First of all, my BIG girl, Miss Madelynn....she is INSANE! She is crawling SO fast everywhere and standing up all of the time! She pulls herself up to her knees constantly and then stands right up, and most of the time only holds on with one hand!
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| Soo, I am going to climb out, Mommy!!!!!! |
When on her knees, she doesn't hold on to anything at all! She also beats up constantly on her sisters. I must say "Madelynn, please be gentle" one hundred times a day already when she tries to crawl over her sisters, slap them in the face with her hands or toys, knock them down, use their heads to brace her falls, take their binki, ect, ect, ect! She is such a bully and she just smiles away while being mean or when she is in "time-out".
Tim and I were reading to the girls last night and talking about Madelynn and how she is going to be our dare-devil child, saying, "Daddy, I'll jump of the diving board, I'm not scared" at four years old! She is such a determined child and so far not scared of anything. She explores everywhere and figures out things so easily (like how to take toys off of the exersaucer or how to get underneath of the rocking chair).
Her, by far, favorite thing to say is "dadadadadadadadaadadada"!
She throws the biggest fits of her sisters. She throws herself back and raises her arms and kicks her feet. She is also a very hard child to change, she just wants to crawl away and it takes some acrobatic skills to change her diaper and clothes these days!
She kneels or stands at the chick pen and sticks her tongue out through the holes. Silly girl!
Madelynn also wants to fed herself these days. She takes her spoon and holds it and bites it while in the high-chair. I have to always say, "Madelynn, Mommy will feed you, Mommy is in charge"!
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| She sits here all day, trying to see the TV! |
On Friday night (10.07.11), we had a horrible night, where Madelynn cried for hours upon hours and the next day, her TWO bottom teeth had broken through! I couldn't believe it! I am so happy, and the drooling has also subsided a little, for now and she is much, much happier.
She hates yogurt, hands down. Gags on the first taste in her mouth.
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Our middle child, well for not much longer, but she'll always be our middle triplet, Claire, has a HUGE tooth that broke through on 10.02.11 and has continued to come in with a vengeance! I keep calling her "sharp tooth" (from The Land Before Time...)! 
She now scoots everywhere, and so fast. She does get up on all fours (knees and hands) and hops forward, like Madelynn did a few weeks ago, but she gets places by the "army scoot" as of right now and has no problem!
She is also becoming very attached to her Daddy. At night, she only wants to sit with him and even if I lay her in bed with us and she is drinking her bottle, she stares at her Daddy the whole time and tries to get his attention. Yesterday, Tim got Madelynn and Claire up from their nap and when he brought them downstairs, he gave Claire to me so he could change Madelynn's diaper, and Claire had a fit, until Tim came back to pick her up. She immediately started touching his face and screaming "dadadadadadadadadadada" one million times! Tim and I looked at each other and just laughed! It was so cute! When she wakes up, the first thing she says is, "dadadadadadadada" and I just continue to say, all day, "Dada is at work, honey!"
Claire's voice is also much higher pitched than Madelynn's, I've noticed. Their voices do not sound anything alike.
She started spitting while eating and so at the end of her meals...she normally looks somethink like this:
Claire LOVES her binki too now, I think it's soothing on her gums to have something to chew on.
Claire is also scared very easily and she jumps so easily is things scare her or startles her. Just walking into the room sometimes, I make her jump. Poor girl! She hates peek-a-boo and I don't think I will be getting her any jack-in-the-boxes for her birthday or Christmas, haha!
She LOVES the jump-n-go soooo much! She is a crazy child when in it and just jumps so hard and high!!!
She is going through a little growth spurt too, I think. Last night she had 4 ounces of chicken with rice, 4 ounces of carrots and 4 ounces of applesauce! Normally, I just give her 4 ounces of meat/grain and 4 ounces of a veggie, but she was still hungry so I gave her some fruit too. And then she still drank TWO 10 ounce bottles through the night!
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Her favorite place to sit is on the couch in her Eagles blanket with her Daddy...
She still prefers to eat all people food, but of course gets baby food too. She wants anything we have, including drinks. She opens her mouth and does this owl sound, like "hoo, hoo". It's so darn cute!
I think since I have been giving her yogurt each day, her hair has started growing like crazy. I swear it is because of the yogurt, but probably not!
When giving Natalee a bath, you need a rain coat or a poncho, due to her splashing EVERYWHERE!
She has learned to jump in the exersaucer and she is crazy! She is still our little peanut!
I'm going to post some videos of the girls scooting and crawling, standing and kneeling, as soon as I get a moment and my 6 Month Pregnancy Post is coming too!!
Oh my goodness!! I can't even imagine the craziness of your house!! :) I love it, they are doing SO great :)
ReplyDeleteThe girls are getting soooo big, and just as sweet as can be! Your home is certainly filled with exciting moments, and so very much love!!
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We have my daughter in one of those play pens too. It's the best thing!! I love that she can be in a safe place while hanging out with the family. Your girls are so cute!!
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