Lily & Leo

Happy 23 months old to my sweet prince Leo!  Leo weighs 24.6 pounds and stretches about 34inches tall!  Leo is making lots of great new progress in the last month!  He is able to take puree fruit and veggies (more fruits than veggies) in his bottle, about 2ounces of puree mixed with his pediasure.  He started off slowly with 1 ounce mixed in, and I used a y-cut nipple so that thick consistencies can go through the nipple.  Leo use to take lots of breaks when there was puree in his bottle, but now he’s able to drink it a lot faster and hardly takes any breaks now!  I’m so proud of him!  He’s finally getting new and more nutrients inside him!  He is also crawling really fast now, and getting quite comfortable pulling himself up to stand.  He’s even cruising a little bit more on his own, just a few steps but it’s definite progress.  Leo is starting to be more vocal and it does sound like he’s try to talk now, or maybe it’s just my wishful thinking, but his PT Lara and I swear he said his name Leo a few times haha.  It’s like he’s cheering himself on!  Leo really like to put things in his mouth and crawl around with his toy in his mouth, particularly nerf gun bullets haha.  He also likes to talk to himself and he gets very captivated with songs, especially Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.  Leo also is getting less droolly, thank goodness!!  He use to soak up a bib within 5-10 minutes, now, he can wear a bib for hours before it needs to be changed.  I’m so glad because now he doesn’t even need to wear a bib sometimes and I can actually see what design he has on his shirts!  I’m sure it’s a lot more comfortable for him too to not have his neck and chin always wet.  He is still such a happy mellow baby, I love him so much!!!  I’m so proud to call him mine and I can’t wait to see the amazing things he continues to achieve!

Lily is growing up to be such a wonderful, sweet, compassionate girl.  She’s very smart, intuitive, and clever too, sometimes too clever for her own good haha.  And she has a good memory too and will call me out on things I say to her like saying how I’ll take her to the park or Starbucks after school haha.  She definitely keeps me on my toes so I always follow through on my word to her and it helps build trust between us.  I keep my word and she keeps hers, especially when it comes to doing chores and other responsibilities.  When she wakes up, I have her work in her work activity books before she can play on her ipad, and even when she gets to go on her ipad, she has to work either on ABC Mouse or one of the educational apps before she can play other games or watch videos.  She will always bring her work to me and show me that she completed the app exercises and then she get free range on the ipad and toys.  I love that she’s able to just do this on her own without my reinforcement now because she’s holding herself accountable, and that’s such a great skill that I admire in her, especially at such a young age!

She is very sweet and kind and is always looking out for everyone around her, especially her baby brother Leo!  She always tries to give him toys to play with and likes to tell me his accomplishments like how he can clap his hands, give high 5’s, and she even says proudly that Leo can stand very well now!  She is the sweetest and seeing how proud she is of Leo just melts my heart!  Lily loves her after school activities at LePort, yoga, karate and hula!  She likes to show me her steps she learns in hula and demonstrates her yoga poses too.  She’ll tell me to take a deep breath and relax haha.  Then she’ll stretch out her arms and bend down into child’s pose and then giggle haha.  She is very into unicorns right now, probably because they are magical and colorful creatures and it totally suits her wild imagination, it’s very fitting for her!  She also likes to do mazes, puzzles, connect the dots, coloring, drawing, painting, practice writing in cursive too, so impressive, and even started doing word searches!  She loves gardening with me as well and will even sometimes carry around her little pot of flowers around in the backyard like it’s her stuff animal!  Haha, so cute!  She is my darling love and I am so proud of her!  I can’t believe she will be 5 years old in less than a month…Time sure flies!!  I love you so much my beautiful silly Lily pad!!!