Jeff is 6 months old now, about average on the height charts and nowhere on the weight charts - he weighed in at 12 pounds at his 6 month dr. checkup, while the girls were both closer to 13 pounds at their 4 month checkup, and 15 or so at 6 months. But that's just Jeff. He's very laid back, eats as well and as often as Emily used to, and is developing normally in every other way. And is perfectly normal if you don't compare him to anyone else. :-)
Emily has finally stopped pulling her hair (we think) and is now growing a nice head of it, which actually has some body to it, in contrast to Katherine and Jeff's fine wispy hair. Actually I think Emily's seemed finer than it does now, before she kept pulling it out. I was praying that the hair pulling would stop if the thumb-sucking stopped, and it seems to have. (We used Mavala Stop on both girls for a few weeks, and thank the Lord, it did work for them to help them stop sucking their thumbs. Katherine's teeth and mouth were already suffering from the effects of thumb sucking, and I think Emily's were too.)
Emily has also hit that verbal explosion that Katherine did around that age. She could certainly talk earlier, but in the last 4-5 months she's gone from saying words to almost completely verbal, using more and more complete sentences, etc. She says things like "oh yeah!" and "I need go potty really bad!" and various other cute things.
Here are some funny words and phrases from the girls:
as of June / July 2008:
Katherine:
jingle jom (jungle gym)
moffering ("offering" at church)
smell (spell) something on the fridge
flyswapper (fly-swatter)
take a walk to the stomp (stump)
covereds (cupboards)
coveyholes (cubbyholes)
gab (gap)
escept (except)
(she still says most of these words this way, in November)
Emily (as of June/July):
tempy (empty)
when asked, "Did you...?" she might say, "did." (or "can you...?" - "can't.")
scoop (scoot)
choc-a-nems (m&m's)
thankyou-welcome (thank you)
no-welcome (no thank you)
coo-me-see (excuse me)
pum! (plum)
hop but-day you-you (happy birthday to you; sometimes used to mean "birthday", as in "hop but-day you-you cake")
she counts this way: 3,4,9,12,14
(as of August, this had changed to "1,2,3,8,9", and "happy day you-you" for "happy birthday to you")
Now in November, Emily has corrected most of those to be the correct way to say them, except for "coo-me-see" for "excuse me".
Katherine has learned to read, and does quite well - yay for her!
Emily loves the computer. I never thought it would be my two-year-old to whom I would have to say (more than once a day!), "no, you may not play on the computer right now! Go find something else to do!" Katherine does quite well at it too. They both like the game Peggle (which interestingly is fun for the 2 year old up to the Mommy and Daddy since it just involves clicking the mouse, yet can have some strategy and skill involved as well).
Emily is picking up a few sight words by playing with Starfall which she also loves to do. They both liked Rainforestmaths.com and are hoping there will be a time when its author decides to reopen the site.
I'm sure there's more to tell, but that's all for now. Here's a few pictures.
The girls both love books. Sometimes we have 30-40 library books checked out at once...
Happy Jeff - as usual. What a blessing!
Katherine helping make meatballs one morning - in her pajamas
Play-doh
learning to read
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