Jan 25

Emily is talking alot!  She says, "thank you" (de-doo), "here you go"(ee-u-go), and "peek-a-boo"(kikah-bah).  And her favorite is "go, go, go!"  She blows kisses, waves bye, & puts her hands over her eyes for peek-a-boo (facing in, Joshua always did it with his palms facing out).  She signs "more" & "all done" but she doesn't always mean it. She likes to go around either clicking or making kissing sounds.  She also does raspberries well now.  She cut her 6th tooth on the 18th - the bottom left.  Now she has 4 on bottom & 2 on top, & it looks like a 3rd is on it's way on the top.  She loves to climb & will attempt anything!    She is doing alot better at being left in nursery - the last couple times she has only cried for a minute or two and then started playing!  Emily took all her milk from a cup just like Joshua's this morning - a first!  I guess we can finally put away all the bottles - Yay!  One lady told me the other day that Emily looks like she's doing the jitterbug because she walks around swinging her arms in front of her.  :-)
Joshua had a great time at the library last week!  He would go around stacking books on the stroller & then he's sit and read each one to himself while I kept Emily entertained.  The only way we were able to leave after an hour and a half was to take a stack of books with us to read at home! 
He also loved the train yard on Sunday with Shawn.  He's been asking where the train is every time we cross the tracks, & we started telling him the train was at the train yard. So, of course it follows that he asked to go to the train yard...  He loved it!  He has a whole progression of train sounds that he does, starting with chug-chug, then choo, then a horn, then a puff-puff ...  It sounds just like the train videos we've watched on you-tube! 
He is starting to verbalize more of his thoughts now.  He asked Shawn a "why?" question last week - and so it begins...  :-)  His two favorite questions right now are:  what does it say, and what is it carrying.  For "say", it could mean what sound does it make, or read it to me.  He repeats the exact sounds Emily makes and says "Mayee says 'bababa'".  For "carrying," he wants to know what's inside - especially mack trucks, buses, cement mixers, ...