babies AND baubles

Two of Wiley's favorite things are babies and jewelry. Kinda ridiculous isn't it! But it is true. So "babies and baubles" was our party theme. It was mostly just family and a couple close friends. We thought any more than that and she would get overshadowed by all the older kiddos running around. We had cupcakes, which she didn't love, and a party hat, which she did.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was happy to get some cute pics of Wiley with her grandmothers. And we even got a cousin shot for you, Mimi! I don't remember anyone holding Blue at his first birthday party. He was walking and just generally much less inclined to stay in one place than Wiley-girl. She loved just hanging out in my mom's lap and playing with all her dolls. Blue thrilled the last of the crowd with his one-legged scooter trick. All in all a good party! Happy birthday, little miss (as Blue likes to call her).

wiley is ONE

What a fun year we have had with our girl! A fun fast year.

Words she can say, sort of...
- thank you
- uh oh
- baby (she has this one down perfectly!)
- mama
- hi
- bye bye
- all done
- mouth
- Blue


Her favorite food is Mac and Cheese. She will try anything and is especially eager to try it if she sees someone else eating it. She doesn't want to be left out. But she is kind of a little snacker, at once voracious but quickly over it.

 

 She likes to give hugs and sit in your lap and read a book or snuggle. But she is pretty independent and determined at the same time. A good combo I think!

I guess the trial of being second-born is that everything you do is compared to the first, but I enjoy seeing how different they are in so many situations. Blue was/is charming and very aware of what people were thinking of him. Wiley is much more reserved and internal. She also notices everything going on around her but is much less inclined to engage with people she doesn't have a connection with.

the girl WALKS

Tomorrow is her first birthday and yesterday we had a small party for her, but today Wiley took her first little unassisted steps. She has had the ability for weeks but would fall to the floor in a puddle of screams and tears when you even attempted to pry your finger from her death grip. But yesterday evening she just up and started standing without holding on to anything. And for long periods of time. And today came those first hesitant little steps. Notice the background music? Apparently Bert and Step in Time were just the motivation she needed.

Wiley's First Steps: set to Step in Time from Micaelan Davis on Vimeo.

PS - She took three little steps before I could get the camera on so a total of five connected steps!

goodbye to PACIFIER

Blue had his first trip to the dentist this week and it went much easier than I expected. We watched some YouTube videos and talked a bit about what the dentist would be like the night before. And then we brought T Rex who went first. It was super-easy. And the dentist talked to Blue for a bit about getting rid of his pacifier. He had some story about Blue giving his pacifier to the little babies and Blue just kind of blank stared him. I don't think he was buying it. But when we got home I told him that tomorrow we would put our pacifier in the drawer with the other extra pacifiers and we would be all done with the pacifier. Then I reminded him that the dentist had told us "no pacifiers" and that they were starting to hurt our teeth. We talked about how it might be hard but that I knew he could do it! And the next night he did. He might have fussed for a few minutes and then he was out. Nap the next day was a different story. He asked for it and was sad. I repeated everything we had gone over before and he was okay with it. But he didn't nap and this is what his room looked like afterwards:

Graham found him perched up on his empty bookshelf! I prepared myself for the end up naps but he took a long one today so I think he just has to get used to a new way of settling down. I took this video right before today's nap:



I'm Not Sad from Micaelan Davis on Vimeo.

Classic Blue there. Anyway, we waited too long to get rid of the pacifier but I will say it was much easier than I expected!

blue's BLUE jeans

Blue is very aware of what he and the people around him are wearing. During the height of the Bert craze, he refused to wear any item of clothing that could not be linked back to Bert in some way. He sees Graham go off to work every morning in blue jeans and boots so he also wants to wear his blue jeans and boots. Doing his "work" is very important to Blue. But it is really too hot here to wear blue jeans and boots all summer although I am sure he would survive. Either way, in the mornings I tell him "summer is for shorts" and he doesn't fight it anymore. But he does ask to wear his blue jeans as soon as he gets home. Usually I can hold him off until after nap which means I often come into his room and find something like this:

 

I moved his pants up to one of the top drawers on his dresser but he quickly found a work-around for that...

happy ELEVEN months

Can you believe it! The next one is the big ONE! This has been a harder month for Wiley-girl though. She wants to walk and talk and explore and see and touch everything. But she can't quite walk on her own and she has so many words to learn before she can just tell us what she wants. So she has this little noise she makes - uh uh - until you guess right and give her what she wants. And if you don't give her what she wants then she makes a whole different sort of noise. A MAD noise. That's right, she has a temper. But she is still mostly happy and easily amused. And she has two little teeth now!

 

 

 

 

 

what WE did

In May...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. This was her first time to pull up. Now she is about to take off...
2-5. At Crow's Nest Farm on a field trip. He listened to instructions and kept his hands behind his back. Didn't want to lose a finger to those turtles!
6. He loves T. Rex.
7-12. Enjoying Aunt Ashley's visit and a special Mother's Day in Wimberley.