Thursday, March 10, 2016

Gone fishin at 2 years


---For his 2-year well visit, Fish weighed in at 29.5 pounds and was exactly 3 feet tall.  His weight is in the 65 percentile and his height was at the 90th percentile.
---He is in size 4 diapers and is currently in size 2T clothes.  Although, we are in desperate need of upsizing his pants.  The poor dude has the biggest high-water pants I've ever seen.  I was hoping that I could get away with keeping him in size 2T until after summer.  My thought process was that they are fine around the waist -- just really really short.  So if I could make it until it was hot weather and we would be wearing shorts constantly, I would be okay.  But the warm weather isn't getting here soon enough and I feel bad that his poor ankles are getting frostbite and wind chaffing.




---Fish is a great eater!  He still tries everything and will eat almost everything until recently.  Now he watches his sister and sees what she does and if she doesn't want to try the food, he doesn't want to eat it either.  Some of his current favorites are pizza, muffins, applesauce, chicken with BBQ sauce, breakfast sausage with ketchup, mac 'n cheese, apples with peanut butter, grapes, raspberries, fruit snacks, & chicken nuggets.
---He is definitely a physical boy.  He can run and jump.  He loves to jump down from any last stair.  He is also the world best climber (at least I think so when I walk into a room and he is standing on top of a super high table) -- I lovingly refer to him as my mountain goat.


---We have __ teeth.  He also has the same gap between in his front teeth that his sister does, which I think looks just as cute on him as it does on her.
---Fish is a little behind with his speech.  When he went for his 2-year check up, they recommended that we see an early invention speech therapist (we have that appointment scheduled for the end of March).  They recommended early invention because he wasn't saying two-word phrases and also because his pronunciation of his words weren't easily understood by anyone that wasn't his mom.  But since seeing the pediatrician, his speech has increased dramatically.  He is now saying lots of two-word phrases and there has been a slight increase in his pronunciation.  He has always been a month or two behind schedule with his speech.  I think it has a lot to do with the fact that his sister won't stop talking long enough for him to get a word in.


---He loves to sing songs.  And although he isn't singing songs on his own yet, he loves to sing with you when you are singing a song.  He likes to sing along with the "ABCs" as well as "The wheels on the bus".  His absolute favorite thing to sing along with is part of the chorus to one of our favorite songs (Michael Franti's "Say Hey, I Love You"), which is us singing "But I know one thing, I love you. I love you, I love you, I love you.
---He is also starting to get into counting.  He can count to five with a little help.  His favorite is 3, 4, 5.


---He is amazingly compassionate and nurturing.  When he thinks that he has hurt you or if you are hurt, he drops everything and comes running over to you, smacking his lips like he wants to give you a kiss.  He gives you a kiss to make you feel better and then goes off and continues doing what he was before.  He also loves to help distribute things.  If I give him something, then he asks for another so he can give it to his sister.  While he isn't the best sharer all the times, he is really good at helping and sharing most of the times.

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Chapter Four -- Little Miss Sass-Master Flash


Our dear girl turned four earlier in the month.  And I've finally put together her yearly video.  I am a little disappointed in myself as I felt that I had to use too many iPhone photos, instead of my "big girl" camera.  I have vowed to myself that I will be busting her out more this year.

Also see:  Chapter Three

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Big Fish: Part III

Music:  "Little Hands" by Inland Sky & "1, 2, 3, 4" by Plain White T's

While the blog has been neglected for a couple of months, life has continued on.  And both kids have celebrated birthdays.  I'll be posting updates for both of them (and Finn's year in review) in the upcoming days.

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

A Week in the Life (v.2015.15)

School Daze 9.1 (Pajama Day!)

Fun with face stickers

School Daze 9.2

Lookin' like a stylish New Yorker

Dinner with my hands full!

School Daze 10.1

Fish is an Angry Elf!

Which part do you think the kids decorated?

I love you!

School Daze 10.2

School Daze 10.3

Finn came home as a pilgrim from her Thanksgiving feast!

Celebrating Munk's 10th birthday with a doggie donut and candle
Granny sent them Advent Calendars -- they were over the moon!

School Daze 11.1

Singing "Happy Birthday" to Mimi

All is quiet in the kitchen

Kids run amok when football is on!

School Daze 12.1

Baby it's cold outside (not really)

School Daze 12.2

School Daze 12.3

Funny faces

Running in our undies

It's like his part mountain goat

Art therapy (and wine therapy)

I made this on the Friday night before we were selected for the Rose Bowl -- it's like the universe was trying to tell me something.

Someone fell asleep with a lolly in her mouth!

School Daze 13.1

Holiday card drinking

School Daze 13.2

Polar opposites

Someone's donut turned her into Rudolph the red-sprinkle nose!

E's work holiday party was at the Jersey shore

The kids really enjoyed themselves on the beach because the weather was great!




Not a bad view for a holiday work party!

The kiddie table

School Daze 14.1

Gingerbread beer and reindeer

School Daze 14.2

The sass is strong in this one

Lovin' on Lucy

My finished reindeer

School daze 14.3 (Holiday concert)

We got some musical holiday cards from Mimi -- the kids enjoyed them.

School Daze 15.1
Someone was upset that she had to go to school even though her cousins were staying with us (but the teachers need their holiday present, Finn!  You are the sacrificial lamb to get them their gifts!)

Monday, December 21, 2015

What the World Needs Now


Finn had her school holiday concert last week on Friday.  It was filled with cuteness overload.  We apparently weren't in on the memo that you had to be there 20 minutes before the concert began in order to get good seats.  But you can see her through the other parents' heads.  She was pretty darn cute.  Our neighbor girls who are in the class older than Finn were also a part of the concert (they are the twins who you see in some of the videos).

Here Comes Suzy Snowflake

Must Be Santa

Fish was pretty excited to see Sister sitting up there singing her little heart out.

What the World Needs Now

After all the singing was done, there was a Santa sighting!  He even stayed to let the kids sit on his lap. 

Everyone was excited to be seeing Santa while we were waiting in line.  But the story took a disastrous turn once it was our turn to sit on his lap.  Finn instantly ran away and behind strangers to hide.  Fish was thrown on his lap and tears were instant.  E grabbed Finn and threw her on Santa's lap and these two were the only shots I got before Fish made a break for it.

Once Fish got his candy cane, he was having nothing to do with Santa!




Once Fish exited stage right, Finn wouldn't utter a peep.  Even at the prodding of myself to at least tell Santa what she DIDN'T want.  Of course, Finn still didn't tell Santa what she wanted for Christmas.  She might end up with trucks.