Baby Soup

Lizzy: I want to put on my baby soup.

Can you guess what that means?

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Lizzy likes to watch Avatar. Just like she likes to watch Shrek or Snow White. So it was funny when we had this conversation:

Me: Lizzy, do you want to watch Avatar?
Lizzy: No. It's scary.

Lizzy watches out for Jordan. Yesterday she saw Jordan holding out his spoon and she told me:
"Jordan wants more peanut butter in his mouth."

Jordan's high chair

Jordan doesn't really like his high chair. He only tolerates it for a little while and then wants to get out. So he climbs over the edge and hangs on for dear life until somebody notices him. Sometimes he'll whine too. 

Jordan's words:
1. uh-oh
2. dat! (that)
3. nana (banana)
4. hi! (as he holds a phone, or something that looks like a phone, to his ear)
5. no

Funny thing is that he talks the most with Lizzy. He'll say uh-oh if she says it. =)

Ba"nana"

Lizzy and Jordan have been playing together more lately. They follow each other around. Lizzy gets excited when he wakes up from his nap. 

I pulled out a banana and Jordan saw it. He said, "nana!" That would be word #3. Exciting. I tried to get him to say it again but he wouldn't do it. At this moment that I am writing this post Jordan is running around the playroom with a box on his head. Too cute.

When I say, "let's change your diaper," Jordan goes to the bed in Lizzy's room and lays down in the diaper-changing position.

Yesterday I said, "Do you want to take a nap?" He got down from my lap and went up stairs to his room.

Brushing Teeth

Today Lizzy was playing a game on sesamestreet.org about the order of events when you brush your teeth. She was suppose to put the events in order. The events were "put toothpaste on the brush," "brush your teeth," "rinse your mouth," etc. After playing the game for a few minutes she came to me and said that she wanted to brush her teeth.

Good thing that we have a brush-your-teeth system down. I got Lizzy and Jordan tooth brushes at Walmart the other day, and unlike the last time I bought them toothbrushes, these brushes have a HOME. They live in the cup on the sink. And now the kids can REACH the sink. 

I've been spending months looking for a step stool that I liked. I don't want to buy something unless I love it. I bought one a while ago that I didn't love and I found out it wasn't even tall enough. Wasted purchase. Finally I looked online and found the perfect easy-to-clean white step stool, which you can see just a little bit in this picture. Until now the kids have been dependent on us to hold them up to a sink so that they could wash their hands. This way is SO much better. 

Lizzy is well trained now in washing her hands and brushing her teeth. She knows the order of events.

1. Move the stool to the sink.

2. Stand on the stool. 

3. I turn on the water. She's not strong enough. This is probably a good thing.

4. Wet the toothbrush.

5. Brush teeth.

6. Drink a little water and swish it

7. Spit. She can't really do this yet. It's so funny. 

8. Put the toothbrush back in the cup. This is such an important part!

9. Dry hands

10. Move the stool away from the door

11. Turn off the light

12. Close the door.

Since I've enumerated all those steps this all seems so much more complicated. Lizzy is a smart kid. =) We will introduce toothpaste later. One step at a time! I still hate toothpaste. Yet I need it. If I ever try to get away with brushing without toothpaste it simply doesn't work. The minty freshness is a necessity. Have you ever met anyone that doesn't rinse their mouth after using toothpaste? I have. I COULD go into a lot more detail but I won't. 

Jordan is up there, too, with Lizzy. He likes to mimic. He will even kneel and fold his arms while we pray! I wish I could let him play with my cell phone but the lock is too easily breached. He wants to be like me and talk on the phone.

Christmas Tree

Our tree is spending another year with a bare bottom half. The kids have so much fun playing with the ornaments that I don't mind. At the bottom right of the tree there is our little tiny tree that we've had a few years as a Christmas decoration. This year Lizzy was excited about the little "Lizzy Tree." She wanted to have it next to the "Mommy Tree."


This is Jordan coming up the stairs. =)

Jordan has a new word. This makes 2. He picks up Morgan's phone and says, "hi!" His first word was "uh-oh."

He's 29 pounds and 35 inches. He is 18 months and about 9 months ahead of the normal sized kids in those measurements. 

The whisk and the spatula

Lizzy: I want peanut butter in my mouth.

Guess what that means =}

Lizzy: I want you cook a sandwich.

Me: You want me to cook what?

Lizzy: Brownies. Cook Brownies.

Jordan, like any other kid, I imagine, likes to play with the kitchen utensils. Today he pulled out a whisk and started eating it. It was so cute I pulled out the camera and took a picture. Then Lizzy wanted to be picture-worthy, too, so she found something and started eating that. The blue silicon scraper, actually, would be my choice, too.

The kids then put their utensils away.