I just had to add something else to Cara's progress, since I posted that last post she has really started streaming words together! She walked up to me the other night put her hands in the air and said "pick me up!" forget two word sentences she is all over talking almost complete sentences, now she does get lazy when she is irritated and refuses to talk properly, but I am really not gonna complain since she is doing so well anyway. Everybody should be able to slack off sometimes. She brought me her milk cup this morning and told me "more milk, please."
That being said she is doing awesome with her manners too! She will say excuse me (used to be excufee) when she burps of passes gas usually without prompting. She says thanks almost always without prompting when someone gives her something and please, well peeese she uses that one as leverage, I think. When she wants candy for breakfast (which is almost every morning) she will pull out the longest sweetest PEEEEESE!!! Not a chance! It is so sweet and ALWAYS puts a smile on my face, but no candy for breakfast! She will sit down in the floor then pat the floor next to her and look at me and say "sit down here". Her Yes Ma'am and Yes Sir are intermittent, but it really tugs at your heart strings when you are calling her down for something and you say "do you understand me?" then this sweet little "ys'm" comes out.
She can tell you where Mommy works at "le a cy" and we are currently working on where Daddy works "far O".
I love talking to this little girl! She will repeat just about anything you say and usually it is right on. The other night Chris was trying to get her to say Supercalifragelistic, it was cute, I need to get that on video.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Caraline Rayne
How is it that just a moment ago I was cradling a dark haired, blue eyed beauty in my arms for the very first time and now I am frantically chasing my spunky little blond bombshell. 21 months old...ALREADY!! How did that happen?? How could I have been so slack that she has been a year old for 9 months now and I still haven't posted a blog about that. Well let me tell you...
This sweet child of ours NEVER STOPS MOVING!
Let me recap just a bit to catch you up to speed:
At her 15 month well she still weighed 20lbs 7.9oz and she was 30 1/4in long with a head cir. of 45 1/4cm. She had a little over a 100 words in her vocabulary and as Dr. Wiley stated she was still giving her big sister a run for her money.
Shortly after that, right after she turned 16 months she taught herself how to unscrew the side of her crib, so if she wasn't doing that she was learning how to climb out on her own. Needless to say to insure that she didn't fall out and hurt herself and so that Chris and I didn't have to watch the monitor all hours we had to start training her in the toddler bed. At 16 months, this is not an easy feat....just trust me.
At 18 mos she weighed in the 12th percentile in her weight at 21lbs 7.7oz, I guess she is gonna be smaller than Addie after all. It just seemed that since she was bigger at birth then she was a bigger child, but that is obviously not the case. She was 31 1/2in long and her head was 47cm. A perfect bill of health.
Last month we moved the girls into the same room and turned the nursery into a playroom, so far this is working out for us well. It took us a weeks or so to get acclimated on how to work bedtime routines, but I think we have it down now. It's so sweet to walk down there and see them laying in the bed together reading. They even refer to it as "their" room now. Having the playroom now really helps to keep the toys out of the rest of the house also! Win-Win! With moving rooms came moving beds, so now little Miss Caraboo sleeps in a big, big girl bed! And she makes use of ALL of her extra room!
All along the way her vocabulary has grown to over 200 words, too many to keep up with, that's for sure! But in the last month alone she has started enunciating (SO CUTE, I will post video) and adding double and triple word sequences, who knew she would be a better talker than her sister. But I will tell you sometimes I feel like this baby will come out talking bc when I put Cara down at night she is just non stop rambling about anything and everything!
She can count 1.2.3 and when asked to say her alphabet she will say A.B.C, but every once in a while when Addie is reciting her abc's she will try and sing along, but she is far from knowing the complete alphabet. We are working on her colors and most times she can get some of them, but she still has a way to go on that as well. She knows all of her animal sounds and mimics other sounds like bells and sirens very well. She knows all of her body parts, she can point them out if we ask her to and she can say what they are if we point to them. She really amazes me with all of this stuff, when I am unaware that she knows half of what she does!
Although I was not planning on potty training until after the baby came, Cara has a different plan in mind. She started out about a month and a half back every time we took Addie to the potty, she would have to go and eventually she was prompting us to take her. She would be playing then stop mid-play yelling poo poo and running towards the potty(seriously cute!) So for a while it was just pooping on the potty (which is backwards from Addie) and now she will do both, but she is still a little confused as to which is which, like this morning she was sitting at the table waiting for me to fix her breakfast when she jumped down ran to the bathroom saying poo poo, poo poo! When we got there of course she is in this "SELF" mode lately, she had to pick the stool up move it and put it in front of the potty, she sat down and peed. Right word or not, I am super proud of this little stinker! Now, she isn't fully potty trained and I am still not planning on actually working on it until the baby gets here, but if she happens to train herself beforehand, I am not going to put up a fight.
I guess that about sums up our youngest, she is just a bundle of sweet and spicy and you just don't know her until you know her. She is so passionate which can be hard for Mommy and Daddy at times, but I am thankful for her strong will. This will keep her straight when she is older. I know I have said this before about Addie, but I know God has big plans for her, for both of them. I feel so overwhelmed with how blessed we are!
This sweet child of ours NEVER STOPS MOVING!
Let me recap just a bit to catch you up to speed:
At her 15 month well she still weighed 20lbs 7.9oz and she was 30 1/4in long with a head cir. of 45 1/4cm. She had a little over a 100 words in her vocabulary and as Dr. Wiley stated she was still giving her big sister a run for her money.
Shortly after that, right after she turned 16 months she taught herself how to unscrew the side of her crib, so if she wasn't doing that she was learning how to climb out on her own. Needless to say to insure that she didn't fall out and hurt herself and so that Chris and I didn't have to watch the monitor all hours we had to start training her in the toddler bed. At 16 months, this is not an easy feat....just trust me.
At 18 mos she weighed in the 12th percentile in her weight at 21lbs 7.7oz, I guess she is gonna be smaller than Addie after all. It just seemed that since she was bigger at birth then she was a bigger child, but that is obviously not the case. She was 31 1/2in long and her head was 47cm. A perfect bill of health.
Last month we moved the girls into the same room and turned the nursery into a playroom, so far this is working out for us well. It took us a weeks or so to get acclimated on how to work bedtime routines, but I think we have it down now. It's so sweet to walk down there and see them laying in the bed together reading. They even refer to it as "their" room now. Having the playroom now really helps to keep the toys out of the rest of the house also! Win-Win! With moving rooms came moving beds, so now little Miss Caraboo sleeps in a big, big girl bed! And she makes use of ALL of her extra room!
All along the way her vocabulary has grown to over 200 words, too many to keep up with, that's for sure! But in the last month alone she has started enunciating (SO CUTE, I will post video) and adding double and triple word sequences, who knew she would be a better talker than her sister. But I will tell you sometimes I feel like this baby will come out talking bc when I put Cara down at night she is just non stop rambling about anything and everything!
She can count 1.2.3 and when asked to say her alphabet she will say A.B.C, but every once in a while when Addie is reciting her abc's she will try and sing along, but she is far from knowing the complete alphabet. We are working on her colors and most times she can get some of them, but she still has a way to go on that as well. She knows all of her animal sounds and mimics other sounds like bells and sirens very well. She knows all of her body parts, she can point them out if we ask her to and she can say what they are if we point to them. She really amazes me with all of this stuff, when I am unaware that she knows half of what she does!
Although I was not planning on potty training until after the baby came, Cara has a different plan in mind. She started out about a month and a half back every time we took Addie to the potty, she would have to go and eventually she was prompting us to take her. She would be playing then stop mid-play yelling poo poo and running towards the potty(seriously cute!) So for a while it was just pooping on the potty (which is backwards from Addie) and now she will do both, but she is still a little confused as to which is which, like this morning she was sitting at the table waiting for me to fix her breakfast when she jumped down ran to the bathroom saying poo poo, poo poo! When we got there of course she is in this "SELF" mode lately, she had to pick the stool up move it and put it in front of the potty, she sat down and peed. Right word or not, I am super proud of this little stinker! Now, she isn't fully potty trained and I am still not planning on actually working on it until the baby gets here, but if she happens to train herself beforehand, I am not going to put up a fight.
I guess that about sums up our youngest, she is just a bundle of sweet and spicy and you just don't know her until you know her. She is so passionate which can be hard for Mommy and Daddy at times, but I am thankful for her strong will. This will keep her straight when she is older. I know I have said this before about Addie, but I know God has big plans for her, for both of them. I feel so overwhelmed with how blessed we are!
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