Late post....16 months....WHAT????

Our precious Wee Ones have turned 16 months and the time has flashed before our eyes!! A lot has happened over the past month and they have changed so much. I feel like I do not have babies anymore, but now have two toddlers taking over our house. My sweet Wee Ones, we cannot believe that you are 16 months old. You are growing and changing everyday and in every way.

Miss Priss, you have developed the biggest personality over the past couple of months and it gets bigger and bigger every day. You make us smile daily from your silly faces to your screaming temper tantrums, to your squeaky voice, girly laugh and sassy walk. Every word you say, you add a little high pitched squeal at the end. It is just so cute and all your own. You make us laugh all of the time and are quite the clown these days. You are so curious and into EVERYTHING. You want to do anything that Momma is doing no matter what it is. If I brush my hair, you want to brush your hair and it must be with the same brush. Lipstick and toenail polish, you want it girl. We use the perfect shade on you everytime...pretend pink! HA! You're vocabulary seems to only consist of 2 words "no" and "Bubba". You call everything and everyone "Bubba" no matter who or what they may be. You love to tell us "no" and shake your head. Sometimes you use it correctly, but most of the time I think you just like to shake your head. But you do say other words like "thank you", "bye-bye", "puppy", "daddy", "momma", "yes", and "book". You are signing the words "pink" (of course. I'm so proud) and "milk". Still working on some additional signing, but you are doing great! You are are growing non-stop and are soon to be in size 5 diapers....WOW!!! You are wearing 18-24month clothes and are slowing getting into some 2T!!! (that makes Mommy want to cry by the way) You are walking, running everywhere, climbing on everything and talking non-stop. You smile with a wide open mouth from ear to ear the minute we get you out of your crib and your personality blooms from there. You are so sweet and loving and love to give EVERYONE kisses, especially your brother! You love your brother so much and are constantly kissing and hugging on him..so much at times that he pushes you away and squeals at you to get off of him. You will just look at him, pat him on the head and go on about your business! It is too much watching you two love on each other and I dread the day that you cannot stand each other. So I cherish these moments that you want to kiss and hug each other! You have become obsessed with the trash...not sure why, but that is your newest thing. You are great about throwing things in the garbage when we ask you to, but you are so bad about getting stuff out of the garbage and bringing it to us. YUK!!!! (under the sink garbage can is in the near future for our house.)

Brynlee Grace, you are so funny and make us laugh everyday. I hope that the personality you have suddenly developed continues to blossom more and more and get bigger and bigger!!!

Mr. Man, you have reached some tremendous milestones this month and we could not be more proud of you!! You started WALKING this month!!! That's right fellow blogger readers, my baby boy is walking!!! YEAH!!!!! We were so worried that this day was far ahead of us and you have continued to proof to us that you are so strong and determined to grow and not stop. You are taking steps everywhere, climbing on everything and getting stronger as the days go by. Your PT was so excited the first time she saw you walking and just could not believe that once again, you beat the odds in your growth and development. Now you are down to once a month PT and 2x a month Development! You are well on you way sweet boy! You are talking all the time, we just cannot understand you, but you your sister sure can and you love to make each other laugh. Hearing you laugh together is the sweetest sound to our ears and I could sit and watch you laugh together for hours. You love your sister and will occasionally kiss and hug her. You are not too big on kisses right now, but every once in awhile we will get a big open mouth kiss from you. You are very loving and love to snuggle up next to us, your sister and your "nite-nite". You may be sweet like that, but you are a boys boy! You throw EvErYtHiNg that you can get your hands on. Daddy and I are convinced that you are going to be a baseball player (a pitcher we hope!) HA! You love all things boy, but most definitely like a few pink things and will kiss on your sister's babies on occasion. You are doing so great at swimming and love to be in the water. You are so brave that you get mad when I make you wear your life vest...you cannot move around and play with your toys as much with it on and it makes you very upset. As soon as the life vest is off, you are all smiles again! You are babbling and love to sing. You are saying a few words like "ball", "dadda", "Bubba", "Papa", "Momma", "bye-bye" and a time or two you have said Hudson and dog. You will sign "milk" and occasionally sign "yellow" (you are learning to sign colors in swimming class)

Chance Matthew, you are the sweetest little boy with the sweetest personality. You make us smile every day from the minute we walk into the room and see your smiling face standing up proudly in your bed.

Here is a very short video of him walking...sorry for the angle, not sure how to turn it around! ENJOY!!!!

A walker and a crawler

So in one week the Wee Ones both reached significant milestones. Tuesday afternoon, the Wee Ones stayed with Steph and Hudson until I got home. When I arrived, Bryan and Steph said that at one point, Brynlee was crying because Steph was holding Chance. Trying to get to "her" Aunt Steph, she took 3 steps all by herself!!!! They were so excited that they got to see her walk and thinking that she had already done that for us, they were so excited to share the news....well, she had not already taken steps for us. We officially did not see our baby girl take her first steps. Crazy girl walking for her Aunt Steph and Uncle B, and not her Momma and Daddy! hee!hee! Later that evening, she took a few steps for me a few different times and she was so proud of herself. She would stand there and just smile and clap!!! She is so funny!!! All throughout the weekend, she would get a little confidence built up and she would take a few steps, but only on her terms. She is so hard headed and will only do it when she wants to. We can put her down on her feet to stand up and she will just stand there and stare and smile and not move a muscle. She might take some steps and she might just flop down to her bottom. As soon as she gets some more confidence, she will be taking off. I have a feeling that we will have a professional walker on our hands soon!!!

3 days before Chance starts PT for his hip muscle tone, he has decided to crawl! The first time he did it, I kind of thought it was a fluke, because he was trying to get to one of his toys to pull up. All week, he would do the full crawl just once getting to something to pull up on, but then would go back to his scooter crawl! So I kind of just disregarded it as crawling, but all of a sudden on Saturday...he took off and is now crawling all over the place. The first time he did it, you would have thought we had won the lottery!! I scooped him up, was screaming "Good boy!", hugging him and jumping all around. I know he was thinking, "Dang Momma, what in the world is wrong with you?" Not too sure of what he did, but he knew it was something good, because he was smiling and so proud of himself!!! We do have our first appointment with the PT tomorrow. They are coming to our home and I am just praying that with him suddenly crawling, they will think I have lost my mind and I am an over-reactive Mother. (Fine by me) and they will decide that he does not need PT or need as much as we thought! That is what I am praying for. Still keep my baby boy in your prayers tomorrow!!!!

We are so proud of the Wee Ones and know that our lives are about to drastically change. Hopefully Momma will loose some weight chasing the Wee Ones around. Hee!Hee!

Still trying to get some video of them both. Stay tuned for pics and hopefully to come!!