Kaleigh is 14 months old Maeve is 32 months

Some of Kaleigh's latest tricks include:
taking one or two steps before sitting down (finally!)
saying up and down for the slide (one of her favorite activities)
signing more, eat, all done and help
saying hi
saying mama and dada and maaa (for maeve)
saying baa for sheep
panting with her tongue out for dog (although she does this with a lot of animals)
she loves drawing
she loves playdoh
she loves feeding herself (and actually does pretty good)
she loves climbing stairs and is getting better at going down
she loves her push toy and walking with it
she loves her blankie and continues to be paci free!!! (unlike her older sister)

Maeve's latest tricks.....
counting to 20 in English
counting to 10 in Spanish
identifying M (for Maeve), K (for Kaleigh), A, B , and C (most of the time)
playing Diego inspired games (rescuing animals and people, looking for something then shouting it out if you see it etc)
feeding her sister
loving on her baby (she will be a great mom)
NOT getting dressed (although she can put on her pants, socks and shoes by herself, she just never WANTS to)
going pee pee in the potty (still have yet to overcome the fear of the "dropping the kids off" as Jonny likes to call it)
playing with the older kids in the neighborhood (Shanti, Heather and Emma are her favorites!)

Kaleigh's latest trick

Ka Ka wants so much to walk and is finally starting to stand independently at 13 months. She is so proud of herself!

Kaleigh's 1 year old check up

Growing another strong healthy girl!

Weight 24 lbs (90%ile)

Height 31 3/4 in (97%ile)

Head 90%ile

I can't even believe she is one. She is not walking yet but certainly likes to have you hold her hands. It's funny to watch her when she gets to a ledge. She starts anticipating it way before hand by extending her leg way up in the air. She learned how to give five and says "ah" with it.

Kaka trying to walk

The next Olympic runner....HA, and her assistant, Maeve Evelyn.

The simple things

Some days I still wonder if I made the right decision to drop down to one day a week at work. This week was a week that made me so happy about my decision. We went to Frying Pan Park to visit the animals. Maeve decided for the first time to name the animals (up until now, whenever we asked "what's your baby's/teddy bear's/doggie's name?", her response was "baby/teddy bear/doggie). Today, all by herself while we were looking at the mama pig, Maeve looks up at me and said, "His name is Feet!" She thought she was hilarious. Then later, while visiting the goats, I asked her, "What's his name?" She responded "White" (even though the goat was all black except for a small patch of white). While this is not quite as creative as her cousin Madelyn's first baby doll's name "Finga", it shows her imagination is continuing to grow. So this is why I celebrate the fact that I can be home day to day to see and enjoy these simple and small changes as she grows up.

Kaleigh's 11 months old

She's actually almost 12 months, which is crazy. She has changed so much the past few months. She is becoming her own person and showing us all the things she knows and understands. She surprises me all the time. Some of her current accomplishments......
-crawling everywhere
-wanting so bad to walk but so far from it. All she wants is for us to hold her hands so she can walk around
-squatting like a sumo wrestler
-cruising along the couch
-signing eat and all done
-saying mama, "o" (for uh oh")
-imitating other words like "done", dada, up
-shakes her head no and yes
-love putting toys in and out
-carry on "conversations" (I am convinced she thinks she is saying really important things)
-eating everything....some of your favorites are broccoli, black beans, mac and cheese, blueberries
-drinking from a sippy cup (that's what you prefer...you are ready to be weaned)
-dancing to any music you hear

Another month of summer gone by

Does anyone else wonder where the days go by? It has been such a busy fun summer. After finishing July with trips to the pool and meeting up with friends, we headed to Wrightsville beach on the first day of August (my birthday, which who wouldn't want a week at the beach with familiy for a present!). Maeve and Kaleigh had so much fun playing in the waves and mastering the pool (Maeve's able to swim on her own with wings and her favorite qoute is "move back boys" to clear the pool so she can jump in). Once home, Lolo and Papa came to visit. It was a busy weekend with trip to Totally Trucks, Frying Pan Park and a early birthday celebration for Kaleigh! (I CANT believe she is almost one!)

Frying Pan Park visit with Papa and Lolo

Lolo and Maeve at Totally Trucks Papa and the girls

The crab feast!

Uncle Dan's awesome sandcastle

Pooltime with the family

Gpa the best beach friend around!

A great week at Wrightsville beach

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