It's been half a year since...

our little Willa entered our lives in what we have come to understand as Willa-speed! (You'd think she feels like she needs to keep up with someone!)  She's got a lot going on for such a small person!  As you can see, she sits up for minutes at a time. She is army crawling, rolling, and doing plank position like a pro. She's an expert at sucking food off a spoon (so far she's tried rice cereal, butternut squash, sweet potatoes & peas)! She has also perfected a specific cry for when Sig takes away a toy she was digging--mommy has been trained to respond accordingly. Most recently, she tried to roll out out of her bassinet! Needless to say, Andy & I are just trying to keep up!




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"Naptime"

What happens when big sister is supposed to be napping on her new air mattress (in prep for church retreat this weekend) while baby is napping in her pack-n-play? This:

(be patient, it will be dark at the beginning, and you'll probably have to turn your sound up at first, but it's worth it!)

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Oh what should I ever do?

Signy is currently sitting at the dinner table saying, "Oh what should I eeeeeever dooooo?! My pasta is toooo spicy! What should I ever doooo?!"

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Art by Signy Grace

We had to stay home from preschool today due to colds. I decided to let Sig do the same art project we were supposed to do at school. It was supposed to be two different projects: painting a yellow sun on the white paper & painting a orange face on the yellow sun cut-out. Sig said "I think it goes like this mom!"




Then I gave her a chance to free paint. She said, "I will do a dog...cat! Cat!". So she starts painting, asks how to do a bowl of water (blue u-shape), finishes, looks at it & says, "It's my ant! That's silly!"



She's great!

Willa happily bounced while we worked:



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What are baby sisters good for...?

their jammies!



Gracie Bear's jammies courtesy of Willa Anne.

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How I woke up on Thursday

So the door between our bedroom and bathroom squeaks. (Truth be told, every door in our house sticks, squeaks and/or creaks upon opening! This is more a statement of fact than a complaint.)

Anyway, yesterday I was awoken WAY too early by the repeated slow squeak of said door. I sit up and whisper (because Andy & Willa a managing to sleep through this), "Sig, what are you doing?"

Response: "It's not me. It's my cat Max--she's meowing. I think she's REALLY HUNGRY!"

The thing is, once I saw the cat's head peeking out from around the door, the squeak really did sound like a hungry cat! I wish I had my phone to prove it.

Of course I starting laughing hysterically--causing both Andy & Willa to snarfle & roll over. They are more alike every day!

Sig & I decided to take Max into the kitchen to make pancakes!

This video has nothing to do with squeaky doors--I just think Willa is precious!

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Story-time with Signy

Don't worry, she was ok in the end!

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