Aidan ice skates!

Potty fun

Isabella has peed on the potty before but recently she's been "asking" to sit on the potty a lot.  Just now she came running to me carrying the potty seat saying "pa"!  Went to put her on it and sure enough, warm diaper.  She certainly shows us she knows what's going on.  Now to get her to tell us before she goes!

Woot!!!  Isabella came to me and signed for /cracker/!  This is her first functional communication of a want and is so excited.  Aidan's communication was so much more advanced than hers that it's hard to watch her struggle but she seems like she's starting to get it.

18 Months Old Today!

Isabella is 18 months old.  She is a master climber and scales everything she can.  The other day she got into her high chair on her own, she climbs onto the couches and climbs into the window behind the couch.  So far she hasn't figured out how to climb out of bed and we hope she doesn't!  When Isabella got into her chair on her own we asked Aidan how she got in there and he said, "with her A-mazing muscles!"  He's always so genuinely proud of his sister!

She is an amazing little eater!  She eats more than Aidan does most meals.  She loves meat and veggies, especially corn.  She is not really fond of sweets though and will take a bite out of a cookie but never finishes one.  She also doesn't like fruits at this time.  She's always interested because Aidan easts lots of fruits, especially oranges and strawberries.  She has only ever eaten a bite of strawberry one time.  Mostly she just touches it to her tongue and then spits it back out.

Isabella is not talking at this time.  She is starting to babble a little bit and has a couple of words and a couple of sounds.  She still spends most of her day in silence although laughing and squealing in joy are sounds she makes often.  She does say:  "Mama" although more often "Ma", very rarely "Dada" "Oof oof", "Hi", "Bye", "Cha Cha" for Thomas or Chuggington, "Ish" for fish, and "Shz" for shoes, "Uh oh", "Uh" while she's thinking, and "wow" every time she sees Christmas lights!


Aidan quote of the day:  "Mom-mom, that's the Vegetable of Lights Zoo!"
(Aidan saw a commercial for the Festival of Lights at the zoo!  lol)

Preschool Christmas Program

Aidan had his very first Christmas program this morning.  He was so excited to wear his tie and he looked very handsome and grown up!  None of the kids sang very loudly but they all looked cute.  Santa visited and Aidan was very excited to go talk to him.  He added to his wish list this time adding Angry Birds.  He told Santa he wanted, "Angry Birds, a cool roller coaster and a cool race track!" 

Fun day for the whole family!

Angry Birds

So Aidan spotted an Angry Birds game in the Kroger ad today.  He doesn't know he's getting it from Grandma Kathie and Grandpa Harry.  He said, "maybe we can go to Kroger today and buy this game."  When I told him it was getting close to Christmas and maybe we should wait to see what kind of toys he gets he said, "you mean Santa can bring it to me?"  I told him I didn't know what Santa would bring him but that we should wait.  Later Isabella was crying and Aidan said, "Mom-mom, I think she wants Angry Birds."

"Ainan"

Isabella is trying very hard to say Aidan and it almost comes out as "Ainan" or "Aian", but that /n/ sound is still pretty tricky for her.  Aidan is so excited that she is saying his name.

Aidan quote of the day:  "She said my name!  I never heard that before."

Head, shoulders, knees and toes...

Well she doesn't talk but she doesn't miss a beat!  Isabella showed us tonight that she knows where her belly is, then we asked her other parts.  She's got: belly, head, toes, fingers, ears and mouth.  She needed some prompting for nose and eyes.  Not too shabby for 18 months old and not talking!

98, 99, 100!

A couple weeks ago Aidan showed us that he knows his numbers, expressively in random rotation, up to 99.  So I taught him 100.  Today in the car he was counting and wanted to count to 100 so we counted together.  He did almost all of them himself but got confused with fifty, "fivety" and then got lost around 70 as well so I helped him along the way.  When I got home I got out our 100 chart and showed him for the first time.  He was so excited and went to counting them right away.  Got it!  Then we played a game of "find the number ___".  He did great.