The Girls

I can't believe the holidays are over. Yesterday was the official holiday for New Years... It was Monday. Robert had to work. I spent the day with Hadley and Ellie. We didn't have any plans. We just hung out. Ellie, is getting teeth, I think!? All I know is that the girl doesn't sleep. I spent most of the day rocking her to sleep. I even posted a FB comment to the effect, reminding myself that there will be days for laundry and cleaning. But, days to rock your precious baby cruise by. So I tried to keep the anxiety in me in check.

Ellie is 9 months old and is into everything. She wants to cruise around furniture and stand all the time. She is not content just sitting around. She wants to look, pull up, knock down, torture Hadley and eat dog food. She is curious to explore the world around her now that she can crawl. She is beginning to understand the word "no." It is used mainly when she heads towards the dog dishes. When she hears it she just crawls faster. Then I rush to pick her up and she kinda shakes her body and her head at the same time. She knows I am pulling her away and she doesn't like it. She also now sucks her thumb, I think thumb sucking is cute, however, I haven't been down the road of stopping it...
Lately she sucks it when she is tired. She will plop her left thumb in her mouth and lay her head down. But let me remind you that she doesn't sleep... so... it is all an act. I still have to rock her. Although I have tried the last two nights to lay her down for bed and stay by her crib side. I have given in each night after 30 minutes of ...crying, trying to sleep, pulling herself up...I just grab her and rock her. I feel like maybe I am accomplishing a sense of crib likeness. Who knows...

Ellie also has mastered the art of waving. Super cute... And, we are working on fun things like, "So Big," and she giggles to peek a boo.

Hadley is 3 years old. She is a creative little gal. She loves to play with her babies and her kitchen. Everyday she makes food for us and her imaginary cousin Joe. Even though Joe really exsists and now he is everywhere even more because we saw him for Christmas as well as went to the cabin. So I have been trying to tell her she can play with other friends too. We will see, I have read that it is okay to have imaginary friends... they inspire creativity... Hadley probably doesn't need anymore but who knows. She also loves to play with her new puzzles as well as look at her new books.

She decides on a drop of a hat what she wants to do, so mood swings come and go. We have gotten better with socks. She will wear them to go outside. But the minute she gets into a house she takes off her shoes and socks. She doesn't like the seam. She also doesn't like to wear her mittens. But, she will wear them if she plays outside, but not for car rides from here to there. Let's see, she is very determined to do things by herself. Tonight she took her shirt off the hard way... got her one arm out the top and then her other and them shimmied out of it like a skirt. Her favorite color is still pink and she loves to eat salads. Her favorite dressing is ranch and she enjoys tomatoes and cucumbers. She also has been doing better at the potty thing. She goes pee in the potty well. Last accident was a while ago. We are still working on poop in the potty... but tonight she did it on her own. So yeah! Baby steps!

Tomorrow is Wednesday, the week is half over. I work at the Messenger and the girls go to Grandma's. Off to bed, I hope! Thought I just heard Ellie crying again... we will see!