Luke and Zoey: Months 16 and 17
Hi Everyone! Happy Friday!
I haven't done an update on the kids in a couple months, being on vacation and with everything that's happened with Hunter. I haven't been as present as usual in my life and with the kids--and I'm sad about that, but it is what it is--but wanted to share some pictures and stories.
Summertime, and lots of time outside. That's their grandmother's garden in the background...the kids have especially loved the cherry tomatoes (in fact, Sissy is eating a green one in this picture)...hard to keep them out of them...
Luke especially is such a helper...in the garden, with cooking...if you tell him to take his dirty clothes to the laundry hamper he even does that. :)
My dad was here for a few days before we all drove to Colorado...here he is with Sissy in the park...
One of the things the kids like to do on the banquette in our kitchen is balance like this...we always say, "London Bridge! Yay!" The other thing they really like is to bend over and stick one leg up in the air, to which we say, "Ballet! Swan Lake! Beautiful!"
Reading is a big activity at our house...here's Sissy with "Dinosaur vs Bedtime," one of their all-time favorites. The dinosaur in the book goes, "Roar! Roar! Roar." The kids' dad has a variation on that, where he'll sneak up on the kids and go, "Rar!" They run to me laughing for protection, more for show than for really being scared. It's super cute. Sometimes, Daddy will go, "Rar!" to Zo and she'll go "Rar! back to him in the sweetest, softest little "Rar!" you've ever heard...
This is the day after we lost Hunter...boy, did I need hugs from my kids...and they were happy to oblige... Hard to look at this picture, knowing how much pain I was in...
Cottage cheese. Definitely a favorite. (And one of the messiest meals, unfortunately.) Oh, and speaking of eating, we are trying to teach the kids to use a fork and spoon, but often they end up getting used like swords, battling Mommy and Daddy. "Fork Wars," we call it...
We got the kids a beanbag a few weeks ago...one of the best purchases ever. The rabbit with Sissy in this picture is called "Mimi" (Sissy came up with the name)...her other rabbit that she carries with her everywhere she named "Rock."
Mommy's sun hat...
We've had some rain and cooler weather...it's been nice. It's so rare here...
Bubs lounging on the beanbag... Sometimes they lounge with their dad and watch a short video (5 minutes or so) of a car or a truck doing something...both kids love that time with their dad.
And the kids dressed for the cooler weather...
Oh and the kids are talking up a storm, both of them, Sissy more than Bubs, but that's pretty typical. Some random new words include "neck" and "knee" and "sock" and "shoe" (and they are starting to be kind of interested in dressing themselves, by the way.) Oh and a very popular word that started with Zo but is used by both kids now is "gug-y gug-y," which means "pig." They've also learned "uh-oh," and how to use it. And Zo's first sentence happened last week. We were all having dinner together and Zo's Daddy was trying to be funny, dripping drops of water from her sippy cup into her hair. Zo looked and me and said, "Mommy. Daddy. Uh-oh." We could not stop laughing...
I cannot believe my babies are a year and a half! Time is going by so fast. And always but especially now after what happened with Hunter, I am doing all I can to soak up every minute, to spend as much time as I can with these little ones because this time is so fleeting and although I don't know for sure yet I have a feeling I am never going to have kids this age again...
XOXO
