The girls are growing like weeds. Bitty sits up on her own unassisted, she says "mama" and "hi!", she has two bottom teeth and I think the top ones are really starting to try and pop through now, she has more hair than Bug ever had at this stage (yay!) She seems to be the one who likes to play with baby dolls. I think it's the faces she likes. She is also extremely LOUD. she enjoys screaming. now, when she screams it's generally while she's playing and is happy. But, it is so loud that David's colleagues can here her on his con-calls, through David's earbud, and a closed door to the upstairs spare room. the only solace I can offer him is to hole-up in our bedroom b/c it's somewhat soundproof, thanks to the insulation he and I installed while the house was built. (we were also smart enough to do our laundry room)
Bug is very busy and the stuff she comes up with on a daily basis is mind blowing. She has the most amazing imagination. She's not really a "doll" girl she likes her animals. Right now the two big things she likes to play with are her "Schleich" animals and her "Ponyville" ponies. After her birthday it looked like someone had spewed pink all over the house. Her favorite thing about the ponyville ponies is all the little teeny tiny pieces that go with the ponyville ponies. (LOTS of teeny tiny pieces to step on....for awhile the living room was like a land-mine field)
She also enjoys the different "ponyville" buildings she has and the ponies and the schleich animals all seem to live in some giant pepto-pink commune in her bedroom. Ever seen an Okapi drive a pink bus covered in purple stars? Well, we have..... Not to mention the hippo who likes to take baths in the pink bathtub, the ponies who have to rescue the "insert various carnivorous predator here", the rocks hanging from shoestrings in the play kitchen, eggplant-pineapple-grape pizza, orca whales (dolphins!*) and german shepherds swimming together in the communal water bowl and when it's all said and done they all retire to the Big Red Barn or Pinkie Pie's Balloon House.
David took her down to visit Auntie Denise and Jordan a few weekends ago (mommy and Bitty were sick.....) and they went to the Aquarium there in Cinci/KY. Jordan also apparently has a huge barn for her horses and that was a giant hit. She talked about it for days. We've also gone to the community indoor pool. Bug's still a bit shy of the water and is warming up to the idea of getting into water that's deeper than her big toe. (actually so long as daddy was holding her in the deeper water she did fine.....she reminds me of Josh when he was little.....I think he was like 10 before he voluntarily put his head under the water....) Bitty actually did pretty well for her first time. I held her as I wandered around in the deeper water. She clung to me like a little monkey most of the time but towards the end of the swim i could hold her out from me and swirl in the water a little.
We've also done the zoo with Mrs. Cole and Bug took along her camera to take pictures. She's a magnet for the animals there. It's like they were all drawn to her and would come up and see her. In the reptile house the giant iguana was hiding behind a giant log in his cage until she came along. He came out right up to the glass to where she was standing. As soon as we moved on, he went back to his hiding place.
It's fun to see the girls together. Bitty just watches everything bug does and you can tell she's just itching to be able to do whatever Bug is doing. We've already had fights over who gets to play with the Big Red barn. Bitty grabs the barn and pulls it towards herself and then Bug whines about "Sissy keeps pulling the barn!!!" I'm looking forward to when they start arguing over boys......(so what teams will they be fighting over Team Edward/Jacob/Jasper/Emmett or Carlisle?) <-------shameless book reference
February was a miserable month. David had his big storage backup/maintenance/migration thing that happens every February around Valentines Day (b/c the idiot who schedules it must be single and still lives at home with his mother....happy *bleeping* Valentine's Day to you too buddy!) That actually lasted about two weeks and if that wasn't bad enough he ended up on-call the following week. On top of that the girls and I and David all ended up sick. Actually the girls and David wound up sick first. I was able to fend it off until the very end there. So, February was just craptastic. :oP
March so far has been a bit of a recovery month. We all seem to be staying healthy so far and I've been working on gutting the house in my biggest "spring cleaning" fever I've ever had. I've decided if it hasn't been used in the last 24 months (I was preggers there for a good portion of the last 24 months so those months don't count.....) then we probably don't need it. (with a few exceptions here and there....) The hardest part is the girls' stuff. I have some of Bug's things I need to keep b/c Bitty will more than likely use it, yet I don't know what that is. Since they are similar in some things and completely different in others I don't know what to keep and what to get rid of. (well, donate......I don't like to just throw stuff away unless it's completely useless or broken) So, I guess that's pretty much it at this point. I'll put a few pictures up too and eventually I'd like to post some of the pictures that Bug has taken with her camera up. Hope everyone is doing well and has a fun chocolate filled Easter. :)
Bug....she kinda looks like me in this picture. :)
Bitty and the red barn.
The girls playing with the barn.
Shadow by: Bug
Oscar: by Bug (Oscar is Uncle Josh and Mrs. Cole's chameleon. We chameleon-sit him on a regular basis.)
Nanny: by Bug (I think this was taken New Year's Eve.)
* Orcas are not whales....they are actually members of the dolphin family.
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