Faith requested pics of Judah and of course, your wish is my command, so here he is with one of his most adoring fans. I think he adores her too. What do you think?
Judah looks just like a little Kyle, especially since they have the exact same hair.
My little baby tips the scales at 16.5 lbs. now. He's no light weight!
And all that fat is helping him sleep a long time at night! Last night he slept 11.5 hours! Yeehaw!! Mommy's a whole new woman!
We're in the middle of "Half Time" right now in school, meaning we only do half the work. It's not a full break, more like a "slow down" time. So I've taken the opportunity to teach the kids some new things, mainly: manners.
We've been watching one lesson each day from this Table Manners & Table Etiquette DVD I found at the library:
The first day we watched it, we learned in just 5 minutes what each piece of silverware is for in a table setting like this:
Who knew it was so stinking easy?
The next day, we made a three course dinner so we could practice our table manners and the table settings we had learned previously. I was so impressed with how quickly the kids picked it all up. Isaac and Daniel both pulled out their sister's chair before sitting down themselves, they wiped their mouths the proper way with their napkins, they scooped the soup the correct way from the bowl, etc. AND it was all fun to learn! (Especially since each day's lesson was only a few minutes long. ;) )
I'm going to revert back to my Speech Pathologist days for this post, since these are the skills I still love using, with my own babes.
When your baby coos, you have the perfect opportunity to teach them how to carry on a conversation. When baby says "nnn-guh", which is one of her first words, you repeat it. Just once, then wait. She'll inevitably say it again. Then you can repeat it again. That's practicing conversational turn-taking.
Then when your baby becomes a toddler and starts using a couple words, you teach her how to stretch those words into sentences, like this:
She says "Ducky!"
You say: "Ducky! Yellow ducky!" (Or big ducky, or loud ducky, or whatever. You just add one word to it.)
You keep doing this, adding a word or two or three to what she says. And this is key:
You ALWAYS repeat what she says correctly.
Yes, I know it's adorable that she calls her blankey "panky", but you're her model, so you have to say it correctly.
She says "Tup, tup!"
You say "You want your cup? Here's your cup! Here's your pink cup."
Try it. You'll have a verbose toddler before you know it.
Faith requested pics of Judah and of course, your wish is my command, so here he is with one of his most adoring fans.
I think he adores her too. What do you think?
Judah looks just like a little Kyle, especially since they have the exact same hair. 
My little baby tips the scales at 16.5 lbs. now. He's no light weight!
And all that fat is helping him sleep a long time at night! Last night he slept 11.5 hours! Yeehaw!! Mommy's a whole new woman!
