So Megan turned 11 months old yesterday. She’s walking all.the.time. She takes 2-4 steps, touches her hands to the floor, stands back up, takes 2-4 more steps, and continues until she actually falls over. Eric figures we have a week before she’s walking more than crawling. Yikes!<\/p>\n
She’s a super jolly lady. Tickling her rib cage (or this one spot on her inner thigh) or bouncing with her will send her into peals of laughter. And when she gets really laughing, her whole face lights up and her eyes crinkle up until they disappear. It’s very cute, I must say. <\/p>\n
Of course, she’s still a determined little thing, and quite fearless. She’s figured out how to open drawers (grrr!). And she climbs anything in front of her. I found her on hands and knees on the end table yesterday. She’d climbed over the arm of the couch to get there. She gets really frustrated when she can’t reach something she wants. I’ve learned that certain grunts or howls mean I’ll find her stretching her little arms as far as they will go to get a hold of some toy. She works so hard at it, I’m surprised she’s not getting taller by the day!<\/p>\n
She does NOT like to be reprimanded, I’ve discovered. She might be a backtalker when she’s older, if her early responses to correction give any indication. But for the most part, she just happily plays with her toys, jabbers to herself or us, and generally follows the twins around trying to be just like them. It’s hard to believe she’s so old already, but we definitely love having her happy little self around!<\/p>\n
As for the twins, Erin tells me regularly how much she “loves her baby sis-tur” though that sentiment quickly disappears when Megan comes “too close” to her toys or coloring books. She spends vast amounts of time talking (to everyone or no one), singing and doing puzzles. She leaves the “S” off the beginnings of words, which is super cute: star=’tar, spider=’pider, stop=’top. You’d think I’d remember this, but it surprises me how often I have trouble translating those missing ‘S’-es! On another note, yesterday I put some flashcards onto rings for them, and she’s been flipping through them pretty much continuously ever since. We were going through them this morning (no one else was up yet), and she started putting me through MY paces with them: “Mommy, what color is this ‘tar?” “Is it big or little?” “What this shape?” It was obviously exactly how I ask her those questions, and it made me laugh. She’s my very own Mini-Me for sure!<\/p>\n
Alex is getting more verbal by the day. Even people who aren’t around him all the time can figure out what he’s saying now. The little girl at the mall play place this morning seemed to understand him without any problems at all. He’s not the trained monkey that Erin is, but he loves to song along with us, especially in there are motions to do. And he remembers everything I say, whether he’s willing to spit it back to me or not. His favorite songs are “My God is So Big” and “I Gotta Feeling” (Black Eyed Peas). I know…he’s eclectic. And he is such a sweet little guy. He loves talking to people, whether they get him or not, and he is totally enamored of “big kids.” He’s definitely still our Bud-Bud, but it’s crazy to see how fast he’s changing these days. <\/p>\n
And that, in a nut shell, is our little group. Of course, this update was brought to you courtesy of Megan’s 11th month of life, and hopefully, I won’t wait until her 1 year post to update again. But we shall see…<\/p>\n
Happy Thursday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So Megan turned 11 months old yesterday. She’s walking all.the.time. She takes 2-4 steps, touches her hands to the floor, stands back up, takes 2-4 more steps, and continues until she actually falls over. Eric figures we have a week … Continue reading