Lily & Leo

Leo weighs in at 26.89lbs and stretches 38inches tall! Leo is getting better at eating with a spoon and is licking the puree off the spoon less, although the urge to do so is quite strong in him still haha. He is still very picky on what purees he will eat. He won’t be picky when it’s in the bottle but just by looking at the color and smelling the food, he will push the food aside and fight you if it’s not his typical plain applesauce. He is walking so much better, and he can finally get up to standing all by himself without having to hold onto something! He can also climb down the stairs very proficiently now as well! Soon he’ll be running and jumping all over the place! I already have the bandaids ice packs ready haha. Leo is starting to understand signing more and is better at signing “thank you” and “all done” as well. Sometimes I’ll blow him a kiss and he will do it back to me! I have been taking ASL classes to in hopes of furthering along Leo’s communication abilities with signing. I printed out cheat sheets and taped them on the walls to encourage and motivate Lily to learn with me and so we all can sign together as a family! I’ll often see Leo looking at his fingers and he will try to move them and make different shapes with his fingers and wave them around as if trying to communicate with me, so I really feel like signing will be his primary language as he’s trying to learn to speak verbally. He still hasn’t said any words with purpose or intention yet, although he likes to say “ball” a lot but he says that for everything so I doesn’t really count haha.

Overall, Leo remains happy and sweet as always!  He loves giving hugs and he’s finally not needing a bib anymore from all the drooling in the past!  He is getting so tall that his pants needs to be size 3T, but his waist is so small his pants sometimes slips down haha.  Leo still likes to put all his toys and Lily’s toys in his mouth, and he’s still so amazed with zipper tags and likes to just flick them back and forth.  He would lay on the couch and just play with that all day long!  He loves being thrown in the air, he’s a dare devil.  He likes swings and slides as well.  He still doesn’t like when things/places get really loud.  He is still an amazing sleeper and has such a calm and sweet demeanor about him.  Since he’s walking now, he can enjoy so many more things when we go out!  I took the kids to the Museum of Illusions, Candytopia, and game places like Neofun and Round One and he loves exploring and checking everything out!  He is always a super cute bright ball of joy!!

Lily is getting smarter and sweeter each day, she’s growing up way too fast!  Lily weighs 35lbs and is 44inches tall!  She has a very big appetite and loves to eat veggies (spinach, cabbage, carrots, and broccoli) and tofu, and a bunch of crackers and snacks, yet she burns off all the calories in a flash!  She has a very happy spirit about her and is so intuitive and thoughtful, I cannot be more proud of my baby girl. She is also now super good at showering by herself.  She’s also able to make her own bed every morning and is starting to learn to vacuum the house as well!  She’s been taking piano lessons for the last month.  She’s definitely trying really hard, some of the concepts aren’t as naturally easy for her to grasp, but she’s trying and with some extra practice at home, she’s getting more and more confident with it.  I’m very proud of her for not once wanting to give up, and her determination to keep focusing and trying.  She also loves her gymnastics lessons which she has twice a week.  She has so much fun and has been selected gymnast of the day 3 times now!  She gets a nice little ribbon and gets to ring the bell at the end of class to announce her achievement to the whole gym!  She’s almost ready to move on up to the next level once she gets more comfortable with doing hand stands and cartwheels! She also had her first jog-a-thon at school and did 26 laps!!  She had so much fun jogging around and was cheering on her friends to come and go go go!  She also forgot to get her lap marked off a couple times too haha.  She knew that the more laps she did, the more money she would raise for her school for better supplies and opportunities.  So she knew she was jogging for a cause and she tried her very best not just to have fun, but to help as well.  I’m so proud of her and her great big ball of athletic energy!

Lily is learning to read really well and can read a lot of books all by herself now!  She’s really good at sounding out the letters and putting the sounds together to form the word.  Her favorite subject in school is still math, but I’m glad that even though writing and reading isn’t her strongest, she’s still enthusiastic about it.  She really like Dr. Seuss, Elephant and Piggie, and Pete the Cat books!  Her favorite shows to watch is currently Sofia the First and Pokemon!  She likes to play with slime, dolls, and do lots of arts and crafts.  Lily loves to help me cook and her teachers and aftercare teachers tells me she’s always such a great helper at school as well!  Lily really likes the movie The Greatest Showman right now, and loves most of the songs from the movie.  She has a mature taste in theater, it’s nice to be able to share common interests with her like this.  Lily still has her happy go lucky spirit and is such a kind and sweet little girl.  I love it when she would just randomly come up to me and give me a big hug and kiss and tell me she loves me, she melts my heart!  She’s always thinking about others and I makes me really proud that she’s such a loving positive force in this world.  

Enjoy of of these videos of the kiddoes!!