My Munchkins, Motoring

A snippet

Just a quick post - Elijah chasing, and trying to kick, the pigeons on Granville Island. He's having a great time. :D

11 Monthiversary

Well, Monday the 10th was Charlotte's 11 monthiversary. Things are rapidly changing now. I'm going back to work in 2 weeks, Charlotte is getting used to daycare, we're preparing for a major kitchen reno and Charlotte continues to develop new skills every day.

She says "Mama" very clearly and we think she says "Yehyeh". She also calls Elijah. This has developed in the last couple days so I'm going to try and get it on video. I think she also tries to say "Night night" and "Kitty". At least, I seem to recognize the sounds she makes when she tries to mimic me. Of course, this could all just be a parent's fancy. :) Now we're working on Papa but she says Dada instead. Not sure if that's intentional. The video clip shows her babbling, getting up and down from a standing position, a cute little pointy finger thing she's doing now and her "I'm frustrated" noises.

The pictures were all taken on the 10th.

Crawling

For a very long time Charlotte has been doing the "wounded soldier crawl" on her belly. Just in the past week she's figured out the hands and knees crawling method. It's so cute to see. I managed to get a really short clip of her doing it.

Free-standing flail

I just captured this. Charlotte is moving towards walking in leaps and bounds. (haha) Anyway, here she is, doing her free standing bit. This one is actually pretty funny - more action packed than usual.

Scooting

Elijah recently got a scooter. I couldn't help it. We were in London Drugs shopping for a birthday present for his friend and there they were. I ended up getting her one and him one. (They were a REALLY good deal.)

Anyways, this thing is the greatest thing since sliced bread, apparently. He's wearing all the safety gear and loving it. There's another little boy down the road who's ~6 weeks older than Elijah. He has a scooter too. One afternoon we were out scooting in the alley and met up with him. He grabbed his own gear and the two of them were off. It was really cute. They also found a patch of dandelions and were blowing them all over the place. Elijah stomach hurt after from it all. :-)

Sleeping siblings

Charlotte is all over her crib these days. She has taken to sleeping all curled up on her front. It reminded me of Elijah so I took some pictures of her. Then I went and found a picture of Elijah doing the same thing when he was almost the same age (the post was from Oct 2007). It's so funny to see the echo of Elijah's actions in Charlotte.