Walking Talking Dancing and Being Cute!

I don't think I talk about it quite as much as I did with Olivia. For one - I don't post as often and for two - my mom told me I need to be a bit more modest about my kids! But let me tell ya - we've got some little smarties on our hands :) Sorry mom - Silas will one day feel bad because I talked about how awesome his sister was so I've gotta give him a little time!

Silas is now 10-1/2 months old and he is walking EVERYWHERE! He is even standing up in the middle of the room  without anything to hold on to -and then just walking wherever he pleases -  pretty awesome, right?! And not only is he walking, but he dances all the time and it's so hilariously cute!  He will dance to anything - even his mommy's singing :) He also started using sign language this past weekend. He squeezes his little hands to say "milk" and he waves his hands in the air when he's "all done." He's trying to tap his fingers together to say "more" but he's not quite got it yet - close, though!

He's such a fun little boy to be around. He's pretty much always happy and loves to give kisses and hugs. He's busy all the time and really really noisy! He was screaming (just for fun) the other day and Libby says, "Dad. What's wrong with Siley-Boy?" Dad says "I'm don't know Libby." She responds, "He's just crazy I guess!!" It seriously is a little insane - his screaming. He doesn't do it because he's mad. He just does it and it's so loud and so piercing! I guess he just wants to be heard and maybe he thinks he has to scream over his chatter-box sister?!

We had family pictures this weekend and they went really really well. I'm excited to see them! Libby didn't want to smile too much. Most likely because we were asking her to and the only good ideas are her ideas....but I think we still got some really good ones of her. And Silas was totally hamming it up (especially when I sang "itsy bitsy spider" to him - he loves that song :)).

Libb is a little chatterbox! She never stops talking as long as she's awake :) We've been working with Silas on animal sounds and different things but everytime we ask him what a cow says, Libby pipes in and says, "moooooo". No wonder 2nd and beyond kids don't talk as early - their older siblings do it for them! She is mostly super funny (without trying to be) but also in a  very defiant and, I love you Libby, but mouthy and ornery stage....This too shall pass, right?! She sings all the time too. Last weekend in church during the prayers of the church she sat in the pew and sang, almost at the top of her lungs, Jesus Loves Me! We decided that if she was going to be noisy during quiet time at church at least she was singing that and not Little Bunny Foo Foo or one of the other 25 songs she knows! Seriously. She knows so many songs and nursery rhymes it's crazy! I would name them but it would get quite long. So hopefully she'll just sing them for you some day :)

PICS AND VIDEOS BELOW!

Decorating the tree 2012

Libby's Princess Castle:)

Still waking up

Big Boy Bellyin' Up

Mom and Libby's First SnowBABY

Accessorized by Big Sis!

 

Morg and Si

 

 

Another Poop Story

I know, I know. Enough about the poop, right?! I'm with ya - I promise!

So here's a good one for ya: Last night before Josh got home I was making dinner while the kids played in thier rooms. All was peaceful and quiet until....
Libby came running out of her room with her hands in the air and out in front of her screaming in terror, "MOM! My hands! I got poop on my hands - look!"
So calmy I tell her we'll get them washed up, but where did the.....Oh. I smell it. And I look. It's coming out the top of her pants and up her back. She was very upset so I suggest going to the bathroom to get cleaned up. On our way there she says in a super-sad voice, "Mommy. There's poop on my rocking chair."
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I run to her room and as I get there what do you think I find? Nothing other than - you guessed it -  Silas playing in the poop on the rocking chair!
Clothes off - everyone in the tub!

OH THE JOYS :)

Major "Moves"

I can't wait for the day Miss Libby reads this - She will probably punch me :)

So she has started pooping on the potty - YAY! She like to have her privacy, telling me, "get out of here, mom!" So I stand around the corner where she can't see me and then I hear this:
"GRRRRRRRR. Get OUT poop! GRRRRRRRR. Get out of my bottom!"
She totally talks to her poop and it's so awesomely hilarious. And it works!
Good girl, Libby! Mommy and Daddy are proud of you!

I got a glimpse of what our life is going to be like for the next ummmmm 10 years at least!
When I got the kids out of the bath the other night they were hanging out in Siley's room while I was cleaning up. Then they started chasing each other and screaming and laughing and fighting and screaming and crying and chasing and screaming and laughing all over again. It was really really cute and made me happy to see (and hear) them playing together, but it was kind of insane - the noise levels, I mean!
I think Libby is learning some things from her friends at daycare. She will climb on Silas' back and try to wrestle him to the ground! He does NOT like it - he screams and cries...but who wouldn't when someone is trying to put you in a chokehold?!
Silas is doing great - He's sleeping really well now that we got his ear infection cleared up! He's still working on walking - we are trying to find him some shoes, but his feet are just like Libby's were - Super duper FAT and nothing fits him...But Oma's working hard to find some that do.
Daycare teachers say he's the happiest baby they've got - he just plays and babbles and has a good-old-time in there, which is really good. His sister breaks my heart every morning, crying and clinging to me and chasing me out the door. It's so weird - she has never been this way, so hopefully it's just an adjustment period and it will be over soon. I know she's okay minutes after I leave, but it really makes it hard for me to start my day feeling so guilty for leaving her when she's upset like that!
We'll keep working on it!

Better get back at it.....

I'm 10 Months Old....Look What I can DO!

Silas turned 10 months old on Friday - Happy Birthday Georgie Boy!!!
Saturday morning the little man woke up as usual - Bright and early. We were getting breakfast ready and he was in the kitchen with Dad. I was sitting at the kitchen table with Libby. I turned and looked and Silas was WALKING to Josh! Not just a few steps - like half way across the kitchen. Then he turned around and walked back to me :) We were so excited and so was he - super proud of himself (as he should be)! I was laughing my head off but tears were flowing, too. Why do they have to grow up so fast. Time to have another baby you say??? LOL!
So here's a video of the big boy...Notice the Huffing and Puffing at the end - HAHAHAH! Enjoy along with some other pics.

so fun!

 

 

sorry they are sideways!

 

 

Moving Day and Beyond...

Well we are officially rid of our 1950s house on a busy street and proud new owners of a 2005 house in a quiet family neighborhood!!
Don't get me wrong - I love our old house and I was really really sad to leave - that's where our life began - just me and Josh. Then came Olivia and a year and a half later, Silas. It was a great house and we have tons of really special memories there. And Josh did such an amazing job remodeling it and making it our own - there's a lot of hard work that went into that house. And surprisingly? No. Not surprisingly he's got a list started of things he wants to do here in the new house:)

We are loving the space - I told J last night that I feel like I walk so much here! That's a good thing, right?! We need to fill some of the space with furniture and hopefully that will happen soon. The upstairs living  area is empty and echoey and needs some love.

The kids are adjusting. Some nights are not-so-good but some nights in the old house were not-so-good either. They are pretty good once we get inside and things are familiar, but Libby is so certain when we pull up to the house that "this is not my home". She cried about it yesterday but I convinced her to come inside to see if all of her toys and her good girl bed were here and then she was ok. So they're adjusting:)

Not sure if you heard, but our new daycare provider backed out on us last minute and wasn't even willing to help us out until we found someone new, so I have been working from home and trying to find a new place for them to go. With God's help we found a spot at Loving Arms Children's Center in Johnston, right by my work! It's a daycare at a Lutheran Church, so they learn about Jesus and read bible stories and have chapel time (when they're older). They also play play play! They have an excellent preschool program where over 90% of the kids can read to some extent by the time they graduate the 4's class!
Our first day was yesterday and I took the kids in just for a few hours and I stayed, bouncing between the two of them. They both did really good. Libby took to it like she'd been there forever. She's a little leader. A bossy leader! At cleanup time she made sure to direct the kids that weren't helping by telling them, "You pick up that book. You pick up that book." Then during lunch, which we weren't supposed to stay for but she insisted, two little girls were banging their spoons on the table and she said, "We don't play drums on the table." You tell 'em Libby!! Wouldn't it be great if she followed her own advice when she's at home?! How do you think she knows we don't play drums on the table? Because she does it ALL THE TIME!
She also made a liar out of me. I told the girls that she eats like a bird and sometimes doesn't eat at all. So she ate 4 fishsticks, 2 helpings of corn, 2 helpings of applesauce and piece of cheese. Come to think of it...Maybe she doesn't like my cooking!
Silas was in a little baby room, but was bowling over everyone and everything so they moved a baby from the crawler room back to the tiny baby room so he could be where he fit in better! The boy is starting to walk already - a couple steps here and there - no hands! He had a bit of a rough day today but hopefully it will get easier and better for him soon. It's just a lot of stimulation - noise, toys, new beds, new house - so much going on right now. Poor little guy is just exhausted - so exhausted he isn't sleeping well. Never in our life did we let Libby in our bed, but he sometimes get to join us at 5am when mommy wants to sleep! Don't tell Libbs:) The day we moved he was trying to walk and he fell and hit his eye on the ottoman. He's got a cut and a black eye - looks tough!

So we're doing part-time right now and we'll go full days starting Monday. Pray for the little babes!

They are so hilarious - our kids. I accidently stepped on Libby's fingers 2 weeks ago and she still randomly says,"mom. you stepped on my fingers. you need to apologize!"  Libby - Can we move on? Seriously! Or she talks about how Uncle Mike broke her sled and it was not nice ..that was all the way back at Christmas:) Girl doesn't forget a thing...She was picking her nose the other night and I told her it was gross. She laughed and said "I'm gonna eat my boogs!" She makes us laugh.
And Silas is just a happy little camper. Pretty clingy to mom right now, but I remember Libb going through this stage, too. He can point at the light if you ask him to, He can find mom, dad, Libby and puppies too. He says mama and dada and we think he says byebye, too. Smart little bugger just like his mom - HA!

So anyway - that's current with us. I need to get up some Christmas pics and new house pics and kid pics up. Hopefully do that soon when I locate the camera!

Love ya all!!