Monday, July 23, 2012

July 2012

My babies,

These posts are getting harder and harder to write. It's only because so much is going on with you two and your development that it's hard to pinpoint what to write about.

Lydia - You are getting to be such a little girl. You are truly a toddler now. You are learning at such a rapid clip. You repeart anything and everything that you hear or see. Your intelligence to me is remarkeable. You have an incredible memory and social intelligence. You know absolutely everyone's names and who goes with you, even for people that you've only seen once or twice ever. You are learning "facetime" on the iphone, so you like to call me at work and ask if I will "facetime" with you. It's next to impossible to turn that down. One of the things that I cherish now the most is our bedtime routine at night. We have a specific order that everything happens in. You take a bath, then jammie time, dry your hair with the towel. Then, we snuggle in the "bem", that is what you call the bed. Finally, you insist on being rocked like a baby in the chair and put to bed in your crib with your 3 favorite blankies: pink, duckie, and red. Of course, there are a lot of goofing around that goes into each of these steps. I will always cherish these moments with you and hope that you don't grow up too fast on me.

Luke - You are such a little handsome baby boy. You are full out "army crawling" right now. You are pretty darn good at it too already. If we put an object or toy out of your reach that you really want to get to, you can crawl over to it really quickly. You started eating yogurt and other soft stuff recently. I think you are going to be a big eater like your daddy. As of right now, you are pretty particular about your yogurt. You love it, but other stuff not so much. You make the funniest face when it is something that you don't want to eat. We can't wait until you officially start crawling, which we think will be very soon. We love taking you guys to the Clayton Shaw Park pool on the weekends. Luke, you don't really like the water too much at this point, but we think that you will come around. You don't like to be put into your little floatie at all. But, you do love to play with your toys and you have a certain affinity to a few of them, notably: bath duckie, and other similar sized objects that are bright in color and that you can put into your mouth. You are such a well behaved and smiley baby. You are an absolute joy to have around and we are very blessed to have you. I'm looking forward to watching you grow up and teaching you all kinds of things.

I love you both so very darn much,
Your daddy