Rebekah At 21 Months
Apr
22
The 19th is ‘month day’ at our house since both of our daughters were born on the 19th of the month they were born in. It is fun to give updates on the girls around this time. I am a few days late this month. Looking at the picture it may be difficult to point out who is older. Rebekah is the younger one, she is holding the card that says ‘mommy’.
Sariah is now 37 months – getting too old to count by months soon! Poor Sariah hasn’t had the attention she’s deserved this past month as she was sent to a few different babysitters while we went to doctors appointments and stayed in the hospital with Rebekah. She was a great help when Rebekah first came home from the hospital. She stopped Bekah from trying to take her IV out and reminded Bekah not to jump off couches and other objects because she has “owie tummy”.
After several weeks of Sariah telling me that she wants to learn how to read and asking what words say I have attempted to try and teach her how to read. Some child development ‘experts’ believe that memorizing words is the best way to teach children and other believe that a phonic approach is better. So I have decided to try a combination of both. Sariah could tell you all the letters and sounds soon after she turned two. I made word cards to help Sariah recognize words and I have a book from one of my early childhood education classes on preschool phonic activities that we can play.
Yesterday Sariah pointed out 3 words and correctly said what the word was – daddy, mommy and Sariah. Rebekah also enjoys playing word games and phonic games.
Rebekah is now 21 months old – She has had a tough month with having her appendix rupture, doctors and hospital visits. The poor little girl has no idea that she will be getting surgery next month. There seems to be a lot of ups and downs. Usually she is her happy energetic self and then other times she has a complete appetite suppressant and the worst is when she screams out in pain holding her tummy. Bekah is a tough little girl and I am sure that after the surgery she will bounce back quickly.
We have been having Rebekah in our bed while she has been sick and now we are slowly getting Rebekah to sleep by herself. We have a large comfortable chair with an ottoman in our room that she sleeps in. After she fully recovers from surgery we will get her a bed a move her into Sariah’s room. That will be interesting to see if they can actually fall asleep together. It was difficult for my parents to get my twin sister and I to go to sleep when we were in the same room so we had to go into different rooms. We can’t do that since we only have 2 bedrooms!
It is funny how she often slightly sits up to sleep. I think this is because she falls asleep looking at a book.
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Those little cuties! They are getting so big!
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April 24th, 2009 at 4:04 am
These are great records of the 2 cuties… and yes, poor little Rebekah, lousy month for her…
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April 24th, 2009 at 10:27 am
awww =D They are really adorable! =D
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April 27th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Ha! I love that picture of Bekah sleeping.
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