Sweet sisters / Week 20

Clara and Audrey have kept us on our toes this week, both learning and developing so much! Clara has been learning to count with her fingers, counting accurately to 10 on each of her fingers. She can also count to 30 and knows the concepts of all the numbers up to 20! She has been speaking in full sentences lately, in the correct context too! The other day, I asked her "Where are you going?" And she answered, "I am going to the table!" and that was exactly where she was headed! At the same time, she also loves speaking jibberish out of nowhere. We think it's her way of competing with Audrey, since we do some baby talk with Audrey. Clara is also twisting caps on and off her bubble solution jars, water pens, and anything she can get her hands on! She loves singing songs and sings words clearly both in Mandarin and English! Her latest is the "Shake it off" song from the movie Sing. It's adorable, especially since that's the same song she did a little butt dance to when she first started to stand!

Audrey, on the other hand, is now sleeping through the night pretty much with only one feed! We have been sleep training her for a week and a half now, and she has taken really well to it because of daddy's hard work! Here she is sound asleep in the morning, so sweet! She is really waking up to the world, kicks her little hands and feet every time mommy coos at her, and loves to watch sister dance and read books! She holds her head up really well and follows people's faces and loves to squeal at the top of her lungs! She grabs toys at the first try and I always find her holding some toy that she wasn't holding when I left her!

Sweet Audrey during play time on the blanket. Couldn't resist taking a picture of this face!

On Sunday, Grammy, Auntie and Daddy watched Grampy play at Humphrey's!

And Clara got some fun clothes to wear from Auntie and Gemmy! I love this new dress! Clara put it on and said, "I look so cute, like Zoe!" Zoe is a Sesame street character that wears tutu's! I love how her mind is making all these connections!

On Monday, we went to watch the eclipse at the library. Here Clara is watching the live feed on a giant screen!

The eclipse was much more interesting to mommy than Clara, but she still had fun outside in the play area! She learned about the sun, moon, and shadows! The leaves made some really cool crescent shaped shadows on the ground.

When we got home, I asked Clara to "go inside, take off your shoes, and put them by the door." I came in and found this. My sweet girl followed my directions exactly!

Here's her library craft, she did it all by herself! I only inserted the pin. It's the sun being eclipsed by the moon.

Audrey in her new cute hat :P, which probably was Archie's, but still, adorable :).

Clara loves having Daddy play music for her, and Daddy loves it too.

My girl, so grown up...

And my little, chewing on her hands and drooling buckets.

Yesterday, we went back to the Tierrasanta pool for some water fun with the cousins :).

Sweet little fishies :).

Twenty weeks have gone so fast. 

Audrey has been out of the womb more than half of the time she was in at this point. We love our girls, and they love each other! We couldn't be happier :).