What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony talks nonstop about Mario and the Wii
- Anthony is working on writing his letters and spelling!
- Abby is potty training!
- Abby loves finding ladybugs all over the house!
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony loves playing the Wii!
- Anthony loves playing all the board games he can get his hands on!
- Abby really enjoys hiding and playing her closet!
- Abby loves to "write" and carries a crayon and a pad of paper all over the place!
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony is obsessed with games
- Anthony has taken a real liking to Charlie Brown and all Christmas Carols.
- Abby loves her bean bag!
- Abby knows all Wiggles songs and thinks Jeff Wiggle lives in her room
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony is 4! He is 41 inches tall (80% percentile for height! Watch out Uncle Jeff!)
- Anthony loves building and constructing things.
- Abby is in the 40% for height and the EIGHTH percentile for weight! Tiny!
- Abby loves to sing and dance all day!
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony loves carving pumpkins and doing crafts
- Anthony plans his week on a calendar
- Abby is talking in nine word sentences!
- Abby is a puzzle wizard!
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony is a huge Indians fan
- Anthony is showing a lot of patience and sharing
- Abby is two!
- Abby is showing a lot of imagination
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony is a watercolor painting virtuoso
- Anthony is getting good at pedaling his trike
- Abby is playing pretend and makes her toys "talk."
- Abby also is good at pedaling trikes!
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony lives to play in or with water
- Anthony plays Candy Land
- Abby is showing her "terrible two-ness."
- Abby loves to cuddle with her pillow and blanket
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony loves make Abby laugh (and cry)
- Anthony is very good at playing catch
- Abby can jump with two feet off the ground
- Abby loves to sing My Girl, Old McDonald, Twinkle Twinkle and Wheels on the Bus
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony loves making up new words and songs
- Anthony is suddenly obsessed with our cats
- Abby can put simple puzzles together
- Abby could read her books for hours
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony loves to look for worms and bugs
- Anthony loves lengthy talks before bed
- Abby uses two word phrases often
- Abby thinks her brother is hilarious and copies everything he does
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony is a big Blues Clues Fan
- Anthony enjoys building with blocks and planting flowers!
- Abby has had a language explosion!
- Abby loves playing with trains and cars
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony loves to tell everyone how much he loves them!
- Anthony loves going to his gym class with Miss Holly, who he has a huge crush on
- Abby loves "The Itsy Bitsy Spider"
- Abby loves to "read" her books
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony is is a water color painter extraordinaire!
- Anthony creates lovely things with Play-doh.
- Abby is weaned.
- Abby is a big talker and loves to imitate!
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony is crazy about Dr. Seuss
- Anthony has a fabulous imaginations and loves to pretend.
- Abby can "sing" Twinkle Twinkle
- Abby is crazy about baby dolls
What We Are Doing Now:
November 2006
- Anthony is a puzzle wizard!
- Anthony is THREE!!!
- Abby loves to imitate.
- New words are more, thank you, hi and bye
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony loves everything about pumpkins
- Anthony loves everything about Thomas & Friends
- Abby weights 18 lbs, 6oz and is 29.5 inches tall
- Abby follows simple instructions
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony really loves reading books and memorizing the books we read to him!
- Anthony is engaging in lots of imaginative play
- Abby is walking everywhere!
- Can say eye, ball, mama, daddy, kitty
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony is sleeping in a big boy bed!
- Anthony is taking steps to be potty trained!
- Abby has taken her first steps!
- Abby can clap, wave and say "Kitty."
What We Are Doing Now:
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- Anthony can play Twinkle Twinkle on the piano
- Anthony has been a big helper through the whole house ordeal
- Abby can crawl, cruise and sit from a laying position
- Abby got her first tooth!
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony's new passions are clocks and trains
- Anthony loves to play in his sandbox
- Abby claps, waves and points
- Abby loves to stand with assistance
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony is making a lot of new friends
- Anthony loves help Mama water the plants
- Abby can crawl backwards
- Abby loves to play games such as peekaboo
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony loves playing with bubbles.
- Anthony knows the words to more Coldplay songs than Chris Martin!
- Abby can sit unassisted.
- Abby babbles up a storm - esp. "dadada"
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony plays with his foam letters all day!
- Anthony loves to paint and draw.
- Abby is sleeping through the night!
- Abby is eating cereal!
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony says his prayers.
- Anthony can identify all letters, numbers.
- Abby loves to laugh and hates to sleep!
- Abby weighs 14lbs 15oz and is 25 inches long.
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony is asking lots of questions.
- Anthony loves to dance and read books.
- Abby rolled over.
- Abby is giggling often.
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony loves playing with Legos.
- Anthony can recite "Goodnight Moon."
- Abby smiles all the time.
- Abby weighs 12lbs 13oz and is 23 inches long.
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony is two years old!
- Anthony is doing a lot of pretend play.
- Abby is smiling all the time!
- Abby is sleeping in 4-5 hour stretches!
What We Are Doing Now:
- Anthony is becoming a great big brother!
- Anthony loves making art with sidewalk chalk!
- Abby lost her cord stump in 7 days
- Abby gained one pound in a week!
Highlights for age 22 months:
- Engages in pretend play
- Counts from 1-5, almost 1-10
- Loves to dance and sing with the Wiggles
- Is going to be an awesome big brother!
Highlights for age 21 months:
- Speaks mostly with two and three words
- Calls Dr. Phil "Dr. Fun" (Makes us laugh!)
- Loves to play hide and seek
- Sleeps in his big boy tractor room
Highlights for age 20 months:
- Speaking in two word sentences
- Enjoys hanging out at the pool
- Says "Love you!" "Thank you" and "Please"
- Can't get enough popsicles
Highlights for age 19 months:
- Gives the most wonderful hugs!
- Can identify a handful of letters by name
- Sings several songs
- Loves Little People and Tractors
Highlights for age 18 months:
- Sings familiar songs
- Would live outside if he was allowed!
- Is beginning to make "jokes."
- Is starting to be able to remove and put on clothes
Highlights for age 17 months:
- Goes "night night" by himself
- LOTS of new words
- Uses spoon and fork well
- Puts together simple puzzles
Highlights for age 16 months:
- Can use utensils to feed himself
- Loves to imitate everyday actions
- Enjoys stacking and sorting objects
- Can identify many different body parts
Highlights for age 15 months:
- Says over 15 words
- Can follow directions
- Uses words to ask for things
- Sings familiar tunes
Highlights for age 14 months:
- Understands hundreds of words
- Basically weaned himself :(
- Is beginning to try out different words, such as banana and ball
Highlights for age 13 months:
- Can moo like a cow, meow like a cat
- Loves to empty and fill things
- Likes to push buttons and flip switches
- Pretends to read books
Highlights for age 12 months:
- Waves goodbye
- Knows some body parts (eyes, ears, nose)
- Squats and can stand right back up
Highlights for age 11 months:
- Walks by himself!
- Eats mostly grown up food.
- Claps.
- Dances to good music!
Highlights for age 10 months:
- Says Dada, Mama, Kitty
- Walks w/ assistance
- Can recognize objects by name
- Can follow simple instructions
Highlights for age 9 months:
- Got first tooth!
- Got Baptized!
- Waves occasionally
- Crawls on hands and knees
Highlights for age 8 months:
- Shrieks for attention
- Stands in crib, pulls up on furniture
- Does the "Army Crawl"
- Begins finger foods
Highlights for age 7 months:
- Plays Peekaboo a.k.a. "Where's the Baby?"
- Loves to read books
- Loves to be outside
- Had first swimming class
Highlights for age 6 months:
- Eats fruits and vegetables
- Sits unassisted
- Drinks from cup
- Babbles words like "mim, mama, dada, bzz"
Highlights for ages 4-5 months:
- Sleeps through the night
- Eats first bites of cereal
- Laughs more often
- Rolls over
Highlights from birth to 2 months:
- Born November 6th, 2003 at 6:57am
- Smiles once in a while
- Lots of eating, sleeping, and pooping!
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