22 & 9 months young - 18/4/2008

M is 22 months and 6 days and T is 9 months today. This first post is a catch up, hopefully they wont all be this long!

M counted to 10 today by herself, but went 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10. We were in the middle of a game of hide and seek and she was very proud of herself. She is speaking so much - every day she picks up new things to say. She is putting more and more words together to make sentances and she really knows what she wants and what she does not want.

T is almost crawling, she got up on all four points today, a really good yoga student! She almost crawled at playgroup, but stopped at the last second. She is getting frustrated from being on her belly so much, and has learnt to go backwards and sit up from lying down.

They both interact with each other more and more now, with singing and dancing games the favourites. M loves to do the Hokey Pokey and likes to pick what will go"in" next. T sits up and watches her whilst clapping and bouncing along to the song. They love having their bath time together and a new game is splashing each other, which makes the bathroom nice and wet, but they both have a great time doing it.

M is having one day sleep, which is straight after lunch time and usually goes for 1-3 hours. T is having 2 or 3 day sleeps still, with the one before morning tea and then lined up with M at lunch time. Sometimes she needs a late afternoon nap, which is around 5ish. They both go to bed at 7:30pm and usually sleep thru to around 7am. We have a great night time routine happening at the moment that is working well for both of them.

M is just getting her 2 year old molars, with the bottom two coming thru at the moment. She got all her teeth really quickly, which I will document later. T has got her bottom two teeth and it looks like more on the way.

Both girls love their food, with both of them eating 1.5 weetbix for breakfast and then sometimes toast as well. They both love fruit and vege, and pasta and rice is a favourite meal any night of the week. They snack on dried & fresh fruit, vegemite sandwiches and arrowroot biscuits. M has started having tiny teddies every now and then as well which is a big treat! They both love drinking water and milk. T is still having 3 b/f a day, but its looking like we will be dropping one of them soonish. She will drink out of a bottle, so if we have to do that we can.

M is wearing size 2 clothes mainly now, apart from some size 1 that still fits. She has always been right in the middle of the "grade" of sizing. T is in 0, and still in a couple of things that are 00. She seems to be on the higher side of the scale. They have matching stockings at the moment to wear under their dresses, and they look very cute.

Both of them love to spend time outside, which suits us all fine. M plays in the garden and digs around looking for worms and T is happy to sit on the grass and let the dog lick her feet. M esp loves going to the park, and we go at any opportunity that we can. M also enjoys Hide and Seek which we play around the house. Tonight she hid herself really well for the first time, away in our dark bedroom which was great!

The girls have daddy time on a saturday morning, which in summer worked well, as I could feed T and then go back to bed, and they would go out. But now that its winterish weather, its too cold to go out so early, so they have been waiting until after Ts morning nap. We also have play time as a family after dinner and before bath time.

We are currently going to church@5, which is good. We have started "toddler time" for M and W who love to sing "My God is so BIG". We usually do a craft and a story as well. M loves her bible time in the evenings with us. Her favourite story at the moment is Jonah and the big fish and she enjoys finding Jesus in the NT. She can also name John the Baptist, Rebekah- Isacs wife, Mary and all the animals.

We have just started listening to Louises tape that she gave to us at breakfast and lunch time and M has started to pick up some of the words to the songs. We have Justine Clarke playing in the car and as soon as we start the car she asks "sing" and we put it on. The song most requested in the last week has been "rain", and she can finish off the last words in most of the lines. She loves dancing to the Wiggles, and has done so since she was about 12 months old.

Well, thats enough for now. This whole idea was given to me by my sister in law, who had everything written down in books. I thought that this might be an easier way of doing it - we will see how it goes.