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Sunday, August 30, 2009

August

August was a month of changes for us and getting used to a new routine as Ben went back to school and a very full sports schedule.



Linnea started to hold pencils more like a big girl. She loved going to the training room to hang out and received tons of attention from the students. She informed me that "Daddy puts mayonaise of the boys and girls legs to make them feel better!" We think she was trying to say bandaids and was more than likely talking about all the prewrap and tape that she witnessed her daddy using. She is obsessed with stop signs and love to yell stop sign whenever we pulled up to one. She can find them anywhere and was very excited to find one on one of Benjamin's toys. She also decided that she wanted to be potty trained, wore underwear to the gym without incident and then went all day to Ikea without any accidents. That's about where the fun ends and the multiple accidents begin, somedays better than others, and we are just hoping we don't lose our minds! Last but not least she named her first stuffed animal. Jackie, is a little kitty that she loves to carry around, too bad she forgot to tell us just who Jackie was at first! When you have a crying little girl asking where Jackie is and you have no clue what she is talking about it gets rather interesting, especially when you have a little girl that can throw quite a fit when she wants to! When we finally figured out just what she was talking about she gave a look like we should have known all along! Fun, challenging, mind boggling, aggravating life with Linnea.

This little guy started out the month by waving at his mommy and calling on of his grammie's cats "kee." He called his mommy "ma ma" for the first time and has taken to pounding on everything with his fists. He tried to scoot on his hands and knees, gave up and then started working on cruising. He started cruising at his great grandpa and grammy Citro's house, around their round coffee table. It's the first place Linnea ever cruised, something about the height and it being round that our kids love! By the end of the month, he would cruise from his activity table to his exersaucer. Maybe he will just skip crawling all together. He's so cute and such a flirt that he get's his way most of the time and doesn't have to work for much. He fussed and Linnea runs to help him out. He's our little ladies man, he already flirts shamelessy with girls. If a female walks into the room he will try his hardest to get her attention, if that fails then he will turn his attention to any guys that may be in the room, we have so much fun watching him flirt!








The Twins Come to Town

End of August Paula and Waleed brought their twins to visit the great grandparents. Linnea was very excited to get to see the twins again. Benjamin was very curious about Amani.





Linnea enjoyed having Paula read to her.

Karim is such a sweetie, his tempermant reminds us somewhat of Benjamin.

Sharing

Linnea is working very hard on sharing her toys with her brother and letting him play next to her. Sometimes she actuallys request for him to sit next to her and play, he loves that and all goes well until he reaches over and grabs what she was playing with! She is going to be in for it once he decides to start moving and follows her around. Benjamin loves to be near his sister and looks for her when he wakes up from his nap. If he is awake before her, he is usually grumpy until his sister wakes up.



Great Grands



Benjamin loves being with his great grandparents. He giggles, laughs, tries to grab glasses and hair, he flirts shamelessly with his great grammy, and loves it when great grandpa tickles him. It's an incredible blessing to see your grandparents enjoy your own little ones, it's a gift for them and for us to see the joy of spending time with the kiddos.


Eating

Benjamin will eat about anything. He has an obession with hair, don't get too close to him. He will grab your hair and try to eat it!


He wants to drink his grammie's water.


Tries to eat her hamburger

and falls asleep in his highchair after stuffing himself!
He loves to eat and will try to eat pretty much anything. Linnea loves to feed him puffs, cheerios, and crackers.

Pool Time






Benjamin and Linnea spent quite a few hours in August splashing around in their pool.


Thursday, August 20, 2009

Aunt Stella Visits

Right after we returned from Vermont we were able to visit with Aunt Stella while she was in town visiting with Steph's grandparents.