Agoo and Ala and Smiles! / Week 10

Clara seems to have turned a corner with her verbal abilities this week. She is definitely forming sentences with complete thoughts all by herself, and no longer simply mimicking what mommy and daddy say. For example, mommy usually does the first half of bedtime with Clara, while Daddy holds Audrey, then we switch. But Daddy was taking out the trash during the first half of bedtime routine and Audrey was fussing, so I went to get Audrey and Clara looks at me, and firmly says, "Want Daddy sunna hold Audrey!" I told her that Audrey was fussing and daddy will be right back, but mommy needs to hold Audrey right now. So Clara says, "Want Audrey go in her crib!" (runs to Audrey's room), then I heard Clara shout this from Audrey's room, "Right there!!!" :D

She's also learning how to pretend play with her baby doll! First she tried to feed the baby doll in her ear.

Then in her mouth :).

Clara also took a toy and used it to pretend to be a phone in order to act out a scene from Bubble Guppies! So cute! Here we drew our hands together on her new toy.

Audrey's been a doll, sleeping between 6 and 8 hours straight during her first stretch most nights! She even took a 2 hour nap in her mommaroo!

Clara is getting sassier with her desires. One day, she said, "Wanna see Julie and miss Eli." I usually tell her we are going to see "Miss Julie and Eli" but she switched them. Anyways, I told her we haven't seen them for a few weeks. Clara promptly says, "We need to see them!"

Clara still loves Gymboree!

She loves going fast, fast, fast in her car!

And she still loves putting buckets on her head :P.

More daddy daughter tummy time!

Here Clara is riding a toy dog at the library!

With Cami!

This little one has found her hands!

Uncle Tim came to visit and had a great time playing with Clara!

Other fun things Clara has said: "Here you go daddy." "Thank you." "You're welcome!"

"Mommy is so big! And Daddy is so big! And Audrey is so tiny! And Clara is so tiny!!"

Audrey is sleeping so sweetly here!

Audrey on the other hand is starting to coo and gurgle! She loves to say "Agoo" and "Ala" and smile back at us when we coo at her! Even Clara loves to say Agoo and Ala to Audrey! Yesterday morning, I caught Audrey looking at shadows while cooing and smiling to herself before I officially woke her up. It was adorable!

But sometimes life is like this too :D.

Yeh Yeh got to see Clara and played with her one afternoon!

 

Momm and Daddy's friends came to visit us from LA! We explored Normal Heights with them :).

And mommy took a picture with a Tardis in a comic book shop!!

"It's my Dory!" was the first thing Clara said when she woke up after taking her new Dory figurine to bed with her. You can see the Dory figurine below. Yes, she's obsessed with Dory :).

Finally, Auntie Jen came to visit Audrey! She was great with Audrey and found a picture she took from when Clara was a newborn too!

They are wearing the same shirt! Which one is which? One is 3.5 months old and the other is 2.5 months old in the pictures below! Scroll down to see the answer!

Clara is on top at 3.5 months, and Audrey is 2.5 months below!

Yay for 10 weeks together!

Green carrots / Week 9

This week, we have graduated to eating "green carrots" aka sugar snap peas! Clara watched mommy eat about twenty of them before saying, "Want some!" Mommy cleverly said it's a green carrot! Tada! Vegetable number 2 :D.

Always such a great explorer at Gymboree!

Audrey's just hanging out in her genius shirt!

Mommy and Clara went to tour a few preschools, and this was the result of a coffee date/break in between two tours!

I love her little lips and her facial expressions!

Wonder girl is here to rescue us all!

Audrey taking a nap :)

On Saturday, we hung out with Grammy Grampy and the Zipkins!

If you could see this video, you would see Clara doing the most amazing dance moves! We plan to show them to her at the perfect age of 13 or 14 or 16 :D.

Clara was playing outside and decided to try on her new "hat"

 More sister time! I love watching them interact!

 A fun morning mishap :P.

This day we went to the Disney Store to watch Moana clips and meet with Auntie Christina and Nate. While waiting for Auntie Christina, Clara was coloring. Another little boy came up and stared at the crayons she was playing with and she looked at the boy, then the crayons, then the boy, then grabbed crayon and handed it to the boy and said, "Here you go."

I was so proud! She has never noticed another little person and voluntarily shared with them before!!

And a surprise run in with Uncle Tim and Nathaniel at Birch Aquarium!

During that time, Audrey was having her 2 month check up. She's now 11 pounds, 3 ounces, 22.5 inches long with a head circumference of 15.5 inches! She took the shots like a champion, only crying for about 20 seconds before whimpering and then calming down. The doctor said she is a very alert 2 month old with a calm demeanor! We agree :).

They look like they are friends with the unicorn having its arms around Audrey!

9 weeks with our two girls! <3