Aren’t they just the two cutest little girls in the world? Of course I am a little biased!
One month from today my little baby will be a year old! I am so sad that she won’t be a little baby anymore. I wasn’t sad when Sariah turned a year old, probably because I was 5 months pregnant and I knew that would soon have another precious baby girl.
Sariah is now 27 months old and becoming so independant (which is not always a good thing!) she wants to dress herself and boss Rebekah around. Two months ago Sariah learned all of the uppercase letters and now she recognizes all the lower case letters aswell. We borrowed the Usborne Farmyard Tales Alphabet Book from the library which helped a lot. We are trying to help Sariah overcome her shyness. She will talk a lot at home but will not say a word in her nursery class at church. I was the same way though, it wasn’t until I was in grade 11 that it occured to me that it would be okay for me to talk at school.
Rebekah is also learning a ton! She took her first step the day before she turned 10 months old and is now taking little steps more often. She loves to take turns push Sariah around on her little car outside and then having Sariah push her. Bekah also learned how to say ‘no’, sign ‘eat’ and ‘want’. Bekah is following in her big sisters footsteps and is a climber as well. she climbs onto the tables and couches! Unlike Sariah though, she is so outgoing and will wave and say hi to people. While walking to the library yesterday she waved and said hi to the construction workers who all waved back to her.
It is my girls month day today! So much has happened within the last month - they are growing up quickly!
Sariah is talking a lot now, she LOVES letters and will point to every letter she see’s and tell us what it is. She also likes to count (up to 6) and practice learning colours. We recently learned that Sariah is lactose intolerant. I kept bringing it up with the doctors soon after she turned a year old and started drinking cows milk that it wasn’t agreeing with her but they told me that she just needed to get used to it. It took over a week of trying lactose free milk for her symptoms to go away, even yogurt does not go well with her!
Sariah is becoming even more independent. She needs to climb out of her car-seat herself and often wants to dress herself and put her own shoes on so leaving the house takes a little longer now.
Rebekah took her first steps yesterday!!!! We were at church and she saw a couple one year old’s walking around and she stood up on her own and took three steps towards one of the babies. As we were getting ready to go home Sariah and Rebekah were holding hands walking down the hall together, which was beyond precious! If only I took the video camera to church
My 25 month old daughter knows all of the uppercase letters of the alphabet. She loves to point letters out and let us know what they are whether it is looking through a book, at the grocery store, the computer or TV. The poor little girl gets confused with daddy saying ‘zee’ and mommy saying ‘zed’, though!
Sariah has now been two for a whole month. She is still learning a whole lot each day. She loves to sing song that have actions like Popcorn Popping, 5 little ducks, head and shoulders. It is so cute to see her do the actions for these songs. I need to buy a cable to connect my video camera to the computer then I promise I will post a video of us singing Popcorn Popping. Another cute thing Sariah has learned this month is how to say everyone in my family’s name. She calls my parents Oma and Opa and my siblings Craig, Alex, Miky and she will call my twin sister Sara-Jayne “Auntie”. I am now working on getting her to name the people in my husband’s family.
Rebekah is 9 months old now. I am sure that family members will remember how much Sariah got into at this age (Christmas 2007) well if I remember correctly Rebekah gets into even more than Sariah does. Rebekah loves to play with toys and will even rock the baby dolls. An exciting thing that Rebekah has done recently was stood up without holding onto anything!
Eight month old Rebekah is now only two and half pounds lighter than big sister Sariah (24 months). No wonder I am always being asked if they are twins. May not be long until the little one is bigger!
Sariah is 31 inches and 20 lbs 9 oz. I was a concerned at first as she weighed 24 lbs in January but when I learned that she is at the 3rd percentile for both height and weight I was reassured that she is very well proportioned. Sariah was given the prediction of being 5′2 at her full adult height so she will be about the same height as me.
Rebekah is 27 inches and 18 lbs even, this puts her at the 41st percentile for height and 44th for weight so both my girls are the perfect weight for their height.
A week and a half ago Sariah celebrated her second birthday and Rebekah turned 8 months old. I was wanting to post this update with a picture but after looking everywhere for my camera I recieved a phone call from my Dad telling me that he had my camera. I guess I will get it back when I see him next.
Sariah is becoming more and more like a little girl than a baby. She always wants to help me cook, clean and take care of Rebekah. Sariah can count to four now and loves to count everything she sees. She is also interested in colours (knows yellow, blue and pink), shapes (knows circles and hearts) and her ABC’s (she knows a,w,l,o).
Sariah loves songs especially ‘5 little ducks’ and ‘twinkle, twinkle little star’.
My mom gave Sariah some Barney videos that were my little sisters and she loves them. The first thing she says when she wakes up is either Oatmeal or Barney.
Rebekah constantly watches Sariah intently and tries to do everything her big sister does. She can walk holding onto furniture, the wall or pushing toys. She has 5 teeth now and uses those teeth to eat everything she can get into her mouth so we need to watch her closely and vaccum/sweep often.
Both of my daughters are generally very healthy the last time they were sick was almost 6 months ago until yesterday. They both had bad diarreah so my day was pretty much spent changing poopy diapers, bathing and scrubbing the carpet (you can imagine what happened there), going to the laundromat and walmart for pedialite and carpet cleaner.
The one enjoyable thing that came out of yesterday that Sariah who is usually very active and independant just wanted to snuggle with me.
I hate it when my kids are sick because I feel like it is somehow my fault, maybe I didn’t wash their hands enough? Moments when the kids are sick does make me very grateful that they are normally very healthy girls. They seem to be ok today which I am happy about.
It is my first born’s 2nd Birthday today! I sang happy birthday to her when she woke up then we went to the library and the playground. My parents and two youngest sisters are coming down from BC tomorrow and might be staying until Easter. We are having a birthday party for her on Saturday at the playground I am sure it will be lots of fun for her.
Yesterday Sariah recieved a card from Mamaw and Papaw (daddy’s parents) and mommy ….uh….Sariah got $20 as well.
Sariah started drinking from a bottle at 11 months when I started giving her cows milk and she became quite attached to it. She would always drink too fast from the sippy cup and act like she was choking so that is why I gave her a bottle. I should have been more patient and allowed her to learn how to drink from a cup.
However I decided that since she is almost two she needed to stop drinking from a bottle. At first she would jump up and down and cry everytime I gave her a cup when she asked for milk but that only lasted a week and now she doesn’t ask for a bottle anymore and just expects the cup.
I will be more patient when Rebekah starts drinking cows milk.
We are constantly having to remind Sariah where she can and can’t colour. She knows that she is supposed to ask us what she can colour before marking anything with her crayons.
During family scripture study last night, Sariah who is almost two pointed to some highlighted scriptures (that I marked) and said “uh oh - coloured”. I then asked her if she did it to see what her reaction would be. She shook her head and quickly exclaimed “no, Bekah coloured it” while pointing to her seven month old baby sister.
Sariah turns two next Wednesday and in anticipation of this I have taught her to hold up two fingers and say “I’m Two” It is so cute to see her hold up her two little fingers and say “I two” but last night I realized she has no idea what this means when she made Rebekah (who is 7 months) hold up two fingers and said “Bekah two”.
In a month Sariah will be two years old! I am trying to think of some ideas for her birthday party. My apartment is pretty small so I am going to see if I can have her party at our church building.
Yesterday Sariah turned 23 months old and Rebekah turned 7 months old. Here is an update on them:
Sariah is talking a lot at home now, she gets shy around other people though. She is also becoming interested in the TV so we need to enforce limits on tv time. Sariah loves to cuddle up with me and read books she also loves to be outside. Sariah calls herself “Lila” which is cute! I think she may be lactose intolerant so I am giving her lactaid milk right now to see if that helps the symptoms she has been experiencing.
Rebekah is a crawling machie now. She still does the “army crawl” but she will get up on all fours and rock back and forth. Sariah enjoys trying to teach Bekah to crawl “like a puppy”, Sariah even barks while crawling. Rebekah can also go from a lying position to a sitting position on her own. Rebekah loves solids so far she has had rice cereal, carrots, green beans, applesauce and banana’s. Rebekah is waking up again during the nights again, hopefully that ends soon!
Sariah who is not even two yet loves to pretend to write. She will make lines and tiny squiggles and tell me what they say. She will also hand us pens and ask us to write words and she will even point to words in a book and ask what the word is. A few different coloured ink pens and piece of paper and she’s the happiest little girl in the world. It will be exciting when she learns her letters and writes real words!
Aren’t they just the two cutest little girls in the world? Of course I am a little biased!
