Around the house...

Two nights last week the girls laid on their couch together and watched signing time and went to sleep. You probably think that's a total normal everyday thing for a kid, but NOT for Lilah. She has NEVER just laid down and gone to sleep! If I'm around like I am 99% of the time she nurses to sleep or if I'm not around then she'll cry herself to sleep most times (aww sad!) So this was super amazing to me! They both had their my little pony babies as well.... precious!!




I did a change around in their bedroom too. I moved out all the baby doll stuff and made all of their dress up things super accessible and hung a mirror so they can instantly admire themselves in whatever they have put on. This has been a huge it with them. There hasn't been a day that goes by that they don't go back there wearing one thing and come out with another. I really need the space to hang another 10 hooks because they have tons more dress up stuff... and I'm sure in the future we'll have much much more because I love their dress up as much as they do!

Mommy & Baby

One of Emmy's new favorite games to play is feed the baby and she's the mommy and Lilah is the baby haha. Lilah is more then happy to play along because she has to do less work to eat her food .... so funny!

I was trying to get them to look at me and smile but Emmy was all business! She's taking her mommy job very seriously!

Lilah's gets an A in potty training!

I've been holding off on posting anymore about Lilah's potty training because it's been going great and I was superstitious that it would come to a halt once I posted, but we're full steam ahead. When Abby was still here we did a day of Potty Training Boot Camp and we got her to do the teeny tiny pee in her potty.

The other day she made her daddy very proud when she walked up to him tugging on her diaper and he asked her if she needed to go pee. She shook her head yes so he striped her down and sat her on it and she went!! I wanted so bad to get a picture of her holding her potty and looking proud but my stupid card that goes in my camera was misplaced.

So this brings me to today. Emmy did a pee in Lilah's little potty and I went and cleaned it up and brought it back and there stood Lilah looking at me like "hey... I want to have a turn" so I asked her and she said yes. Wowzers! A full pee in the potty!!!! We were all so excited and jumped around and squealed like we had completely lost out minds. Emmy was congratulating her by saying "very big girl, Lilah".... too cute! Of course after we flush it down the toilet it hits me like a ton of bricks that I should have taken pictures.... I bought a new card yesterday. Oh well.... there will be a next time I thought. I stuck them in the bath and thought I'd keep her bottom free afterward until bedtime. She had a nurse and when I put her down I asked her to go pee on the potty. She promptly went over and filled it again!!! I grabbed the camera and started snapping pictures. I got ones of her holding her potty... dumping in the toilet.... waving good-bye to her pee pee. When I went to upload them.....NO CARD IN THE CAMERA. I forgot to put it back in after uploading photo's this morning. I can't win for loosing!! Again I say....there will be a next time and I will get those Look at me mom, I did a pee pee pictures!!!

Well before I could even get this blog post finished she did pee #3 for tonight! I might be bragging just a little bit *wink wink* but I'm just so darn proud! And here are the photo's..........

Notice she's sitting on it backwards hehe

The Fairies Live Show

awwww I bet this will be someones facebook profile picture!

Our special thing we did with Auntie Abby before she left was to go to the Live Fairies Show. This time it was in our town so getting there was drama free and so easy! You gotta love that! The girls were so excited that morning when we were getting them ready. Tights, Leotards, Dancing Shoes, Petticoats, Pretty Skirts, Fairy Wings, Dance Wraps, Some Glitter Tattoo's and Face Glitter! I told Abby it's like going to the Toddler Prom lol!

I love this picture!! You can really see their personalities in it!

Look at all the cute fairies getting as close as they can!

We were double excited for Elf the Fairy Cake Maker to be here this time!! He started the show and helped all the Fairy Dancing Girls call the Fairies to come and play!

Here's Lilah chilling on Abby's lap. She was happy as long as she was sitting on someones lap, but if we tried to get her to go dance around with the other kids she said NO WAY! I did ask Emmy to take her by the hand to go dance and Lilah was happy to go with Emmy, but the second Emmy dropped her hand she came bolting back to us hahhaha

Once we first got there Emmy couldn't run away fast enough to join in with the dancing girls. Then about 2 min's later she came back for her pom poms.

Yep...still dancing!


In this one she spots two little girls coming that have the fairies dancing skirt on... I think she liked this because she kept dancing beside them later on.

This is Lilah during the show. She was in awe and taking it all in. Towards the end she started doing some wiggling to the songs hahah

She doesn't look like a baby anymore! Overnight she's become a little girl *tear*

Here are some video's..... not anything super amazing on here, but just to give you and idea of what its like and in some of them Lilah is wiggling which is cute! They are HD so go ahead and make them full sized for your screen to see the best as it's pretty dark.

VIDEO ONE HERE

VIDEO TWO

Happy 4th Of July

How fun for the girls that Auntie Abby was out here for the Fourth of July! We did sparklers with the girls and Abby made her patriotic cake :)

Lilah loved the sparklers and with no fear wanted to touch them and get really close. Emmy on the other had understood that they were hot and could burn you and had to be coxed into holding one. Abby and I played showed the girls how to play with them a couple of times before lighting them and sticking them in their hands. I ended up picking up each of the girls and helping them run around because I think they were very nervous about running into the very dark backyard.

After that we were all freezing cold so we went back into the house to decorate the cake. Lots of pictures down below :) I hope you like them! Happy 4th of July! xo

What Mom and Auntie! We'll show you how to do it!

Lilah was hooked! Emmy was standing back trying to figure out what the heck was going on!

Give it to me Mom!!!!

Lilah watching Mommy light her sparkler!

Auntie Abby showing how to make circles!

Emmy didn't like the smell they were giving off and Lilah was ready to have another one!

Oh no...... a bowl of blueberries. This could be messy!

Great job Lilah! You are getting so big!

Emmy loved mushing the strawberries deep down.... so I piled more on top.... the more strawberries the better if you ask me!

Yes..... it was way yummy! And the Whipped Cream topping made the girls terribly gassy and poppie all the next day though. I think I'll have to figure out a dairy free version and alter Abby's recipe so we can make it again for Australia Day!

Lilah - 16 Months

Lilah Asenith Harrison
16 Months Old

Lilah eating Mommy's homemade marshmallows!

This is a long and overdue post about Miss Lilah! In the past 6 weeks she's really gone from my baby to a toddler. She understands everything we say to her and in the past 1-2 weeks she's gone through a signing revelation! It's finally made a click in her head and she knows that it can get her what she wants. She's signing milk, more, food/eat, baby, dog, cat, bird, horse, please, all done, drink, water, cracker, yes, and no. For "yes" she shakes her whole body in a yes hahah. Cat was her first used word after mom and dad and it was also her first sign. Hanging beside the change table in their nursery are three pictures I framed made from felt. A bird, a panda, and a cat. It was this cat that she loved and we'd talk about when I was changing her and Abby was the one to show her the sign for cat and she picked it up from that minute on. This prompted us to really kick in our teaching time and obviously she was ready to learn! She's also starting to say things clearly so we can all understand. The best example of this is "thank you". It's so cute to hear her say it.

I have been extremely impressed and relived that her pain tolerance has seemed to increase. Teething time use to be excruciating for all of us with endless hours of crying no matter how much medicine, teething gel, cold rags, and ice we gave her. Right now she's teething two bottom first molars and one top first molar .....on most days you wouldn't even know it! Every now and then she'll get a little whiny and will have her hand in her mouth so I'll pull out the teething gel and that's all it takes to get her over the hump.

Her over all happiness has increase 100% along with her independence. She's not afraid of situations as much as she was before and most times she'll allow other children and people to approach her without her freaking out. She's even been letting strangers pick her up (not strangers to me, but to her) I never thought I'd see that day come lol. She loves to dance, climb, and swing and over all has become a little daredevil just like her sister, but she is a little bit accident prone. I don't think we have ever made it though a day without her bumping her head at least once and about 10 times a day is more normal. We are always saying "aawww your poor little head".

The most resent update would be the beginning of our potty training. We decided to do the Potty Training Boot Camp and within the first hour she did a teeny tiny pee in her potty. Since it's so cold right now we are limited on when we can do the diaper free time, so it's going to be relaxed and when the house gets all toasty and warm, but I think it'll be no time and she'll be using her potty like a big girl. Emmy was an broke early at 19 months, but Lilah may really blow her out of the water with this one! What can I say? I've got really brilliant children :) but if it takes her till 19 months it won't bother me in the slightest.

Rainbows

Look at this BEAUTIFUL rainbow we saw today!! It was a gloomy, rainy, and cold all day so this was a wonderful surprise. This was also the first rainbow that Emmy has seen where I'm 100% positive she understood what it was. She told me that there were My Little Ponies over there! How cute is that!? Lilah enjoyed looking at it too! It's fun living in a place where we get to see alot of rainbows! It's so magical :)

New Shoes

It was time for some new shoes for Emmy and the grandmas came to the rescue haha. I ordered the Abigale in the Pediped FLex (this will be her first time wearing the Flex, so I'm very excited to see how she likes it and it should arrive in the mail today!) My mom is sending the Caroline & Katelyn in Pediped Originals and will arrive in a week or so. And what a surprise...Jan popped in for an unexpected visit to spend some quality time with Emmy and take her shopping for a pair of shoes. What girl doesn't love to do that? When they got back she had fallen asleep and Jan came carrying her in and she was holding on tight to her new shoes completely knocked out. Is that not totally precious!? She's going to look so cute in dance class with all her pretty shoes!

Abigale



Caroline

Katelyn

Shoe Suprise

A little helper!

Lately my days have been filled with Emmy being a crazy monkey or mommies little helper. Also check out the table and chairs Grandma Jan & Grandpa Kingsley got her for her birthday.... they have many uses, haha! We love them!!

Dance, Dance, Dance the sleep away....

We did our first Baby Dance Class today with instructor Miss Debbie. It was so much fun watching all the kids. Emmy wanted it to be her dance class and preformed most of her moves in the middle of the circle with the instructor while most of the other kids clung to their mom's leg. I didn't know what to expect because she can be really shy at times, but I now know that if it's creative based and she's got an audience then she's going to be a little show off. Wasn't that how I was? Mom? Grandma? Jennie? hahahhaha

This was a free introductory class, so next Tuesday we will start officially and will meet with the group of kids we'll dance with for the next 10 weeks!

Lilah did really good and enjoyed watching the kids go crazy. A few times the music got a bit loud and startled her but I was able to settler her quickly and she was happy again.

Some of the highlights were playing with the ribbon sticks and swirling them everywhere. Emmy really enjoyed when Miss Debbie put on "The Faeries" music and we sang along to the songs and danced. And the bag full of musical instruments to get loud with was a total hit!

Can't wait for next Tuesday! I'll try and snap some photo's too!

A day in the Harrison's house

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Look at this beautiful rainbow I caught on video and photographed! I tried to get Emmy excited about it and showed it to her, but she just kinda looked at it and then back at me like she was saying so what! haha

I couldn't resist doing a Bruce Lee quote when I saw her eye's and hands in this picture.... she was hiding in her ball pit when I walked up on her. (I think she was pooping and was not happy to have a visitor, lol)


Here she is on morning still in her PJ's looking all grown up. Its hard to tell with her dark hair, but I have them in piggy tails there! Too Cute!!

Here's some of Emmy's creative work.... on the paper, on her hands, on her face! LOL

What's a horse say?

We got giggles!

I got Lilah to give me real giggles today! She loves to be whooshed up into the air and brought down for kisses. What baby doesn't?! I kept trying to get her into a roaring laugh but we'd peak at a high squeal haha.

Emmy is full on teething. She cut her bottom left first molar on Monday and the right side is super puffy and swollen. It won't be more than a day or two and it'll be through the skin too. Needless to say this will be the excuse for her naughty behavior. She's also saying a new word almost daily or a word much more clearer. Her clearest words are Daddy, Cookie, Eat, Water, Bye Bye, No, Dog, Shoes, Hot, Bubbles, Bird.. and I'm probably missing a few. Words not so clear are Up, Lilah, Book, Hat, and Banana, she says "nana". Oh and Clock which is odd since all the other words she knows the signs for. She picked up Kim's watch one day and brought it to me and I told her "that's a watch; a clock" and she said "clock" but try and get her to say Mom...... no way! Just once in a great while do I hear a "mom".

I've been wanting to dress them up and try getting some super cute photo's of them together this week but so far it's been too darn cold to attempt it. As soon as we get a warmer day we'll have to play camera time.

Body Function Sympathy

I picked up Emmy a book about being a big girl and using the potty the other day and it has a flush button that makes a flush sound. Super cute right?



Well she likes her book and last night when we were reading it to her and got to the part where it says "sometimes you'll have accidents and that's okay" we said "uh oh she made a pee pee on the floor" and there was a picture of a little girl looking upset and looking at her pee. It must have been a very convincing picture because it really stressed Emmy out and made her cry. Trying not to laugh we told her it was okay and finished the book and then turned it back to that page to see if that was truly what she was crying about and she burst into tears AGAIN. I totally don't understand why this upsets her so. She's never been punished or made to feel bad for peeing on the floor. All I can think is that the little girls face is so sad and she must have sympathy for her.

This morning she brought me her potty book to read and we sat down and sure enough we got to the accident page and here come the tears. Too funny!

Little Kimmy

They were hanging out this morning looking cute while watching Sesame Street. I can't believe how much Emmy looks like Kim in these pictures... even right down to the hand in the mouth and legs wide open. So lady like!!