Laura is soooo delicious! Her personality comes out more and more each day. She is making up for the first 5 months. In the last 2 weeks, her vocabulary has easily doubled and her memory is simply amazing. You tell her what something is, and ask her the next day, and she knows. Luzma says Laura understands both English and Spanish without any problems. We just want to squeeze her. Here is a video of her taken a couple of days ago.
Claire is taking after her mother. Hard headed. When her mind is set on something you need to summon the gods of distraction to get her mind on to something else. Last night Lynn hosted a Mary Kay fundraiser at the house for the mango tree foundation. I came home towards the end of it (like I was going to hang around for 20 women all trying on make-up) and someone had given Claire a makeover. I need to find a photo of it. Anyway, here is a video of a nightly event in our house when Claire puts on her PJs.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
Birthdays and Career Aspirations...
My beautiful wife turned 40 yesterday. There were no parties or pictures. Only 5 of us (including Magen) to have some cake, which had to have candles so Claire could blow them out. In all fairness Claire did sing Happy Birthday to Lynn. Lynn did get a replacement iPod touch for her birthday and a card the girls made. And a long dinner at a Japanese restaurant, with horrible service. At least the company was wonderful. It is hard to believe that Lynn was 23 when I first met her. We are blessed.
Laura's vocabulary is starting to grow and she repeats more words that we say. She is so delicious. Her personality is very strong, as she can be quite stubborn and
independent, and when she doesn't get her way, frustrated. She still hits and bites. I guess we need to be more diligent in that department. You can see new photos of Laura here.
We are however, much more diligent with Claire and her habit of getting out of bed after we put her to bed for the night. On a typical night she will get out of bed 4-5 times within 30 minutes of her going to bed. "Mom, I got to tell you something" is the standard excuse. Now, we tell her (and follow through with it) that we are taking a plush animal out of her bed everytime she gets up. This tactic has cut the getting out of bed to once an evening. Anyway, here is Claire working in my office
She did say the other day that she wanted to be a dancer when she grows up. And based on this video, we are enrolling her in dance class come August.
Laura's vocabulary is starting to grow and she repeats more words that we say. She is so delicious. Her personality is very strong, as she can be quite stubborn and
independent, and when she doesn't get her way, frustrated. She still hits and bites. I guess we need to be more diligent in that department. You can see new photos of Laura here.We are however, much more diligent with Claire and her habit of getting out of bed after we put her to bed for the night. On a typical night she will get out of bed 4-5 times within 30 minutes of her going to bed. "Mom, I got to tell you something" is the standard excuse. Now, we tell her (and follow through with it) that we are taking a plush animal out of her bed everytime she gets up. This tactic has cut the getting out of bed to once an evening. Anyway, here is Claire working in my office
She did say the other day that she wanted to be a dancer when she grows up. And based on this video, we are enrolling her in dance class come August.
We try to skype with Paul, Taya and Theo as often as we can. It's becoming a challenge to get the girls to skype for more than 4-5 minutes, before they are on to something else. But they are both super interested in Theo. He has changed a lot in his 4 weeks of life. Here is a photo of him my brother took. You can read about their adventure here.
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