Babble On

This last week Gemma has found her voice and put it to very good use. She is babbling a steady stream or vowels and a few consonant sounds. It is adorable. And loud. We may never have a moment of peace in this house again.

Today:

Gemma: aaaaaaaaaahhh....(raspberry sounds)
Amelia: mom! Mom! Gemma spitted on me! She needs a time out!*

*no time out is given

-----little later
Gemma: aaaaaaaaa.....gaaAaaaaaa.....dadadaaaaaa

Mama: (uh oh) no! Gemma! Say mamamama! Say mamamama! Not dadadaaaaaa!

Gemma: (giggle). Dadadaaaaaa!

Naughty baby.


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5 for a little bit more

William celebrated his birthday at school today with his classmates. Lucky for him, it was also a school holiday- the 100th day of school. So, the day was full of special activities based on the number 100. I was fully anticipating the dreaded "bring 100 of something to school for sharing" assignment and had prepped with several options (Cheerios, pennies, milk lids, stickers). And alas, my time was wasted as no such assignment ever materialized. Tomorrow we have some Plans to do Fun things with our boy. Hopefully, he will agree because at dinner tonight, he informed us that the birthday boy gets to decide EVERYTHING on their birthday.

"Everything, mom. Really!"

This mama is not buying, but nice try kiddo. He will be able to pick his clothes, the meal tomorrow evening (from several choices) and a few other things. He will not, sadly, be able to drive the car as he is planning. We're so mean.

Giggly baby

Here you can see Gemma is wearing out or getting overstimulated. William on the other hand is still going strong with his silly antics. Anything to make his sweet baby sister laugh!

More giggly baby

More video from Monday night of silly William making Gemma laugh.

Giggles

Gemma loves her brother and sister. Her brother, in particular, can get her laughing so hard! They are so fun to watch together. This evening I was supposed to be putting away laundry and then reading to Amelia.

What happened? Gemma and William were being so cute, I didn't put any laundry away and poor Amelia started reading to herself (you can hear her in the background). This subject likely needs its own post, but Amelia is starting to read on her own. She has been very motivated by watching William work on his school work and read on his own. Not surprisingly, once Amelia decides to do something, you can consider it done. She is one determined little cookie.

Saturday night

Want a fun family activity to do on a Friday night? Replace your toilet seat! Fun for everyone!


Or, turn a quick job into something much more time consuming by

Child one: curious. Wants to know how it works. Is astonished that the toilet seat can be removed. Do not be surprised if you find toilet seat detached sometime in near future when he decides to try out his new skill.

Child two: curious. Wants to hold all the parts, pieces and tools. Also is concerned that her brother is getting some unfair advantage or allowed more turns at something. The situation clearly must be monitored.

Child three: hey! Everyone is in this room! I want to play too! What's everyone looking at? Let me see! Why does everyone get all worked up when I try and pull up to standing on the side of this toilet?

* sometime last week the lid to this toilet cracked. I can think of many more exciting things to spend my money on than a toilet seat, so I was planning on not replacing it. The situation quickly deteriorated and I changed my stance to toilets need lids with a baby around.

I can brush my teeth!

Mom and dad finally got me my own toothbrush for my 4 little teeth!