Growing Up

This month has been a big one for Cambria. She no longer needs her medicine for reflux, her clogged tear duct seemed to clear up, she has been rolling over more (even though she rarely lets Daddy see her do so), she started eating baby food, she can almost sit all on her own, she had her first ponytail and she had one tooth break through with another on it's way. I can't believe she is old enough for all these things to happen already and yet I am acutely aware that I have not had a good night's sleep for months. She is jabbering and laughing more and she recently discovered how to blow raspberries with her tongue and she does it constantly. She loves when Daddy comes home and plays with her and she absolutely loves her big brother. No one can get her to laugh as much as Atreyu can. It's so sweet to me to see them interact with each other.

Atreyu keeps telling me, "I growing up," and, "I getting big," which he completely is. How is that sweet little boy who scared us to death when he was born almost 3 years old? He tells us when he gets big he's going to ride a bike and hold Cambria's hand on the road. I think he'll be a really good big brother to her. He has also been doing this thing for about a month or so where he says something and then tells me to say it to someone else (usually Cambria or Daddy). He says, "Mommy, tell Daddy..." and it has started to get rather annoying. I tell him to tell the person himself and he gets upset and says, "No, Mommy do it." Oh, what a funny kid.

Recently we started counting to three when Atreyu is misbehaving. I hadn't really thought of doing it but when we were in Denver, Annie used it on Gage and it worked really well. When we first started it we told Atreyu what would happen if we got the three and, up to this point, we have never got to three. We say one and he usually stops the bad behavior and says that he doesn't like it when we count. Atreyu is still a Mommy's boy most the time but he loves to spend time with Grandpa still and they are very good buddies. We are lucky to have at least one set of Grandparents so close.

I was doing laundry a few days ago and I had one of my shirts laid out on the table to dry and Atreyu thought that he should wear it. I don't know why he wanted to but it was funny watching him put it on. I should have got a video.