March saw Whitney take her first steps. On Easter Sunday, Whitney took 5 consecutive steps without holding on to anyone or anything. But even to this date(4/15) she still has only repeated that feat a handful of times. She just doesn't want to let go! Besides walking, other physical accomplishments for Whit include using a fork and a spoon at meals and using a sippy cup all the time.
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| Downward Dog! |
Whitney has added a few new words to her vocabulary. Now she says "thank you" when you give her something. Randomly, Maren taught her to say the word "turtle." But her favorite word(and sign) lately has been "more." The girl can put down some food! She routinely eats more than her older sister at mealtime. No matter how much you give her, she always asks for more!
Okay...so now we know where the food is going. But most of the time we're pretty sure she's eating it.
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| She'll even ask for more eggs |
During March, the girls got to go on spring break to visit their auntie in Lacrosse, WI. They did a great job traveling in the car, but due to weather and illness, unfortunately they had to stay inside almost the whole visit. The girls have been doing a great job sharing. In fact, Emry had a rough bout with the stomach flu - which she promptly shared with Whitney - who shared it with dad - who shared it with mom! At the beginning of the month, Whitney was really fussy and moody. She was having some BM issues.
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| "I hate dressing up!" |
After she battled the stomach flu, those issues went away, and Whit's demeanor completely changed. The second half of the month, she was the happiest baby on the planet.
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| She can smile! |
March was a dismal month for weather, so the girls were stuck inside pretty much every evening when we got home. They colored a lot, worked on puzzles, and painted quite a bit. The funnest project we did together this month was coloring Easter eggs. Emry was so proud of the artwork she drew on the eggs...
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and the stickers she used to finish them off...
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| "TA-DA!" |
We finally had a nice day on Easter Sunday, so the girls got to go outside for their Easter egg hunt. The Easter bunny hid lots of eggs in the yard and left a basket for each of the girls. Emry was super excited about her jump rope! The girls had a blast on Easter. They liked getting dressed up for church in their Easter dresses and sweaters. Emry ran all over the yard to get Easter eggs. Whitney even got in on the hunting fun. She loved shaking the eggs like a rattle.
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| "I got puffs, what did you get?" "A quarter!" |
Coincidentally, during the week of Easter, Emry found Maren's pink Bible and would not put it away. She would sit in her pink chair and "read" it for long periods of time. When she'd go to bed, she insisted on having her Bible with her. We'd ask her if she would rather have a Curious George book or one of her other books with pictures, and she would say "I want my Bible!" Emry still loves all kinds of other books too. Even though we put her to bed between 7:30-8:00, she has been staying up past 9 o'clock routinely reading her books.
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| Reading Whit some Song of Songs... |
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| "Daddy, what's it mean in Ch 2:3...his fruit is sweet to my taste?" "Go ask your mother..." |
Emry has been very technical and corrective in certain situations. We would ask her if she was reading about Jesus in her Bible. She would say "No." Then we asked what she was reading about and she would say "I'm looking at pictures of the letters." In fact, Emry developed a pretty sharp tongue over the past month...
One day Ken and Emry were putting toys away in the toy baskets. Ken noticed that Emry had scribbled crayon on the wall behind one of the toy baskets. Ken asked "Did you draw on the wall?" Emry said "No, I decorate it!" (Lawyered!)
Another day we were playing in the living room. Emry was wearing a t shirt and underwear (no pants was a common theme this month). She kept reaching back and grabbing her bottom. Maren asked if she needed to poop. Emry said "No." Maren replied "Well don't grab your butt, its not polite." Emry said "No, I grabbed my underwear." (Lawyered!, again.)
One day Ken took Emry to the playground. Emry was running across the playground bridge while Ken stood in the mulch next to the playground equipment. Emry said "You're a fishy swimming in the water." So Ken asked, "What are you?" Emry quickly responded, "I'm a girl, walking on a bridge." (She didn't say "Duh dad!", but it was implied by her tone.)
Another day we drove by a daycare center that had a statue of a tiger out front. Emry commented on the tiger and Ken asked "Does that tiger say rooaaar!?" Emry said "That's not a real tiger, that's just a pretend tiger." (Again...duh dad!)
Between Emry's silly way-with-words and Whitney doing cute things, the girls have kept us laughing almost everyday this month. In the opening paragraph, I mentioned something about a random dance-off. Well, one night the girls threw down an impromptu dance-off. We'll end the post by letting you enjoy their sweet moves...
