Keeping up with Alette and Abria: April 2007

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Easter 2007

Alette spent the day with family in Huntingdon Valley. At home she had great fun rolling chocolate eggs on the floor, until she discovered how to open the wrapping and they were taken away. I'ld love for her repetoire of food to expand, I just don't think chocolate is the way to go...

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Springtime Fun

With the warmer weather, we're trying to get outside more. Yesterday Andy took her to the park on the corner, only to discover she was scared of the grass and leaves blowing across the sidewalk. She's such an urban kid! Today we went for a long walk and stopped at Rutgers for a coffee and bottle break. She was quite happy to show off her new walking skills to all the students (we stayed on the cement sidewalks).

Sunday, April 1, 2007

15 Month Details

Alette's 21 lbs, 4 ounces and has just passed the 30 inch mark. At 15 months she's walking around, feeding herself, and has a spattering of words. She says 'dat' for the cats, 'ow' for meow, uh-oh (self-explanitory), and da-da-da-da randomly all day. Does it mean daddy? Unfortunatley probably not. She also says mum-mum-mum when she's upset or has fallen. Does it mean mommy? I like to think so, but unfortunatley, probably not. Her lastest is 'fffff' when pointing to a dog.

Recent Words of Wisdom

18months

At 18months, Abria weighs a whopping 28 1/2 lbs and is 34" tall. She is a bundle of energy-she loves dancing and clapping to music, scribbling (unfortunatley not always on paper), chasing her sister, and playing with her toys. She's using more and more words but still communicates primarily by pointing and making the sign for 'more'. She's had a continual cold for the past few weeks, I've never used so much tissue in my life. Morning naps are a thing of the past :( but thankfully she is still taking a long afternoon nap.

Okay, it's not a REAL gingerbread house...

Our attempts at a gingerbread house was a fiasco this year. We mixed the dough, rolled it out, cut the patterns, put it together...only to have it fall apart. So we put it together again....only to have it fall apart again. I even tried to use duct tape and the glue gun. Finally we ditched it. I was determined to have a house for Alette to decorate so we built a cardboard house, then 'glued' on graham crackers with icing. So far it is till standing although the candy decorations are slowly disappearing.

Abria

Our last dr. appointment was not fun. Abria had a major fever and was feeling rather rotten. So the immunizations were put off a week...nothing like procrastinating the awful stuff. She's dropped to the 90th percentile for weight (although with her puffy winter fleece on-below-she looks huge!) and is off the chart for height. Not a huge suprise with a 6ft. tall mom! She loves her books, turning on and off the lights, climbing onto tables, and petting the cat. She's walking....abit. She's still pretty convinced that walking should only be done when holding onto someone's hand.

Abria

Politics According to a 3year Old

I was listening to B.Obama on NPR last week and decided to further Alette's awareness of politics by engaging her in discussion. This is how it went:
me: Alette, Barak Obama was on the radio, he's going to be our new president. Isn't that good?
alette: Obama's good?
me: yes, he is. Mommy and Daddy like him a lot. We think he's good.
alette: he listens to God?
me: I think so. We're excited that he's going to be the president.
alette: I want duck for president.
I think we have a ways to go before she's up to speed on her political saviness. Who can blame her for wanting a fun loving, mischevious duck for president though?

Introducing Abria Hope

During pregnancy I prayed for a quick delivery and a nonfussy eater. Abria came into this world on Friday, July 18 at 9:00pm, half an hour after we arrived at the hospital. With a full head of dark hair, and a voracious appetite, she behaved nothing like her older sister. Abria's now nearly 18lbs, and is a happy, content baby. She loves chewing on her hands, squealing, shrieking, and taking baths. We are still waiting for her to sleep through the night! She doesn't always need to get fed, but seems to delight in babbling and squealing at all hours. Somehow her big drooly smile makes it all worthwhile.