I was Brown and now I'm Wight: Girls Update

Time for another update. B will be 8 months this week and I feel the need to keep recording all the things that will pass quickly so I don't forget them.

B is on the verge of crawling. She keeps getting one leg caught underneath her. But she can scooch, reach and roll to get anywhere she wants basically. She can get across whole rooms and into all kinds of trouble now.

I had to move B into a sleep sack because she was rolling so much around her crib that she couldn't sleep and would wake up in really uncomfortable positions.

She says dada and mama. She also says gaga when she's happy and nana when she's not (kind of like "no no").

She's a non stop eater. She loves solid food. She eats almost, if not more, than K some days. And she'll eat just about anything, even if she's not loving it.

She was sick with the roseola virus recently and discovered she does not like to take medicine. K would drink it up and still does- will ask for more even. B hates it.

B loves to sit for story or song time. She's much more capable of sitting still than her older sister ever was (or is).

B has her two bottom teeth now- although they are taking their own sweet time coming fully in. They've been there for a long time now but still are just peeking through.

K lied to me deliberately for the first time, recently. She coloured all over her arms and shirt and when I asked her if she coloured on herself, she looked down at the ground and said "no". She looked caught but wouldn't fess up right away. Thankfully it was washable. I tried not to laugh in front of her. I didn't get super mad either. I wish I had thought to take a picture before I washed it off.

K puts everything down for a nap. All her babies and toys. She even went into my cupboard, got a bread pan, and put that down for a nap. Everything has to have a nap these days.

K is talking up a storm now. Still doesn't sound super clear all the time but she tries multiple syllables and full sentences now. She also started singing. She will sing Itsy Bitsy Spider, Wheels on the Bus, Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Popcorn Popping and Ring Around the Rosie. She knows all the actions to those songs and you can hear some of the words when she does it. Mostly it's gibberish but the tune is usually pretty good.

K is pretty much potty trained. No more accidents. It's just night time/nap time now. That's hit or miss. But we're not worrying about it. If she wakes up on her own to go, we take her- otherwise we sleep.

K has started drawing pictures now (or what she thinks are pictures). It's all just scribbles but she tells me she's drawing suns and houses and bugs and butterflies and all kinds of things. She always asks me to draw pictures of our family (including Aunty Tanya.)

She worships my sister Tanya and is constantly (like honestly everyday) asking about her.

If I give K a little bowl of cheerios as a snack I often come back to find them all soggy. She pours her water in them thinking it's the same as milk.

She often, out of no where and for not particular reason, fake sneezes. NO idea what that's about.

She likes to play this game where she asks us who everyone is. Like at the dinner table she will point to herself and say "mom? Noooo! dad? yes!" and then laughs hysterically because she's called herself dad. She does this with all of us. Asking if we're someone we're not and laughing when she or we say yes.

Super cute/sweet moment yesterday: while Cole and I were lazing in bed, K kept coming in and bugging us. So we asked her to go to the living room and sing B a song. She said ok. But then we hear the guitar and Cole rushes into the living room. He finds K sitting beside B with his guitar (actually it's a guitalele) strumming out a tune. She calls Cole's guitalele "song" so when Cole asked her to go sing a song to B she went into his office, got his "song" and played for B. It was pretty cute- even if it's not what we meant.