Keeping up with Alette and Abria: May 2007

Sunday, May 27, 2007

We're training her early

As Alette gets more confident on her feet, she loves to push things around. At Starbucks the other night, she spent quite a bit of time pushing the magazine rack from one end of the store to the other. It kept her amused and let me actually have a conversation. She also HAS to have the broom if I try and sweep. So much for doing any cleaning when she is around (darn). If only I could teach her to go in one direction and get all the little bits in a pile-wouldn't life get a little easier?

Friday, May 18, 2007

Alette doesn't have a security blanket, she has her books.

Monday, May 14, 2007

Mother's Day 2007

Alette spent Mother's Day up in Princeton with some of her favorite ladies, and her cousin Pippi. According to Pippi she is no longer 'baby Alette' but 'just Alette'. The two girls were rather oblivious of each other's presence, although they did join together for a couple rounds of ring around the rosey. Alette hasn't quite figured out the falling down part.

Friday, May 11, 2007

Alette's latest adventures

Alette just spent a great weekend at Grandmom's house, where she got to visit with Grandpa and Grandmom Terry also. She seems to have picked up the habit of sticking out her tongue and making raspberries....hmmmm. They all obviously had a great time and wore each other out!
The other day Alette and I went to Barnes and Nobles for storytime. We ate lunch (yogurt and steamed milk) in the cafe-Alette did remarkably well and stayed relatively clean until she decided to share with a gentleman two tables down and flung yogurt at him. Luckily her aim is a little off. Alette wasn't so much into the storytime, decided she had heard enough, and was much happier walking up and down the aisles reorganizing the books. She was also quite smitten by the trainset-and proceeded to also reorganize it. Alas, despite my best efforts, it may take the staff awhile to figure out where all the train pieces are and why there are books under various shelves.
No camera, no new pictures :(
Happy Mothers' Day to all!

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

A Sunny Florida Weekend

Alette and Pippi check out their new sand toys

Pippi helps Andy give Alette her bath

Alette points out the gigantic mickey mouse to her new friend (in case he didn't see it)
Alette went with her dad down to Florida for a family weekend. Although I am sure she loved the time with her daddy, it looks like her cousin Pippi was her constant companion. Alette loved the pool, loved investigating her new surroundings and loved all the attention. Apparently she wasn't so crazy about the sand or the ocean...we'll have to work on that this summer.
Although Andy and Alette made it safely back, our camera did not. So this blog may be in hiatus for awhile.
Check out more Florida photos at: http://picasaweb.google.com/marna.seltzer/FloridaApril2007
Thanks Marna!

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.