Fun with team Timm

Fun weekend at the Timm's house. Sawyer had a great time joining Ashley at her school carnival. And Reese loved being Ashley's mini me all weekend. We are so lucky to have such great friends.

Sibling love

Sawyer was pretty cute this afternoon with his sister. Sometimes the words he uses surprise me. Reese was signing please to him trying to get his snack. He asked me if she could have an almond and I said no because she still only has four teeth. He responded to me by saying "Perhaps she could have a cranberry." Then he turned to her and said "I love you Reesey so I will give you two cranberries." When we got home he promptly kicked her in the chest with his shoe on as she tried to sit next to him to get her shoes off. Aaaaah the beauty of a sibling love/hate relationship. He also spilled water all over her and said "Not too bad. Not too bad. Just a little spill." then walked off singing "Love is an Open Door", or really just that sentence from the Frozen movie. He has only seen it once, but it was playing at the gym during his gymnastics class and it must of stuck. Reese has started talking so much. She mimics lots of the words we say and today after prompting she said "sawreee" (sorry) to Sawyer for the first time. Her first word was definitely birdie. Long before saying mama and papa, and she still says it all of the time. She is always looking for birdies. She has also started saying duck, woof for puppies, and today I noticed that when she sees a bunny she says hop. Sawyer loves making up words for her and he tells me all about what she wants (or what he wants her to want!)

crafty little guy!

Sawyer's new thing...learning to lie! These days when Sawyer gets in trouble he questions me. Not about why he is in trouble, but how I knew he was doing something wrong. I reply "I just know", or "mothers see everything". So then he asks me "Did you hear the door close? Did you see me on the monitor? Did you hear my footsteps?" It's like he is trying to get me to learn how to lie better so he can avoid getting caught next time. It's driving me crazy! Do other children do this?

Driving me crazy

I am not sure what we were doing but a few days ago I said "Sawyer, you are driving me crazy!" and he replied "No mom, I am driving you to the beach!" ha ha ha. It's so funny how literal their world is. We forget sometimes. What a special time this is with him. I am so lucky to be his mom.

Tin Tin and board games!

Sawyer and his Papa have been bonding over Tin Tin this past couple of weeks. It is really sweet to see them read together. Sawyer is so attentive, and listens so carefully. He LOVES these stories. He even asks for Papa to put him to bed the last couple of weeks so that he can pick Tin Tin as a bedtime story. New for Sawyer since Christmas, is the playing of board games. YAY, finally! I have been waiting for a board game buddy. We have been playing Traintastic Cargo, Memory, Leapfrog Bingo and the Little Orchard. I am so excited for this stage.

What a fun month!

Reese has exploded this month! She learned to walk early in the month, and is usually in hot pursuit of her brother. It's not quite a run, but she is fast! There is no wobbly, hesitation in her steps. She also discovered that she can do more than just smile with that face of hers. She started pouting and furrowing her eyebrows this month, as well as a few other faces. It is so darn cute! It's incredibly hard not to laugh as she huffs and puffs. Today I asked her to sign please if she wanted Sawyer to give her what was in his hands and she refused and started crying. Finally she walked away. Then about 5 minutes later she walked back up to him and signed please. She realized we weren't going to give in. :) She loves walking with clothes or blankets in her hands. She often layers them over her neck, or just holds them in front of her when she walks. Totally not safe for a beginning walker or anyone for that matter. She looks especially cute when she does this with Sawyer's stethoscope. Somehow she has learned to somersault or almost anyway. I am not sure how that happened but she is pretty proud of herself when she does it. She has started dancing to music, and loves the vacuum and how it blows her hair up. She is also becoming great and sliding down the stairs on her belly. The funny part (which I am thankful for) is that she turns around and lies down on her belly a good 2-3 feet away from the top of the stairs. So she starts scooting but usually goes sideways, and so runs into the wall or railing. Once she makes it to the stairs she basically slides down versus crawling to each step, so I have to be READY, she goes quick! All in all I feel like she has exploded with personality and a new feisty attitude that we hadn't seen from her before this! I love this little girl!

Learning to walk! And a trip to the ER!

So she started out the week before Thanksgiving with a few tentative steps. Fortunately, myself, Hani, Michelle, and Paul were all sitting in the living room and witnessed it. So exciting. Then the beginning of December she woke up from nap one afternoon and just started walking. Almost all of the time. She only gets 5-6 steps then falls, but she does it over and over again. Her favorite is to crawl to the bottom of the stairs, sit on the bottom step, push herself off and then walk 5-6 steps to me. She then falls crawls back to the step and does it again, at least 10 more times. She is so proud of herself! Unfortunately just one short week after her confidence has increased, she took a fall right into the corner of the wooden cube we have in the living room. It made about a 1/2" gash over the corner of her left eye. Right at her eyebrow line. She cried about 30 seconds but was soon distracted by her brother and seemed fine, except every time I put ice on it. It was obviously swelling up and I was getting nervous that even though it was little it was kind of deep. It was so tiny, but I was worried it might leave a scar if I didn't take her to get a stitch. Ugh, I really didn't want to go to the ER, but it was on her face. So off we went to the ER. Luckily it only took 2 hours and they were able to just glue it shut and put a few steri strips. What's worse than watching your child bleed? Watching your someone hold your child's arms above their head while they are being held down and getting their cut glued shut. So glad it wasn't stitches. That would have been so much worse.