapidly increasing. She is able to name a decent chunk of her toys and most of her words are actually quite accurate. Her "please" is probably her least accurate word, comes out more like a "dee-deese", but then she can say "cookie", "Lucy" (her cabbage patch doll), or "car" essentially perfectly. And she's been very proud of the fact that she can say "Mommy" and "Daddy" completely now instead of just "Mama" and "Dada", so says them often even when she doesn't need to. It's quite cute! We'll be driving in the car to go shopping or something and she'll be quite in the backseat and then randomly blare out "MOMMY!! MOMMY!!" and when I reply and look at her she's just got a huge smile on her face - so cute!
Lastly for Naomi, her eating has really progressed as well. She eats basically exactly what we eat, no more specially cooked baby food. We still have to cut things smaller and occassionally blend things and spoon feed them to her, but more and more food is finger food. She actually gets really frustrated if you try to feed her entire meal to her, she will sometimes refuse to eat if she doesn't have something she can do herself. So crackers and vegtable juice or milk in a sippy cup have been added to many a meal in addition to cheerios!
Miriam is growing and advancing leaps and bounds all the time as well. Her favorite thing is still to lie down and kick up a storm. She has not yet learned to roll over or anything. She is getting much more interactive though. She has an absolutely beautiful smile that is very rewarding and will coo at you happily if you make faces at her or try to interact with her, so much fun!
Miriam is growing tons as well. If she isn't 12 pounds yet then she's very close! At the doctor just over a week ago she was 11 pounds, 9 ounces and 23 inches long. WOW! Growing so fast. Still eating very well too.
Miriam is an absolutely amazing sleeper as well (hopefully I don't jinx anything by writing this!!). She generally, with occassional exceptions, will sleep from when we put her down (between 9pm and 11:30pm) until about 9am in the morning. SO SPOILED! And on top of that the girls are also roommates and have been for about a month now. Both of them seem to be able to sleep through the other making noises, Naomi sleeps through us bringing Miriam in to bed and Miriam will sleep through Naomi waking up singing in the mornings - what a
treat! So so far sleeping is working out quite nicely. We'll have to see how things go once we start putting Miriam down to bed awake...Anyhow, that is all for now. I should head to bed in case Naomi decides to wake up early again...she's woken up 30 min earlier than the day before the last three days...
Anna signing off as Adam and Nanook just head to bed and Grandma and the girls continue to sleep.
