February already!?!?

Wow! This year is flying by! Only 3 more months until Junior's arrival and we still haven't started the nursery. Today we are lucky to have grandpa John and uncles Julio and Andrew help us move the giant desk out of Junior's soon-to-be nursery though, so progress is being made ;) Hopefully we'll get some paint up soon. We already have his crib, dresser, and changing table...just need to put them together.

Perry and Ella are doing very well. They are both in the process of getting more teeth (Ella's working on some molars I think) which is making them a bit moody. But other than that, they have been learning machines lately.


*On the walking front, we pretty much have 2 walkers now. Ella is doing very well with it and has learned to be more balanced. She still prefers to crawl if she's in a hurry though.

*Ella holds almost anything that resembles a phone up to her ear (well, it's more like her shoulder) to "talk" into it.

*Perry is feeding herself now! This makes mealtimes so much easier. We've been experimenting with different kinds of foods for breakfast and lunch...pancakes, French toast sticks, chicken tenders, Subway sandwiches, etc. I think they still favor the Cheerios though.

*We're officially done with formula! Woo hoo! Our grocery bills have taken a huge cut. Now they drink a little tiny bit of apple juice mixed with water and Perry enjoys a Danibles yogurt drink mixed with milk as an afternoon snack. Ella is not a fan.

*We are starting to make out more words from their little mouths. Ella definitely says "bad dog" and they both say "duck" and "dog". I swear they both said "sissy" the other day too.

*They both love mimicing everything...coughs, sneezes, nose blowing, burps, anything. I guess it's getting to be close to sensoring what we say around here ;)

*We have been going to a gymnastics class at the YMCA and the teacher taught us "ta da" where we raise our hands up over our heads after we do something. At first we had to trick the girls into doing it by asking "How big is Perry/Ella?", but now they do it by just hearing "Ta da" and Perry even kind of mumbles something that resembles "ta da".


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