Cooking

I got our first watermellon of the season. Makaila remembered helping me last year by cutting some of the watermellon with her plastic knife. She sees me cutting this one and she quickly gets a knife and brings over a chair to help. So I give her some strips she can cut into pieces and she cuts away. Then she is eating a skinny carrot while waiting for me to get dinner ready and she starts cutting that too. All of the sudden she stops and says, "is cutting cooking?". I tell her "Cutting is an important part of cooking, so I guess yes, cutting is cooking." She goes, "then I'm cooking!" It was so cute. She was so excited. She told Chad she did cooking when he got home. She put all these tiny, cut up carrots into a tuperware and she brought them to the dinner table. She got a spoon and served Chad and I each a spoonful. She even told us she was going to keep them right by her in case we wanted some more.

Differences

We've definitely seen differences in girls and boys (or first and second children). Cole is an eater. He puts grass, bark, leaves, and stickers in his mouth. I never had to worry about Makaila and dirt clods or other things outside. Cole gets sweaty easily. He can just be playing around in his room and he will feel sweaty. His head might be from just sleeping. He also has transitioned through baby food very quickly. That was probably because we just gave him stuff sooner. She was getting Cheerioes cut in half at first. He's already on to meatballs and watermellon! And he's not too happy to finish out the baby food we have left. Makaila was sleeping until 7-8. Cole is typically up around 6:30. Today was good because he made it until 7:15 a.m. He plays alone better. But I really think that has to do with him having the built in entertainment of sister. I can be getting dinner ready in the kitchen and he will happily play in the the family room (of course sister is doing stuff near by and is fun for him to follow).

Preferring to be upright!

Now Cole just wants to crawl and move around all the time. After less than week of crawling, he learned to crawl over people. A few more days after that he was shutting doors. Then he soon was able to pull up on furniture. Now he can pull up anywhere on anything. He crawls after people if you leave the room. But now he will even crawl into a new room if he decides he wants to go in there. He also really likes playing in his room. When he first gained these skills of crawling and pulling up, he did NOT want to take a nap. He would cry bloody murder when you put him down to sleep. Now that they are not so new anymore he's back to going to sleep well.

Crawling machine

Cole is a crawling machine. He just learned to crawl 1 1/2 weeks ago and already he wants to be down and moving. He had learned to shut doors and he can also pull up on furniture. (Sunday he shut the door to his room and Chad couldn't get in to get him dressed. Cole was sitting right in front of the door.) He is still pretty wobbly, but he can cruise a few steps too. With these new skills sleeping has been more of a challenge. We lowered the crib and have to put the rail up. Now that he can pull up he just fights going to sleep or he won't go back to sleep when he's had a short nap. So, we've been having lots of short naps and been getting up a little earlier in the morning too. He also gives louder cries when he's put down to sleep. I think he just wants to be out playing with us instead. I hope he gets back to being a good sleeper soon.

He also eats a ton. That second kid gets the food much quicker- we were only giving Makaila Cheerios to go with her baby food and he eats mango, maccaroni, pears, canned beans, zuccini, bread, cheese, whatever is around and seems soft!

Birthday fun

Makaila has so much enjoyed her birthday and all that came with it. She has a new game named Zingo which we've played a ton. She bounces around the house on her purple princess pogo ball. She loves jumping on the trampoline. Espeically today when we got Cole laughing while we jumped. And she thinks she needs her new microphone whenever we're on the trampoline. She is working really hard at learning to ride her new bike. She also got a quite stylin outfit from Aunt Jamie. He's a few fun picks of her enjoying stuff.